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Printed with compliments of Cr Charlie Pisasale‘s Electorate Office
Agenda, Feature Story, Photo Gallery, Contributions & Enq.
March 2010 - Edition 2
For Enquiries contact:
Co-ordinator: Stella Gibbs
Tel: 07 3281 6852
Mobile: 0408 816 856
Contribution to Newsletter:
If you would like to advertise a
function, festival, workshop, Art
Exhibition, CD, book or you
would like to share some interest-
ing anecdotes, stories, poems,
jokes, news items, please contact:
Editor: Astrid Tholens,
Tel: 07 3202 2291
Email: astrand1@optusnet.com.au
Greetings for March 2010
Support Links provides an oppor-tunity to be part of something that is vital, exciting, calming, and inspiring, all in one! You can relax, be yourself, share your talents, get to meet people from different cul-tures, and build new friendships! Come and join us to enjoy a vari-ety of workshops throughout the year and check out our calendar for March! All are welcome!
Support Links Multicultural Group - NEWSLETTER
Support Links AGENDA
Monday‘s 12pm - 2pm
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1 March:
Bring your Games to play ,
meet at LCC Youth Centre.
Silk Workshop, at Artime,
Brisbane St, Ipswich
Starting at 12.30 - 4.30.
Bookings required.
8 March:
Drawing Techniques, by
Stella Gibbs.
15 March:
Activities to be announced
Friday 19 March:
Movie Night at Barry Jones
Auditorium, Ipswich Library,
starting at 6.30pm
22 March:
Mandala Art, celebrating
harmony, by Astrid Tholens.
29 March:
Visit to Art Gallery, followed
by discussion at Coffee Shop!
Dancer in Time1, AstridTholens
Leichhardt Community Centre
Cnr Old Toowoomba Rd & Denman St
Leichhardt.
Everyone Belongs - Express Yourself Harmony Day on 21 March 2010
Celebrate the uniqueness and similarities
of all human beings on the face of this earth.
Enjoy the rich experiences of cultural diversity
Inspire participation and respect for all people
residing in Australia, as well as the whole world.
Find exciting new ways to celebrate,
through performance, art, fashion and food
Spread the message to workplaces, schools,
community groups and organisations across Australia
Free promotional items such as buttons, posters, balloons
and tattoos are available at www.harmony.gov.au.
www.harmony.gov.au/harmony-day/what‘s-it-all-about.htm
An
Indian
Wedding
Pooja
&
Satbir
Singh
At the Hare Krishna Farm
in Murwillumbah
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Calendar of Concerts & Festivals - March 2010
Saturday 6 March:
A night of dancing with women from new com-
munities in Brisbane. Bring your favourite CD
and show us how to do your dance! Women
only! At Multicultural Association, 152 Stanley St, South
Brisbane.
Friday 12 March:
Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF)
will be holding a ‗Feed the Future‘ Fundraiser
3 course meal with live performers
Calling for artworks, exhibitions and donations. at Mu‘ooz, Eritrean Restaurant, 21-23/197-201
Beaudesert Rd, Moorooka, QLD
Friday, 12 March -1pm - 3pm
International Women‘s Day 2010 Afternoon
(WEN)
Qld Theme: Women Leading the Way
UN Theme: Empowering Women to End
Poverty by 2015 At Kurilpa Hali, 174 Boundary St, West End
Enq: Laraine Brandon 07 3844 9166
Saturday 13 March - at 6.45pm
Get Smart - Fitflicks Movies in the Park,
celebrating Ipswich 150th Birthday! Visit the
website outlining other events and how you can
share your story or vision for the future at
www.ipswich150.com.au.
At Bill Paterson Oval, Limestone Park Ipswich
Central, Lion St Entrance (Parking on Selwyn
Edwards Drive)
Saturday 27 March - 6.45pm
International Cafe –Irish Night
Bookings required.
