Casa Cultura

Cooking up a Convo with Jaime Wilson
2019-02-28 18:30 - 20:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Cooking up a Convo with Jaime Wilson – Immigrant Theatre
In Australia the concept of migration is part of our daily vocabulary. Jaime Wilson discusses the distinction between immigrant and universal art, drawing on his own vast experience as a migrant and theatre person. As historian Robert Harney pointed out, immigrant theatre, more than any other institution, served to “affirm the existence of ethnic community.”

About Jaime
Jaime Wilson has worked as an actor, drama teacher and theatre director for more than 40 years in Chile as well as Australia. As an actor he performed in important theatre productions in Chile. In Australia he has directed several plays and theatre groups, and teaches Drama in High Schools. Jaime has travelled extensively throughout South America researching how theatre is produced in different communities and geographies. In Melbourne he formed “The Bridge, Teatro Latino”, a theatre company whose aims are to produce theatre that represents the view and the spirit of the Latin American people.

Thursday, February 28 at 6:30pm

Upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective

Tickets through www.trybooking.com/BARAG

$30 (Dinner and convo)

$10 (Just convo)

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In support Alisha’s Café Collective‘s aim of creating happier people and Casa Cultura’s mission of nurturing a collaborative and connected community that embraces and celebrates diversity, we are partnering to offer a series of conversations with inspirational people that bring their knowledge and experience to contribute to our health, confidence, creativity and wellbeing.

These events will be hosted over dinner, upstairs at Alisha’s, in a relaxed environment making them not at all a lecture, but more of a table-side conversation where questions, retorts and insights are more than welcome.

Dinner your choice of plate (see below) and a cup of chai.

East of the Middle Plate

Flavours from India and its surrounds including rice, curries, roti, spicy pickles and seasonal spiced besan battered veggies.

Middle of the East Plate

Gateaux Piment (Mauritian chili cake), brown lentil rice, seasonal Moroccan spiced veggies, haloumi cheese, warm pita bread, baba ganoush, hommus and besan floured veggies.

West of the Middle Plate

Deep fried polenta, mushroom rago, pesto roast pumpkin, balsamic Caprisi salad, pasta salad with chili oil, grated zucchini and parmesan, lentil Bolognese sauce and antipasti bits with crusty garlic bread.

Brazilian Warrior Dance with Zulmara
2019-02-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
A workshop to connect women with their ancestors through dance. A powerful movement of transformation and awareness about the integration of the parts of the women: the feminine, the mother and the professional.
Brazilian Warrior Dance is a new experiential process that seeks to transform women through the body action of dance at the spiritual level leading to personal growth. Leading and reaching for new insights with the overcoming of barriers to convey the ancestral feminine knowledge.
It is a unique blend of dance, Brazilian rhythms and a transformational process to reach your Ancestral Feminine Principle. It enables women to access ancient wisdom, healing and new clarity to meet the future with courage, strength and knowledge, so no matter what, we women know The Truth: “I AM WOMAN, I AM INVINCIBLE”
About Zulmara
Zulmara Camargo is a physical education and dance teacher. She also is a Systemic Therapy facilitator certified in the therapeutic method of “Family Constellation”, discovered by Bert Hellinger.
Wednesday, February 27th
6:30pm–8:30pm
Tickets: $25 at the door
Presales: $20 through trybooking.com/BAUMY
For more information visit fourhandsbodytherapies.com

Wayapa Wuurrk Introductory Workshop
2019-02-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Wayapa, is an Indigenous practice to help individuals re-connect with themselves, their spirit and the Earth.

Come along and spend an evening with certified practitioner Allara as she introduces and explains the 14 elements of Wayapa and how to re-reconnect with Mother Earth. Allara shares stories and knowledge based on her Yorta Yorta culture as well as give you an opportunity to experience the physical practise, (an Indigenous modality similar to Tia Chi/Yoga but based on connecting to the Earth).
About Allara
Allara has been a certified and practicing Wayapa Wuurrk-er since the inaugural diploma intake in 2016. Wayapa Wuurrk means Connect Country – in Gunditjmara and Gunnai Kurnai language. She delivers a unique Wayapa experience for anyone wanting to become more connected to the Earth through sharing stories about her connection to country based on her knoledge of Yorta Yorta Country and Culture, she gives advice for others on how to take care of the earth, inherently healing both country and ourselves.
Wednesday, February 6th
6:00pm–8:00pm
$15 through eventbrite.com.au
For more information visit nyiniwoka.com

