Musica del Mondo

Week 8 Performance Summary:
Musica del Mondo - European Folk Music Quintet

Bio:
An eclectic quintet with Russell Johnsen (hurdy gurdy, violin oud and
percussion), Mark Bozikovich (piano accordion), Phil Waldron on double bass, Philip Everall (clarinet and bass clarinet) and Alex Millier (clarinet
 and bass clarinet).



For more information visit: http://www.myspace.com/musicadelmondo

A Sense of Place: the ongoing power of places in Perth (Dr. Noel Nannup)

Week 7 Speaker Summary:
Noel will take listeners on a journey around Perth from their seats in Central Park. Noel will talk about the use of Perth for thousands of years before white settlement and how this connects with its uses today. Noel speaks about his heritage by linking together stories of country from different places. His talk starts in Central Park and travels around the Swan before ending back in Central Park.

Bio:
Noel is a fantastic storyteller and gifted speaker. He is also a Nyungar Elder and Cultural Heritage and Environmental Consultant. Noel has consistently been involved in educating young (and old) Western Australians about the rich cultural heritage of Aboriginal people. Come and hear about the heritage of Perth that has existed for thousands of years.

What Makes Cities Succeed? (Lunch with Carol Coletta)

This is a special event sponsored by Hassell Architects and supported by FORM.

Carol Coletta is President and CEO of CEOs for Cities, the Chicago-based ideas lab which helps America's business leaders make the most of their cities’ assets through innovation.

Referring to examples in the US, Carol reveals how business leaders can build a city’s special qualities to increase its talent base, innovation, distinctiveness and connectivity.

For more information visit:
http://www.form.net.au/creative_capital/events/ or
http://www.ceosforcities.org/about/carol_coletta.php

Shane McCarthy and Ruth Jeffery (Swing It!)

Week 6 Performance Summary:
Swing It! is one of the most vibrant Swing dancing schools to emerge in Perth. With a teaching staff comprised of some of the best dancers in the country, all with a wealth of international dance experience, and an array of some of the most passionate students and social dancers in town, Swing It! can take care of all your Swing dancing needs!

Bio:
Shane has been imparting his love of the dance through teaching for over five years and has taught internationally both in the United States and Japan, spreading his thoughts and opinions on Lindy Hop via confusing analogies involving super heroes, sci-fi and obscure 80s children’s television. Shane began his competitive career when he reluctantly entered the Australian Hellzapoppin’ Competition in 2006. Upon receiving first prize in the national event he promptly retired from competition for fear of tarnishing his now perfect record.

Shane is well known for his passionate and vibrant approach to teaching, for the high level of fun and enjoyment he delivers in his classes and for being “that skinny guy” at the Mustang Bar.

Joni Kieft and Reverend Gorge Davies (Young People in Public Space)

Week 5 Speaker Summary
Young People in Public Space:
•Brief History of Young People in Public Space in Australia;
•Anti-Social or Pro-social - young people’s use of public space and adults’ response to it;
•It takes a village to raise a child, George Davies’ thinking around young people;
•Thinking for the future about young people and public space.

Bio
Joni Kieft completed a Bachelor of Social Science in Youth Work with a supporting major in Drama. She has worked in the youth work sector across a range of settings, including youth arts organizations, local government, the charity sector, education, and has also managed a community based youth service. She co-wrote a manual on How to put on an All Ages Community Event. In 1995, she was short listed in the WA Youth Awards in the Leadership Category. She has worked in London for the past 2 years with young people in inner city housing estates. She is presently working with the Youth Affairs council of WA acting in the role of Executive Officer.

George Davies is a graduate in Agriculture, Divinity and Education and former high school science teacher. He has worked with young people for the past 30 years in WA as a Uniting Church Minister and State Uniting Church Consultant for services. He is a co-founder of many organisations community youth including Palmerston Drug Association, the Youth Affairs Council of WA and the Perth Inner City Youth Service. George has presented papers at State, National and International Conferences on streetwork, drug and youth homelessness issues. He has shared his own home for 40 years with young people at risk.

He received the 2002 Community Services Industry Award for Outstanding Service as an Individual and is a member of the State Advisory Committee addressing homelessness and a member of Citysafe for the past ten years.

Laliya (Musicians from Australia and Ireland)

Week 4 Performance Summary
Laliya is an instrumental hybrid of new acoustic and subtle world fusion, creating an atmospheric soundscape using instruments of old in a modern and exciting way. This has been enhanced through the use of a technique known as 'two hand tapping' on the Dulcimer combined with rhythmic and percussive beats of the Djembe.

