Oct 16 – Tribute to Lucky Dube

September 28, 2010

Tribute to Lucky Dube (also remembering Oliver N’Goma)

Featuring performances by Tote and the Lingala Dancers DJ’s Joe Panda and Junior Guava and MC Gambo

At Casablanca, 52 Caxton St (cnr Petrie Tce) Brisbane

Saturday 16th October 2010  from 9:30pm – 5:00am

Melting Pot

April 21, 2010

A WORLD OF FREE MUSIC

There’s a world of music bubbling away in Brisbane’s diverse communities. This melting pot of multi-culturalism will be celebrated during the monthly series of free entertainment and activities to be held at QPAC’s Cascade Court and Melbourne Street Green.

Traversing the globe from Asia to Europe, Africa and the Americas, Brisbane’s Melting pot will feature an array of ethnic delicacies from local communities including traditional fare, arts and craft, new world music and dance.

Gather your family and friends and join the global citizens of Brisbane’s new world city as we celebrate diversity, community and culture through the universal languages of food and music.

Where:    Cascade Court and Melbourne Street Green, QPAC

When:     11.30am to 5pm

Immerse yourself in the sounds and aromas of mystical Asia with rhythmic Bhangara, bamboo flutes, exotic strings, driving percussion and the phenomenon of contemporary Bollywood.

Folkloric traditions, classical compositions and contemporary pop music come together to mark the European influence on a western culture steeped in delicious diversity.

Saturday 10+Sunday 11 April

Saturday 8+Sunday 9 May

Return to the roots of all music with an exciting world of song and dance beating a trail from tribal Africa to the idyllic rhythms of the South Pacific.

Saturday 5+Sunday 6 June

Saturday 10 + Sunday 11 July

Traverse the globe footloose and carefree with a gypsy gathering drawing from the Mediterranean, the Baltics, the Middle East and Central Asia to create an energetic celebration of a colourful life of travels.

Saturday 7 + Sunday 8 August

Saturday 18+ Sunday 19 September

Party with the sounds of the streets as we shake up the music that has inspired revolutions, celebrated freedom and opened our hearts and minds to the ryhthms of carnivale.

Saturday 16+Sunday 17 October

Saturday 13 + Sunday 14 November

Presented by QPAC with the support of BEMAC

Talking Tapa: Pasifika Bark Cloth in Queensland

January 21, 2010

Works from the Melanesian nations and islands of Papua New Guinea, West Papua a province of Indonesia, The Solomon Islands and New Caledonia, and the Polynesian Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, and Wallis and Futuna  are represented. Community loans hang beside museum pieces. Some have be used very recently in Queensland to decorate homes, wedding receptions, meeting halls, birthday parties, for use at funerals and perhaps most commonly for Fijians to wear at their weddings.

National itinerary – tour

2009   Queensland

• USQ (Springfield, Ipswich) 12 Feb –19 March
• Art space Mackay 27 Mar – 10 May
• Gladstone Regional Art Gallery 5 June – 11 July

Museum of Brisbane  24 July – 11 Oct  NOW

• Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, 23 Oct – 6 Dec
• Cairns Regional Gallery 11 Dec – 31 Jan 2010

2010  Victoria

• Monash Gallery of Art 10 Feb – 11 April
• Ballarat Fine Art Gallery 17 April – 30 May

2010 NSW

• Mosman Art Gallery 5 June – 18 July
• Manning Regional Gallery 23 July – 5 Sept
• Taree
• Bathurst Regional Gallery 15 Oct – 28 Nov

Further venues may be included in 2011. If you know a venue that may be interested please let BEMAC know.

Catch TALKING TAPA where you can and enjoy this wonderful show.