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Behind The Shadow

Workshop on Javanese Shadow Puppet Manipulation

by Dr. Joko Susilo
Visiting Indonesian shadow puppeteer and gamelan musician

How does a shadow come to life? At the workshop Joko Susilo will introduce participants to the world of Javanese shadow puppets and disclose the secrets that make giants, kings, princess and clowns into real characters on the screen. It will be a journey to discover universal principles applicable to any genre of puppetry: a unique opportunity to enrich your creativity.

Date: Sat 15th Sun 16th November 2003
Time: 10am - 4pm
Place: is theatre ltd 77 Salamanca Place Hobart
Cost: $ 110

Open to performers, visual artists and teachers and students of Indonesian.

For further information please contact Carmencita Palermo
Email: cpalermo@postoffice.utas.edu.au Tel: 03 6324 3046

A special thanks to Terrapin Theatre, Salamanca Place Hobart

JOKO SUSILO

Visiting Indonesian Musician and Puppeteer at the University of Tasmania
August - November 2003

Dr Joko Susilo, a renowned Javanese shadow puppeteer and gamelan master will be in Launceston for approximately three months, starting the week of 25 August. He will be:
· working with students of performing arts at the University of Tasmania on an experimental theatre performance using shadow puppet techniques
· providing training in gamelan music to players of the Launceston gamelan orchestra
· presenting performances of traditional shadow puppet theatre, to be accompanied by the gamelan.

Dr Susilo has had extensive overseas experience, in New Zealand (where he obtained his PhD degree) in Scotland, Europe and the United States. He is a skilled teacher as well as performer, and very used to conducting workshops in gamelan and shadow puppetry with all kinds of groups. He is keen to hold such workshops in Launceston, for school groups, those with a special interest in music and the arts, and members of the community.

The Learning Program includes:
Gamelan Orchestra Workshops
Puppetry Workshops
Masterclasses

Bookings are essential for all workshops.
For information on workshop fees, times or other enquiries within Tasmania, please contact: The Education Section, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Phone: 63233 777 or email: education@qvmag.tas.gov.au

For general information on Dr Susilo's visit and on workshops outside the State, please contact:
Prof Barbara Hatley, School of Asian Languages and by email barbara.hatley@utas.edu.au
Carmencita Palermo: cpalermo@postoffice.utas.edu.au


Jumaadi awarded "Highly Commended" Art on the Rocks


During the year, AIAA member Adi Jumaadi was awared the "HighlyCcommended" prize in Art on the Rocks with his paintings titled "Reflections I and II" depicting scenes around Sydney Harbour interspersed with scenes drawing on Australia's past. The works were exhibited at the ASN Gallery, 1-3 Hickson Road, The Rocks during June 2003.


Jumaadi also held a solo exhibition of his abstract and figurative work at the Bondi Pavilion Gallery during June and July. One of Adi’s latest projects has been participating in a group exhibition at Mary Place Gallery which opened on Tuesday 16 September until September 28. Congratulations Adi!

More information and paintings on the gallery website at
www.maryplacegallery.com.au - then click on Spring 2003 menu.
or contact Adi at jumaadi@hotmail.com or 02 9389 7038.


New Film Festival

Arts Access is seeking interested filmmakers to contribute ideas to a new
film festival to be held in 2004 around themes of disability and
"otherness". You can register your interest by filling out a questionnaire.

MORE INFORMATION: http://www.artsaccess.com.au/news/index.cfm?id=230

UNPOPULAR CULTURE - THE 2004 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
The 2004 Next Wave Festival will be held from 18th - 30th May 2004.
Organisers are seeking innovative and engaging takes on the notion of
unpopular culture from a variety of artforms including music, visual art,
theatre, dance, performance, text and new media.

MORE INFORMATION: http:// www.nextwave.org.au


Asia and Pacific Writers Network


An initiative of the Melbourne PEN Centre, supported by the Australian PEN Centres in partnership with Asialink. Supported by the Myer Foundation. Melbourne PEN Centre, supported by the Australian PEN Centres, in partnership with Asialink, a non-government organization based at the University of Melbourne, is researching and developing an Asia and Pacific Writers Network, as a functioning self-sustaining network of individuals,
organizations and institutions.

As a PEN initiative we aim; to promote friendship and intellectual
co-operation among writers everywhere, to fight for freedom of speech, work for good understanding and respect between nations and to champion the ideal of one humanity living in peace in one world. The Asia and Pacific Writers Network aims to: Extend the network of writers, individuals and organizations that work with language and stories, in all their forms; Increase understanding of, and dialogue about, the current issues, writing and cultures in the region; Further the aims of PEN; Support each other in the promotion and preservation of the regions literatures; Share and develop strategies and methods of contending with the issues, obstacles, and difficulties that face writers and their communities; Provide opportunities for Network members to develop joint projects; Facilitate greater public awareness of writing and issues of the region.

