Critical Times

LEICHHARDT TOWN HALL (Sydney,Australia)
& the Evening Benefit for “Friends of Maliana” FROM 6PM-11PM

(1) MORNING FILM FESTIVAL ON PEACE THEME.......9.30am-12.30pm… free entry
There will be Anti-Nuke films – # “Nowhere Here in The Middle” (about proposed nuclear waste dump at Muckety in the Northern Territory-Nuclear waste dump) and

1. “Blowing in The Wind” (David Bradbury’s controversial documentary from Frontline Films about US Navy use of depleted uranium shells in weaponry and potential radiation fallout over Australia and elsewhere)

and….two documentaries on war resisters inside the US ArmyŠ

#”Yes Sir! No Sir!” and # “FTA” -”Free The Army” (a 1970s roving documentary involving Joan Fonda, Donald Sutherland and the Vietnam Veterans Against The War)

1. Film footage on Timor Leste and West Papua,

(2) 1pm – 2.30pm .. “Open Forum on Film, War, Peace and The Visual Arts”.

Speakers include ….

1. Ret. Lt-Col LANCE COLLINS (former head of Military Intelligence under INTERFET),
2. MAX WATTS (co-author of book on “Resistance Inside The Army”),
3. Natalie Wasley (Beyond Nuclear Initiative – uranium project co-ordinator)
4. Rob Wesley-Smith (Leading Timor, Peace and Anti-Nuclear campaigner from Darwin , Northern Territory
5. John Maynard Producer of “Balibo” the feature movie soon to be releqased by Arenafilm (with Anthony La Plagia and Ross Hannaford from Daddy Cool on the soundtrack…how Aussie is that?)

(3) FREE ART EXHIBITION…. A RETROSPECTIVE OF WAR PAINTINGS FROM AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ AND TIMOR LESTE… by GEORGE GITTOES will be on display for the complete day. CALLING ALL other ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS….a “Peace Not War” INSTANT artworks/photo display throughout the day (24/4/09 LEICHHARDT TOWN HALL)...contact us beforehand re artwork.

(4) 5pm-5.45pm a replay of speeches by the late Paddy Kenneally and the late Denis Kevans ON BIG SCREEN …..

All this BEFORE (5)....the evening Benefit for “Friends of Maliana” 6PM-11PM…ENDA KENNY, THE LURKERS, SONIA BENNETT, MARGARET WALTERS, CASS EAGER, DENIS AUBREY, JOHN WARNER, BOB AND MARGARET FAGAN, DENIS RICE, YOTA KRILI, JENNY NIXON, SIOBHAN MCHUGH, MORE….tickets at door from 4.45pm…$25/$15 concession….Money to Council projects in Maliana.

Please let everyone know about this event…. Speakers include retired Lieutenant-Colonel Lance Collins (on the Australian Army and Anzacs), Consul-General for Timor Leste Abel Guterres (on “Friends of Maliana”), Jack Mundey (on Denis Kevans the “Poet Lorikeet”), Sister Josephine Mitchell/Mary MacKillop East Timor (on the late Paddy Kenneally, 2/2nd Commandoes), Rob Wesley-Smith (on Timor Leste, Justice, Interfet -10 Years On, etc)