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 The Adelaide Festival Centre's
OzAsia Festival 2008
presents
CHIKA is a multi-layered production which crosses the genres of journalism, visual and performing arts, incorporating original live music, dance and narration, documentary images, archival video and recorded interviews to tell a story - the story of Chika Honda, a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian jails for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit.
Symposium with Mayu Kanamori, Creator/Producer CHIKA
20 September, Banquet Hall, Adelaide Festival Centre
CHIKA: A Documentary Performance
26th and 27th September 2008
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
The music for CHIKA was composed by Thomas Fitzgerald, with one exquisite work, the Koto Solo by Satsuki Odamura.
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 CD can be purchased through the Chika Website.
Disturbing Elements
Creative Development with
Rakini Devi, Kenny Feather and Mayu Kanamori
Supported by Australia Council Dance Board, Rakini Devi undertook her first Melbourne based Creative Development Project entitled "Disturbing Elements".
The project culminated in a public showing at The Carlton Courthouse on 30 June & 1 July, 2008.
On tour with Buzz Dance Theatre
School/Community Residencies in the North West, WA with Artistic Director, Felicity Bott, Sete Tele, Adam Ventour, Rachel Ogle, Josh Mu, David Lloyd, Sharlene Campbell, and Mayu Kanamori. 26 May - 7 June, 2008
The Chika website has moved, please visit the new domain at chika.asia
Chika
This is the story of Chika Honda.
Chika is a real person. She is a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian jails for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit. She was one of a Japanese tour group who were arrested for importation of heroin in 1992. She was released on parole in November 2002 and is now living in Japan.
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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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