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Australian embassy to host indigenous cultural festival

INDONESIA: The Australian Embassy in Jakarta will be celebrating Australia Day with an Australian Indigenous Cultural Film and Art Festival to be held at the Blitzmegaplex Grand Indonesia shopping center this week

(The Jakarta Post)
Tue, January 20, 2009

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NDONESIA: The Australian Embassy in Jakarta will be celebrating Australia Day with an Australian Indigenous Cultural Film and Art Festival to be held at the Blitzmegaplex Grand Indonesia shopping center this week.

The festival, which runs on Jan. 22 to 26, will feature an exhibition of indigenous West Australian artwork and five heralded indigenous films including Ten Canoes, The Tracker, Yolngu Boy, Rabbit Proof Fence and Australian Rules.

Two indigenous artists from the remote Warlayirti Art Center are to accompany their artwork to Indonesia, the embassy's media officer Amanda Mitchener said.

She said she anticipated this would be the biggest event of the In2oz cultural diplomacy program bringing Australian art and culture to Indonesia:expect it's going to be huge". -- JP/David Stone-Resneck

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