Mapping Melbourne 2017 Program Guide

MAPPING MELBOURNE INDEPENDENT CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ARTS

1-17 DECEMBER 2017 ACROSS THE CITY OF MELBOURNE multiculturalarts.com.au

MAPPING MELBOURNE 1-17 DECEMBER 2017

Mapping Melbourne will bring together an explosive program of events across the CBD celebrating our unique Asian-Australian identity and international creative connections.

THEY HEAR SHRINES INSIDE Launch: Friday 1 December, 6pm-9pm Exhibition 2-16 December Artists Bianca Gannon, En En See, Aniquah Stevenson and Geoffrey Watson SC’s exploration of the alternative scorings of sacredness embedded in the everyday strangeness through music, performance and visual art. @ Testing Grounds, 1-23 City Rd, Southbank FREE CON-TEMPORARITEA Friday 1 December, 5pm-9pm FREE A collaboration between Yumi Umiumare’s PopUp tearoom series and S-Jon’s Tumbleweed project, this performance will explore freedom and spontaneity. @ Testing Grounds, 1-23 City Rd, Southbank FREE HOW TO DRAW A JASON PHU FOLKTALE JOKE Saturday 2 December, 1pm-4pm A unique, hands-on opportunity to celebrate the medium of ink and Chinese calligraphy with artist Jason Phu, and to create your very own Chinese Folk inspired artwork. @ West Space, Level 1/225 Bourke St, Melbourne FREE. Register by: Friday 24 November via info@westspace.org.au JARANAN PREMIERE FILM SCREENING Saturday 2 December, 8pm-10pm Film Makers Silvia Indriyani, Brahmantyo Putra and Marcus Salvagno present a contemporary Javanese tale that melds the mediated culture of today with the spiritual connections of Indonesian tradition. Featuring a performance by Janette Hoe and the Framed ensemble. @ Piazza Italia at Argyle Square, Lygon St, Carlton TICKETS $10 + BF: Bookings via eventbrite.com KAIJU HIP HOP JAZZ PROJECT Saturday 2 December, 11pm Japanese rapper Kojoe and piano virtuoso, and beat maker Aaron Choulai join forces with an impressive line-up of Melbourne musicians on the cutting edge of the local underground and mainstream music scene. @ The Jazz Lab, 27 Leslie St, Brunswick Tickets $20 bookings via jazzlab.club

GAMELAN DANANDA WORKSHOPS Sunday 3 December, 3pm-6pm An introduction to the Balinese gamelan instrument, Master drummer Pande ‘Yande’ Mardiana and musician-composer Adam Simmons invite you to these hands-on workshops of spontaneous composition and performance. @ Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne Ticket info & bookings via trybooking.com I SAID NEON Sunday 3 December, 7:30pm-9:30pm This showcase presents a diverse range of composers and ensembles, including this year’s featured artist Pande ‘Yande’ Mardiana, creating modern reimaginings of traditional Indonesian music. @ Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne Ticket info & bookings via trybooking.com REFLECTION Launch: Tuesday 5 December, 6pm-8pm Exhibition 6-17 December This exhibition presented by artists Pimpisa Tinpalit, Leah McIntosh and Yumemi Hiraki is an intercultural and mixed-media expression that pushes the boundaries of visual presentation. @ No Vacancy QV, 34-40 Jane Bell Ln, Melbourne FREE SERPENT DREAMING WOMEN Wednesday 6 December, 6pm-8pm Drawing links between Indian, Indian diasporic and Australian Indigenous women, this performance explores the relationship between global Asian cultures, as well as the political and poetic constraints, controls and challenges in women’s lives through a process of decolonisation. @ Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson St, Carlton FREE. Register via museumsvictoria.com.au/bunjilaka MAPPING THE MOVING IMAGE Friday 8 December & Friday 15 December, 8pm-10pm Through group bike rides punctuated with screenings of short films onto building facades, bridges and other city infrastructure, this cross-city dialogue between Osaka and Melbourne will remap the cosmopolitan cities through the moving image. @ Testing Grounds, 1-23 City Rd, Southbank Tickets $5. Bookings via eventbrite.com FOLLOW Friday 8 December, 6pm Balinese psychedelic grunge band, Navicula, perform in a special collaboration with Kutcha Edwards, Robbie Bundle and guest musicians associated with Gunyah and the F(route) and Float artist collectives. @ Testing Grounds, 1-23 City Road, Southbank FREE

