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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: [email protected]

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

[email protected]

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.

2 0 1 0

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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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)


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

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