Exhibition launch: Yumi fasem taet [We hold on tight]

Exhibition launch: Yumi fasem taet [We hold on tight]

A collection of photographs made by 10 migrants to Port Vila, documenting how they make the city home.

Date and time

Wednesday, October 23 · 3:30 - 4:30pm AEDT

Location

Room 146 Glyn Davis Building (MSD)

Masson Road Parkville, VIC 3010 Australia

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

This is an in-person event only.

Join us for food and discussion to launch the photovoice exhibition, Yumi fasem taet [We hold on tight], a collection of photographs made by 10 migrants to Vanuatu’s capital city, Port Vila. The photographers document the various ways that migrants, known in the national language Bislama as man kam, find ways to make the city feel like home by relating to land.

The launch of Yumi fasem taet will be held in the Glyn Davis Building (MSD) in Room 146 and the exhibition itself will be next door in the Baldwin Spencer Building until March 2025. The exhibition will be repeated at the Vanuatu National Museum in November 2024.

The project is a collaboration between University of Melbourne researchers Sebastian Salay and A/Prof Jennifer Day and Vivian Obed and Prescila Meto from Port Vila-based arts organisation, Further Arts. It forms part of Day's ARC Discovery Project Communities, Kava, Court Orders: The Ways of Possessing the Pacific City. This exhibition is supported by an ABP Research Outreach Grant.

Getting to University of Melbourne by car or public transport

Room 146 is on Level 1 of the Glyn Davis Building, accessible by lift or stairs.

Please contact Sebastian with any dietary or accessibility requirements (sebastian.antoine[at]unimelb.edu.au).

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