SARAY ILUMINADO & IMMIGRATION MUSEUM PRESENT “The Song Boat” -
Back by popular demand A concert installation by Nela Trifković "a
vibrant artistic meditation on the refugee experience" With special
Guest Speaker : Robert Adler (child psychiatrist who reviewed Naura &
Manus island detention centres) Sunday November 8th, 1pm IMMIGRATION
MUSEUM 400 FLINDERS ST, MELBOURNE Bookings : 94171983,
www.Trybooking.com/JGLZ Tickets at the door, if available Entry
$20/15, $17 groups of 5+ Enquiries sarayiluminado@gmail.com
www.sarayiluminado.com The Song Boat is a multidisciplinary work that
brings together live music performance, theatre and visual projection.
It is a vibrant artistic meditation on the refugee experience. The
collaborative act of bringing together several artistic disciplines is
a significant aspect of the The Song Boat - both form and content of
this work become poetic, political commentary that draws parallels
between the multi-cultural existence and multi-artistic practice. Nela
Trifković embarks on an intricate journey of self-realization. The
story about the St Louis Boat is a point of inspiration and is
informed by Nela’s own refugee history and experience of finding a
new voice in Australia through her Sevdah and Sephardic music
performance practice. Joining forces with her ensemble Saray
Iluminado, painter Cait NaMara and theatre maker James Adler, Nela
invites the audience to remember the refugees that nobody wanted and
to create a new fairytale of their own invention – a future tale of
hope, survival and the power of common humanity. Saray Iluminado plays
traditional Bosnian and Herzegovinian music Sevdah and Sephardic
Jewish music from ex-Yugoslavia. Members of this ensemble include:
composer and singer Nela Trifković, Australia’s leading Klezmer
musician Ernie Gruner and multi-instrumentalists William Thompson and
Kelly Dowall who share a passion for Balkan, Turkish, Arabic and
Mediterranean music. In 2015 Saray Iluminado continues their musical
adventures supported by VCA and University of Melbourne “Graduate
Mentorships” grant which will enable them to realize “The Song
Boat” and their first full length album. Recently Saray Iluminado
performed two sold out concerts at fortyfivedownstairs. “Hauntingly
evocative music and songs from Bosnia Herzegovina and Sephardic Jewish
romances thrilled the audience.” Mary Lou Jelbart,
Fortyfivedownstairs
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