St Paul‘s Hall, Ellenborough & Brisbane St, Ips
Festivals & Concerts, Music, Song & Dance
Saturday 17 April:
Global Fiesta 2010 - Multicultural Extravaganza
Global Fiesta, Ipswich‘s annual multicultural extrava-
ganza is here again. After an amazing successful event
last year, we are ready for another upbeat celebration of
cultures, both modern and traditional.
The expressions of interest forms will be available soon
for performers, stallholders and workshop providers. Enq: Cath Sweeney, Project Officer, Tel 07 3810 7989
CSweeney@ipswich.qld.gov.au
Mandala ART by
Rosalind Sand
Gittings Please visit her
Website:
www.sandsartmandala.
com.au
Sand has been working as a professional artist
for many years, and has been teaching classes in
mandala painting. After studying comparative
religion at university, Sand intensified her study of
mandalas and their cross-cultural influences while
exploring her own spirituality. A deep love of nature
and concern for the environment inspires her work
which incorporates traditional and folk mythologies
and mystical symbolism.
Sand has exhibited in Canberra, Brisbane and
Northern Rivers area of New South Wales. She has
painted a number of privately commissioned works
and her work has appeared in several local and inter-
national publications. She distributes art prints, cards
and posters overseas and around Australia.
―I am inspired by a deep love of nature, poetry and music
as well as by traditional and folk mythologies and mystical
philosophies. I find fulfillment in an eclectic spirituality and
have discovered that the mystics of all traditions speak the
same language of LOVE. My intention is to celebrate the
sacredness and beauty of the natural world, particularly on
the microcosmic scale. I hope that I can contribute in some
small way to other people‘s awareness of the delicacy and
fragile beauty of our environment and that some might be
inspired to value it enough to actively care for it in whatever
way they can.‖
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Artist Wonderland Ipswich Arts Council Workshop-Series 2010
Artisan Wonderland is a program of 40 art work-
shops running throughout the year. Artisan Won-
derland is an initiative of the Ipswich Arts Council
(Regional Arts Ipswich Inc) offering tutelage in
writing, dancing, painting, photography and a host
of other disciplines at a minimal cost through the
sponsorship of the Regional Arts Development
Fund. Book early as numbers are strictly limited.
March, Saturday 27:
Cartooning (Ages 9 -17) with Brian Doyle
Cost :$5 Time: 12pm—3pm.
The Artist Studio - A rural perspective with Lyne
Marshall. How to promote your artwork.
Cost: $5 Time: 1pm - 4pm.
March, Sunday 28
Watercolour Sketching with Helen Vere
Cost: $5 Time 1pm - 4pm
Leadlight Butterflies with Michelle Hollister
Cost: $10 Time: 1pm - 4pm
Filmmaking (15 yrs +) with The Young Filmmak-
ers Festival Qld.
Cost: $5 Time 9am - 5pm
For further information on how to book, visit:
www.artisanwonderland.blogsport.com
Enq: Donna Tel 07 2194 1210
Art Exhibitions & Workshops
Australia's history is retold through patchwork
quilts in this exhibition drawn from national,
state and private collections. The fabric scraps,
patterns and needlework conjure memories
of past times and allow an examination of the
social histories of countless ordinary and
some extraordinary people which would
otherwise never have been told - Governor's
wives, wealthy shop owners, farmer's wives,
gold rush immigrants, prisoners of war, and
all the mums that made their children's
clothes and never threw anything away.
This exhibition includes rare and unique quilts
displayed with contextual photographs and
period furniture and has been curated exclu-
sively for the Ipswich Art Gallery by Australian
Quilt Historian, Dr Annette Gero.
