Chinese Heritage Association of Australia Inc.
News
Welcome to the Year of the Dragon
Gung Hee Fat Choy. A Happy New Year to all.
May your wishes come true in the Year of the Dragon.
Our first Chinese New Year event Tales from a camphorwood chest: a Chinese-Australian family story, as presented by Claudia Chan Shaw, was a wonderful start to our activities for 2012. So popular was this event that it is being repeated:
Claudia Chan Shaw’s “Tales from a Camphorwood Chest – A Chinese Australian Family Story”.
REPEAT PRESENTATION.
Sat 18 Feb 2012 2-4pm Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney. $15/$10 members.
Bookings: Kathie 4861 3078 0438 211 339 dblunt@bigpond.net.au
Other CHAA events:
Wed Jan 25 “Chinese New Year Traditions” Angeline Oyang 12:15-1pm Customs House Library. Cost: FREE. Bookings essential on 9242 8555, cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/library
Mon Jan 30 “Feng Shui” Fen Ingersole Chinese Garden of Friendship 2-3pm.
Wed Feb 1 “Feng Shui” at Custom House Library. Two sessions 10:30am & 12 noon.Cost: FREE. Bookings essential on 9242 8555.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/library.
Australasian Art & Stageworks: This year, in addition to the CHAA events I am also involved with 4 events by AASI. For more details, see CNY Festival program or www.australasianartandstageworks.com.
Fri Jan 27 – 2 entertaining short films “The Last Chip” and “Mooncake & Crab” 6:30pm SMSA. $8 (incl refreshments) Bookings 0417 655 233 lowekelley@bigpond.com
* Wed Feb 1 “The Quiet Brother – Meet the Cast” 8-9pm Customs House Library L2 Reading Room. Cost: FREE. Bookings essential on 9242 8555.
* Feb 23-26 “The Quiet Brother” season at the Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre. Bookings: Belvoir Box Office 9699 34444. www.belvoir.com.au/productions-1/the-quiet-brother.
* Sat 4 Feb – Sat 10 Mar. “Women Who Speak” Nancy Ma ceramics exhibition 10am-5pm Mon-Sat. Hong Kong House 80 Druitt St (Opposite Sydney Town Hall). Cost: FREE.
The La Perouse heritage-listed Chinese market gardens are back in the news with SMH story “Growing vegies becomes a question of life and death” on Saturday 7 January. Your continued support is needed to fight the Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park Trust’s attempt to acquire this land. See www.laperousemarketgardens.wordpress.com.
May the upcoming Year of the Dragon bring peace, progress and prosperity to all.
Daphne Lowe Kelley
President, CHAA
Vice President, AASI
0417 655 233
Holiday Greetings to members and friends.
We have had a productive year and now look forward to this continuing into 2012 the Year of the Dragon.
Take a look at our upcoming events for the Chinese New Year Festival – Book early, don’t miss out. Full program of all events can be found on the City of Sydney website.
If you have not been out to the Parramatta Heritage Centre, 346A Church Street, to see the exhibition “From Canton with Courage; Australian Chinese in Parramatta and Beyond” do so these holidays, exhibition runs to 11 March 2012.
Enjoy the festive season.
Daphne Lowe Kelley
President
Chinese Heritage Association of Australia.
MEDIA RELEASE from Andrew Woodhouse, President, Australian Heritage Institute.
Tuesday 6th December, 2011 - 11:00pm
Ph 0415 949 506
Randwick Council pushes ahead with rezoning heritage-listed Chinese Market Gardens, Philip Bay, La Perouse.
Proposals by the Cemetery Trust, a state-owned entity to have the state heritage-listed Chinese market gardens rezoned as "special uses" is kleptocracy, not democracy," Andrew Woodhouse, president of the AHI said tonight after Randwick Council's Planning Committee decided to go ahead and publicly exhibit the proposed Local Environmental [LEP] with the market gardens site to be zoned RU4, agricultural small lots adding: "it would have stolen the current users' rights to run their business.
