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Laborfest
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 1998 Waterfront Dispute the Maritime Union is holding a weeklong arts festival of film, photography, painting and theatre.
Laborfest Oz is being run in conjunction with the National Conference of Delegates and the International Mining and Maritime Conference at the Darling Harbour Convention Centre, Sydney from April 7-15. Some 500 MUA rank and file waterside workers and seafarers, officials and dispute veterans, international guests, artists and ministers in the newly elected Rudd Government will converge on Sydney for the union gatherings underway until April 14. CALENDER OF EVENTS: MONDAY, APRIL 7: SYDNEY CONVENTION CENTRE: official opening of National Conference and welcome to country. Lunchtime Launch of the Tas Bull Memorial overseas aid "Silent Auction". TUESDAY, APRIL 8: POLITICS, PAINTING and PHOTOGRAPHY, DARLING HARBOUR CONVENTION CENTRE Lunchtime opening of the Patrick painting and photography exhibition in the Darling Harbour Convention Centre adjoining the main conference centre. PAINTINGS: Hugger Mugger: Docks 98 by Melbourne artist Bill Hay exhibited in conjunction with Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney. The Picket by Sandra Kranz, The Working Harbour by Jane Bennett, Ships and ports by Tom Carmont, sculpture by Garo Deirmendjian. PHOTOS of The 1998 Waterfront Dispute, the Hungry Mile, the Harbour then and now, work on the waterfront spanning a century and a half, pickets and protests, the crushing impact of global mining companies on indigenous people, the shipbreaking yards of Bangladesh. Photographers Dean Sewell, Tony McDonough, Andrew Bell, Ross Bray and others. TUESDAY, APRIL 8: Official launch of Laborfest, Australian National Maritime Museum, and 6pm. DOCKS DRAMA: Harbour by Katherine Thomson. On April 7, 1998, one of the most dramatic_events in recent Australian history took place. It was the culmination of a tightly planned scheme between the Howard government and a_ stevedoring company. An attempt to smash the Maritime Union of Australia - the wharfies. Set against the backdrop of the explosive industrial dispute, Harbour is a gripping, passionate and moving play. The Sydney Theatre Company is staging a chapter of this award winning drama as part of the union 10-year commemorations of the unions' victory against the odds. WHARFIES' MURAL by Sydney realist artists Rod Shaw, Sony Glenn, Ralph Sawyer, Clem Millwood and a collective of waterside worker artists in the fifties will be unveiled at the Australian National Maritime Museum, where it will remain on permanent exhibition. The mural weaves waterside history, labour history and Australian history like a tapestry, portraying the struggle for the 8-hour day, the Depression, the dole queue, the writings of Karl Marx and Henry Lawson, the pick up, conscription, both world wars, the wharves, the general strike, the bull days, wharfies' leader Jim Healy, the Spanish Civil War, Hitler's concentration camps, the Communist Party and police confrontations. After the sale of the union rooms in Darling Harbour the mural was donated to the Museum, where it will now be on permanent exhibition. LABOUR CLASSICS When Paul Robeson sang at the Opera House in 1960 only the foundations were in place - he sang for the workers, he sang in union rooms and he sang in trades hall. Revitalising a tradition of bringing fine art to the workers, the Sydney Chamber Orchestra string quartet perform the Internationale, Robeson and other classics. FRIDAY APRIL 11th THE HUNGRY MILE & POETRY IN THE PUB The Hungry Mile, 8 Darling Harbour, 2pm When the NSW Government announced it was closing the working harbour with a name contest, the foreshore became Barangaroo. But for the generations of men who worked the wharves, Hickson Road, steeped in a century of struggle culminating in the 1998 lockout will be always be The Hungry Mile. This was recognised by the Government and the Sydney Foreshore Authority in a signed MOA in 2007. From 2pm NSW Minister Frank Sartor on the MOA, Special guest speaker Federal Minister for the Arts and Heritage Peter Garrett will welcome actor Jack Thompson, folksingers Mark Gregory and our own MUA retired seafarer and bard Bryn Griffith before speaking on the importance of the arts and labour culture. Actor Jack Thompson recital "The Hungry Mile" by Ernest Antony and the launch of a book The Hungry Mile and other poems, : FOKLSONG: Singers songwriters Mark Gregory, Margaret Walters, John Warner, Bob and Margaret - including Pickup Shed, Join the MUA, Boonaroo, Eight Hour Day, Justice Delayed, Bring Out The Banners POETRY IN THE PUB, across the road at the Big House, Moretons. The Fremantle Picket and Sea Poems by Bryn Griffiths, SUDNAY APRIL 13th: LABORFILMFEST: INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM THEATRE, Sunday, APRIL 13 Opened by internationally recognised Australian film maker Tom Zubrycki a day of films from home and abroad highlighting workers and their families battling governments and global corporations. Documentaries from home and abroad including MONDAY, APRIL 14th DESCENDANCE DANCE THEATRE, Darling Harbour Convention Centre Redfern based international award winning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island dance theatre, Descendance, welcome international guests at the opening of the Mining and Maritime Conference. MELBOURNE EVENTS - DOCKLANDS 2008 CONTEMPORA SCULPTURE AWARD "WATERFRONT" The 1998 dispute started in Melbourne at Webb Dock in January and culminated with the nationwide lockout on April 9. So on APRIL 3: Victoria branch members will kick off commemorations in Docklands with a gathering at the award winning sculpture "Waterfront" on the Patrick dispute. The work by local artist Dan Wollmering took out the prestigious 2008 Contempora Sculpture Award in March. Dr. Dan Wollmering immigrated to Australia in 1975 from Minnesota, United States of America and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Sculpture and Coordinator of Research in the Department of Fine Arts, Monash University. Represented by Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne and BMG Art in Adelaide, Wollmering, since 1978, has exhibited in 24 solo exhibitions, 45 group exhibitions and has been selected in each Contempora Sculpture Award since inception in 2005. Waterfront is one of 33 large scale, outdoor exhibits, by some of Australia's best known and emerging artists on display for six weeks along a waterside trail that extends from Waterfront City, NewQuay, Harbour Esplanade, Central Pier and around to Victoria Harbour until 20 April 2008. Download more info:
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