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  • Send details for performance or event listing
  • Download promotional leaflet and program templates
  • Download information sheets
  • Download "5 Things That Make a Difference"
  • Download scripts for Club Refuge and Open House

To have a performance or refugee-related event listed on this website, please fill in this form. If there's a graphic you'd like to include or any other special request, note that under "Anything else we need to know?" below.

NB It's on-line at your end, but human at ours (don't expect an instant response from a database search).

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Promotional flyer and progam templates
Two MS Word files, each in .doc and .rtf forms. The .doc's should be OK, but if you're having trouble making them work, try the (much larger) .rtf versions.

One is the basis of a flyer to promote your show, the other is a program.

There's nothing sacred about them. If they work for you, use them. If they don't, alter or ignore them.

(It would be a great help if you would let us know how you think they could be improved.)

This page has only just begun. If there are other support materials or different ways the website can help you, please get in touch.

And also... We've only just added "your say". It would be terrific if you could encourage audience members to use it to let us know what they think and/or want. Need more? Get in touch with:
  • Jeremy Press
    39 High Street
    Prahran
    Victoria 3181

download .rtf flyer (660k)

download .doc flyer (88k)


download .rtf program (664k)

download .doc program (92k)

When people ask for more information...


Notes on do's and don'ts in assisting asylum seekers. Includes listings and contacts of helping organisations.
download .pdf (112k)
5 things people can do
to make a difference
- in a single, printable, sheet
download .pdf (56k)

Download scripts

'Club Refuge' and 'Open House' are readings which have been performed before audiences great and small.

You'll find the whole gamut here: tragedy to humour.

The scripts are copyright; but they're freely available by arrangement with Actors for Refugees for performances intended to raise awareness of refugee issues and (we hope) to help raise funds for refugees.

The scripts are in .pdf files. You'll need a password to open them and while you can print them, they can't be altered. If you need a password, contact AfR.

Title

Description

Time

Roles

Download

Britney

"Ohmygodyou'llneverguesswhat ..." a young Australian girl's fictitious story of visiting a detention centre - By Charlotte George

3min

1

Gran

A comical fictitious story - by Di Greentree

3min

1

Life in Port Hedland

Letters to Di from a detainee in Port Hedland

3min

1

Letters from Ali

Letters between Di Greentree and Ali in detention

6min

2

Asylum

A poem by Mehmet al Assad

1min

1

Baby Ghazal

From an article by Dr. Chris Goddard, interim Director of Monash University’s National Research Centre for Child Abuse.

2min

1

From a Detainee

Letter from a detainee in Villawood

1min

1

Donny's Story

West Papuan Piece - By Tristan Pierce

3min

1

Nouria

A young girl in detention attempts suicide. A true story; told to Di Greentree by Nouria's father.

5min

2

My name is Imran Ali

The story of a young Afghan refugee man

2min

1

MONTAGE

Collection of short excerpts from Universal Declaration of Human Rights; refugees stories etc

3min

5

Woomera

An eyewitness account by an Adelaide solicitor, early in the year 2000

1min

1

Temporary

Excerpt from 'Something to Declare'

TPV

The inhumanity of the Temporary Protection Visa

4min

3

Refugee

"Refugees are like flowers pulled up from their own garden and planted somewhere else." - by Mahmut Kahraman

2min

1

Mr No Problem

Beautiful conversation and story about two refugees and an Australian woman, by Emma Corcoran

8min

2

MONOLOGUES
(for 1 or 2 readers)

Alice and Parisa

Alice Garner talks to Parisa Farhadi, an Iranian refugee

2min

1-2

Barb and Jane

Two women's friendship beyond race, religion and cultural stereotypes

2min

1-2

Carol and A Nge Lay

Story of love and marriage beyond difference

2min

1-2

Imam and Jean

The friendship between an Iraqi refugee and an English tutor

2min

1-2

Joseph and Barbara

The friendship of a Sri Lankan asylum seeker and a Melbourne nurse

2min

1-2

Maryam and Paul

Story of love and marriage between an Iranian refugee and a social worker in East Gippsland

2min

1-2

Nga and Pat

Story of a Vietnamese woman and an Australian woman starting a mulitcultural catering company

2min

1-2

Nida and Minela

The friendship between uni students from Afghanistan and Bosnia

3min

1-2

Saha and Anny

The friendship of neighbours from Bosnia and Townsville

2min

1-2

Omar and Vince

How two men created the Friendship Cup soccer game between  between the Victoria Police and the Somali All Stars

3min

1-2

Wai and Sherron

The horrors Wai experienced in prison in Burma, and Sherron's efforts to keep her in Australia.

2min

1-2

Winnie and Mr Marshall

The friendship between a Sudanese student and her English teacher

2min

1-2

Yoanes and Jan

Yoanes is from South Sudan, Jan is the woman who helped him find work.

2min

1-2