Guinness Book Record Holder for origami crane folding, artist Hiromi Ashlin from the Happy Bird Project visited Cowra in March 2014 as part of the Cowra Canowindra Community / Civilian Internment Arts Project and conducted a series of origami crane folding workshops. Hiromi visited th

Documentation excerpt Artists: Weizen Ho, Alan Schacher, Shigeki Sano, Ria Soemardjo, Bianca Reggio, Lauren Townsend; Video: David Hansen with Jack Warren Ceremonial Performance was part of the Cowra Civilian Internment Program’s commemorative ceremony for civilian internees bur

On the 1st of October, the participants of the Movement and Voice workshop enjoyed a variety of leading / following activities at a range of levels of difficulty and ease. After this, we sat down talking about our family histories to make a poetic song / chant as part of the video we

On Wednesday the 2nd of October, I participated in a movement and voice workshop. We warmed up with vocal exercises and physical activities. We then continued with writing our own texts for when we start filming. Even though I hadn’t attended any other workshop, I could still pa

Voice and Movement workshop with Weizen Ho and Alan Schacher began last week. Posted by Mayu Kanamori Photos by Mayu Kanamori

David was excellent at determining the level of understanding of each student and pitching his comments and instructions to these various levels. Also his knowledge of the film industry is absolutely top rate and hence his instruction was very relevant and very valuable. I came to the

Read the Cowra Community news “A story born in the shadows”   Listen to interview with Jumaadi  The venue  was packed at the Council Shopfront last Friday night as Jumaadi and his team presented their work Sounds of Flapping Bird The Gamelan Maker, Shadow on the Wooden Wal

Last week, myself and about 8 people (from all walks of life) were wondering the streets of Cowra armed with some camera gear and a desire to record an important (and much overlooked) part of Australian history; the imprisonment of foreign civilians (Japanese, Indonesian, Italian and

Today at the start of our program we constructed the questions for our interviews later in the day. After about an hour or so we left to go to the cemetery. We interviewed Yuriko at the Cowra cemetery and it was a bit of a funny day because it was sunny than it wasn’t. So we had to al

Today was the first day of the week long workshop. We leant how the camera works and how to use all the sound and lighting equipment. I really enjoyed it as it furthered my knowledge with using these vital elements of film and documentary. The rest of the week should be a blast. IR