Australia Indonesia Arts Alliance
Auspicing body for Asia Pacific Arts
Following on from the highly successful AIAA presentation of Kalimantan Dayak culture as part of the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Conference in Singaraja Bali in October 2017 which included the involvement of Dayak activist Emmanuela Shinta (along with Kalimantan activist David Metcalf), Emmanuela Shinta was again invited to participate in the APWT for 2018…
AIAA is currently auspicing the following project: Regular weekly meetings at the Byron YAC resulted in the establishment of a group called Byron Multicultural which is working towards greater access and resources for the local ethnic communities. During 2018-19 the group has regularly held Multicultural Lunches once a month with between 15-40 people of many…
This was a rare and exciting opportunity to learn from the rainforest defenders of the Orangutan Information Centre. Panut Hadisiswoyo, Founding Director and award-winning environmentalist, and Nayla Azmi, Communications Officer, shared their incredible work in a special interactive event on Sunday the 18th of August at Byron Community College. The Orangutan Information Center, an…
The launch of the 13 part TV Series: The Eco Warriors September 2017 Sydney.
Indonesian diplomatic and cultural delegations welcomed to major international forums in Byron Shire.
During June-July 2016, as part of the Australian Ambassadors Project, Mark White, Producer of “The Rise of the Eco Warriors,” supported by Judy Shelley, National Coordinator of AIAA, was invited to tour Indonesia by Ade Zuchri National President of the Indonesian Green Union.Mark toured from Jakarta to West Java, Sumatra and Kalimantan, presenting film screenings…
AIAA initiated this project with the support of the Australian Consulate in Bali and with the assistance of Gamelan Master Dewa Made Nurjana achieved an invitation to present a major collaborative project of Australian and Indonesian artists performing the Shakuntala Dance Drama with full Balinese gamelan orchestra at Bali Arts Center, Bentara Budaya and other…
AIAA initiated the Australian Cultural Ambassador project in 2015 in conjunction with the Australian Consulate in Bali and support of the Balinese provincial government and the University of NSW which created the opportunity for over 20 University of NSW students and lecturers to perform at premier cultural event Bali Arts Festival plus a VIP dinner…
The Rise of the Eco Warriors is a film about a group of young people from all over the world who went to the Kalimantan jungle aiming to save orangutans from the effects of Palm Oil production which is destroying their habitat as well as having a huge global impact on climate change.The Eco Warriors…
Workshop and Performance 2014 Presenting “The Lost Princess and the Monkey King” “The famously beautiful Princess Dewi Sita is captured in a foreign land, and trapped in a strange garden. She waits for months and months to hear from her beloved Prince Rama, but no word comes…suddenly a friendly face appears in this strange land,…