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BEMAC Live: Transplanted Rhythms

Queensland Multicultural Centre 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, QLD, Australia

An aurally and visually stunning journey through the diversity of percussion and its ubiquity across global musical cultures, featuring Rebecca Lloyd-Jones (QLD Conservatorium), Tanja Hafenstein (Alex Lloyd & Tulipan), Dave Kemp (Lion King Musical), Tsoof Baras (Soundstruck), Zach Brankovich (Queensland Symphony Orchestra) and the Queensland Conservatorium Ba Da Boom Percussion Ensemble.

BEMAC Unplugged: Mel Ree’s Revolution Renegades

VENTspace 23 Glenelg Street, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Inspired by the 90s 'Def Poetry Jam', Producer and MC Mel Ree curates a night of survival, healing, growth, change and REVOLUTION featuring Andrew Cox, Huda the Goddess and Ethan Enoch. The program is an invitation to connect to each other so profoundly that suddenly, amidst such chaotic times, harmony seems possible again.

The Diaspora Grows – A Microresidency by Visual and Public Artist Anis (Chile)

Queensland Multicultural Centre 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, QLD, Australia

Anis, a visual and public artist with an extensive trajectory in her home country Chile, visits Brisbane in late March to take part in a microresidency with BEMAC (March 23 to 29) comprising workshops, talks and an exhibition at the Queensland Multicultural Centre.

BEMAC Presents: Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra and Zy the Way (Taiwan)

Queensland Multicultural Centre 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, QLD, Australia

A sublime encounter of two award-winning ensembles; Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra, who make otherworldly music that celebrates difference and the liminal spaces between cultures, and Zy The Way, who are ushering in a fresh musical movement from the heart of Asia.

BEMAC Discussions: Creativity and Migratory Grief (Live and Streamed)

Queensland Multicultural Centre 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, QLD, Australia

A free panel discussion about the grief that migrants experience and how artists and musicians turn it into creativity featuring: Anis, Lisa Tran Kelly, Anisa Nandaula, Nasim Khosravi and Huda the Goddess (Moderator).

BEMAC Discover #7

Queensland Multicultural Centre 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, QLD, Australia

An open mic night to celebrate the importance of art, music and creativity in our lives and our community.

BEMAC Live: Echo of Jade

Queensland Multicultural Centre 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, QLD, Australia

An innovative performance of cross-cultural chamber music featuring traditional Chinese instruments such as the guzheng, erhu, dizi, zhongruan and pipa, performing works by contemporary Australian and international composers to showcase... Read more »

BEMAC Discover #8

Queensland Multicultural Centre 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, QLD, Australia

Join us on Monday April 29 for BEMAC Discover, an open mic night to celebrate the importance of art, music and creativity in our lives and our community. This space... Read more »

BEMAC Presents: JADE Ensemble and ZÖJ (Victoria)

Queensland Multicultural Centre 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, QLD, Australia

Two distinctive music-making processes collude in an emotionally stirring double bill of virtuosic cross-cultural music exploration. Local luminaries JADE Ensemble share a night of deep cultural meeting points with Victoria-based experimental music duo ZÖJ, both groups united by the commitment to explore and intertwine the sounds and personal narratives of the multiple identities that converge within them. 

BEMAC Unplugged – Kristal West: Tribute to Dr. Eddie and Dr. Bonita Mabo

VENTspace 23 Glenelg Street, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Kristal West, proud Piadram, Manbarra, Palawa and Nywagi songstress and granddaughter of legendary First Nations’ land rights activist, Dr. Eddie Koiki Mabo, who eventually had the legal doctrine of terra nullius overturned and Dr. Bonita Mabo AO, staunch black rights activist, sings of her upbringing, the Mabo case, country storylines and the importance of culture, language and identity as a First Nations’ person.

BEMAC Live: The First Creatives – Ya’Djin Spirit Women

Queensland Multicultural Centre 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, QLD, Australia

For The First Creatives debut full-length production, a multidisciplinary, intergenerational cast of First Nations’ women share stories of colonial violence, dispossession, motherhood, blak joy, connection and healing, woven together with song, dance and video.

BEMAC acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work. We pay our respect to Elders past and present and to emerging community leaders. We also acknowledge the important role and contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the communities in which we work.

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