This will occur in 3 stages:
Stage 1: Network the Networks create a database accessible to all
participants
Stage 2: Communicate - develop the most accessible system for participants to communicate
Stage 3: Conference/s - opportunities to meet, share, discuss, face to face.
We need your input and participation to create the network. Currently we are seeking writers, academics, or organizations that are interested in participating in the Network. We are establishing a database that will be accessible to all participants, and we need your permission for you to be included. If you are interested in participating in the Network, please contact us. We would also appreciate if you would promote the Network via your contacts and networks. We are also investigating the best form of communication. Many people have internet access, so one mode will be an email discussion list. We are aware that many people do not have access, so we will also create a mail-based system, which will include a Newsletter, and when you send in your
comments, suggestions, ideas, etc, these will be added to the email discussion. Once the communication systems have been established we will further develop the aims of the network, and facilitate discussion on pertinent issues and strategies. The long term aim is for the Network to meet, in a biennial
Conference.

Please contact us with your following details: Name; writer/academic; organization (if applicable); contact details; country; website (if applicable). You may also like to add what issues and topics you would like to see discussed. If you do not have internet access, what the best mode of communication is. Eg fax, post etc If you are interested in participating, please contact: berni m janssen,
Postal: The Asialink Centre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville.
Victoria. 3010. Australia.
Ph: 61 3 8344 4800 Fax: 61 3 9347 1768 Email: bmj@net2000.com.au


Scattered Dust


"The Scattered Dust of Love" by well-known Indonesian writer K M Achdiat,
tranlated into English by Pamela Allen, published by the Australia
Indonesia Association (ACT), now at special price of $17 (includes postage
within Australia). Send your $17 to 31 Blackbutt Street, Lyneham ACT 2602 -
books will be sent by return of post. Enquiries email to:
carrington@netspeed.com.au



Performance Club in Jogja


at Cemeti Art Foundation
Jl. Patehan Tengah 37
Yogyakarta, Indonesia 55133

Please permit us to introduce ourselves. We are a group of young people joined together as an umbrella organization called: Performance Club. Performance Club is founded by a group of young people living in Yogyakarta who already feel in touch with the art world, (visual, music, theater and dance) and who possess a need for sharing their restlessness concerning their artistic process.

Coming from many different perspectives, (culture, history, form and artistic experience) our wish from the beginning was to understand the complications of performance and to read the possibilities of its promotion. Performance Club hopes to have a productive space for anyone who wants to learn and to create performance art. Several ideas for activities planned by Performance Club are as follows:

Performance Club Launching
Member Recruitment
Performance Workshop
Stocking a library and reference materials concerning performance and other
supporting information
Create a network between local as well as international performers.
Carry out research and documentation of performance
Have public discussions about performance
Create a performance festival

For the first step, this time we created a performance for the launching of the club, which was held during July. In combination with this event, we also held a recruitment/ sign up drive for new members to Performance Club.

Description of the Event:
The concept for this inaugural work is the club's reflection of the social situation facing the people of Indonesia at this time. Our society consists of people who wear their faces like they put on a uniform, who wear their face because they are obliged to have one. Faces are put on because we need an identity, we need to be known as someone. For the moment, we slip out of our identity as ourselves and our problems. Changing social politics is only to change the shape and composition of the problem without changing the substance, let alone the solution. We are all smeared with the same problems, the same confusions. We only change expression, but who is truly behind that (decaying) face? We do not know. As long as we live, we can only draw our face on the ceiling, and after we're bored and hating ourselves we kill ourselves with guns we borrow from outside the country. Visualize people in costumes of various professions/functions wandering around then taking turns sticking their bodies up against a wall. From a designated point, someone sprays paint on the wall and the person who has been sprayed leaves their body-shape on the wall. Someone makes a contour of the body print with a marker pen. This continues until the wall is full of the bodies left behind by their owners. After that, the people, the owners of those bodies, shoot their own body with a gun. Finish.

Where: Cemeti Art Foundation
Jl. Patehan Tengah 37
Yogyakarta 55133
Indonesia
Tel/Fax: (0274) 375-247, 372-095
email:artsc@indosat.net.id
homepage:www.cemetiartfoundation.org
For More Information Contact:
Naomi: HP: 0811259109
Iwan: 08122767607
Ery: 0817262404
performanceklub@yahoo.com
Performance Club Coordinator: Iwan Wijono
Secretary: Erythrina Baskorowati
Treasurer: Ozy Humas: Naomi Srikandi

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