Taller de escritura creativa/catártica con Cloé Karagozlu
2019-01-31 18:30 - 20:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Un taller de escritura creativa para quien tenga ganas de escribir, expresarse, leer, etc. Algunos poemas, lápiz y papel. ¡No se necesita nada más! Solo ganas. Al principio de cada clase, vamos a leer una selección de poemas y después vamos a escribir a partir de una consigna que funcione como disparador.
Sobre Cloé Karagozlu
Cloé escribe para desentrañar y entender. Para vomitar palabras y nadar en la claridad. Escribe desde que tiene memoria, en blogs que ahora nadan perdidos en la galaxia digital y en cuadernos de hojas blancas, sin líneas ni estructuras. Realizó varios talleres de escritura en Buenos Aires, con Liliana Costa Staksrud, Santiago Llach y Juli Troielli, con quien empezó a sumergirse en la poesía. Hoy, desde Melbourne, escribe tentempiés diarios en una cuenta de instagram, ya no sabemos qué tan secreta: @araxie___
Upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective, 313 Lygon St. Brunswick East
Jueves 31 de enero, 6:30-8:00
$15
Bookings essential through www.trybooking.com/BACCA

Song Appetit with Carlos Meza
2019-01-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Wednesday 30/1 – 6:30pm
Song Appetit with Carlos Meza
In this series, a fabulous musician joins us for dinner and gives us an intimate opportunity to hear their story, their journey and their music…
This week’s guest will be Carlos Meza, a singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist who blends many different influences and rhythms into his very unique and peculiar sound: a fusion of a notorious Latin flavours that address issues of social struggle and transmits messages of freedom, peace, love and unity.
Born into a “Vallenato” (traditional Colombian style of music) family in Valledupar, Colombia, Carlos learned from a very young age to play percussion instruments as well as singing. In Australia since 2013, he now leads Meza, his eponymous original music project set to release its first studio album in February 2019.
Wednesday, January 30th
6:30pm – 8:30pm
$10 or $30 (inc. dinner)
Tickets through www.trybooking.com/BADLD
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In support of Alisha’s Café Collective’s aim of creating happier people and Casa Cultura’s mission of nurturing a collaborative and connected community that embraces and celebrates diversity, and in partnership with The Boite, the Song Appetit series seeks to bring community and artists closer together.
These events will be hosted over dinner, upstairs at Alisha’s, in a relaxed environment making them not just a concert, but more of a table-side conversation where questions, retorts and insights are more than welcome.
Tickets:
$30 (Dinner and convo)
$10 (Just convo)
Dinner includes your choice of plate and a cup of chai.
East of the Middle Plate
Flavours from India and its surrounds including rice, curries, roti, spicy pickles and seasonal spiced besan battered veggies.
Middle of the East Plate
Gateaux Piment (Mauritian chili cake), brown lentil rice, seasonal Moroccan spiced veggies, haloumi cheese, warm pita bread, baba ganoush, hommus and besan floured veggies.
West of the Middle Plate
Deep fried polenta, mushroom rago, pesto roast pumpkin, balsamic Caprisi salad, pasta salad with chili oil, grated zucchini and parmesan, lentil Bolognese sauce and antipasti bits with crusty garlic bread.

Spanish through Song with Ximena Abarca
2019-01-30 16:30 - 17:30 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Spanish through Song is a workshop created to help kids learn Spanish through music in a fun and playful way. Using original songs, the workshop will teach children vocabulary as well as rhythm, team work and confidence. Recommended for children aged 5-12. Parents are encouraged to participate.
Ximena Abarca is a Chilean/Australian singer-songwriter whose career took off in 2003 when she won a TV singer’s contest in Chile. Since then she hasn’t stopped playing and recording. One of the highlights in her career was to be the voice over for Hi- 5 Latin America, as Kimmy, transmitted through Discovery Channel. Over the years her style has evolved from pop to world fusion sounds. Moving from Chile to Australia led her to bring to her music her roots and nostalgia of a faraway land.
Upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective, 313 Lygon St. Brunswick East
Wednesdays 4:30-5:30
Resumes Wednesday January 30th. Runs weekly until April 3.
Single session: $15 – term pass (10 sessions): $80
Bookings essential through www.trybooking.com/BACBS

Sound Bath Meditation
2019-01-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
You’re invited to sink into your yoga mat and receive the powerful healing frequencies of Tibetan singing bowls, gongs, drums and other instruments. An opportunity for you to unplug, relax and immerse yourself in a deeply meditative journey.
No two sound meditations are the same and everyone’s experience is different. A welcoming, cosy and safe space will be created for you to completely surrender to the vibrations and allow the sounds to take you wherever your mind, body and soul desires.
Whether this is your first time or you’re a seasoned meditator, absolutely everybody is welcome and able to reach a state of bliss.
Please ensure that you arrive at 6:50pm for 7:00pm start. Due to the nature of this event late admittance is not possible and booking in advance is essential.
Yoga mat and cushions will be provided.
What to bring?
– Water bottle
– Light blanket if weather is cooler
– Eye mask or something to cover your eyes
– A readiness to get completely chilled out

Wayapa Wuurrk Free Introductory Workshop
2019-01-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Wayapa, is an Indigenous practice to help individuals re-connect with themselves, their spirit and the Earth.

