PAST EVENTS

WORKSHOP WITH NEIL CAMERON

HOW TO DESIGN A BRILLIANT FESTIVAL IN COMMUNITY

For Artists, Directors, Producers, Community Activists and Local Government Cultural Workers

"Humans have held celebrations since the beginning of time because they are essential for a healthy community, without them we are lost in the ordinary." Neil Cameron

Sunday 27th July – 10:00 – 4:00 and Sunday 3rd August – 10:00 – 4:00

  The two weekends are progressive (refreshments included )
$121 Full  / $99 conc  (single workshop)
   $231 Full / $187 conc (both workshops)  
(CERES members concession price)

Neil Cameron is well known for his commitment to cultural development and is one of Australia’s leading authorities on the role that festivals and celebrations play in a healthy community.  His impressive career spans over thirty years both nationally and internationally, and CERES is proud to invite him to share his knowledge with our community.  To do this, he has agreed to take time from his study (a doctorate on celebration and festivals at Flinders University) to present these rewarding workshops for the first time in Melbourne.

The workshop will inspire and give a contextual and archetypal “toolkit” with which to vision artistic ideas which have a relationship to community and environment.  He uses myth, the arts, archetype, anthropology, cultural development theories and cognitive studies to determine what happens to people in cultural experience and celebration, thereby designing enriching festivals and events.

CERES has staged over 15 award winning festivals including the Return of the Sacred Kingfisher and Harvest Festivals. CERES is a 4-hectare community environment park which has the experience in staging small and large scale outdoor successful community celebrations and is committed to developing, exploring, and making innovative community arts.

Selection of Neil Cameron’s projects:

RECOVERY EVENT.  Theatre project victims of Mt Macedon bush fire  1983
CELEBRATION OF WELCOME.  Group devised theatre with Vietnamese community, Melbourne  1984
FIVE SEASONS. The first Yarra River Parade for Moomba with the western suburbs of Melbourne.  1985
THE MELBOURNE PEACE VIGIL. An international peace festival sponsored by the Melbourne City Council.  1986
WOLF IN THE FOLD. Theatre for the physically disabled. Sydney 1989
RIVER OF DREAMS. Theatre event with the Pitjinjara people & community on the Todd River. 1990
MACBETH IN THE KATHERINE GORGE. Theatre with the community of Katherine.  1991
OPENING OF MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 1994
FESTIVAL OF JOURNEYS. An event at Port Arthur to reclaim the massacre site for local people   1997
MALENY/WOODFORD FESTIVAL.  Large community event staged over fourteen years celebrating  New Year.   1989-2002
FESTIVAL OF VOICES. Choral Festival in Tasmania 2005

HARVEST FESTIVAL 2008

Harvest festval 2008 was a tremendos celebration inspired by food, sustainability and multiculturalism, pulled together by a fantastic team of dedicated volunteers and staff. Enjoy the photos.

KINGFISHER FESTIVAL 2007 - WINGS OF DIASPORA

A week long festival celebrating our environment through film, dance, stories, music, fire and art.

Global Human Rights Torch Relay at CERES

1 Torch - 5 Continents over 100 Cities Download the event flyer
 
The Human Rights Torch Relay (HRTR) is an international campaign that seeks to bring an end to all human rights abuses against people in China while highlighting the persecution of Falun Gong, the most severely persecuted group in China today. During the run up to the 2008 Olympics, the HRTR will sponsor events in 35 countries on five continents to publicize its founding premise: The Olympics and crimes against humanity cannot co-exist in China.