Ipswich Art Gallery - CS Energy Gallery
3 April 2010 - 25 July 2010 Open 7 days per week from 10am - 5pm
Entry by gold coin donation
The Fabric of Society
Australia‟s Quilts
Heritage from
Colonial Times
to 1960
APT UP LATE - Qld Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art
UP LATE provides the opportunity for visitors to see current exhibitions with the addition of specially developed after hours programs such as talks, performances and films. Explore APT6 on Friday and enjoy talks by curators on the artists and countries represented in the exhibition, as well as a weekly program of performances that reveal the diversity of contemporary Australian, Asian and Pacific music, including hip-hop, reggae, pop and jazz. The foyer Bistro and River Cafe are open from 5.30pm during Up Late. These are ticketed events. Tickets are $21.50 and are available through qtix or Tel 136 246 (includes booking fee).
http://qag/qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/apt6 Quan Yeomans
Little Scout
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Music for Mankind Inc. (www.musicformankind.net) contributes
proceeds from its benefit concert series, to the UN World Food
Program, The Prem Rawat Foundation, Feeding America, local
food banks and more. (Photo of Kelly & Friend)
The Gamut of Human Potential
If we are to achieve a richer culture rich in contrasting values
we must recognise the whole gamut of human potentialities
and weave a less arbitrary fabric, one in which each diverse gift
will find a fitting place Margaret Mead (1901-1978) noted American anthropologist and writer, studied life among people in Samoa, Papua & New Guinea, Bali, & Native North America.
Creative Energy - Dream of the Earth
The psychic energies sustaining the industrial illusion are now dis-
solving in confrontation with the problems of water for drinking, air for
breathing, nontoxic soil for food production. A new energy is beginning
to appear. Already a pervasive influence throughout the North
American continent, this energy is finding expression in more than ten
thousand ecologically oriented action groups on this continent. It is
distributed through all the professions and through all the various forms
of economic, political, educational, religious, literary , and media
enterprise.
We could describe our industrial society as counterproductive,
addictive, paralysing, manifestation of a deep cultural pathology. Mythic
addictions function something like alcohol and drug addictions. Any
effective cure requires passing through the agonies of withdrawal.
The main difficulty in replacing the industrial order is not the
physical nature of the situation, but its psychic entrancement. So too
with the ecological pattern: the myth is primary. A taste for existence
within the functioning of the natural world is urgent. There must be a
mystique of the rain if we are ever to restore the purity of rainfall.
This mystique must be associated with the three basics commit-
ments of our times: commitment to the earth as irreversible process, to
the ecological age as the only viable form of the millennial ideal, and to a
sense of progress that includes the natural as well as the human world.
Read the exciting essays of Thomas Berry in The Dream of the Earth
(Sienna Club Nature and Natural Philosophy Library)
NICARAGUA
On the ground Filmclip
In July 2008, the Friends of
the World Food Program
invited Kelly Moor (Composer
Musician) as a US Delegate
for the Friends of the World
Food Program on a five day
journey to remote villages in
Nicaragua to observe UN
World Food Program field
operations and to lend a hand.
Meet the people who travelled
with Kelly and see first-hand
the heart-breaking difficulties
the Nicaraguans face, their
hope, and the incredible
efforts of the UN World Food
Program to help them.
Available for viewing online at:
www.musicformankind.net
Purchase for $20.00 + postage
Environment, Eco-Community Gardens, Peace Walks, Charities
Audio slideshow: Life in Haiti’s camps
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8513278.stm) (Click on link and watch
audio slideshow)
More than a million
people were made
homeless by Haiti‘s
earthquake. Many of
them are still living in
makeshift camps in increasingly unsanitary conditions.
The BBC‘s Mike Wooldridge visited one of the largest
camps in Port-au-Prince at Champs de Mars, opposite
the Presidential Palace.
Slideshow production by James Fletcher and Helena
Selby Publication: date 13 Feb 2010.
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STONE SOUP
A story about living Community
Stone Soup is a heartwarm- ing children‟s story that illustrates the power of community engagement.
