TOGETHER CELEBRATIONS
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Festive Evening
Meet the Makers

FRIDAY 6 December
5.30-9.30pm

It’s time to get festive and you are guaranteed to feel good because you will be supporting
refugees, people seeking asylum and newly arrived migrants.

 

JUST FOR YOU
Gin Tasting (bookings essential)
Affordable art  - Private View 
Music
Middle Eastern Food by Flavours of Syria
Exclusive shopping offers.

Meet the wonderful makers and learn the stories of our fascinating creatives.

PROGRAM

  • 5:30PM - Doors Open
  • 6:00PM - Welcome
  • 6:00PM - Gin Tastings begin at 30-minute intervals
  • 6:15PM - Music, shopping, meet the makers and delicious food
  • 7:00PM - Opening of the A4 Affordable Art Show. Announce Winners of Art Show
  • 7:30PM - Columbian duo' Amava', ethical shopping, meet the makers and delicous Syrian BBQ
  • 9:30PM - Door Close

MEET OUR GUESTS

MC for Together Shopping Night
Our MC for the night is Kenyan performer, Joys Nhambi. Many of you will be familiar with Joys as the lead singer of JoysSoul Music and we know she will be a fabulous MC for our action packed night.

Columbian singer, Amava is a daughter of the Andes Mountains and through her performances she honours the ancestral culture of her deep journeys throughout South America. Her music is mesmerising, moving and very beautiful.

Bandesh Gin Tasting with Farhad
After eight years in detention, Farhad walked out of Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation carrying his guitar. Farhad fled Iran in 2013 and looked to Australia to seek asylum. He was detained both in Christmas Island and Manus Island before arriving in Australia after exceptional circumstances.  'Kurdish people have suffered greatly through genocide, displacement and persecution. They still struggle today for independence, for country and freedom. They are not permitted to speak their own language, are stateless and cannot practice culture, music, art or dance’ – Farhad.  Meet Farhad and learn about his personal journey. He will be offering boutique gin tastings for his four gins including Kurdish Gin and Kurdish Arak. @bandeshwine_spirits

Flavours of Syria with Nayran Tabiei
Food has always been at the heart of Nayran’s life and became a precious connection to home when the Syrian chef was forced to flee Damascus during the civil war. Now a proud Melburnian, Nayran manages the Flavours of Syria café, the welcoming café in our colourful laneway. Nayran will be firing up the bbq out front of Space2b for our Together Celebration & Shopping night. Enjoy sizzling kebabs, chicken skewers and homemade falafel with Nayran’s famous breads and salad.
Come and meet Nayran and hear more about her story, her food and her culture.
@flavours_of_syria

Amava

Music with Nayran Tabiei
Andrea Martínez Vásquez, known as AMAVA is a South American performer, daughter of the Andes Mountains. She is a musician, social worker, activist and self-taught artist. She has acquired her knowledge from the masters of ancestral and popular South American culture. In her performances, she takes audiences on a journey through sounds and territories of Abya Yala and the mixed triad of sounds inherited from Native American, European and African traditions. Amava is a solo artist, a duo and part of Lavandita Carnival, a group of Chilean migrants based in Melbourne that brings the sounds of the Andes through music, dance and theatre from the land of Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Ecuador.

MEET OUR MAKERS

Karen creatives 1
karen creatives 2

Ceramics and weaving by 10 Karen Creatives
Space2b has been working with a wonderful group of Karen and Karreni creatives. Together with Wyndham Park Community Centre the group have been using their skills from home and learning new techniques to bring you wonderful colourful cermaics, baskets, weavings and wooden chopping boards. Perfect gifts with heart!

Karen Creatives from Wyndham Park Community Centre will be exhibiting their delightful homemade ceramics. You won't be able to resist!

Anna Japana

Anna Japana
Anna Japana will be helping visitors create their own design of Japanese Mizuhiki knotted earrings.

chandra

Chandra
Chandra with be showcasing his sustainable wood working homewares. Useful and beautiful - what's not to like?

Hinako petaly candle

Petaly Candles
Petaly candles are a favourite at Space2b and we think they might be yours too. These hand poured, environmentally conscious candles are pretty enough to delight anybody that is lucky enough to receive them.

Beaded jewellery with Victoria
Tizzy Vicky beaded jewellery are created by Victoria Minan by weaving silk thread with 'Delicia Beads'. Her contemporary is based on traditional African beading techniques.

This program is kindly supported by

2024-25 Multicultural Festivals and Events Program

Thanks to Community Bank Windsor for sponsoring our Affordable Art Show for 3 years running!