Come along and spend an evening with certified practitioner Allara as she introduces and explains the 14 elements of Wayapa and how to re-reconnect with Mother Earth. Allara shares stories and knowledge based on her Yorta Yorta culture as well as give you an opportunity to experience the physical practise, (an Indigenous modality similar to Tia Chi/Yoga but based on connecting to the Earth).
About Allara
Allara has been a certified and practicing Wayapa Wuurrk-er since the inaugural diploma intake in 2016. Wayapa Wuurrk means Connect Country – in Gunditjmara and Gunnai Kurnai language. She delivers a unique Wayapa experience for anyone wanting to become more connected to the Earth through sharing stories about her connection to country based on her knoledge of Yorta Yorta Country and Culture, she gives advice for others on how to take care of the earth, inherently healing both country and ourselves.
Wednesday, January 23rd
6:00pm-8:00pm
Free, but please register at eventbrite.com.au
For more information visit nyiniwoka.com

Song Appetit with Salvatore Rossano
2019-01-16 18:30 - 20:30 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Wednesday 16/1 – 6:30pm
Song Appetit with Salvatore Rossano
In this series, a fabulous musician joins us for dinner and gives us an intimate opportunity to hear their story, their journey and their music…
Our first guest will be Salvatore Rossano, composer, ethnomusicologist, accordionist and guitarist who grew up performing the music of Puglia and Basilicata. He leads the band Santa Taranta and is currently undertaking the ‘Sonu ’ project for the National Library of Australia to celebrate Italian folk music in Australia.
Wednesday, January 16th
6:30pm – 8:30pm
$10 or $30 (inc. dinner)
Tickets through www.trybooking.com/BADED
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In support of Alisha’s Café Collective’s aim of creating happier people and Casa Cultura’s mission of nurturing a collaborative and connected community that embraces and celebrates diversity, and in partnership with The Boite, the Song Appetit series seeks to bring community and artists closer together.
These events will be hosted over dinner, upstairs at Alisha’s, in a relaxed environment making them not just a show, but more of a tableside conversation where questions, retorts and insights are more than welcome.
Tickets:
$30 (Dinner and convo)
$10 (Just convo)
Dinner includes your choice of plate and a cup of chai.
East of the Middle Plate
Flavours from India and its surrounds including rice, curries, roti, spicy pickles and seasonal spiced besan battered veggies.
Middle of the East Plate
Gateaux Piment (Mauritian chili cake), brown lentil rice, seasonal Moroccan spiced veggies, haloumi cheese, warm pita bread, baba ganoush, hommus and besan floured veggies.
West of the Middle Plate
Deep fried polenta, mushroom rago, pesto roast pumpkin, balsamic Caprisi salad, pasta salad with chili oil, grated zucchini and parmesan, lentil Bolognese sauce and antipasti bits with crusty garlic bread.

Monday Night Yoga with Shari
2019-01-14 19:30 - 20:30 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Let’s move, play and explore the breath and shapes of our yoga asana practice.
Shari is a yoga practitioner that brings both playfulness and mindfulness to her classes and enjoys sharing her practice of yoga with all levels from newbies to gurus.
Mondays, 7:30-8:30pm
$15/$10 (at the door)
info: casacultura.org

Sunday Yin Yoga with Shari
2019-01-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Take your time, slow down and sink into your practice in this special Sunday morning all-level Yin Yoga class. Then stick around for lunch with the group and get to know everyone a bit more.
Shari is a yoga practitioner that brings both playfulness and mindfulness to her classes and enjoys sharing her practice of yoga with all levels from newbies to gurus.
Sunday January 13th
10:00am – 12:00am
Tickets $15/$10 from trybooking.com/BACMF
After the session, you are invited to stay and have lunch with the group and get to know everyone a bit more. Lunch includes your choice of plate and a cup of chai, tea or coffee.
East of the Middle Plate
Flavours from India and its surrounds including rice, curries, roti, spicy pickles and seasonal spiced besan battered veggies.
Middle of the East Plate
Gateaux Piment (Mauritian chili cake), brown lentil rice, seasonal Moroccan spiced veggies, haloumi cheese, warm pita bread, baba ganoush, hommus and besan floured veggies.
West of the Middle Plate
Deep fried polenta, mushroom rago, pesto roast pumpkin, balsamic Caprisi salad, pasta salad with chili oil, grated zucchini and parmesan, lentil Bolognese sauce and antipasti bits with crusty garlic bread.

