Viva Victoria @ Fed Square, Sat 21 Mar, 11-6pm. Cultural Diversity Week 2009 is already a highlight on Victoria’s cultural calendar & the celebrations have just become a whole lot more exciting with the addition of a new multicultural festival presented by the Victorian Multicultural Commission as the main event! Representing more than 50 countries through music, art, dance, craft & food stalls highlights will include two stages of music from around world, a vibrant marketplace of quality handmade products & an exceptional selection of traditional foods. Plus children’s activities, roving performers, a public art installation & a market bazaar. Feat a performance by Felix Baloy from the Afro Cuban All Stars joined by Kenny López Havana Connection.
www.culturaldiversity.vic.gov.au
Indulge your senses as Melbourne’s freshest short film festival, FedFest 09 come to life! Celebrate the cream of filmmaking talent to emerge from our shores and feast upon a program of the very best short films produced in recent times. Be inspired; be entertained in a vibrant carnival style atmosphere with roving performance by ‘FAD’.
Productions, stilt walking by Empyrean, Monash School of fire twirling, live drumming by Funk Del Mundo alongside some of Melbourne’s most prominent DJ’s Jen Tutty & Emma Peel.
Date: Sunday March 15th 2009
Films start at 8.00pm
Venue; Federation Square, Main Plaza, Melbourne
Price: Entry is free
Website: www.fedfest.com
The Black Harmony Gathering @ Fairfield Amphitheatre, Heidelberg Rd, Melways Map 30 J12, Sun 15 Mar, 2- 6pm. Featuring Indigenous artists, The Koori Youth Will Shake Spears, the Grenadines, Skye, Robert & Brett, Meriki Hood, Johnny Mac & Biri-on Laskidjeka. With friends from Sudan, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Jamaica, Ethiopia, West Papua & East Timor. Tabura & Laloran Choirs, Ajak Kwai & friends, Afro Habesha Band & the incredible African band Blak Roots dance us into the autumn twilight. Enjoy the koori BBQ, African food stalls & a market place of Indigenous & African wares plus MC’s Kutcha Edwards, Little G & Stick Mareebo.
Volunteers needed for Black Harmony Gathering. If you would like to be part of this great annual event please contact office@multiculturalarts.com.au or (03) 9417 6777
Get Ready for Disco Stampede!
This year’s Chill Out rounds up everything shiny, stretchy, clingy, glittery, daggy and fun to grab you by the glitterballs and drag you back to a time when John Travolta was slim and cool (okay, he’s still pretty cool) and Mamma Mia was number one in the charts.
This is no city disco – it’s a Disco Stampede! Blending the best of city and bush – our 12th annual festival in Daylesford (Victoria) and surrounding towns set for 6 – 9 March, 2009 – will mix country and disco like no one has done since Dolly Parton first thrust her way into the spotlight.
Looks very cool – Leo Sayer and the Topp twins performing; and this year ChillOut has committed to raising awareness and funds for an important community cause in Hepburn Shire. Supporting Buddies for Wildlife in 2009 – a project of Wildlife Victoria and The Alannah and Madeline Foundation .
Chillout Festival website: http://chilloutfestival.com.au/
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