Talk, Sit, Walk and Spray Out

TALK SIT WALK AND SPRAY OUT HUMAN RIGHTS CONTEMPORARY ART YOUTH VOICES

7-10 December 2012 Arts Centre Melbourne & SIGNAL

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This year Human Rights Day is on Monday December 10 and Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) will recognize and celebrate this day over four days in different ways giving oath to the voices of the young people.

Supported by the City of Melbourne, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, Signal and Arts Centre Melbourne, the series of events will immerse us in human rights through the minds of the young expressed through their own voices and the imagination of street, visual and contemporary live artists.

LOCATIONS SIGNAL 2

ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE, HAMER HALL

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COUCH WORLD OUTDOOR LIVING ROOM CREATED FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

7-10 DECEMBER 2012 - FREE SIGNAL, Flinders Walk, Northbank For four days of summer, a living art display will pop up as an outdoor ‘living room’ at Signal. Featuring several couches transformed on-site by street, visual and installation artists inspired by young people and their thoughts on human rights. Be ready to experience firsthand traditional street art, environmental art plus video and sound scapes. The couches will be created and evolve right before our eyes over these four days, and are open places for public to sit and chat and even join in the couch evolution.

Check out performance times where you will travel from couch to couch experiencing a series of short, live art acts by performance artists where each couch is the stage.

From future technologies to contortion to plastic wrapping to a puppet that sleeps and the vision of MAV’s Contemporary Cultures stream, Couch World is a space for new art, new ways of engaging with audiences and for dialogue. The group of contemporary artists involved have worked with young people taking their ideas and issues raised through MAV’s youth steering committee and used them as inspiration to inform and create the artwork and performance making. It’s an innovative collaboration between contemporary artists and young people from our city.

All transformation and performance happening at Signal, Flinders Walk, Northbank

times and dates Street artists transforming couches Performance (40 min)

Friday Dec 7 Saturday Dec 8

Sunday Dec 9

Monday Dec 10

4-7pm

12-3pm

9.30am12.30pm

9.30am12.30pm

8.15pm

4pm

1pm

1pm

RIGHTS AT THE ROUND TABLE YOUTH FORUM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

SATURDAY DECEMBER 8, 1-3pm, FREE Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall Rights at the Round Table is an open forum by young people from all cultures and backgrounds to raise and discuss issues of human rights in an equal and ‘round table’ setting providing a space to link people with experts, resources and their community.

Now in its third year the forum is expanding its reach and audience, lifting youth voices to the forefront and validating young leaders in the wider community.

Karen Toohey (Acting Commissioner of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission) and David Manne (Melbourne’s Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre) will be in attendance with key youth speakers and special guests still to be announced.

After the Forum, join us for the Walk for Human Rights from the Arts Centre Melbourne to Signal and discover Couch World.

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WALK FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

A MAIN GATE OF LOCOMOTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

SATURDAY DECEMBER 8, 3pm, FREE From Arts Centre Melbourne Hamer Hall entrance in St Kilda Rd to Signal alongside the Yarra River Get up and walk for human rights! We invite you walk with us for human rights along the Yarra from the Arts Centre Melbourne Hamer Hall to Signal and arrive to Couch World.

Wear colours and bring a hat!

ANTI-HATE CAMPAIGN LAUNCH TO TACKLE HATE HEAD ON

MONDAY DECEMBER 10, 12:30-2PM, FREE Signal, Flinders Walk, Northbank MAV in partnership with the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission will officially launch the AntiHate Campaign to mark International Human Rights Day. performers on the day will liven up the formalities, bringing Couch World to life!

Anti-Hate is a website that encourages people to no longer tolerate hate in the community. It offers a place to report your experiences, share good tips on how to fight discrimination and tools to spray out hate online. visit antihate.vic.gov.au

Produced and presented by Multicultural Arts Victoria

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Project Coordinators: Claudia Escobar, Emily Sweeney and Penne Thornton.

Design: Deshani Wickremasinghe Proudly supported by City of Melbourne, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, Arts Victoria, Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Centre Melbourne, Signal, Matana Foundation for Young People, Red Little Trucks, Green Hearts Recyclers and Bunnings Warehouse.

Creative Team Couch World Artists And Provocateurs: Samuel Rimene, Victor Holder, Tony Adams, Cake Industries, Michelle Hamer, Aleks Mothra, Mystic Trio, Kathleen Gonzales, Teame Ersie, Tariro Mavondo, Ruth Sancho Huerga, Gary Friedman, Demi Sorono, Carlo Sorono, Low Rez Choir, James Henry, Paul Reade And !Thunderrclapp!

Creative Director: Claudia Escobar/ Production Coordinator: Tania Canas / Production Volunteer: Dominic Wagner / Youth Coordinators: Emily Sweeney And Penne Thornton Multicultural Arts Victoria is proudly supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, City of Port Phillip and the City of Melbourne.

Special thanks to MAV Team, Andrea Makris, Anne Harkin, Hannes Berger, Mirakle Gotti, Schoolhouse Studios, Frank Torres, The Office of Housing and Tenants Association Photographs by James Henry and Claudia Escobar

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