Manifesting Mindfulness
2019-01-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Designed to bring like-minded beings together, this workshop delivers a unique combination of meditation, mindfulness tools and intention setting that will leave you feeling connected and inspired for the day and the week ahead. It will be a space to fine tune your magical manifesting skills and re-align with your authentic power as a creator.

About Stephanie
Stephanie is a bright light—a humble, humorous and powerful being who believes in the positive effects of energy, flow and transformation. A qualified lawyer, a prized world-ranked cheerleader and dancer, a marathoner, a singer, and currently an events and experiences guru, Stephanie wears many hats, but is most gifted at bringing the best out of others in her coaching sessions and through the events she hosts and creates.

Upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective, 313 Lygon St. Brunswick East
Saturday December 20, 6:30-8:00
Tickets: $15/$10 or ($35/$30 inc. lunch)
Bookings essential through www.trybooking.com/ZWPW

After the session, you are invited to stay and have lunch with all the participants and share insights into your experience. Lunch includes your choice of plate and a cup of chai, tea or coffee.

East of the Middle Plate
Flavours from India and its surrounds including rice, curries, roti, spicy pickles and seasonal spiced besan battered veggies.

Middle of the East Plate
Gateaux Piment (Mauritian chili cake), brown lentil rice, seasonal Moroccan spiced veggies, haloumi cheese, warm pita bread, baba ganoush, hommus and besan floured veggies.

West of the Middle Plate
Deep fried polenta, mushroom rago, pesto roast pumpkin, balsamic Caprisi salad, pasta salad with chili oil, grated zucchini and parmesan, lentil Bolognese sauce and antipasti bits with crusty garlic bread.

Taller de escritura creativa/catártica con Cloé Karagozlu
2018-12-20 18:30 - 20:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Un taller de escritura creativa para quien tenga ganas de escribir, expresarse, leer, etc. Algunos poemas, lápiz y papel. ¡No se necesita nada más! Solo ganas. Al principio de cada clase, vamos a leer una selección de poemas y después vamos a escribir a partir de una consigna que funcione como disparador.
Sobre Cloé Karagozlu
Cloé escribe para desentrañar y entender. Para vomitar palabras y nadar en la claridad. Escribe desde que tiene memoria, en blogs que ahora nadan perdidos en la galaxia digital y en cuadernos de hojas blancas, sin líneas ni estructuras. Realizó varios talleres de escritura en Buenos Aires, con Liliana Costa Staksrud, Santiago Llach y Juli Troielli, con quien empezó a sumergirse en la poesía. Hoy, desde Melbourne, escribe tentempiés diarios en una cuenta de instagram, ya no sabemos qué tan secreta: @araxie___
Upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective, 313 Lygon St. Brunswick East
Thursday December 20, 6:30-8:00
$15
Bookings essential through www.trybooking.com/ZWOM

Sunday Yin Yoga
2018-12-09 17:30 - 18:30 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Sunday Yin Yoga: Let’s take our time, slow down and sink into our practice.
Yoga with Shari: Shari is a yoga practitioner that brings both playfulness and mindfulness to her classes and enjoys sharing her practice of yoga with all levels from newbies to gurus.
Cost: $15/$10 Concession

Cooking up a Convo with Arnold Zable
2018-12-06 18:30 - 20:30 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Cooking up a Convo with Arnold Zable – The power of story: A writer’s journey

Drawing on three decades as a writer of fiction and non-fiction, ranging from short story and features, to novels and memoir, Zable will explore the inspirations, sources of ideas, and lessons learnt in confronting the empty page, and bringing many works to fruition. The journey has led to an understanding of the power of story, and how to give voice to oneself, and how to inspire others to find their voice.
Arnold Zable is an acclaimed writer, novelist, storyteller, and human rights advocate. His books include Jewels and Ashes, Cafe Scheherazade, The Fig Tree, Scraps of Heaven, Sea of Many Returns, Violin Lessons and The Fighter. He is the author of numerous essays, columns, features, stories, and works for theatre. A guest lecturer in universities in Australia and internationally, he has run workshops with refugees, immigrants, the homeless, the deaf, Black Saturday bushfire survivors and others using writing as a means of self-understanding. In 2017, he was awarded the Australia Council Fellowship for Literature.