An old folk tale, Stone Soup tells the story of two travellers who help the residents of a village realize the abundance their community holds. Retold by Heather Forrest, with lively illustrations by Susan Gaber, this version of Stone Soup is a colourful, optimistic reminder of the importance of generosity and community in our lives. Browse through this digitalized storybook by clicking on this link or paste into browser. The file will take a few moments to download. http://tamarackcommunity.ca/g4s22.html
Education,Tutoring, Employment, Language
News from Vocational Training Centre SAWA Australia Newsletter - Feb 1010, Issue 25
www.sawa-australia.org
SAWA (Support Association for the Women of Afghanistant) & OPAWC (Organization for Promoting Afghan
Women‘s Capabilities) support and operate the Vocational training centre for women in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The second annual intake of the Literacy Course graduated on 30 Dec 2009. Guests from the Ministries of
Education, Social Affairs, and Women attended the event and enjoyed its drama, poetry and song performances.
Sixty-six students received their diploma from the hands of the Headmistress and were congratulated by a
representative of the Ministry of Education
The Literacy Course, now in its third year, has already made a big difference for families, particularly
families without a male breadwinner.
Playback Theatre is a unique improvisional theatre with no script.
The material for the performance comes from the audience. Assisted
by the conductor, people in the audience share moments and
stories from their lives, which is then immediately re-enacted or
played back spontaneously by a troupe of usually four actors and a
musician. The actors and musician then take on roles in a dramatic
form and, using dance, movement, mime, music, dialogue, sound
and imagination, the story or moment is played back in a creative
and magical re-enactment. No Playback performance is like any
other and no-one quite knows what to expect when they walk
through the doors. That is the spontaneous nature of Playback, for
actors and audience alike. It provides a unique opportunity to listen,
learn and build on each other‟s personal and community story.
www.brisbaneplayback.com.au
Remember Your Direction
In this vast jungle, it is not necessary to cut down the trees
or learn the art of walking through forests and mountains
Do what you have to do Go over whatever mountains
you need to go over Go around all the trees
that you have to go around
Find your way around the rivers through the gorges build your bridges
Do whatever you have to do Just remember one thing
Remember your direction If you lose your direction
you’ll go around in a big circle. by Prem Rawat
Words of Peace Global at www.wopg.org
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Stories, Poems, Music, Songs., Quotes
IT‟S ON THE CARDS, by Gershon
Must be honest, hard working, mature
Must be clean.
Must be numerate, literate, balanced,
Must relate. Must be keen.
Must be fluent, extroverted, thoughtful and wise.
Eager for challenge regardless of size.
Must be patient, relaxed, assertive and stable.
Non drinker, non smoker, non sexist, non racial.
Highly receptive, a thinker but physically able.
Must be adaptive, tractable but firm and controlled.
A self-starter, assertive, loyal and bold.
Aged-Fifteen to Eighteen. Not Thirty To Old.
Depression
Unemployed
Typical picture
capturing the
people who were
unemployed and
looking for a job
in 1935.
A Lesson I Remember by Colin Devenish I was just a little boy, a child of six or seven.
The oldest nun at the convent school
came to visit our class.
The old nun was one hundred-and-one.
She let the class ask questions.
She said: “Life goes by in the blink of an eye”.
The words she said came from her heart,
she was at the end, and we were at the start.
“Always keep your faith in God,
be kind to one another.
we are all God‟s children, you and I,
and nature is our Mother”.
Those wise words have stayed with me.
The gift she gave was ageless.
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Intraflection by Colin Devenish
I was lucky to have studied art at the
Bremer Institute of TAFE, and was
able to research and discover the
amazing world of Visual Art.
I completed my Diploma in 1994.
During my studies, I became
interested in the history of the
Mandala. This is one of my designs.
It represents a person sitting
cross-legged on the edge of a lake,
thus the title „Intraflection‟.
The role of the writer
is not to say
what we can all say
but what we are
unable to say.
Anais Nin
www.anaisnin.com
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Stories, Poems, Music, Songs., Quotes
The Owl and the Swan , by Cara Tower
Deep in the heart of the jungled wood
the thickened pines of darkness stood
their cloaks a safe heaven to a family of owls
where only the shadow of the moon dare prowl.
Till one day a swan flew through the break of the trees
and found a baby owl hemmed in by the leaves.
