Casa Cultura

Recital de A Voz Limpia
2018-11-24 14:00 - 15:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | 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.
