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In Repose Events in Broome:
St Mary’s Student Performance:
Japanese Cemetery, Port Drive, Broome
Monday 25th August commencing at 5:00pm
KUYO performance:
Japanese Cemetery, Port Drive, Broome
Tuesday 26th August commencing at 4.30pm
Visual Art and Soundscape Exhibition:
Gecko Gallery, 9 Short St, Broome
Thursday 28th August
5:30pm opening reception & performance
Exhibition current to 9th September
Artists
Wakako Asano - Dance / choreography
Mayu Kanamori - Visual art
Production Manager: Vic McEwan |
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In Repose is an official Shinju Matsuri festival event
The In Repose project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. |
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  'Growing Roots' in the land of Australia
The perspective of a migrant Japanese artist
As a first generation migrant in Australia, Mayu believes it is vital to hold dialogues with the indigenous peoples of this land and deepen our connection with Australia's land and it's spaces. Through the interplay of images and stories, she uncovers similarities between Japanese and Indigenous spiritualities.
Speaker, Mayu Kanamori
Thursday, 4 September, 6-7pm
JH Michell Theatre, Richard Berry Building
Parkville Campus, University of Melbourne
No registration / fee required. Enquiries 8344 5990
The Adelaide Festival Centre's
OzAsia Festival 2008
presents
CHIKA is a multi-layered production which crosses the genres of journalism, visual and performing arts, incorporating original live music, dance and narration, documentary images, archival video and recorded interviews to tell a story - the story of Chika Honda, a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian jails for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit.
CHIKA: A Documentary Performance
26th and 27th September 2008
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
 CHIKA Adelaide CD Launch26th September 9pm, Foyer, Dunstan Playhouse
Symposium with Mayu Kanamori, Creator/Producer CHIKA
20 September, Banquet Hall, Adelaide Festival Centre
In 2007 writer Ben Hills and photographer Mayu Kanamori travelled to the small rocky island of Sardinia in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea to record the secrets of the oldest living people in the world. Although this claim to longevity – the 'eternal fountain of youth' – is hotly disputed by the Hunzas, the Cossacks and the Okinawans, it is in fact the Sardinians who come out on top as having the largest percentage of centenarians in the world.
What is their secret? What do they look like? What can we learn from these ‘ancients’ (‘anziani’)? You can find out the answers to these questions and more by reading “The Island of the Ancients” by Ben Hills, published by Murdoch Books, August 2008. However, to see what these anziani look like, I recommend you view Mayu Kanamori’s sensitive and beautiful portraits taken over the two months she and Ben spent in Sardinia. This exhibition at Customs House accompanies the launch of the book on Wednesday August 14.
You will meet Antonio Argiolas, the world’s oldest winemaker (he is on the cover of the book), Raffaela Monne, one of the world’s oldest women at her 109th birthday party and Salvatore Spano who performs folk dancing including a show of prowess by standing on his head. You will also get a feel for the physicality and picturesque quality of this island with its forbidding peaks and gorges and of the villages scattered among them. At one stage five of the world’s oldest people lived here, including the world’s oldest man, Antonio Todde, aged 112.
Through Mayu Kanamori’s respectful portrayals (30 images in all) we see older people through new eyes. They are not separated out and treated as social outcasts. They are respected, loved and honoured as part of the culture, and it appears they have looked after themselves in a way that respects the body. They have certainly done something right! There is something we can all learn from in these wonderful stories and images.
Sandy Edwards, Curator & Director, Arthere
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Photographs of Sardinia’s Centenarians
By Mayu Kanamori
Exhibition dates: August 14 to September 28 2008
Venue: Customs House Library
Saturday 23 August 2 pm - Mayu Kanamori and Ben Hills
Saturday 6 September 2 pm - Mayu Kanamori
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 Secrets of Sardinia’s Centenarians
by Ben Hills, photographs by Mayu Kanamori
In the middle of the Mediterranean Sea lies a small, remote rocky island which for millennia has been the battleground for the competing empires of the Phoenicians, the Cartheginians, the Romans, Catalans, and the Ottoman Turks. Today, Sardinia is best known as a peaceful sun-drenched holiday destination where in summer new invading hordes of Northern Europeans descend to enjoy the lobster, the lazy lifestyle and the sandy coves of the Costa Smeralda, the Aga Khan’s billionaires’resort. But there is another reason why this magical place has attracted attention from the world’s leading scientists: the people of Sardinia are among the longest-lived on earth – three times as likely to reach the remarkable milestone of 100 as the English, Americans, Australians or almost anyone else on earth.
The Island of the Ancients is published August 1st by Pier 9, an imprint of Murdoch Books, in Australia and the United Kingdom. It will also be published in Brazil by Editora Prumo later this year.
The music for CHIKA was composed by Thomas Fitzgerald, with one exquisite work, the Koto Solo by Satsuki Odamura. This unusual collaboration of instruments featuring koto, shakuhachi, wadaiko, acoustic and electric violin and keyboards, blends live music and pre recorded acoustic and electronic sounds with a unique result. It is the sum of these myriad combinations of a surreal reality that have become CHIKA's musical world. The Chika soundtrack can be purchased through the Chika Website.
Disturbing Elements
Creative Development with
Rakini Devi, Kenny Feather and Mayu Kanamori
Supported by Australia Council Dance Board, Rakini Devi undertook her first Melbourne based Creative Development Project entitled "Disturbing Elements".
The project culminated in a public showing at The Carlton Courthouse on 30 June & 1 July, 2008.
On tour with Buzz Dance Theatre
School/Community Residencies in the North West, WA with Artistic Director, Felicity Bott, Sete Tele, Adam Ventour, Rachel Ogle, Josh Mu, David Lloyd, Sharlene Campbell, and Mayu Kanamori. 26 May - 7 June, 2008
The Chika website has moved, please visit the new domain at chika.asia
Chika
This is the story of Chika Honda.
Chika is a real person. She is a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian jails for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit. She was one of a Japanese tour group who were arrested for importation of heroin in 1992. She was released on parole in November 2002 and is now living in Japan.
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by Siobhán McHugh
Photographs by Mayu Kanamori
An anthology of oral histories of past and present public housing tenants in New South Wales.
Gerald Stone's best-selling, ‘Who Killed Channel 9?‘, included Shelter from the Storm in its select the bibliography, referring to Siobhan McHugh's extended interview with the elusive media mogul John Alexander, who grew up in public housing in Turramurra, northern Sydney, and rarely grants personal interviews. Due to resulting demand, Shelter from the Storm is now available to download online through eBooks.com
'exploding the stereotypes of people in social housing'. Sydney Morning Herald
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