SAILING INTO HISTORY: Displacements and Arrivals

An intergenerational, intercultural exhibition curated by Lella Cariddi and presented by Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) in partnership with Museo Italiano, Co.As.It.

15 June – 20 August 2016

Co.As.It. – Museo Italiano

199 Faraday Street, Carlton, 3053

Opening event: Tuesday 14 June – 6.30pm

Launched the Hon Telmo Languiller

Keynote speaker: Prof. Jon Cattapan (Artist & Academic, VCA, University of Melbourne)

RSVP for opening event: please complete booking form at http://italianlanguage.coasit.com.au/co-as-it-events.html

 The event:

The exhibition features memory keepers and artists including Wilma Tabacco, Sally Hederics, István Hederics, Elizabeth Presa, Anna Caione, , Rosina Byrne, Robert Marnika, Luci Callipari-Marcuzzo and Marcello D’Amico.

 SAILING INTO HISTORY: Displacements and Arrivals is the latest of a series of site specific exhibitions produced by Multicultural Arts Victoria under the umbrella of What Happened at the Pier, with the intention of telling and honouring stories of migration by and about people who left everything behind and disembarked at Port Melbourne to make a permanent home in Australia.

 These stories and these works of art invite us to gain a deeper understanding of the social, cultural, economic and political dimensions of the lives of the memory keepers whom we honor and celebrate with this exhibition. This exercise is significant now more than ever, when these stories of displacement, migration and successful resettlement may provide us with some sort of handle, both emotional and conceptual, to come to grips with the often dramatic migration issues of our times.

Multicultural Arts Victoria takes pride in its record of discovery, development and promotion of our cultural diversity, heritage and cultural expression.It is in the awareness that community connections are pathways for peaceful, inclusive societies, that Multicultural Arts Victoria sought the collaboration and support of the Museo Italiano (Co.As.It.) to research, document and display this exhibition.