Event
Please Explain: Australia’s fear of multilingualism
When
Thursday, 7 June 2018, 8:00am
Location
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
181-187 Hay St, Haymarket
SYDNEY // Thursday 7 June 2018 // 6-8PM
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Free, RSVPs required
4A’s series Please Explain invites presenters to rethink, recharge and reimagine contemporary issues through the arts and academia. Responding to Akira Tayakama’s Our Songs – Sydney Kabuki Project presented at 4A as part of the Biennale of Sydney this edition of Please Explain is curated by Dr Elly Kent.
Australia seems to be quite happily multicultural but very comfortable being mono-lingual. Despite being a country of hundreds of languages our education system remains steadfastly focused on cursary study of languages that is not interwoven throughout primary and tertiary education. As a result we remain a nation that fails to celebrate our cultures through language and we fail to prepare our next generations to be global citizens. Where do we go from here?
Join 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art for a robust debate.
Speakers: poet/writer Lorna Munro; Kevin Ngo, poet and Bankstown Poetry Slam organiser; Jane Stratton of LOST IN BOOKS, and linguist Asefeh Zeinalabedini.
Moderator: Dr Elly Kent
Want to bone up on the conversation before the night? Please see our recommended reading here.
Missed the event? Listen to the audio recording below:
Associated Exhibition
SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium and Engagement – 21st Biennale of Sydney
16 March – 11 June 2018
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
More info*Image courtesy of the Biennale of Sydney. Document Photography.