Thursday, December 6 at 6:30pm

Upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective

Tickets through www.trybooking.com/ZLVI

$30 (Dinner and convo)

$10 (Just convo)

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In support Alisha’s Café Collective‘s aim of creating happier people and Casa Cultura’s mission of nurturing a collaborative and connected community that embraces and celebrates diversity, we are partnering to offer a series of conversations with inspirational people that bring their knowledge and experience to contribute to our health, confidence, creativity and wellbeing.

These events will be hosted over dinner, upstairs at Alisha’s, in a relaxed environment making them not at all a lecture, but more of a table-side conversation where questions, retorts and insights are more than welcome.

Dinner your choice of plate (see below) and a cup of chai.

East of the Middle Plate

Flavours from India and its surrounds including rice, curries, roti, spicy pickles and seasonal spiced besan battered veggies.

Middle of the East Plate

Gateaux Piment (Mauritian chili cake), brown lentil rice, seasonal Moroccan spiced veggies, haloumi cheese, warm pita bread, baba ganoush, hommus and besan floured veggies.

West of the Middle Plate

Deep fried polenta, mushroom rago, pesto roast pumpkin, balsamic Caprisi salad, pasta salad with chili oil, grated zucchini and parmesan, lentil Bolognese sauce and antipasti bits with crusty garlic bread.

Monday Night Yoga
2018-12-03 19:30 - 20:30 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Monday night yoga: Let’s move, play and explore the breath and shapes of our yoga asana practice.
Yoga with Shari: Shari is a yoga practitioner that brings both playfulness and mindfulness to her classes and enjoys sharing her practice of yoga with all levels from newbies to gurus.
Cost: $15/$10 Concession

Well Being with Dr. James Khong
2018-12-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
After practicing medicine for over 50 years, Dr. James Khong, concerned by a level of chronic diseases not unlike an epidemic, has turned to preventative health practices. Rather than continue relying on prescription drugs, he suggests an approach to wellness based on three pillars: nutrition, physical fitness and mental peace.
Join Dr. Khong every week as he shares lessons and ideas that put the joys of our wellbeing back in our own hands. From acupuncture to zen, exploring techniques and tips to live a fuller, healthier life, less reliant on treatments, diets and drugs.
Weekly 90-min session.
Cost: $15/$12 (Concession)
Tickets: www.trybooking.com/ZQVB

Cooking up a Convo with Husna Pasha: Secrets of a Corporate Escapee
2018-11-29 18:30 - 21:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Cooking up a Convo with Husna Pasha: Secrets of a Corporate Escapee

Husna has many strings to her bow, from a successful corporate career to her outstanding talk show (cum-documentary for ABC Compass). 18 years into her corporate life, she understood that we’re all part of a system that creates unintentional politics and that, a little bit too often, crushes people’s vision and dreams. She is a now corporate escapee and believes that that success comes from the creating and maintaining wonderful relationships. Join Husna as she inspires the audience with her story and the secrets of a corporate escapee.

Thursday, November 29 at 6:30pm

Upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective

Tickets through www.trybooking.com/YWBI

$30 (Dinner and convo)

$10 (Just convo)

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In support Alisha’s Café Collective‘s aim of creating happier people and Casa Cultura’s mission of nurturing a collaborative and connected community that embraces and celebrates diversity, we are partnering to offer a series of conversations with inspirational people that bring their knowledge and experience to contribute to our health, confidence, creativity and wellbeing.

These events will be hosted over dinner, upstairs at Alisha’s, in a relaxed environment making them not at all a lecture, but more of a table-side conversation where questions, retorts and insights are more than welcome.

Dinner your choice of plate (see below) and a cup of chai.

East of the Middle Plate

Flavours from India and its surrounds including rice, curries, roti, spicy pickles and seasonal spiced besan battered veggies.

Middle of the East Plate

Gateaux Piment (Mauritian chili cake), brown lentil rice, seasonal Moroccan spiced veggies, haloumi cheese, warm pita bread, baba ganoush, hommus and besan floured veggies.

West of the Middle Plate

Deep fried polenta, mushroom rago, pesto roast pumpkin, balsamic Caprisi salad, pasta salad with chili oil, grated zucchini and parmesan, lentil Bolognese sauce and antipasti bits with crusty garlic bread.

Joe White: Ethiopian & still not hungry (MICF 2018 Encore)
2018-11-24 20:00 - 22:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Joe White returns to Alisha’s to perform an “ENCORE” of his 2018 MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY SHOW!
“Ethiopian-Australian comedian Joe White “he’s been called down under’s Trevor Noah” – NEW YORK POST
“Slick, likeable performer who smoothly worked the room” “he’s on the tamer side of edgy” “his delivery is not angry or hard, its so relaxed that you can’t help going with his flow” – HERALD SUN
A regular on the Australian comedy circuit and Winner of Perth Fringe World Festival Gong Comedy Comp, Winner of Mandurah Crabfest Comedy Comp, Winner of Next Gen Comedy Perth’s Best Comic, WA Funny Faces runner up, Nominated for best comedy at Perth Fringe World Festival, Sold out shows at Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Perth Fringe World Festival, Played full house shows in Montreal and Toronto, Canada in 2017, attended the Just For Laughs Montreal ComedyPro Conference 2017 and now you can see an ENCORE of his Melbourne International Comedy Festival Show 2018.

