Three members of the Silk Road group, Feroz Ansari vocals and harmonium, Jay Dabgar North Tabla, and Keith Preston Santoor and Bouzouki, will present Afghan songs with a regional flavour during the OzAsia Keynote.Īmar Galla brings a deep commitment to the value of cultural diversity and rich artistic experience to his role as 2012 Keynote Speaker.Įducated in New Delhi, a longstanding citizen of Australia and a global contributor to multicultural heritage and arts, Amar's career currently encompasses a leading role in the 40th Anniversary of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention, directing the International Institute for the Inclusive Museum out of Copenhagen ( ) and as a Professor of World Heritage and Sustainable Development at the University of Split, Croatia. Through live music performances at festivals, arts events and community celebrations the Silk Music group present the fascinating songs and music of this region to the SA public. The Silk Road music project features Adelaide musicians presenting traditional music from Indian, Afghanistan and the Middle East and brings musicians of different backgrounds together to collaborate. In doing so, he will remind us of the North Terrace forum in Adelaide that put arts and culture into the landmark National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia, launched in 1989 by the Prime Minister of the day, the Hon Bob Hawke AC. Looking at transformations over time, Amar will reflect on this fascinating topic through his First Voice as an IndoAustralian. Many of these communities are now represented within our multicultural Australia, so the question remains, how do we as Australians acknowledge and engage with the intangible heritage of so many rich cultures? How do we also recognise the First Australians, our Indigenous Peoples, and reflect in our sense of place the complexity of both the original culture and subsequent cultures? Are we doing enough to safeguard the intangible heritage values that enrich, engage and challenge the Australian ethos and which so extend the possibilities of our expressions? Intangible heritage encompasses the expressions and traditions of communities across the world, inherited from ancestors and transmitted to descendants, often through the spoken word and performance.
Presented by The Adelaide Festival Centre's OzAsia Festival and The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre at UniSA (MP3) 32Mb (or right click and select 'save target as' to download) Monday 24 September 2012, Dunstan Playhouse OzAsia Festival Keynote Address: More Than Meets the Eye Safeguarding Intangible Heritage - Asian Australian Perspectives Delivered by Professor Amareswar Galla, Executive Director, International Institute for the Inclusive Museum
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