Hadahur The music school established in East Timor by Mary Mckillop East Timor Mission in conjunction with Tekee Media Inc, was formally opened by the President of Timor Leste, His Excellency Dr Jose Ramos Horta, at a concert in the President’s Palace on Saturday the 18th July.
musicians from Suai (double click on all photos […]
In April I went to Timor primarily to organise the trip in July when we were to take 4 teachers up and do a concert to launch Hadahur the music school. Whilst much was done in that trip for that purpose, I was asked spontaneously at the last minute to go to a special thanksgiving […]
scholarship to the national Art School in Sydeny doing a bachelor of Fine Arts), went to Darwin to give a series of workshops for Children as part of the exhibition the Darwin Museum had running from November to July 2009. Here are afew photos from that trip, the kids who went had a great time, […]
I went up to Timor in November, primarily to get the music students at the music school hooked up to Skype and comfortable working with the medium of internet music lessons, a mean feat it turned out, downloading anything in Timor on internet takes hours sometimes, skype was no exception. It was frustrating […]
On the 26th December 2008 the children’s choir “Coro Lorosae”, formed in Portugal in 1975 (when the Timorese fled from the invading Indonesians) had a reunion concert and other activities in Sydney. The highlight was a concert in Liverpool. It was a stirring occasion and the concert a memorable one. This photo is […]
Ros has been in Darwin from the 12th to the 16th January doing presentations about East Timor as part of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory’s summer holliday program. There is an exhibtion running at from November to July at MAGNT “HUSI BEI ALA TIMOR SIRA NIA LIMAN ~ FROM […]
Somehow we made to Timor, though it was doubtful we would! At 6pm the night before we left my passport was not where it ought to have been! I literally stripped the studio in search of it, 3 hours later found it ! So the relief of all we set off at 4.30am next […]
In August last year, the AB aired a program Robyn Ravlich and Ros Dunlop put together on “Into the Music - A Musical Tais” and few days ago we were given the news that “A Musical Tais” has won a Finalist certificate in the New York Radio Festival. This is the link […]
Ros is going to Timor Leste in July to continue work on the recording of the Traditional Music of Timor Leste. The Tekee Tokee Music Project has good examples of Traditional Music from 10 of the 13 districts now. In August of 2007 the ABC did a feature program on the traditional Music in a […]
Hello Everyone,
I am off to East Timor and Darwin tomorrow, to establish partnerships and hopefully commitment for a secure lockable place for the Music School in Dili we are helping to establish “Hadahur”. This is the first such music school for Dili, combining traditional music as well as western as the disciplines to […]