La música que nos nace y nos hace
2018-11-24 15:30 - 17:00 | No Vacancy Gallery, QV Melbourne, 34-40 Jane Bell Ln, Melbouren, Victoria, 3000, Australia
A close encounter with a group of musicians originally from Latin America or closely connected to it. In this intimate performance, the guest musicians will share their story and the role that music has played in shaping their experiences and their identity, and how it has influenced their connection to the Americas. They will, of course, also perform a handful of original and traditional songs from their repertoire. The evening will include performances by Alejandro Vargas, Ximena Abarca, Rodolfo Hechavarria Despaigne Panga and Bonnie Smith.
Un encuentro cercano con un consorte de músicos originarios de América Latino o muy cercanos a ella. En este íntimo evento, los invitados compartirán sus historias, conversarán acerca del papel que la música ha jugado en forjar sus experiencias y su identidad, y acerca de cómo repercute sobre su conexión con las Américas. Por supuesto, también interpretarán un manojo de canciones originales y tradicionales de su repertorio. Participarán como invitados Alejandro Vargas, Ximena Abarca, Rodolfo Hechavarria Despaigne Panga y Bonnie Smith.
Supported by Victorian Multicultural Commission

Recital de A Voz Limpia
2018-11-24 14:00 - 15:00 | No Vacancy Gallery, QV Melbourne, 34-40 Jane Bell Ln, Melbouren, Victoria, 3000, Australia
A Voz Limpia is a poetry collective and independent publisher. It gathers storytellers and writers of all persuasions, mostly from Latin America, mostly in Spanish, mostly in Australia. Since 2016, the group reads once a month at free, public events, and has been invited to participate in several festivals and events. A Voz Limpia has published 6 books (3 anthologies featuring over 70 poets in total, and 3 author books). On this occasion, the group will gather to present a reading of original writings from six of its regular participants: Raul Sanchez Urribarri, Grace Amigo, Oscar Socias, Cloé Karagozlu, Alfredo Muñoz and Kalindi Victoria.
A Voz Limpia es un colectivo de poesía y editorial independiente que reúne poetas, cuentistas y escritores de toda naturaleza en su mayoría Latinoamericanos, en su mayoría en español, en su mayoría en Melbourne. Desde 2016 el grupo convoca una lectura mensual y ha participado en eventos y festivales. Ha publicado 6 libros (3 antologías que comprenden el trabajo de más de 70 poetas y 3 poemarios de autor). Para esta ocasión, A Voz Limpia presentará una lectura de textos originales de seis de sus participantes regulares: Raul Sanchez Urribarri, Grace Amigo, Oscar Socias, Cloé Karagozlu, Alfredo Muñoz and Kalindi Victoria.
Supported by Victorian Multicultural Commission

Carta Ilustrada a Latinoamérica
2018-11-24 12:00 - 13:30 | No Vacancy Gallery, QV Melbourne, 34-40 Jane Bell Ln, Melbouren, Victoria, 3000, Australia
This Saturday, at the Building Bridges exhibition, a creative workshop for children aged 4 to 10 and parents or grandparents exploring memory and identity. In this workshop, adults and children will exchange the memories and desires that connect them to the Latin America they left behind or merely imagine possible. This workshop will be led by Gabriela Heinz, Spanish and theatre teacher, and translator with over 15 years’ experience. Born in Argentina, her passion is to share the beauty of her culture and she is particularly interested in working with children.
Capacity: 20 adults with 1-2 children each.
Un taller creativo para niños de 4 a 10 años acompañados por sus padres o abuelos, en el cual explorarán juntos memoria e identidad. En este taller, niños y adultos intercambiarán recuerdos y anhelos de la Latinoamérica que dejaron atrás en el pasado o la que simplemente imaginan posible. Este taller será guiado por Gabriela Heinz, profesora de español y teatro, y traductora con más de 15 años de experiencia. Nacida en Argentina, su pasión es promover la cultura y tiene especial interés en trabajar con niños.
Cupo: 20 adultos con 1-2 niños cada uno.
Supported by Victorian Multicultural Commission

Cooking up a Convo with Sarah Gale: Wearing your worth
2018-11-22 18:30 - 21:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Cooking up a Convo with Sarah Gale: Wearing your worth.

