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September 26, 2008

PM backs festive Pacific solution

Filed under: Archive,International,Theatre

Adelaide

OzAsia Festival 2008
Adelaide Festival Centre
September 14-28.

The Tale of Haruk
by Bae Yo Sup
Tuida
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
September 17.

Once Upon a Midnight
by Alex Vickery-Howe
Music by Tim Lucas
Kijimuna Festival and Flinders University Drama Centre
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
September 24.

Shastriya Syndicate
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
September 24.

Adelaide’s OzAsia Festival is now in its second year and already showing new signs and directions. Among a number of program …

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September 09, 2008

Introduction to Beautiful Words by Sean Riley

Filed under: Archive,Commentary

2008
Currency Press

Beautiful Words, Harsh Realities and Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Murray Bramwell

In December 2001 a story was published in The Age newspaper about a young Afghan girl named Zaynab. Her photo shows a very typical looking twelve year old wearing a boldly patterned headscarf – but her expression is solemn, her eyes downcast. The report notes that although she is in the care of her uncle, a government spokesman says her future in Australia is uncertain.

Zaynab …

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September 01, 2008

Unchained Heart

Filed under: Archive,International,Theatre

2008

Murray Bramwell talks with Japanese-Australian photographer Mayu Kanamori about the 2008 OzAsia Festival event, CHIKA, a multi-dimensional performance work about the ten year imprisonment of Japanese tourist, Chika Honda.

When she first heard of the arrest in Australia in 1992, for alleged heroin smuggling, of Japanese tourist, Chika Honda, media artist and photographer Mayu Kanamori gave it only passing consideration. “I thought: they’ve arrested a group of mafia types, how embarrassing –they’re Japanese.”

Gradually though, spurred by investigative journalists …

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Tall Stories and Go-Betweens

Filed under: Archive,Music

Robert Forster
Governor Hindmarsh
August 6.

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

At the first show of a three week tour which was eventually to meander back to Sydney, Robert Forster is looking benign and bemused. It is a cold wet Wednesday, the open fire is banked high and the crowd at the Gov is sparse but keen. There is an air of rehearsal to this out of town try-out, Forster’s first gig since the release of his excellent new CD The …

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