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26 Sep, 1.00pm-2.00pm Come and hear firsthand about Aehee’s experiences working as a contemporary artist coming from Seoul, South Korea to Australia. Learn about her processes working as an artist in residence and the challenges and opportunities that brings. See Aehee's work during OzAsia Read more about Aehee

19 Sep - 2 Oct, Mon – Fri 9.00am – 6.00pm and during performance times During the OzAsia Festival, Tenzin will also be creating a Tibetan sand mandala in the Festival Theatre Foyer. Using traditonal techniques and coloured sand, people will be encouraged to add their own personal symbols and messages to the design, expressing their wishes for universal harmony.This is a unique opportunity to watch and contribute to the creation of a very special artwork. ...

15 Sep - 17 Oct, Mon – Fri 9am – 6pm Artist-in-residence A.B.C. Aboriginal Born Chinese This multi-disciplinary artist draws inspiration from his cultural ancestors and spirits. Jason’s father’s family is Cantonese and his Aboriginal mothers family are Biripi people from Taree, New South Wales. Jason’s paintings...

15 Sep - 17 Oct, Mon – Friday 9am – 6pm and during performance times The Godavari River This moving image installation extends Stephen House’s work Northern India – Faces and Words which featured in the OzAsia Festival 2009 Visual Arts Program.  It focuses on encounters in and around the famous holy city of Nashik on the second largest river in India during a trip that House made there in mi...

15 Sep - 17 Oct, Mon – Fri 9am – 6pm and during performance times [3Rs] Architecture and Tourism This installation presents travel experiences during a cultural study scholarship in India over three months. It includes a mosaic of hundreds of 3R photographic prints chronicling the colour, texture and culture of India; reproduction travel diaries and drawings; a short docudrama. This follows...

15 Sep - 17 Oct, Wed – Sat 12pm – 5pm; Sun 12pm – 4pm Exhibition: Caring for Aehee Australia Caring for AeheeAustralia is an installation comprised of projection, moving image and photographs which have evolved from Aehee Park’s experiences as Artist-in-Residence at the Cowwarr Art Space, Gippsland, in 2009. Aehee Park creates media documentary works that sugges...

15 Sep - 17 Oct, Mon – Fri 9am – 6pm and during performance times Iranian animation today is a medium closely related to drawing, painting and the graphic arts. It draws on the rich cultural and artistic heritage of textile design, miniature painting, calligraphy, Persian folk tales, literature and the motifs of ceramics and architecture. These animations profile the work of a talented Kurdish-Iranian emerging animation artist, Mash...

15 Sep - 17 Oct, Mon–Fri 9am – 6pm and during performance times Bismania Bismania is a Bus/Truck series of drawing work developed by Laura Wills during her 2009 Asialink Visual Arts Residency at Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Bismania is the name of a group of ‘bus enthusiasts’ based in Yogyakarta with an active 500-member Facebook group. They meet each week at the major bus terminals to ‘talk...

17 Sep, 26 Sep, Fri 9pm; Sun 6pm OzAsia On Screen Director Uruphong Raksasad (Thailand 2009) Documentary “How can we dream of utopia while our stomach is still grumbling?” This exquisite docu-drama examines the economic and environmental dilemmas and the challenge of survival faced by farmers.  As the son of a rice farmer, director Raksasad ...

20 Sep - 2 Oct, Mon 7.30pm; Sat 8.45pm Hong Kong On Screen Taiwan, 2009. Cast: Daniel Wu, Yolanda Yuan “Which is more true—life or dream? Is our life actually a bigger dream?” (Clara Law). Max, an American-born Chinese, is a wanderer between continents. He dreams constantly of a woman, and this darkly fascinating fable takes off from the point...

26 Sep, 2.00pm World Premiere A delicious kaleidoscope of music from the new and old tea lands Combining outrageous humour, divinely beautiful music and quirky poetry, this is afternoon tea like you have never experienced before. Featuring the blissful interplay of Indian melody...

26 Sep, 11.30pm – 1.30pm “The tea ceremony is more than an idealization of the form of drinking—it is a religion of the art of life."Okakura Kakuzo (1863-1913), Japanese scholar Intangible art, the ritualised form of making tea through a tea ceremony, is common across many cultures and unifies us through its nourishment of the body and the spirit. ...

26 Sep, 2 Oct, Sun 3.30pm; Sat 6.30pm OzAsia On Screen Director Riri Riza (Indonesia 2009) Feature The Dreamer is the sequel to the Indonesian box office hit The Rainbow Troops both directed by Riri Riza and based on the popular novels by Andrea Hirata about growing up in the remote Sumatran island of Belitung.  Set in the...

26 Sep, 8.15pm Korea On Screen Directors JUNG Brothers Feature Hailed by some as the best Korean horror film of 2007, Epitaph intelligently weaves three stories that send shivers down the spine and leave one pondering philosophical questions about life and lov...

26 Sep, 2 Oct, Sun 1pm; Sat 4pm OzAsia On Screen Director Riri Riza (Indonesia 2008) Feature Officially the most viewed films in Indonesia, The Rainbow Troops is based on Andrea Hirata’s immensely popular novels.  Set on the Sumatran island of Belitong, the story begins on the first day of school as two school teachers...

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