PRESENTED AND PRODUCED BY MULTICULTURAL ARTS VICTORIA EMERGE FESTIVAL From Africa to the Far East, from the traditional to the contemporary, from the emerging to the established, music, dance, visual arts, extic foods, ancient crafts and ceremonies. Emerge Festival is a dynamic celebration of Victoria's many undiscovered refugee and emerging cultures. Emerge Festival commemorates the United Nations World Refugee Day and celebrates Refugee Week In Australia wilh a series ‘of amazing performances and unique cultural experiences around Melbourne from June 1 to July 26th. EVENT DATES TUESDAY JUNE 16TH - SATURDAY JUNE 27TH Love Burma Love Freedom Exhibition WEDNESDAY JUNE 17TH Refugee Week Forum ot Love Burma Love Freedom SUNDAY JUNE 21ST Emerge Festival Main Event ‘WEDNESDAY JUNE 24TH ABC Music Deli Concert ‘Under an Eastern Moon’ SUNDAYS JUNE 28TH & JULY 12TH Visible Sessions Live at the Black Box SUNDAY JULY 26TH Visible Concert Eshek Awi Photos by ) & Blok Roots (bottom)‘CELEBRATING REFUGEE WEEK IN VICTORIA ‘FREEDOM FROM FEAR’ SUNDAY JUNE 21ST 12.00PM - 5.00PM, FREE @ Fitzroy Town Hall & Napier St, Fitzroy Be part of this massive cultural celebration as the magnificent Fitzroy Town Hall opens its doors and closes off the street for 2 non step stages of werld music, a vibrant cultural marketplace, the aromas of an Ethiopian coffee ceremony, tasty authentic foods from all corners of the globe, FREE cultural workshops and more. This unique event features inspiring performances from some of Melbourne’s most newly arrived African communities alongside some of our finest local Indigenous and Pacific artists. AFRICA STAGE (MAIN HALL) Hosted by Systa BB 12.00 MUHANAMWE electrifying traditional Guinean music & dance 12.50 KANKELAY traditional & gospel songs from Sierra Leone 1.20 BURUNDIAN DRUMMING GROUP hypnotic rhythms @ dances of Burundi 150 AFRICA COLLECTIVE contemporary & traditional sounds G songs from Anbessa Gebrehiwot (Ethiopia), Paul Mbenna (Tanzania), Eshak Awi (Sudan) 2.30 ANGELS VOICES BAND infectious Congolese soukous & rumba music 3.20 BLAK ROOTS Congolese Airo reggae bound to make you dance & move 410 DEREB DESALEGN & LION OF JUDAH high eneray Ethiopian roots music BLACK HARMONIES S1 (READING ROOM) Hosted by Little G 12.00 ANBESSA GEBREHIWOT traditional Ethiopian songs & sounds 12.40 DELINE BRISCOE Yaianji bives & roots with soul 1.30 JAMES HENRY Indigenous singer and songwriter with many stories to tell 2.20 KUNDALILA smooth strings ‘and gospel harmonies from Zimbabwe, Congo & Australia 340 SKYE TAIKATO Indigenous/ Maori singer & songwriter from the south coast 4.00 LANDID SOUND sweet acoustic songs & harmonies from south Sudan CULTURAL WORKSHOPS 12.30 GHANAIAN DANCE to live drums with Asanti Dance Theatre 1.00 BELLYDANCE to live drums with Underbelly 1.30 BELLYDANCE to live drums with Underbelly 2.00 GHANAIAN DANCE fo live drums with Asanti Dance Theatre 2.30 PACIFIC ISLAND BODY PERCUSSION with Steve Tafea 3.00 BELLYDANCE to live drums with Underbelly 3.30 WARMING THE VOCAL CHORDS with Carl Pannuzzo 4.00 PACIFIC ISLAND BODY PERCUSSION with Steve Tafea Supported by City of Yarra, Victorian Multicultural ‘Commission and the Australia Council for the Arts.