The owl cried: “Who are you, and from where do you come”?
“I am the swan, I can show you the radiant light of the Sun.
I journey the deserts, over mountains I roam
I travel the earth, for the world is my home.
I fly with the dawn as morning light wings
across oceans and vast existence I sing.
Come with me as the Sun wakes up the world.
Come with me as each veil of its breath unfurls.”
Colour, light, a ball of fire
the owl flew with the new wings of desire.
Till his mother‟s words sank on his faith like a stone
She said: “The Sun is no more alive than a river of bones
like folklore it doesn‟t exist
but go ask your father, if you insist.”
“Father, father, I want to see the Sun
I want to play in the field where its golden rays run.”
“My poor boy,” was his father‟s reply
“There are no colours that light up the sky.
You‟ll never find the sun if it doesn‟t exist
but I‟ll go to the elder owls if you persist.”
“Oh wise ones, it should come as no surprise
a swan has swooned my boy with lies
whimsical providence fills his head
Illusions of light feather his bed.
“Tell your boy, tell him; tell your boy, tell him;
there‟s no such sun in existence,
no such heat spans the distance
no such warmth spills over the earth
there is no such dawn on a day‟s rebirth.
Oh dawn of a day‟s rebirth”
The little owl scored the sky and cried like a homeless waif
broken as his rags of light lay torn beneath his faith
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Beautiful swan why did you lie to me, I‟m waiting impatiently
for the Sun to take flight, for a flake of its light
to shine through the pines, through the pines
for the warmth of its kiss, for a thread of its bliss
to shine through the pines, through the pines.
Oh my boy, come here by me
we‟ll wait in the towering trees
we‟ll look to the sky, as doubt rolls by
and you‟re safely gathered into thee
Wake up and see!
A flicker of light, through a crack in the dawn
shines in a dew-drop, as a new day forms
a whisper of blue, through a petal of green
a faint breath of rose over aqua-marine
Wake up and see!
The luminous palette that cradles the sky
the lavenders that blossom and fly
Veils of pink weaving from orange to gold
in a sweeping moment of truth to behold
Oh whispers of blue....BEHOLD....
Cara Tower
The Owl and
the Swan (movieclip)
www.
caratower. com
Cara Tower: This poem was written by Cara Tower and based on a story told by Prem Rawat. Cara has created a mesmerizing synthesis of a musical score, with storytelling voice-overs and animated artworks & photogra-phy. Voice overs: Daya Rawat & Nina Farag
Singing voices & all instruments: Cara
Tower
Basses: Eduardo Del Signore
Violin: Scarlet Rivera
Cara is a multi instrumentalist who writes, arranges, engineers and produces all of her soundtracks and CD‟s. She is also a classically trained guitarist with a large classical repertory. ”I‟ve been an artist all my life. Creating something where there once was nothing. I‟m fascinated by music from other places. I enjoy a production that takes me some where I‟ve never been and simulta-neously reminds me of where I‟ve always been; at home inside my heart.” Comments
You have found your musical voice many
years ago. You take me to places
musically I have never been to. (Maestro
Moacir Santos -A National treasure of Brazil)
Cara‘s music to my poetry has driven me
to tears. (Rafiqe Abdulla -Poet, Scholar,
Translator, Author)
You have created the best musical
rendition of a Rumi poem I have ever
heard. (Daniel Ladinsky -Author and transla-
tor of The Gift)
Stories, Poems, Music, Songs., Quotes
Of Marriage by Kahil Gibran
Here love's longing draws back the veil, and illumines the recesses of the heart,
creating a happiness that no other happiness can surpass
but that of the Soul
It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities
within the two spirits
As the first glance from the eye of the beloved
is like the seed sown in the human heart and the first kiss of her lips like a flower
upon the branch of the tree of life
So the union of two lovers in marriage is like the first fruit
of that first flower of that seed.
―His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life, else it could not have been so universal and so potent. But the majesty
and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own.
Claude Bragdon
Kahil Gibran