"This is a victory for sustainability and heritage," Woodhouse says.
The RU4 zoning will allow the market gardens to continue a 130 year-old continuous use, although the uses of the site for general farming date back to the 1840s.
Councillor Andrews' proposal to rezone the site, at the last minute with nay notification for "special uses", for cemetery uses only, was defeated.
Andrew Woodhouse
President
Australian Heritage Institute.
Saving our past for the future.
Ph 0415 949 506
CHAA Media Release - La Perouse Market Gardens.
Wednesday 12th December, 2011 - CHAA Media Release re Chinese Market Gardens Phillip Bay, Le Perouse.
U.S. Senate apologises to the Chinese.
On 6 October 2011 the U.S. Senate approved a resolution apologizing for the nation's past discriminatory laws against Chinese immigrants.
A similar resolution is pending in the U.S. House of Representatives.
See link below to LA Times story (also many other similar articles can be found on the internet):
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/10/us-senate-apologizes-for-mistreatment-of-chinese-immigrants.html
The Chinese Heritage Association of Australia is thrilled to learn this and we will be working to obtain a similar apology from the Australian government.
Daphne Lowe Kelley
President.
CHAA Media Releases.
Exciting year planned for CHAA’s 10th Anniversary:
Media Release in English.
Media Release in Chinese.
CHAA 2012 Committee:
Media Release in English/Chinese.
CHAA AGM & Dinner 6 October 2011.
Notice of 2011 Annual General Meeting.
Accompanying this notice:
1. Nomination Form for the 2011-2012 Committee – to be received by 29 September 2011;
2. Form of appointment of Proxy – to be received no later than 24 hours before the time of meeting;
3.Agenda.
Download the Nomination Form, Proxy Form and Agenda here.
We look forward to seeing you at the CHAA AGM & Dinner on Thursday 6 October 2011.
Daphne Lowe Kelley
President.
Chinese Australian History and Heritage Exhibition.
Media releases for the Chinese Australian History and Heritage Exhibition:
| English Language version. | Chinese Language version. |
Parramatta Lord Mayor John Chedid opens Chinese Australian exhibition. From left Mimi Kwok, Jack Brook, Lord Mayor John Chedid, Daphne Lowe Kelley and Louisa Cheung.
CHAA President’s Update 30 July 2011.
News update from CHAA President Daphne Lowe Kelly.
Lambing Flat Remembrance.
I wrote the article below as a remembrance piece for the 150th anniversary of the terrible anti-Chinese riots and attack that occurred on the goldfields of Lambing Flat on 30 June 1861. It was published in the Sydney Morning Herald and just about every other newspaper in the country, resulting in many media interviews including a piece on SBS TV News.
Media have given this a twist by saying it is a demand for an apology. I make no demands but an apology for the discriminatory legislation that affected the Chinese for nearly 120 years would be welcome and bring closure to this sad period of Australia’s history.
A copy of my original article is available here: Lambing Flat Remembrance: Righting Wrongs.
Newspaper article links:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/chinese-australians-call-for-an-apology-20110629-1gr1t.html
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/chinese-australians-owed-apology-for-discrimination-against-forebears-20110629-1gr05.html
Here is another piece that coincidentally ran on SBS Radio with presenter Ron Sutton:
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1567163/Loon-Wong-waits-for-an-apology#display_comments
Daphne Lowe Kelley.
President.
Meet the Premier
CHAA president Daphne Lowe Kelley and vice president Cheryl Cumines with NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell at the morning tea, on 1 July 2011, for representatives from the Chinese Community.
CHAA News Update 30 May 2011.
To: CHAA Members and friends.
From: Daphne Lowe Kelley, CHAA President.
lowekelley@bigpond.com 0417 655 233
Hard to believe but this year is just flying by (always does when one is busy) and we are already preparing events for 2012, the Year of the Dragon.
