Venue: Level 1, Ian Potter Museum of Art
Presenters: Mr Muzafar Ali, Mr Jolyon Hoff
The Potter’s latest exhibition suite Not As The Songs of Other Lands, Syria: Ancient History – Modern Conflict, Tom Nicholson “I was born in Indonesia”, EXIT and John Akomfrah: Vertigo Sea offer critical insights into the current mass movement of people, shifts in territories and borders, identity and place, self-representation and advocacy.
Join us for lunchtime discussions with guest speakers sharing their lived experience seeking asylum and coming to Australia. Be part of the conversation and hear from refugees and immigrants who have come to Australia, from different parts of the world, at different times in history, and made this country their home. Hear about their struggles, success and hopes for the future.
Jolyon Hoff, co-founder of the Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre, and Muzafar Ali discuss the school and the community (featured in The Potter's latest exhibition Tom Nicholson: "I was born in Indonesia") at the centre of the The Staging Post film. This discussion will include short screening of parts of the film. A real-life, real-time, multi-platform documentary. The Staging Post is about friendship, connection and the power of community.The Staging Post follows Muzafar Ali and Khadim Dai, two Afghan Hazara refugees who were stuck in Indonesia after Australia 'stopped the boats'. Facing many years in limbo they built a community, co-founded the Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre and changed UN refugee policy.
Free, Bookings not required.
This program is supported by the Refugee Council of Australia.
from
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/8790-finding-home-personal-stories-of-seeking-asylum
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