Arab Australian Artists Action Alliance http://5-a.org Welcome to the home of 5a Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:48:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en T’fouh on Sublime, writes Margaret Mayhew http://5-a.org/2006/10/03/tfouh-on-sublime-writes-margaret-mayhew/ http://5-a.org/2006/10/03/tfouh-on-sublime-writes-margaret-mayhew/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:48:08 +0000 Administrator http://5-a.org/2006/10/03/tfouh-on-sublime-writes-margaret-mayhew/ Margaret Mayhew (mayhem) from Art and Mayhem blog reviewed T’fouh earlier this week. Unfortunately, if you’re reading this now and haven’t been to the exhibition then you’ve missed out. T’fouh closed last weekend.

]]> http://5-a.org/2006/10/03/tfouh-on-sublime-writes-margaret-mayhew/feed/ 3rd Sydney Arab Film Festival - Call for Entries http://5-a.org/2006/09/27/3rd-sydney-arab-film-festival-call-for-entries/ http://5-a.org/2006/09/27/3rd-sydney-arab-film-festival-call-for-entries/#comments Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:22:41 +0000 Administrator http://5-a.org/2006/09/27/3rd-sydney-arab-film-festival-call-for-entries/ The 3rd Sydney Arab Film Festival will be staged over a month 22 February – 18 March 2007, at Riverside Theatres, Parramatta and will also have a gallery season of films at Liverpool Regional Museum.

To find out more and get film entry forms go to the SAFF website.

]]> http://5-a.org/2006/09/27/3rd-sydney-arab-film-festival-call-for-entries/feed/ Pressure Points: Arabic Perspectives on Tradition and the City http://5-a.org/2006/09/23/pressure-pointswith-jalal-toufic-and-ghassan-hage/ http://5-a.org/2006/09/23/pressure-pointswith-jalal-toufic-and-ghassan-hage/#comments Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:00:01 +0000 Administrator http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/pressure-pointswith-jalal-toufic-and-ghassan-hage/ The Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre With the Information and Cultural Exchange Present:

Pressure Points: Lectures and Films
Arabic Perspectives on Tradition and the City

Jalal Toufic and Ghassan Hage

Saturday 23 September 2006
Max Webber Library, Civic Plaza, Flushcombe Rd, Blacktown.
Car Parking available under the Library building entry via Alpha Street.

Lectures: 3.00pm—5.30pm

Speakers: Jalal Toufic, & Ghassan Hage

Films: 6.00 – 9.00pm by Jalal Toufic

Entry: Free

Refreshments and catering provided

Following the postponement of the first Pressure Points forum due to the recent war in Lebanon, philosopher, film theorist and video artist Jalal Toufic is finally able to leave Lebanon to visit Sydney. He will present the inaugural lecture of the Pressure Points series titled ‘The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster’ followed by a response from writer and cultural theorist Ghassan Hage.


Jalal Toufic is the author of Distracted (1991), (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (1993), Over-Sensitivity (1996), Forthcoming (2000) and Undying Love, or Love Dies (2002). His videos and mixed media works have been presented in North America, Brazil, the Middle East and Europe. Toufic
has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, USC, and, in Amsterdam, DasArts and the Rijksakademie. He is currently head of MA program in Film and Video Studies at the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Holy Spirit University, Beirut.

“Toufic is one of the most active and ambitious figures in the Arab world who - book by book - has endeavored to sculpt a critical, theoretical language of the Arab world.” The Daily Star, Lebanon.

http://www.jalaltoufic.com/

Ghassan Hage is the author of Against Paranoid Nationalism (2003, 2006), What Would You Die For? (2004), White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (1998, 2000, 2003), Editor of Arab-Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging (2002), with Rowanne Couch The Future of Multiculturalism, (1999). He has given numerous national and international keynote lectures in Europe, the Middle East and America and he is the Winner of the 2004 NSW Premier’s literary prize and award (Community Relations). He is currently Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney.

http://www-personal.arts.usyd.edu.au/ghahagea/

For more information please visit:
http://www.casulapowerhouse.com/pages/current.php
http://www.ice.org.au/

Please RSVP for catering purposes
Casula Powerhouse Tel: 02 9824 1121 or The Writing and Society Research Group, writing@uws.edu.au or Mireille Astore, mireille@astore.id.au

]]> http://5-a.org/2006/09/23/pressure-pointswith-jalal-toufic-and-ghassan-hage/feed/ T’fouh…Film Fundraiser http://5-a.org/2006/09/14/tfouhfilm-fundraiser/ http://5-a.org/2006/09/14/tfouhfilm-fundraiser/#comments Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:00:58 +0000 Administrator http://5-a.org/2006/09/14/tfouhfilm-fundraiser/ eflyersmall.jpg

T’FOUH… raw responses from arab artists a multimedia exhibition
Event: Thur 14 Sept 2006
Film Fundraiser
5 contemporary Arabic short films (with English subtitles)
6pm - 9pm
$15 / $10 donation

Download PDF Brochure.

