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MULTICULTURAL ARC: Making Multicultural Australia – past, present and future

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Sydney Multicultural Community Services is proud to Launch a new book and welcome purchase of a hard copy.

Multicultural Arc describes and analyses a half-century of multicultural action and policy in Australia, as the country changed from being 99.5% European to one of the most diverse societies in the world. Through examinations of the changes introduced by successive governments, readers follow the twists and turns of ideology and popular attitudes. From the “invention” of Australian multiculturalism through to attacks on its very existence, the affirmation of Australia’s multicultural future now depends on addressing systemic racism and continuing inequalities. Five key themes include the place of First Nations in a multicultural society, the problems of racism, the challenges of communication and representation, the shredding of research capacity, and the creation of best fit institutions. Key words for the future are recognition, research and representation. Multicultural Arc is published by Sydney Multicultural Community Services.
Multicultural Arc book cover design: Prof Andrew Jakubowicz & Tatiana Pentes 2023

About The Book:

Multicultural Arc describes and analyses a half-century of multicultural action and policy in Australia, as the country changed from being 99.5% European to one of the most diverse societies in the world. Through examinations of the changes introduced by successive governments, readers follow the twists and turns of ideology and popular attitudes. From the “invention” of Australian multiculturalism through to attacks on its very existence, the affirmation of Australia’s multicultural future now depends on addressing systemic racism and continuing inequalities. Five key themes include the place of First Nations in a multicultural society, the problems of racism, the challenges of communication and representation, the shredding of research capacity, and the creation of best fit institutions. Key words for the future are recognition, research and representation. Multicultural Arc is published by Sydney Multicultural Community Services.

About The Author:

Emeritus Professor Andrew Jakubowicz
Bio. Andrew Jakubowicz, one of Australia’s most respected commentators on cultural diversity and public policy, is emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Technology Sydney. He has been involved in the multicultural social movement since the 1970s, and has led research on many aspects of Australia’s cultural diversity, especially in relation to old and new media. His expertise has contributed to state and Commonwealth policy development, in areas ranging from education to public health. He holds elected membership as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and the Royal Society of NSW. He has curated the web documentary “Making Multicultural Australia in the 21st century”, since 1999.

About The Designer:

Dr Tatiana Pentes
Tatiana Pentes is a multi-channel digital and creative communications producer. Her interactive documentary Strange Cities https://strangeblackbox.net/ won a number of awards as a pioneering work. Career highlights include 2023 Luminous Bodies art exhibition, Luna Studios Gallery, Sydney, 2022 Highly Commended, Burwood Art Prize Exhibition, 2018 Marketing Team Award, Reimagination Thought Leaders’ Summit, and Digital Disruptors Awards, ACS, 2015 W3 Silver Award for Best Integrated Media Campaign, 2000/2005 AMY & ATOM Awards, and 2008-2020 Juror AMY Awards, Digital & Technology Collective. She has a higher research degree 2006 DCA in Communications (Digital Media) Recommendation 1, University of Technology, Sydney.

How to Order the Book:

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feminism, film

A Song of Ceylon – dir. Laleen Jayamanne

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A Song of Ceylon, Sydney Film Festival #SydFilmFest Feminism & Film Sun 18 June 2017 @ 10.30am AGNSW http://bit.ly/SongOfCeylon_SFF Jayamanne, Laleen. (Director), Weary, Geoffrey (Film editor), Parr, Adrienne. (Producer), Finnane, Gabrielle. (Photographer), Australian Film Commission. Creative Development Branch – The narcissistic, masochistic, hysterical body in exquisite tableaux. A formally rigorous, visually lush study of gender and possession, referencing a classic British film. Australia | 1985 | 51 mins | In English and Sinhala with English subtitles.

