Wan Solwora pre-show cooking demonstration/performance

I GIR

COOKING DEMONSTRATION / PERFORMANCE

TOURED AND PRESENTED BY KULTOUR

Lisa Hilli and her mother Cathy Hilli guide and demonstrate a celebratory feast melding Australian and Papua New Guinean cultures, where members of the public participate in the preparation, cooking and eating of I Gir, a traditional vegetable and chicken dish cooked in banana leaves with hot river stones and served with rice. Literally meaning 'to steam with hot stones' I Gir is a traditional Tolais dish from Papua New Guinea . While much of the time consuming food preparation will be done in advance of the demonstration participants are encouraged to try scraping coconuts, softening banana leaves and assisting Cathy in other aspects of the process. Then participants sit down and share I Gir with Lisa and Cathy.

“As a critical focal point of this project, I feel it is important to maintain my cultural inheritances and continue to practice them even if they are not truly in the traditional sense. By applying these cultural histories and traditions through a contemporary context, I believe my ideas and knowledge of my New Guinean culture are being delivered in a way that appeals to an audience within popular culture yet fulfils my needs to maintain my specific New Guinean / Australian individuality”.

Lisa Hilli, Artist: Make sure you don’t miss out on seeing Lisa’s exhibition, Just Like Home, in The Well, Brisbane Powerhouse from Wednesday 31 March – Sunday 11 April. Just Like Home is an exhibition, a meal, a film and a biography, which explores artist Lisa’s Hilli’s New Guinean and Australian heritage.

Wan Solwora featuring George Telek, David Bridie and Band and the Narasirato Pan Pipers from the Solomon Islands will commence at 7.30pm in the Powerhouse Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse.

Planet is the Brisbane Powerhouse dedicated world music and dance program. This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. This is a Kultour presentation developed in partnership with Multicultural Arts Victoria and BEMAC with the assistance of the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

DATE Wednesday 31 March 2010 TIME 6pm – 7.15pm

VENUE Plaza (outside the main building near the entrance), Brisbane Powerhouse

CAPACITY Maximum 25 participants – however people are free to watch and learn!

BOOKING tanyahirokom@brisbanepowerhouse.org