essentially what i want to do through 3arabi-mapping:
~ record conversations with 3arab artists, where they are reflecting on their own critical questions about their own work processes, within their own terms...
~ map out for ourselves, how 3arab arts networks have grown and diversified since 1991
~ collect some images and sounds of cultural productions since 1991, and have a directory of their community keeping places
~ reflect and write and publish
~ develop some foundations for a website / portal that can make accessible the body of 3arab contemporary arts in australia
April 8, 2008
current bio-conspiracy...
Alissar Chidiac has been engaged in community and cultural development work for almost 30 years. She has had a specific focus on contemporary Arab cultural and heritage work since 1991. She worked at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, 1998 to 2004, where she initiated a diversity of programmes, community partnerships and exhibitions through the wattan project.
Until recently she worked on cultural projects in Western Sydney with Auburn Community Development Network (ACDN). Alissar developed ACDN's major regional women's cultural project in 2005 / 2006, which culminated in a multimedia exhibition and public programmes: Inside Out - Muslim women exploring identities and creative expressions. In 2006 Alissar co-curated T'fouh... raw responses from Arab artists at the Mori Gallery in Sydney.
Currently Alissar is working on her Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship: 3arabi - mapping contemporary Arab Australian cultural production. Working partners in this community interactive project include UTS Shopfront and Information and Cultural Exchange. Alissar is also now facilitating /artistically directing Auburn Poets and Writers third multilingual performance for Sydney Writers Festival (2006-2008).
In some of her former lives she was a community theatre facilitator and performer (streets, festivals, cabarets, schools, theatres, fund-raisers and burned-out cathedrals). She is much quieter these days and the bio-conspiracy that effectively stole half of her voice is still under investigation...
alissar.chidiac@uts.edu.au
Until recently she worked on cultural projects in Western Sydney with Auburn Community Development Network (ACDN). Alissar developed ACDN's major regional women's cultural project in 2005 / 2006, which culminated in a multimedia exhibition and public programmes: Inside Out - Muslim women exploring identities and creative expressions. In 2006 Alissar co-curated T'fouh... raw responses from Arab artists at the Mori Gallery in Sydney.
Currently Alissar is working on her Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship: 3arabi - mapping contemporary Arab Australian cultural production. Working partners in this community interactive project include UTS Shopfront and Information and Cultural Exchange. Alissar is also now facilitating /artistically directing Auburn Poets and Writers third multilingual performance for Sydney Writers Festival (2006-2008).
In some of her former lives she was a community theatre facilitator and performer (streets, festivals, cabarets, schools, theatres, fund-raisers and burned-out cathedrals). She is much quieter these days and the bio-conspiracy that effectively stole half of her voice is still under investigation...
alissar.chidiac@uts.edu.au
qalbee wat'r saoutee
qalbee wat'r saoutee...
my heart, the cords of my voice
listening with my eyes
and
speaking with my heart
my heart, the cords of my voice
listening with my eyes
and
speaking with my heart
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