"My name is Mohamed and Raghad, we don't exist here anymore", Ali
Mousawi. How are refugee memories expressed through the arts and how
are they remembered within diasporas? This Ocean Talk features four
fascinating speakers who will share their individual stories and how
they have recovered refugee narratives through music, theatre,
writing, visual arts, filmmaking and photography. Note: Ticket
includes light refreshments and the opportunity from 5.30 – 6.30pm
to view the exhibition The Face of Australia Speakers Joseph
Toltz will share Hidden testimony: songs of Jewish Holocaust
survivors in Australia. Joseph is a music researcher and administrator
at the University of Sydney, and, most recently, co-Investigator for
Performing the Jewish Archive, a four-year UK Arts & Humanities
Research Council large grant based at the University of Leeds.
Together with Associate Professor Anna Boucher, Joseph is working on
the first published collection of Holocaust songs ( Bucharest, 1945 ).
In 2020 he is co-producing a documentary with Tim Slade about the
return of a child survivor to her birth city, Łódź, where her
musical memories will be performed by the children’s choir of the
city. Joseph is also working on the archive of the composer Wilhelm
Grosz and on musical recordings made by Dr David Boder in Displaced
Persons camps in Europe in mid-1946. Annette Janic has worked as a
television production and program acquisitions professional, in genres
ranging from live sport to documentaries, game shows, lifestyle and
reality, including subscription TV channel launches in Australia,
Singapore, Dubai and India. She is a first generation Australian with
parents and an older brother who arrived under the International
Refugee Organisation (IRO) from Germany following WWII. Annette was
motivated to write her mother's biography titled WAR CHILD,
Survival. Betrayal. Secrets . when it became apparent that as we are
fast losing our post WWII migrants or refugees their powerful,
important stories are being lost with them. My Le Thi was born in
Central Highland of Southern Vietnam and migrated to Australia in
1985. My Le Thi studied Arts at the NT University and shares her story
through her art. Her artwork concerns human conditions and in many
aspects, speaks about all walks-of-life and against discrimination.
She has worked on many art projects with various artists and community
members in Australia and Vietnam. My Le also works as a performer, art
consultant, project coordinator, curator, art teacher and a youth
worker. Ali Mousawi is a filmmaker and photojournalist living in
Sydney, Australia, originally from Ahwaz, Iran. Ali was the First
Assistant Director for the feature Revawathaye Natamam and
Cinematographer for the feature Qalamranj both shot in Iran. He made
three documentaries in Ahwaz and three films in Australia,
including Man in the Mirror, which premiered at the Arab Film
Festival Australia, Scourge in Darkness, which was nominated for the
best film award in International New Delhi Film Festival
and Uncontainable Love, which has been screened at the opening night
of Tropfest 2018. Ali has recently made a short film which is
the first one-take short film in Australian cinema history and this
film has been officially selected and awarded in more than 22
International Film festivals. He has also has been engaged as a
cinematographer and DOP on projects for ABC's short film Queen
Briany, Uncontainable Love, Museum of Contemporary of Art, Art Gallery
of NSW, Camden City Council and Australian Arab Film Festival. He has
over 14 years' experience in Ahwaz - Iran working for a variety of
News Agencies, including as Main Photographer for Fars News Agency
(Ahwaz/Tehran) from 2011 to 2013, Group Manager and Photographer for
Ahwaz News Agency and Editor in Chief, Photographer at Bejwak
Newspaper (Ahwaz) in 2012 and official photographer for Parramatta
City Council (Sydney). Ali won first prize in Photography at the City
and Media Festival, Ahwaz, 2010, and first prize in the Festival of
Journalism in Bandar Abbas (Southern Iran) every year from 2008-2011.
Your host: Kim Tao is the curator of post-Federation immigration
at the Australian National Maritime Museum.
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