Australia-China Council Beijing Residency Awards 2001-2002
In June 2001, Dr John Yu AC, Chair of the Australia-China Council, announced the Council’s new award scheme for the use of an apartment in Beijing for Australians undertaking educational, cultural or research projects in China.
The aim of the ACC Residency Award was to enlarge the experiences available to Australians in China, to enable them to develop projects related to China, and to encourage on-going contact between the Australian and Chinese communities.
Dr Yu, is delighted to announce the inaugural ACC Residency Awardees, who have each been granted a period of residency in China from October 2001 through to October 2002. Each Awardee will undertake their approved project during their residency.
The successful ACC Residency Awardees for 2001-2002 are:-
- Mr Blain CRELLIN and Ms Tania EWING: Support to develop a black and white photographic exhibition of Australians working in China including a short history, and to research and write on China's work in family planning techniques.
- Mr Rick FARQUHARSON: Support for the writing of a feature film screenplay "The Importance of Living" - the journey of an Australian-Chinese girl who returns to China. The story focuses on questions of identity, cultural differences, human frailty and the joy of living.
- Dr Robert GALE: Support for the development of an Australia-China network on Ecotourism (ACNET), basic analysis concerning ecotourism issues prior to the 2008 Olympics and the dissemination of acquired information.
- Prof Wayne Wei HUANG: Supportfor the Co-chair of an International Conference on “e-Business” and the conduct of a collaborative research project on e-business with Professors at Tingha Uni, Beijing.
- Mr Daniel HUPPATZ: Support for the production of long poem or a series of connected shorter pieces that focus on Beijing, its history and current changes.
- Mr Dave Le RUEZ: Support for NRS Group technical staff in Beijing who are building an editing suite, installing equipment and training Chinese staff, to enable narration and subtitling of joint venture history series in Mandarin.
- Mr Francis REGAN: Support to undertake policy analysis and research that examines the theory and practice of the development of Chinese legal aid policy.
- Mr Tony SCOTT: Support for Art Exhibition "Digital Ghosts", painting, curating of an exhibition of Chinese artists in Australia, and further development of personal relationships within Chinese and Australian arts communities.
- Mr Mark SHIRREFS and Mr John THOMSON: Support to authenticate the sights and sounds of Beijing for the finalisation of scripts for a thirteen part TV series. The series is to be a co-production between Southern Star, an Australian Film Production company, and CCTV in Beijing.
- Mr Gregory PRYOR: Support forBird Painting: a daily documentation of the residency in words and images painted on Chinese Silk.
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