A truly unique, and transcendent auditory experience.

Bio
Laliya are James Maguire and Melissa Howlett-Maguire. Laliya have performed at a number of festivals in Australia and overseas since 2003 including:

Festivals 2006
Australia: Earthdance Festival, Fairbridge; Multicultural Carnival, ECU; WUCC, UWA; Fremantle Village Markets, Fremantle

Festivals 2005
Australia: Fremantle Street Arts Festival.
Italy: Arte in Strada, Lecce; Mercantia Festival, Certaldo; Buskers in Strada, Santa Sofia; Musica Strada, Castellina Marittima; Ferrara Buskers Festival,Ferrara.
Austria: Linz Pflasterspektakel;
Estonia: Viljandi Folk Festival, Viljandi; Viinistu Art Museum, Viinistu; Otepaa Setanta, Tartu; Saka Cliff Hotel and Spa, Parnu; Kuressaare GO Spa, Saaremaa Island; Padestor Manor, Saaremaa Island; Keila SOS children's village; Pirita Klooster, Tallin.
Switzerland: Bern Buskers Festival.

George Seddon's Legacy For Perth

Isobel Necessary (Super Hooper)

Week 2 Performance Summary
Isobel will be performing her Super Hooper routine: she may look like any ordinary woman, but in front of an unsuspecting crowd, on any street, at any time, Isobel Necessary will transform into the greatest superhero the world has ever known.

Isobel performance consists of tumbling and hula hoop routines. The show features clowning and audience participation, and culminates in the 21-hula hoop stack.

Bio
Isobel is an accomplished physical performer, director and community artist. She has toured in Europe, where she performed street theatre shows in Amsterdam, London and Edinburgh, and performed in many Fringe Festival shows including The Best of The Fest, with Jimeoin, Ross Noble and Adam Hills. In 2003 she produced The Six Dollar Woman, a one-woman circus theatre show utilising multimedia projections, original music, soundscape, improvisation, clown and spectacular acrobatics.

In 2003, she has also performed at the National Circus Festival in Tasmania, the Perth International Arts Festival, the Fremantle Street Arts Festival, the Perth Royal Show, the Melbourne International Arts Festival in the Famous Spiegeltent (with The Cat Empire), and the inaugural Noosa Buskers Festival. Isobel spent 2002 undertaking what she has dubbed her "self-funded creative development, research and performance tour of Australia", driving 30,000km around the country and busking in every mainland capital.


Isobel performed at the Melbourne International Arts Festival in the Tiny Top, the smallest circus tent in the Southern Hemisphere, in the Darwin Fringe Festival, the Festival of Darwin, and at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, in the Tiny Top and in the Seriously Big Show in the Lunar Tent. She taught the circus workshop program at Corrugated Iron Youth Arts, participated in the Circus Masterclasses as part of the Adelaide Fringe, and in April 2002 Isobel participated in "Straight Up!", the National Training Project hosted by Rock'n'Roll Circus.

Isobel was a core member of Fremantle-based company Bizircus for five years, touring extensively in Western Australia, to Melbourne, Brisbane, Singapore, Edinburgh, Austria and Amsterdam. She performed in the company's productions "Glitch 3" (Artrage, 1998) and "Circus Alfresco" (Festival of Perth, 1997) and is dubbed The Circus Lady by countless Perth children.

Prof. Peter Newman (Perth's Future: Sustainability and Creativity)

Week 1 Speaker Bio:

Peter Newman is the Professor of City Policy and Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, at Murdoch University. In 2006/7 he was in the US as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Virginia Charlottesville, examining innovations in sustainability in US cities, regions and states. This is based on comparative work he did in Western Australia at the political level when he worked with the Premier of WA from 2001 to 2004 to develop the State Sustainability Strategy; this was the first state in the world with such a strategy, covering 42 areas of government.

In 2004-5 Peter was the NSW Sustainability Commissioner assisting with the production of the Metropolitan Strategy. He is well known in Perth for his work in rebuilding Perth’s rail system which is now seen as a model for modern cities. Peter’s academic work includes his book with Jeff Kenworthy 'Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence' which was launched in the White House in 1999 and his 2001 co-authored book is called ‘Back on Track: Rethinking Australian and New Zealand Transport.’ Peter is the author of the chapter on Greening Urban Transportation in Worldwatch Institute’s ‘State of the World, 2007’.