CHIKA Adelaide Season
Poster Design Janette Hoe
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This is the story of Chika Honda. Chika is a real person. She is a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian jails for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit. She was one of a Japanese tour group who were arrested for importation of heroin in 1992. She was released on parole in November 2002 and is now living in Japan.
CHIKA is a multi-layered production & contemporary story telling, crossing genres of journalism, visual and performing arts, incorporating original live music, dance and narration, documentary images, archival video and recorded interviews.
Symposium with Mayu Kanamori, Creator/Producer CHIKA
20 September, Banquet Hall, Adelaide Festival Centre
CHIKA: A Documentary Performance
26th and 27th September 2008
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
CHIKA CD released
The music for CHIKA was composed by Thomas Fitzgerald, with one exquisite work, the Koto Solo by Satsuki Odamura. This unusual collaboration of instruments featuring koto, shakuhachi, wadaiko, acoustic and electric violin and keyboards, blends live music and pre recorded acoustic and electronic sounds with a unique result. It is the sum of these myriad combinations of a surreal reality that have become CHIKA's musical world. The CD can be purchased using Paypal through the Chika Website.
CHIKA Sydney Season
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Poster Design Janette Hoe
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This is the story of Chika Honda. Chika is a real person. She is a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian jails for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit. She was one of a Japanese tour group who were arrested for importation of heroin in 1992. She was released on parole in November 2002 and is now living in Japan.
CHIKA is a multi-layered production & contemporary story telling, crossing genres of journalism, visual and performing arts, incorporating original live music, dance and narration, documentary images, archival video and recorded interviews.
Artists: Mayu Kanamori, Tom Fitzgerald, Anne Norman, Satsuki Odamura, Toshinori Sakamoto, Andrei Shabunov, Yumi Umiumare, Nick Franklin, Malcolm Blaylock
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The ballad of Chika Honda (The Age Feb 10, 2008)
Japanese heroin smuggler 'was not guilty' (The Age Feb 10, 2008)
A life caught in a cultural divide (The Age Feb 10, 2008)
Thomas Fitzgerald's recent project, The Peace Song Tapestries featured the world's children sharing songs of peace, empowering understanding of each other, weaving their peace songs into the tapestry of a new musical work.
Visit the Peace Songs website to find out how you can contribute to this project.
