Diary of (East Timor/etc) Solidarity Events....Dec Compiled by Jefferson Lee of behalf of the Australia East Timor Association AETA Membership enquiries & meetings details c/-AETA, PO Box 751 Darlinghurst 2010.
# WED 26TH NOV,6.30PM, UTS BROADWAY,Level 3 last AETA MEETING for the year. Stephen Langford (02) 9331-5986 will report back on Balibo House Trust opening # WED 26TH NOV,9.30PM, (West Papua activist) David Bridie performs at the famous Spiegeltent (a travelling Belgium cabaret tent of wooden booths,stained glass,mirrors...quite exotic and once performed in by marlene dietrich!!) on a grand piano with Amanda Brown and Phil Wales. The gigs at 9.30pm and the tent is in the domain near the gallery..the tent is certainly worth venturing into once in your life # Thurs 27TH NOV 7-9pm,panel discussion "Just how important is Holocaust awareness to a more humane Australia?" Shalom College, UNSW (enter from Barker Street,near the corner of Anzac Parade) Speakers Alan Gold [author, human rights activist), Professor Andrew Jakubowicz, Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS, Emeritus Professor Colin Tatz, Director, Australian Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Susan Varga, prominent Australian author, and social critic, Winton Higgins, Sydney author and academic. The discussion will launch Winton Higgins' important new book on the subject, Journey into Darkness (Brandl & Schlesinger), the diary of a recent journey to Israel and Poland in search of the Holocaust's meaning for western communities in the new century. Reply-to: Paul RETI <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free admission. #Friday 28th November. President of East Timor Parliament Mr Lo'Olo and Ambassador to Australia for Timor Loro Sa'e Mr Yorge Teme will visit Sydney.(details (02) 9607-7942) #Friday 28th Nov 6pm , Gaelic Club, 'Politics in the Pub' on Africa. Friday 28 November - Manly Pacific Hotel Wheelers & Dealers with blues band The Texas Playboys. 8.30pm, The Esplanade, Manly. No cover charge.Details Christine Wheeler <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #Friday 28th November AETA Melbourne Dinner...details (03) 9416-2960. #Sat 29th November.MELBOURNE, President of East Timor Parliament Mr Lo'Olo and Ambassador to Australia for Timor Loro Sa'e Mr Yorge Teme will visit Melbourne. # Saturday 29 November 8pm, Harp Hotel at Tempe (Sydney) 'Myriad' - Hannah Croke and Gordon Wallace - will be supporting Andy Irvine. 'Myriad' have just performed at the Majors Creek Folk Festival, and also played at the Illawarra Folk Festival this year. #Sunday November 30th - 6.30pm @ the GREAT HALL, University of Sydney For the benefit of The Wayside Chapel, Featuring a special ensemble of Australia's finest classical musicians from; the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Aark, Charmain Gadd Group and George Pederson of Sydney Conservatorium playing Mozart, Back, Tiutiunnik and Brahms. Tickets $22 call 02 9358 6577 or <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Wayside Chapel, PO Box 66 Potts Point NSW 1335 # Sun 30th November, 6.30 pm, The Harp Hotel 900 Princes Hwy, Tempe - PENELOPE SWALES=DD Sydney Concert "Between Light and Dark" 10th anniversary gig, featuring songs of that album including "Lost and Found" with special guests Susie and Taya and Anousha Victoire.Details Penelope Swales <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #Thursday December 4th, Northwest Poetry & Folk Club, (1st or 2nd Thur), with Wheelers & Dealers 7.30pm Cornucopia Cafe, Old Gladesville Hospital, Cnr Punt & Victoria Rds, Gladesville (enter by bottom gate in Punt Rd) Enq: 9887 1856 or <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #Sat December 6th, Sydney, East Timor function. Details (tbc) Robyn Hutcheson (02) 9597-6117. #Wed 10th December, 7pm Tom Mann Theatre (126 Chalmers St, Surry Hills),Fund-raiser for ACEH, $15/$10 with Indonesian-Australian performers and a documentary on Aceh. Details Indonesian Solidarity (02)9217-3874 or mob (0401) 008 105. email <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #Wed 10th December, Canberra Jose Ramos-Horta speaks at the National Press Club (daytime). #Wed 10th December, CANBERRA INST OF TECHNOLOGY/Rotary Dinner (6.30PM FOR 7PM) LOUNGE SUIT/$35.00. RSVP: Bruce Sinclair Tel: 6249 8813 Fax: 6249 8692.Payment Due by 3 December with Jose Ramos-Horta as guest speaker for dinner. #Tues 9th Dec 9:30-12:30pm, Parramatta City Library, Civic Place, Parramatta (off Macquarie Street), Western Sydney Regional working alliance Meeting.Focus on the impact of recommendations made in the Review of Settlement Services for Migrants and Humanitarian Entrants released by DIMIA in May 2003. The Western Sydney Community =46orum as well as many other agencies and workers in Western Sydney are deeply concerned about the potential loss of Migrant Resource Centres as a result of recommendation 43. RSVP and apologies to Claire Edmonds (WSCF) ph: 9637 4746 or 0423 208 761 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Nov 30th. #Sat 13th December, Canberra, CAA/Oxfam Community =46estival, details Trish Woodcroft-Lee <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Woodford Folk Festival, 27 December 2003 to 1 January 2004. The biggest folk festival in Australia. Enq: 07 5496 1066 or www.woodfordfolkfestival.com Gulgong Folk Festival 28 December to 1 January 2004. Features Wheelers & Dealers; Helen Rowe; Rob Willis; John Dengate; Home Rule; Stringybark; Alan Musgrove; Touchwood; Jim Moir; Sommers Family and many more Enq: 6374 1202 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or www.winsoft.net.au/~worobil ----------------------------------- -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