“A formally rigorous, visually stunning study of colonialism, gender and the body. The title echoes the classic British documentary and evokes a country erased from the world map. The soundtrack enacts a Sri Lankan anthropological text observing a woman’s ritual exorcism. Visually, the film brings together theatrical conventions and recreations of classic film stills, presenting the body in striking tableaux. This remarkable film is a provocative treatise on hybridity, hysteria and performance.” WMM Women Make Movies

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Film still: Juan Davila

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Fim Poster: A Song of Ceylon

“The anthropological text is performed both like a musical score and a theatrical ritual….The film engages the viewer in the cinematic body as spectacle…”
Trinh T. Minh-ha

Interview with director Layleen Jayamanne in Senses of Cinema

Hysteria and the hybrid body in Laleen Jayamanne’s a song of Ceylon
Priyadarshini Vigneswaran, online: 18 May 2009

C. Berry, A. Nicholson & L. Jayamanne, The Filmmaker and the Prostitute: Dennis O’Rourke’s The Good Woman of Bangkok, Power Publications, Sydney, 1997

Barrett Hodsdon, Straight Roads And Crossed Line; The Quest For Film Culture In Australia, A Bernt Porridge Group Book: Western Australia, 2001C. Berry, A. Nicholson &

L. Jayamanne, The Filmmaker and the Prostitute: Dennis O’Rourke’s The Good Woman of Bangkok, Power Publications, Sydney, 1997

Barrett Hodsdon, Straight Roads And Crossed Line; The Quest For Film Culture In Australia, A Bernt Porridge Group Book: Western Australia, 2001

Art, Black Box, Digital Media, Geoffrey Weary, Interactive Art, new media, Painting, Photo Media, Photography, portraits, Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Tatiana Pentes, University of Sydney

PORTRAITS: films by Geoffrey Weary

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TIME WAS.... by Geoffrey Weary - part of PORTRAITS a three part film series...
TIME WAS…. by Geoffrey Weary – part of PORTRAITS a three part film series…

TIME WAS…….
Geoffrey Weary (digital prints)

Sydney College of the Arts
Opening Tuesday, 4 – 29 September

SCA Galleries Sydney College of the Arts
Crn Cecily & Darling St, Rozelle
Sydney, AUSTRALIA

PORTRAITS 2005 – 2014

Production Company: Strange Cities Productions
Director/Producer: Geoffrey Weary
email: Geoff.Weary@sydney.edu.au

Cast:Tatiana Pentes, Leakhena Sy, Rose Tang

PORTRAITS is an experimental digital work that explores three contrasting experiences of war and conflict in the middle and late 20th century. A woman living in Shanghai is expelled from China after the Communist Revolution in 1949. The ghosts of the Cold War appear and disappear in the crumbling ruins of the Berlin Wall in 1990. A young woman suffers a crisis of identity around the circumstances of her birth at the end of the war in Cambodia in 1978


SCENES FROM A SHANGHAI HOTEL (2007)

An experimental film by Geoffrey Weary

A Russian woman living in Shanghai is expelled from China after the Communist Revolution in 1948. Her story begins in a hotel room in Shanghai and ends on a suburban street in Sydney, Australia. Performative, fictional, and documentary elements are blended into a work that is suggestive and open to multiple readings. Extensive use of film leader and scratchy film surfaces add to the sense that what we are seeing resembles something that is illusive, dream-like, just beyond grasp…..or is it just a newsreel playing in someone’s head?


CAPTIVE

An experimental film by Geoffrey Weary

CAPTIVE explores the themes of repression, confinement and escape. These themes are expressed through the incorporation of grainy VHS footage shot in Berlin at the time of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, hand-held camera sequences shot in a maze-like forest and slices of footage composited out of archival Cold War films. As the real historical Wall crumbles under the blows of street hawkers and souvenir hunters, ghostly specters from the past appear then dissolve back into the scratchy surface of a long forgotten newsreel.

Captive by Geoffrey Weary from Strange Cities Productions on Vimeo.


My Mother Told Me (2007)

An experimental film by Geoffrey Weary

A young woman tells the story of her family’s destruction during the war in Cambodia, 1975-1978. Later as a refugee living with her mother in Sydney, Australia she suffers an identity crisis that is linked to the unexplained circumstances of her birth and the mystery of the father that she has never known.

My Mother Told Me by Geoffrey Weary from Strange Cities Productions on Vimeo.
My Mother Told Me 2007

Australia’s audiovisual heritage online Australian Screen http://aso.gov.au/titles/shorts/my-mother-told-me/