Where:
Mori Gallery
168 Day Street, Sydney

Exhibition is onfrom 6 to 30 Sept 2006
Gallery hours: Wed - Sat, 11am-6pm
(From Sydney Town Hall, down Bathurst St, left into Day St)

Presented by Auburn Community Development Network, Information and Cultural Exchange, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Mori Gallery

]]> http://5-a.org/2006/09/14/tfouhfilm-fundraiser/feed/ Sydney Morning Herald …T’fouh article http://5-a.org/2006/09/13/sydney-morning-herald-tfouh-article/ http://5-a.org/2006/09/13/sydney-morning-herald-tfouh-article/#comments Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:32:24 +0000 Administrator http://5-a.org/2006/09/13/sydney-morning-herald-tfouh-article/ The SMH published an article by Jamie Pandaram on the 12th of September.

Here’s an excerpt:

A provocative Arabic art exhibition organised in response to the conflict in Lebanon last month, includes a painting of Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, with a skewer through his head.

The work, titled Ehud Olmert Kebab, which has four images of the Israeli leader’s head skewered with capsicum, has outraged Sydney’s Jewish community, which says it has “overstepped the mark of decency”.

But its creator, the young Lebanon-born, South Korea-based artist Habib Zeitouneh, retorts: “Paintings do not leave families destitute, fathers without wives or children, children without fathers or mothers. I have a right to express my anger over the deaths of over 1000 Lebanese, as do the Israelis mourning the deaths of their own. I’m using satire, not bombs.”

read full article .

]]> http://5-a.org/2006/09/13/sydney-morning-herald-tfouh-article/feed/ Photos from T’fouh Exhibition @ Mori Galley http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/photos-from-tfouh-exhibition-mori-galley/ http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/photos-from-tfouh-exhibition-mori-galley/#comments Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:31:19 +0000 Administrator http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/photos-from-tfouh-exhibition-mori-galley/
Artist: Alissar Gazal, Sydney.
Work Tittle: Sping - Too many martyrs in Paradise.

This work is part of The Exhibition T’fouh…which is currently showing at Mori Gallery in Sydney. Visit our Flickr gallery to see more work…

]]> http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/photos-from-tfouh-exhibition-mori-galley/feed/ T’fouh…Film Fundraiser http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/tfouhfilm-fundraiser-2/ http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/tfouhfilm-fundraiser-2/#comments Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:28:38 +0000 Administrator http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/tfouhfilm-fundraiser-2/ eflyersmall.jpg

T’FOUH… raw responses from arab artists a multimedia exhibition
Event: Thur 14 Sept 2006
Film Fundraiser
5 contemporary Arabic short films (with English subtitles)
6pm - 9pm
$15 / $10 donation

Download PDF Brochure.

Where:
Mori Gallery
168 Day Street, Sydney

Exhibition is onfrom 6 to 30 Sept 2006
Gallery hours: Wed - Sat, 11am-6pm
(From Sydney Town Hall, down Bathurst St, left into Day St)

Presented by Auburn Community Development Network, Information and Cultural Exchange, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Mori Gallery

]]> http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/tfouhfilm-fundraiser-2/feed/ Pressure Points: Arabic Perspectives on Tradition and the City http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/pressure-points-arabic-perspectives-on-tradition-and-the-city/ http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/pressure-points-arabic-perspectives-on-tradition-and-the-city/#comments Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:00:45 +0000 Administrator http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/pressure-points-arabic-perspectives-on-tradition-and-the-city/ The Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre With the Information and Cultural Exchange Present:

Pressure Points: Lectures and Films
Arabic Perspectives on Tradition and the City

Jalal Toufic and Ghassan Hage

Saturday 23 September 2006
Max Webber Library, Civic Plaza, Flushcombe Rd, Blacktown.
Car Parking available under the Library building entry via Alpha Street.

Lectures: 3.00pm—5.30pm

Speakers: Jalal Toufic, & Ghassan Hage

Films: 6.00 – 9.00pm by Jalal Toufic

Entry: Free

Refreshments and catering provided

Following the postponement of the first Pressure Points forum due to the recent war in Lebanon, philosopher, film theorist and video artist Jalal Toufic is finally able to leave Lebanon to visit Sydney. He will present the inaugural lecture of the Pressure Points series titled ‘The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster’ followed by a response from writer and cultural theorist Ghassan Hage.


