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A site-specific multi-disciplinary art project including dance, music, visual art and soundscape. This multifaceted project honours the spirits of Japanese migrants buried in Australia.
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The music for CHIKA was composed by Thomas Fitzgerald, with one exquisite work, the Koto Solo by Satsuki Odamura. This unusual collaboration of instruments featuring koto, shakuhachi, wadaiko, acoustic and electric violin and keyboards, blends live music and pre recorded acoustic and electronic sounds with a unique result. It is the sum of these myriad combinations of a surreal reality that have become CHIKA's musical world. The Chika soundtrack can be purchased through the Chika Website.
 Secrets of Sardinia’s Centenarians
by Ben Hills, photographs by Mayu Kanamori
In the middle of the Mediterranean Sea lies a small, remote rocky island which for millennia has been the battleground for the competing empires of the Phoenicians, the Cartheginians, the Romans, Catalans, and the Ottoman Turks. Today, Sardinia is best known as a peaceful sun-drenched holiday destination where in summer new invading hordes of Northern Europeans descend to enjoy the lobster, the lazy lifestyle and the sandy coves of the Costa Smeralda, the Aga Khan’s billionaires’resort. But there is another reason why this magical place has attracted attention from the world’s leading scientists: the people of Sardinia are among the longest-lived on earth – three times as likely to reach the remarkable milestone of 100 as the English, Americans, Australians or almost anyone else on earth.
The Island of the Ancients is published August 1st by Pier 9, an imprint of Murdoch Books, in Australia and the United Kingdom. It will also be published in Brazil by Editora Prumo later this year.
by Siobhán McHugh
Photographs by Mayu Kanamori
An anthology of oral histories of past and present public housing tenants in New South Wales.
Gerald Stone's best-selling, ‘Who Killed Channel 9?‘, included Shelter from the Storm in its select the bibliography, referring to Siobhan McHugh's extended interview with the elusive media mogul John Alexander, who grew up in public housing in Turramurra, northern Sydney, and rarely grants personal interviews. Due to resulting demand, Shelter from the Storm is now available to download online through eBooks.com
'exploding the stereotypes of people in social housing'. Sydney Morning Herald
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