Sarah Gale is on a mission to support people in connecting to their authentic Self, through an unlikely medium: the wardrobe. Following three decades in the fashion industry, including Judge on Project Runway Australia, Sarah says that dressing can be used to empower us or disempower us. With all the messages out in society and social media, Sarah says it is critical that we use the everyday medium of dressing to install positive anchors to go out into the world as our authentic Self, knowing we are enough and feeling the strength in expressing who we really are.

Sarah suggests, a lot of the choices we make about what we wear are unconscious; driven by hidden destructive mindsets and old belief patterns we have formed throughout our lives. Is it any wonder so many people feel wardrobe anxiousness and insecurity about their appearance? Our clothes are a tangible representation of how we feel about ourselves. We just need to know how to listen to what they have to say. If we are stuck it will show up in our wardrobe. If we are hiding and not showing up fully in life – we will see it in our outfits. We have themes within our wardrobes, that once unveiled, can be the key to us showing up fully, expressing our truly beautiful selves and embodying the full power that we are.

Thursday, November 22 at 6:30pm

Upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective

Tickets through www.trybooking.com/ZMRI

$30 (Dinner and convo)

$10 (Just convo)

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In support Alisha’s Café Collective‘s aim of creating happier people and Casa Cultura’s mission of nurturing a collaborative and connected community that embraces and celebrates diversity, we are partnering to offer a series of conversations with inspirational people that bring their knowledge and experience to contribute to our health, confidence, creativity and wellbeing.

These events will be hosted over dinner, upstairs at Alisha’s, in a relaxed environment making them not at all a lecture, but more of a table-side conversation where questions, retorts and insights are more than welcome.

Dinner your choice of plate (see below) and a cup of chai.

East of the Middle Plate

Flavours from India and its surrounds including rice, curries, roti, spicy pickles and seasonal spiced besan battered veggies.

Middle of the East Plate

Gateaux Piment (Mauritian chili cake), brown lentil rice, seasonal Moroccan spiced veggies, haloumi cheese, warm pita bread, baba ganoush, hommus and besan floured veggies.

West of the Middle Plate

Deep fried polenta, mushroom rago, pesto roast pumpkin, balsamic Caprisi salad, pasta salad with chili oil, grated zucchini and parmesan, lentil Bolognese sauce and antipasti bits with crusty garlic bread.

Xinging Workshop with Ximena Abarca
2018-11-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
If eyes are the window to the soul, voice is the door to the heart. Xinging Workshop is an invitation to find your unique voice at its maximum expression. Through breathing, singing, clapping, improvising, together we will find the way to sing just for fun and let ourselves discover all the potential we hold as an individual and in community. Music is life and life is better with music!
Ximena Abarca is a Chilean/Australian singer-songwriter whose career took off in 2003 when she won a TV singer’s contest in Chile. Since then she hasn’t stopped playing and recording. One of the highlights in her career was to be the voice over for Hi- 5 Latin America, as Kimmy, transmitted through Discovery Channel. Over the years her style has evolved from pop to world fusion sounds. Moving from Chile to Australia led her to bring to her music her roots and nostalgia of a faraway land.
Upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective, 313 Lygon St. Brunswick East
Wednesdays 6:00-7:00
Starts November 21
Single session: $15 – 5-session pass: $65
Bookings essential through www.trybooking.com/ZHPW

Spanish through Song with Ximena Abarca
2018-11-21 16:30 - 17:30 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Spanish through Song is a workshop created to help kids learn Spanish through music in a fun and playful way. Using original songs, the workshop will teach children vocabulary as well as rhythm, team work and confidence. Parents are encouraged to participate.
Ximena Abarca is a Chilean/Australian singer-songwriter whose career took off in 2003 when she won a TV singer’s contest in Chile. Since then she hasn’t stopped playing and recording. One of the highlights in her career was to be the voice over for Hi- 5 Latin America, as Kimmy, transmitted through Discovery Channel. Over the years her style has evolved from pop to world fusion sounds. Moving from Chile to Australia led her to bring to her music her roots and nostalgia of a faraway land.
Upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective, 313 Lygon St. Brunswick East
Wednesdays 4:30-5:30
Starts November 21
Single session: $15 – 5-session pass: $45
Bookings essential through www.trybooking.com/ZHOY

Sporting Poets feat. Ann Vickery, Melinda Bufton and Megan Kaminski
2018-11-20 18:30 - 20:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Sporting Poets gathers periodically for a cosy reading by three poets with a range of styles.
The final event of the year will feature Ann Vickery, Melinda Bufton and Megan Kaminski visiting from the US!

