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MONDAY 21 OCTOBER
Boundaries
and Borders - Refugees, Multiculturalism and Dissent
11.00am,
Monday 21 October: ANZ Pavilion
This forum explores the work
that artists are undertaking to challenge government policy on
Asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and racism.
- What does
the current debate on asylum seekers say about the current state
of multiculturalism in Australia?
- Are migrant communities
and voices being heard and what are they saying?
- What can artists do and
what are they doing to change government policy on Asylum seekers?
- Is it possible to make a
difference?
Moderator - Nikos PAPASTERGIADIS, Deputy Director of the Australia
Centre at University of Melbourne and former head of the Centre
for Ideas.
Panel
- Don MACKAY, a campaigner at the Refugee Embassy
at Woomera who is strongly engaged with the issues of hate, racism
and the role of government policy in pandering to the worst elements
of human nature.
- Jema STELLATO PLEDGER, artist and activist and founding
member of Artists for Refugees. Working on theatre show My Country,
My Killer, My Home.
- Eva SALLIS, writer and driving force behind
Australians Against Racism, and a board member of Australians
for a Just Refugee Program. She has published two novels: Hiam,
(winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award 1997 and the Nita
May Dobbie Award in 1999) and The City of Sealions (2002). She
is currently a lecturer at the University of Adelaide. She travels
regularly to the Middle East, particularly Yemen.
- Tamsin SALEHIAN, a visual artist involved in both
environmental and artistic projects in the UK and Australia over
10 years. Her current project is Six Weeks of Asylum/Six weeks
of Compassion.
- Arnold ZABLE, engaging with issues of asylum
seekers through his creative work and an initiator of Artists
for Refugees.
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