COMMON GROUND SHOWCASE Saturday 9 December, 2pm-5pm An afternoon of multi-faith spoken word, music, food and storytelling where multilingual poets from Brimbank, Whittlesea and Shepparton will take you on a journey from page to stage. @ Beckett Theatre at The Coopers Malthouse, 113 Sturt St, Southbank FREE. Register via eventrbite.com KAIJU BEATS AND PIECES Saturday 9 December, 8pm-1am A rare night of live and electronic music exploring the boundaries of hip hop and Jazz with Kojoe X Aaron Choulai, No Boundary collaboration feat Miyama McQueen-Tokita & Elf Tranzporter and DJ sets from DJ Pon Pon, DJ Kyohei, DJ Snuc & MC Naki @ Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St FREE BALIMBING- FILIPINO QUEERNESS Meet the artists 5pm-5.30pm & launch 6pm-8pm Tuesday 12 December Exhibition 13-17 December Artist Gregory Lorenzutti brings to Australia a collection of vivid photographs that capture the intimate lives of queer Filipinos a show about faith, resilience, survival, family and spectacle queerness. @ Temperance Hall, 199 Napier St, South Melbourne FREE. Register via eventbrite.com HYPER FRAGILITY: WHY ARE WHITE MEN SO DEFENSIVE? #LOL Wednesday 13 & Thursday 14 December Sessions: 6.45pm; 8.15pm; 9.45pm Welcome to the Hyper Fragility Board Room. Please come in.

A candid, immersive, physical conversation between two artists exploring issues of race, gender and every day experiences of intersectional issues. Featuring Victoria Chiu & Candy Bowers. @ Arts Centre Melbourne, 100 St Kilda Rd. Tickets $10 Conc. / $15 Full | BOOK NOW: Box Office / 1300 182 183 / artscentremelbourne.com.au NIDANIGHTS VOL. 2: NIDA X MAV PRESENTS ‘RESONANT LINES’ Thursday 14 December, 7pm Triple-bill presenting an eclectic collection of aural, visual and poetic explorations of ritual. Featuring Nithya Iyer, Luna Mrozik Gawler, Aarti Jadu, Jack Davies, Sudeep Lingamneni and Andrew McLaughlin. @ NIDA Melbourne, Suite 4, 152 Sturt Street, Southbank FREE. RSVP by Monday 11 December via guild@nida.edu.au

MAPPING MELBOURNE 1-17 DECEMBER 2017 THIS STREET Friday 15 December, 4pm-10pm Explore the creative essence that flows throughout our city.

In a truly intercultural collaboration, our local and visiting featured artists from around the world will be showcased in this temporary installation. Curated by Echo Z Cai. @ Testing Grounds, 1-23 CITY RD, SOUTHBANK FREE AND THE HALF LIGHT Part Of The Meeting Points Concert Series Saturday 16 December, 3pm-5pm Presented in partnership with Arts Centre Melbourne and Australian Art Orchestra. Guzheng virtuoso, Mindy Meng Wang will lead the AAO in a performance of her new work, Cocoon, which traces Mindy’s passage from her home in China to the UK and eventually, Melbourne. @ Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall, Bombini Buzz Mezzanine Tickets $28: Bookings via artscentremelbourne.com.au STHITHI, WE STAND, WE BELONG Saturday 16 December, 6pm-6.30pm One’s first act of belonging to a city is to stand with confidence. Sthithi performed by the Sohamasmi Centre for Performing Arts, brings together dancers of diverse ethnicities to reflect contemporary Asia in our City of Melbourne. @ Queensbridge Square, Southbank FREE FESTIVITY Saturday 16 December, 6.30pm-8pm This SILP Productions parade/performance incorporates dance, stunning hand made props and audience interaction inspired by the “Hae Krua Tan” ceremony from the North of Thailand.

From Princes Bridge along Southbank Promenade to Queensbridge Square, Southbank FREE THE ECHOES PROJECT Saturday 16 December, 8.30pm-9pm & 9.30pm-10pm Under the Facing Heaven archway in Chinatown Plaza, Janette Hoe, Ron Reeves, Ria Soemardjo and Matt Stonehouse take you on a journey that evokes fragments of forgotten stories from surrounding laneways. @ Facing Heaven Archway, Chinatown Plaza, 104-106 Little Bourke St Registrations via eventbrite.com

multiculturalarts.com.au PRINCIPAL PARTNERS

SPONSORS

PRESENTING PARTNERS: Artistic Merit, Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Gamelan DaNanda, Horse Bazaar, Malthouse, MPavilion, NIDA Melbourne, No Vacancy Gallery QV, Projector Bike, Testing Grounds, Temperance Hall, The Jazzlab, West Space, SILP Productions, Sohamasmi Centre for Performing Arts SUPPORTERS: Dumbo Feather, OMAC, Kopernik, Navicula, University of Melbourne, Angior, The Volcanic Winds Project & East Timor Women Australia.

ILLUSTRATION BY: Kemal Ezedine

DESIGN BY: Deshani Berhardt