Lead Up Events 2008
POLYGLOTS
Readings and music to excite the imagination.
Thursday, 21 February 2008, 7:00 for 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Gordon Gallery, Gordon TAFE, 2 Fenwick St Geelong
Geelong Writers (GW) hosted an evening of readings & music for all to enjoy as part of the lead up to Pako Festa 2008.
Poets Ouyang Yu and Richard Kakol, author Maria Takolander, the Elias Maniatakis Ensemble and the Geelong College String Quartet performed on the theme, Reflections on Greece. The event included a recitation by Georgie Kostakidis-Drijver & Jura Reilly of a lament by Psappho, the ancient Greek poetess, and other Greek poems.
Ouyang Yu, whose poetry collection Songs of the Last Chinese Poet was short-listed for the 1999 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, is a lecturer at the Australia Studies Centre, Wuhan University China & editor of the journal, Otherland. Richard Kakol is a widely published Geelong based writer and poet. Maria Takolander, lecturer in Literary Studies at Deakin University, Geelong, is the author of Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground and the poetry chapbook Narcissism.
GW is a non-profit community organization that provides support for writers and promotes writing and literature in Geelong & the Surf Coast regions, and whose members come from a diverse range of backgrounds.
For further information, please contact Pam Holman, Secretary Geelong Writers, on ph: 5244 0276 or email: geelongwriters@yahoo.com.au
LOST BOYS OF SUDAN
A moving documentary about two young Sudanese refugees.
Tuesday 19 February, Geelong West Town Hall, Pakington Street, 7pm.
Gold coin donation.
Lost Boys of Sudan, by Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk, is an award-winning documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia.
Guest Speaker
George Gatbok-Due to civil war, George was forced to flee his village in Sudan without his family when he was 7 years old. He traveled for three months on foot to Ethiopia and then to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, where he resided for thirteen years. George resettled in Australia in April 2005 and has been living and working in Colac since December 2006. He recently gained his Australian citizenship in September 2007.
EMMY NOMINEE - INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD WINNER
PAST & PRESENT COSTUME DESIGN
A multimedia display of culturally diverse costumes
Saturday 16 – Thursday 27 February (excluding Friday 22 February)
12 – 4pm Weekends, 10am – 4pm Mon - Fri
Gordon Gallery, Gordon TAFE, 2 Fenwick St Geelong
This is an exciting exhibition of some of the most stunning and beautiful traditional costumes from around the world.
As part of this exhibition, members of various multicultural communities have worked with students from the Gordon TAFE Fashion Design course to inspire “new” traditional costume designs. These new designs reflect the culture and heritage of the original costumes, while giving them a highly creative and up-to-date sense of style. See the blueprints for these design projected onto mannequins in the gallery.
This project plans to be delivered in two stages – with the designs for new costumes being presented this year - and the costumes themselves being created next year. The exhibition is a must-see for all those interested in culture, costume, fashion and the creative arts.
THROUGH THE KEYHOLE
Artworks reflecting the theme ‘Icons of Culture’
Friday 15th - Friday 29th, February.
For two weeks, the Pako Festa will bring contemporary art to Pakington Street Geelong West. The Through the Keyhole-Icons of Culture exhbition is like all public art - it is on view in the pubic space free from the parameters of a Gallery.
Exhibiting are four recent graduates Terri Anne Beatti from the Gordon Institute of TAFE, Joyce Penny's from the Brougham School of Art and Photography and Sandra Riddell and Jacinta Stephenson from Ballarat University.
The following business contain artwork in their shopfront window display; The Chocolate Room, Caffe Smudge, Ida Jane, Jayk Body Salon for Men, Heights Sewing Centre, Sergio Italian Shoes, Paris on Pakington Boutique,Wilson's Copy Centre, Judy Chirnside Flowers, Benning Fashion & Accessories and Pearls For Girls . Michaels will again host a show on the day of the festival.
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