1. We started the Year of the Rabbit with four very successful CHAA City of Sydney Chinese New Year Festival associated events: Chinese New Year Traditions talk by Angeline Oyang, two talks on Feng Shui by Fen Ingersole, Jack Brook introduced his recently published book From Canton with Courage and we screened the beautiful and moving silent 1931 movie The Peach Girl accompanied by evocative live music.
2. This was an especially busy time for me as I was also one of the storytellers in Performance 4a’s Stories East & West with performances at the Riverside Theatre Parramatta and the Belvoir Street Downstairs Theatre.
3. CHAA was well represented when Kathie Blunt joined Susan Leong and me on the City of Sydney’s Living in Harmony Festival Chinese Cultural Days Steering Committee. Chinese Cultural Days 2011 took place at the Darling Harbour Chinese Garden of Friendship on the 13 and 14 April. CHAA organised two events a demonstration of Chinese Opera Make-up and Costumes by Gabrielle Chan and talks on Feng Shui by Fen Ingersole assisted by two colleagues. Thanks also to Marilyn Dooley, Mimi Kwok, Rose Boutin, Ruby Zhou and Denise Lau who helped as volunteers.
4. Performances (Lion and other dances) were also organised by CHAA for Randwick City Council’s Harmony Day Concert at La Perouse on 20 March 2011 but unfortunately the concert was cancelled due to inclement weather.
5. CHAA members (Marilyn Dooley, Helen Fong, Wendy Hee and Daphne Lowe Kelley) presented papers at the CCCA National Conference (9 and 10 April) Finding the Chinese Australian Voice. The conference was officially opened by The Hon. Senator Penny Wong, Minister for Finance and Deregulation.
6. On the weekend of 16 & 17 April, a coach load of CHAA and CWA (Chinese Women’s Association) members and friends visited Young and Harden-Murrumburrah (Lambing Flat 150th Anniversary Commemorative Coach Tour) which was holding its Lambing Flat Festival. In addition to seeing and learning about some of the significant historical sites and events, a ‘Bai Shan’ ceremony was held at the Murrumburrah Cemetery for Chinese buried there long ago and a special play The Quiet Brother, written and directed by Ivy Mak, was performed for the first time at the Murrumburrah Showground.
Photos: Courtesy William Yang
7. Many thanks to Sally and Winnie Pang, whose family owned the China Modern Café, for their donations of ornaments which have been used as presentation gifts for the above activities and events.
8.Upcoming Events:
11 June 2011 (Sat) 2pm, SMSA Lambing Flat: Past Present and Future – Book now – Joint CHAA/CWA event – see Upcoming Events for full details.
23 July 2011 to 11 March 2012 From Canton with Courage exhibition (official launch 6 August). Parramatta Heritage Centre is partnering with Jack Brook on this and CHAA will also assist. (Important request: In order to supplement Jack’s work, which basically relates to the 19th century, additional information on 20th century and contemporary Chinese Australians who live, work, lived or worked, or had a special connection to the Parramatta region and its community is sought – this involves stories and/or photographs and objects. Please advise anyone you know who might fit this category.)
3 September 2011 (Sat) CHAA’s History Week event Saving the La Perouse Chinese Market Gardens – this year’s theme is EAT History. Guest speaker – Christa Ludlow, National Trust (NSW) Landscapes Advocacy Committee member.
5 October 2011 (Wed) CHAA AGM and Dinner (details later).
9.Current Projects
Chinese Australian Women’s Stories – more stories needed for joint project with Jessie Street National Women’s Library
Threaded Stories Project – This 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art project with artist Liyen Chong started last year. New participants wanted for new series of workshops beginning Sunday 12 June 2012 1- 4pm (Contact Simon Soon, Community Projects Officer or Mi Sim 4A Project Intern 9212 0380)
10. Welcome to new members: Geoff Douglas, Peter Hee, Sybil Jack
2011 NSW Premier’s Chinese Community Service Awards.
Daphne Lowe Kelley, winner of the “Jack Wong Sue Award for Voluntary Service Beyond the Chinese Community” being presented with her award by the NSW Premier the Hon. Kristina Keneally at Government House on 8 February 2011.
