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journeys of dialogue

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Leela Gandhi + Mick Douglas open up personal and political dimensions of friendship, hospitality and art


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Vin D'Cruz + Michele Grossman discuss ambivalence


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Suzie Attiwill + Nusra Latif Qureshi speak about making, scale, architecture


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Sudesh Mishra + Phillipa Rothfield discuss body, movement and transnational mobility.


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Andrew Brown-May + Roberto D'Andrea consider how the landscape of history is uncovered and how different histories compete to be heard.

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MARIE SIERRA + LAWRENCE HARVEY shape a conversation about space in this city, departing from its heard and sculpted examples.

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Kate Darian-Smith + Fethi Mansouri explore the tensions of social diversity and cohesion against the backdrop of Australia and the Middle East.

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Stephen Muecke + Mark Minchinton open up trust in movement and traveling.

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Pamela Curr + Nikos Papastergiadis talk of mobility, possibility and nationalism on Australia Day.

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Ann Curthoys + Keith Butler discuss riding and writing passages between colonialism and postcolonialism.

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Dur-e Dara + Dalal Smileyexplore community-building acts of hospitality amongst current questions of citizenship in Australia and the politics of divisiveness.

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David Corlett + Linda Briskman talk through their own journeys into issues of asylum, detention and human rights in Australia.

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Les Twentyman +Samar Mougharbel unravel sides of city life that new migrants, refugees and homeless youth encounter.

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Ashis Nandy + Don Miller praise uncertainty, paradox and everyday rhythm of life

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Gwenda Tavan + Jane Kenway move between dwelling and travelling

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Neil Thomas + David Wells rattle around Santa, love, giving and taking

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Graeme Davison & Wim Hafkamp talk transport

Rod Quantock & Ahar Usman explore the underbelly of Muslim and mainstream Australia

Waleed Ali and Tony Birch travel through ideas of belonging, allegience and shared value

John So and Joy Murphy Wandin act out and talk about their roles as kinds of hosts

 

 

journeys of encounter

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outside in

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surprise

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Australia Day: ‘Cronulla cape’ or a mob looking out for a great escape?

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your hosts

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move it

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shoot

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outside my world

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you move me

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hands aboard

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tram jam

 

 

journeys of performance

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Shoaib Safi + Hi God People build up an improvised musical wonderland


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Snawklor explore the sonic environment of the W-11 journey

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Ria Soemardjo + Chris Sprague + Glen Kniebess create music that draws on Javanese, Arabic, Indian traditions.

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Yumi Umiumare and Tony Yap transform the W-11 into a space for contemporary dance.


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Brahim Benhim explores the rhythms and melodies of Moroccan life.

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The Bent Leather Band gives a nod to Percy Grainger's 'Big Green Tram' and an extraordinary acoustic experience to a lap of the city.

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The Brides use song to seek men.

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Zarafa lead an intoxicating gypsy musical voyage.

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Boat-People.org take on Australia day with a trivia quiz and bonza prizes, hosted by Mrs. B Wight and Mrs B Wright of the John Howard Ladies Auxiliary Fun Club.

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Ocular Lab make bread

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Two men clean-up on the W-11 tram with effusive use of buckets, brooms, sprays, cloths and creams - and shoe cleaners, clothes brushes... This week was proudly sponsored by SPARKEL® they tell us, whilst the text on their shirt-backs asks ‘How clean is clean enough?’

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Third Floor Dixie (Tony Hicks + Niko Schauble) make up enamouring improvised jazz tracks in a kind of tram way

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Shoaib Safi and IM Singing Group converse from opposite ends of the tram with Sufi devotional songs and rounds of vocal harmony

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Is this unrequited love?

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Kutcha Edwards' lap of love songs

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Azaad Bhangra Group did not show for their journey of performance but passengers sure took off without them

Rod Quantock swings left and right with passengers on the eve of the Victorian State Election

Shahin_Shafaei confronts passengers with a segregationist tactic

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Zeeshan Medhi & Mr Robi encircle a crammed tram with popular Pakistani songs