Jalal Toufic is the author of Distracted (1991), (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (1993), Over-Sensitivity (1996), Forthcoming (2000) and Undying Love, or Love Dies (2002). His videos and mixed media works have been presented in North America, Brazil, the Middle East and Europe. Toufic
has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, USC, and, in Amsterdam, DasArts and the Rijksakademie. He is currently head of MA program in Film and Video Studies at the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Holy Spirit University, Beirut.

“Toufic is one of the most active and ambitious figures in the Arab world who - book by book - has endeavored to sculpt a critical, theoretical language of the Arab world.” The Daily Star, Lebanon.

http://www.jalaltoufic.com/

Ghassan Hage is the author of Against Paranoid Nationalism (2003, 2006), What Would You Die For? (2004), White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (1998, 2000, 2003), Editor of Arab-Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging (2002), with Rowanne Couch The Future of Multiculturalism, (1999). He has given numerous national and international keynote lectures in Europe, the Middle East and America and he is the Winner of the 2004 NSW Premier’s literary prize and award (Community Relations). He is currently Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney.

http://www-personal.arts.usyd.edu.au/ghahagea/

For more information please visit:
http://www.casulapowerhouse.com/pages/current.php
http://www.ice.org.au/

Please RSVP for catering purposes
Casula Powerhouse Tel: 02 9824 1121 or The Writing and Society Research Group, writing@uws.edu.au or Mireille Astore, mireille@astore.id.au

]]> http://5-a.org/2006/09/12/pressure-points-arabic-perspectives-on-tradition-and-the-city/feed/ t’fouh… raw responses from arab artists http://5-a.org/2006/09/06/tfouh/ http://5-a.org/2006/09/06/tfouh/#comments Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:33:47 +0000 Administrator http://5-a.org/2006/09/06/tfouh/ T’FOUH… A MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITION
6 September, 6-8pm, Mori Gallery

T'fouh Exhibition e Flyer

T’fouh…
a multimedia exhibition expressing anger & ultimate disgust resistance & steadfastness spitting on wars, occupation & racism

Mori Gallery, 168 Day Street, Sydney

OPENING - Wednesday, 6 September, 6pm - 8pm
EXHIBITION - 6 - 30 September, 2006
FILM FUNDRAISER - Thursday, 14 September, 2006, 6-9pm

Gallery Opening Hours Wed - Sat, 11am - 6pm or by appointment

More info contact Alissar on 9649 5559 / 0405 206 617

or Mouna on 02 9897 5744 ext 2 or email artfiles@ice.org.au

]]> http://5-a.org/2006/09/06/tfouh/feed/ Thank you for your continued support… http://5-a.org/2006/08/28/thank-you-for-your-continued-support/ http://5-a.org/2006/08/28/thank-you-for-your-continued-support/#comments Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:29:59 +0000 Administrator http://5-a.org/2006/08/28/thank-you-for-your-continued-support/ Dear friends,

Thank you for your continued support towards the relief efforts in Lebanon. 5A and Beit el Hob would like to thank you for your generosity and remind you of the up coming art exhibition in Sydney.

Thank you to everyone who came to the Film and Falafel Fundraiser at the Sidetrack Theatre in Marrickville last Sunday evening and to those who continue to donate via friends and via our bank account.

Your generosity means that we could transfer $4302.75AUD to Samidoun - The Sanayeh Relief Centre. The money will be used directly to assist those people who have been displaced by the invasion. Thank you again.

If you would like to make a donation to the fund via our bank account please refer to the information below;

ACCOUNT NAME: BEIT EL HOB
ACCOUNT NO.: 693829
BSB: 032-044
BK/BRANCH: Westpac Banking Corporation 275 GEORGE ST, SYDNEY

The next fundraising event (FILM FUNDRAISER, THUR 14 SEPT, 6-9PM) is part of the up coming exhibition;

T ’ F O U H . . .
Raw responses from Arab artists

expressing anger & ultimate disgust
resistance & steadfastness
spitting on wars, occupation and racism

6 – 30 September 2006

Mori Gallery, 168 Day St Sydney
Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat 11am – 6pm or by appointment

OPENING WED 6 SEPT, 6-8PM
FILM FUNDRAISER, THUR 14 SEPT, 6-9PM

A partnership between Mori Gallery, Auburn Community Development Network (ACDN) and Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE)

If you have any questions or comments, please email us. Also, check for updates on our website http://5-a.org/

We thank you again and look forward to seeing you at T’FOUH…
With love & peace, Hob wa salam,

5a and Beit El Hob

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