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Winners of the 2011 NSW Premier’s Chinese Community Service Awards.
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“CHINESE IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS”
You are invited to the Colloquium and the evening Seminar on “Chinese in Australian Politics” on the Wednesday, 8 September 2010.
1) University of Technology , Sydney , China and the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centres will be conducting a free Colloquium at UTS on the Wednesday, 8 September 2010 from 9 am to 5 pm at UTS. Light refreshments will be provided.
Venue: UTS, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre Conference Room Level 3, 645 Harris St, Ultimo.
The coverage will include: 12 sessions on Community Organisation, Scoping the Research Field, Leadership and Social and Political Impact.
You must register no later than 1 September 2010 by contacting: claire.moore@uts.edu.au
2) Chinese Australian Forum and the University of Technology China and the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centres will be holding a Dinner Seminar (Q and A format) on “Chinese in Australian Politics” at the Emperor’s Garden Restaurant, 100 Hay Street , Chinatown (Cnr Hay and Dixon ) on Wednesday 8 September 2010 at 6.30 pm.
Chairperson:
Prof Stephen Fitzgerald (Former Ambassador for China ).
Panel Members:
Clr Justin Li (Independent-Ryde), Clr Marc Receretnam (Greens-Ashfield), Dr Peter Wong (Former MLC and Founder of Unity Party), Clr Lo Jieh-Yung (Labor-City of Monash) tbc, Clr Henson Liang (Liberal-Burwood), Mr Francis Lee (Media) and Prof Wanning Sun (UTS).
Cost is $25 and $15 for F/T Students and persons over 65. Booking is essential.
Details of the 2 events are in the attached flyer: Chinese in Australian Politics Colloquium.pdf
For further information contact:
Prof. Andrew Jakubowicz of UTS - Mobile 0419 821 102
Mr Anthony Pang, President, Chinese Australian Forum - Mobile 0414 512 027
CHAA president Daphne Lowe Kelley at the recent media conference for the "Chinese in Australian Politics" colloquium. Daphne and Dr Anthony Pun will be presenting a paper titled "The psyche of the Chinese community in Australian party politics."
Saving the heritage-listed Chinese Market Gardens at La Perouse.
Chinese community leaders were shocked to learn about a plan to resume 60% of the heritage-listed Chinese Market Gardens at La Perouse, which was presented by representatives from the adjacent Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park Botany Cemetery, at a Chinese Community Consultations meeting on 26 July 2010, organised by the Community Relations Commission and the Land and Property Management Authority...Click to read CHAA's full media release.
Media Coverage:
Sydney Morning Herald article - Endangered species of farmer could be pushing up daisies.
Sydney Morning Herald - Letters to the Editor, 31/07/2010.
ABC News Article - Cemetery spells death for Sydney market garden.
Media Release from historian Pauline Curby re loss of Market Gardens: Proposed resumption of heritage-listed market gardens.
Media release from Andrew Woodhouse, President, Australian Heritage Institute: State Government moves to evict Chinese market gardeners at historic La Perouse site and downgrade heritage based on hidden report. Calls for Kristina Keneally to intervene.
CHAA congratulates CAF on its 25th Anniversary.
Senator Penny Wong, Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water, was the guest of honour at the Chinese Australian Forum's 25th Anniversary Dinner, held at the Marigold Restaurant on 9 July 2010. The Chinese Heritage Association of Australia was one of the supporting organisations and a number of CHAA members were present including president Daphne Lowe Kelley, treasurer Kathie Blunt, Susan Leong, Colin and Shirley Lum, Marilyn Dooley, Libby Wong and Mimi Kwok.
