Melbourne Museum Until 7 October 2012 Did you come and see Tutankhamun last year? Perhaps you popped into Titanic? Or maybe you visited A Day in Pompeii? Well, today we’re opening our next big exhibition, The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia, which features over 170 extraordinary archaeological treasures from the world renowned British Museum. In developing [...]

The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival AN AFRICAN ELECTION MELBOURNE Saturday, 26 May 2012, 3:00 pm ACMI Cinemas,Federation Square, Russell Ct  Melbourne VIC 3000 (03) 8663 2200 Australian Premiere Jarreth Merz / USA/Ghana/Switzerland / 2010 / Doc. / 89 min / English and Akan with English subtitles Sundance Film Festival 2011 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam [...]

THE HUMAN RIGHTS ARTS & FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES FULL PROGRAM  FESTIVAL OPENS WITH PAUL SIMON DOCO UNDER THE AFRICAN SKIES 15 – 27 May 2012 MELBOURNE, 16 April 2012 – The fifth Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) will open on Tuesday 15 May with the highly anticipated documentary Under African Skies by award [...]

Christopher Rimmer – Spirits Speak – Without Pier Gallery, 417 Hampton Street, Hampton, Victoria. 15 – 30 June, 2012. (tra Melbourne based, South African photographer, Christopher Rimmer traversed the length and breadth of his former homeland and returns with a stunning body of 30 detailed photographic works that intimately depict majestic wildlife and proud indigenous [...]

  Australian nurse and midwife, Val Browning, has always lived a life less ordinary. After moving to Northern Ethiopia three decades ago, Val married into a nomadic pastoralist community in the remote region of the Afar Desert, and has since spent her lifetime dedicated to improving the health and literacy of the Afar people, in [...]

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image presents First Look: Mama Africa Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 May 2012 The Black Power Mix Tape 1967-1975 Thursday 3 to Wednesday 9 May 2012 Come Back, Africa Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 May 2012 As part of its First Look program, the Australian Centre for the Moving [...]

 Southern Africa’s epic beauty and raw intensity is captured in striking monochrome by internationally acclaimed photographer Christopher Rimmer in Spirits Speak.  The exhibitions opens at Melbourne’s Galleria Rocco, 10 June – 9 July 2012.  Melbourne based, South African photographer, Christopher Rimmer traversed the length and breadth of his former homeland and returns for two exhibitions [...]

The 1st annual African Film Festival Australia will screen in Melbourne for the first time from the 11th till 15th of April. The inaugural program includes features, documentaries, experimental animations and a special African shorts session promoting upcoming film makers. The program is diverse and eclectic highlighting the intense complexity of African culture and experience [...]

Sunday 11 March    1:30pm to 2:30pm   Prolific Sudanese-born composer and master guitarist Eshak Awi has earned an undisputed reputation as a virtuoso of African guitar styles. Performing with 8 piece Fula African Band. Eshak Awi (Sudan) – Vocals & Guitar; Jane Baker (Australia) – Guitar & Backing Vocals; Onda Mfume (Congo) – Bass & [...]

Recruiting Now at Youthworx Media!  InSite is a project for young people (15-25) of all cultural backgrounds to gain filmmaking skills and produce a personal story for the screen. Through weekly workshops and professional mentoring with Sista Savage and Naina Sen you will learn to script, shoot and edit as a digital artist and crew [...]

Long before Paul Simon went to Graceland, Johnny Clegg flouted apartheid laws in South Africa by forming the seminal mixed-race band Juluka in the 1970s. Teaming with Sipho Mchunu. Johnny’s sensational cross-cultural concept established the template for fusing Western pop with Zulu rhythms – English vocals fixed to an African heartbeat. Interview with Africanoz AfricanOZ [...]

The National Australia Bank and Jesuit Social Services, supported by AMES, offer a program of paid work experience and development for suitably qualified African-Australians at the Bank‘s Australian offices in Melbourne. There are a number of roles available within various business units in the areas of Finance, Technology and Business Administration. The African Australian Inclusion [...]