Circle Singing with Bonnie Smith
2018-11-18 15:00 - 17:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Circle Singing is discovering your vocal expression through improvisation, movement and experimentation. You don’t have to call yourself a singer to be a part of the circle. It is about being in a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your creative potential. Circle singing doesn’t require perfection, rather a willingness to connect deeply with your voice, sing with an open heart and listen with big ears! Be prepared to be open minded, be prepared to take risks, be prepared to be ridiculous, and be prepared for the unknown!
Bonnie Smith is a singer, composer, piano player and guitarist. World music extraordinaire, she sings in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Turkish and English. She has travelled extensively throughout the Americas and Europe where she has taken her music on the road. She is one of the primary vocal teachers at Melbourne Polytechnic and lead facilitator of “Circle Singing”, which explores the art of improvising in the moment. With over ten years of experience teaching to adults and children, she understands the journey of music as a self-help tool and loves teaching for fun and joy. She relishes in the benefits singing and music can provide to gain a deeper sense of connection to one’s self and others.
Upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective, 313 Lygon Street Brunswick East
Every Sunday from 3:00pm
Starts November 18
$25/session
Book your spot through www.trybooking.com/ZHQK

Cooking up a Convo with Dr. James Khong. Part 3: Mental Peace
2018-11-15 18:30 - 20:30 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Cooking up a Convo with Dr. James Khong: A script for a better life.
The third and final talk in this series will focus on the biggest epidemic of our times: Stress. Dr Khong will show you simple techniques to reduce the damaging effects of stress in these hectic times.
At age 77, and after practicing medicine for over 50 years, Dr. James Khong decided it was time for a change of career. Concerned by a level of chronic diseases not unlike an epidemic, he has turned to preventative health practices. Rather than continue relying on prescription drugs, he suggests an approach to wellness based on three pillars: nutrition, physical fitness and mental peace. He is writing a book about this and will share the insights of the lessons he has learned.
Thursday November 15 at 6:30pm
Tickets: $30 (Dinner and convo) or $10 (Just convo) through www.trybooking.com/YWBI

Cooking up a Convo is a series of close encounters with interesting people tackling insightful topics over dinner at Alisha’s Café Collective. These events will be hosted upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective, over dinner in a relaxed environment making them not at all a lecture, but more of a table-side conversation where questions, retorts and insights are more than welcome.

Cooking up a Convo with Dr. James Khong. Part 2: Physical Fitness
2018-11-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Cooking up a Convo with Dr. James Khong: A script for a better life.
The second talk in this series will focus on physical fitness, the second pillar of wellness. Dr Khong has developed a simple system combining ancient Indian Yoga, Chinese Qigong, Tai Chi and modern sport science. There will be movement in this one so bring loose, comfortable clothing.
At age 77, and after practicing medicine for over 50 years, Dr. James Khong decided it was time for a change of career. Concerned by a level of chronic diseases not unlike an epidemic, he has turned to preventative health practices. Rather than continue relying on prescription drugs, he suggests an approach to wellness based on three pillars: nutrition, physical fitness and mental peace. He is writing a book about this and will share the insights of the lessons he has learned.
Thursday November 8 at 6:30pm
Tickets: $30 (Dinner and convo) or $10 (Just convo) through www.trybooking.com/YWBI

Cooking up a Convo is a series of close encounters with interesting people tackling insightful topics over dinner at Alisha’s Café Collective. These events will be hosted upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective, over dinner in a relaxed environment making them not at all a lecture, but more of a table-side conversation where questions, retorts and insights are more than welcome.

Cooking up a Convo with Dr. James Khong
2018-11-01 18:30 - 21:00 | Upstairs at Alisha’s, 313 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, VIC, 3057, Australia
Cooking up a Convo with Dr. James Khong: A script for a better life.
At age 77, and after practicing medicine for over 50 years, Dr. James Khong decided it was time for a change of career. Concerned by a level of chronic diseases not unlike an epidemic, he has turned to preventative health practices. Rather than continue relying on prescription drugs, he suggests an approach to wellness based on three pillars: nutrition, physical fitness and mental peace. He is writing a book about this and will share the insights of the lessons he has learned.
Thursday November 1 at 6:30pm
Tickets: $30 (Dinner and convo) or $10 (Just convo) through www.trybooking.com/YWBI

Cooking up a Convo is a series of close encounters with interesting people tackling insightful topics over dinner at Alisha’s Café Collective. These events will be hosted upstairs at Alisha’s Café Collective, over dinner in a relaxed environment making them not at all a lecture, but more of a table-side conversation where questions, retorts and insights are more than welcome.
