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Mother's Day 2013

Support the mothers and women of the future in Timor-Leste

Buy a GIFT CERTIFICATE for your Mum for MOTHER'S DAY
 
Be rewarded by seeing your mother’s delight at receiving a Gift Certificate acknowledging your support for school and university education of young women and girls in Timor-Leste

The money raised from MOTHER'S DAY GIFT CERTIFICATES goes directly to providing scholarships for women and girls to attend schools and colleges in Timor Leste.  

The implementation and oversight of educational scholarships for women and girls is managed by the Asia Pacific Support Collective – Timor Leste (APSC-TL) based in Dili,Timor-Leste.   

Scholarship candidates are referred from various districts to APSC-TL which also provides mentoring to the chosen scholarship holders. The scholarships range from about USD50 per semester for a high school student to USD500 per semester for a post-graduate university student. They cover fees, stationery, internet costs, clothes, books, graduation costs, transport, food etc. The results are outstanding, with young women now in jobs such as community development work, business financial management, one is a secretary, another a registered doctor, while others are back in their villages teaching and helping start schools and pre-schools. Current students are studying in fields including Administration, International Studies, Economics, Law, Sociology, Computer Technology, Finance, Marketing, Mathematics, and Petroleum while others are completing high school.

Gift Certificates are available for all donations of $20 and over 

HOW TO BUY YOUR GIFT CERTIFICATE:
 
1. Make an electronic transfer to Hets bank account

    Account Name:   Hunter East Timor Sisters
    BSB:  637000   
    Account no:   717193539           

Be sure to put “Scholarship” in the reference box.

2. Then email HETS at
     http://hets.weebly.com/contact-us.html

     As soon as payment is received we will email you
     your Gift Certificate for you to print
     OR
     If you would like the GIft Certificate posted to you,
     be sure to provide your name and address in your email
     and add $2.00 to your donation.
     
     Contact us if you require a receipt for Tax purposes.
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Sounds of the Soul: Lian Husi Klamar 
by Ros Dunlop 

 Book Launch
  at Local Studies Lounge, Newcastle Library, Laman St Newcastle
  on Monday  8 October 2012

   a stunning new book on the traditional music of
   Timor-Leste  

   Compiler/musician Ros Dunlop, PhD candidate at Newcastle
   Conservatorium, will show an AV presentation and talk
   about her book and special guest Ego Lemos will play
   traditional Timorese music 
  
   about the book:
The publication in Tetun and English of the book Lian Husi Klamar:        Musika Tradisional Husi Timor-Leste (Sounds of the Soul: The Traditional Music of East Timor) was a culmination of ten years research which became known as “The Music Recovery Project : Tekee Tokee Tomak”. The book Lian Husi Klamar, or Sounds of the Soul was made possible through a rich collaboration of musical and visual artists from East Timor, and supported by a grant from the United States Ambassadors’ fund For Cultural Preservation.

Author and musician Ros Dunlop made her first trip to Timor-Leste in April 2002 with Timor activist brothers Robert and Martin Wesley-Smith. Ros and Martin gave concerts of Martin’s audiovisual pieces about East Timor. They were enchanted by Timor-Leste’s land, people and culture – especially it’s traditional music. Wanting to give something in return, Ros began visiting Timor-Leste regularly to record this special music. To do this, she needed the help of many Timorese citizens. The skilled musicians who were acutely aware of the importance of recording their music for posterity and the translators and assistants who helped to organise the recording sessions. These artists from Arte Moris Art School and the young Timorese from the audiovisual archive, Centro Archivo Max Stahl Timor-Leste understood the importance of a permanent record being made. Without their help this project would not have happened.
click here for flyer on Lian Husi Klamar

Ego Lemos, musician and environmental campaigner from Timor Leste will perform at the launch of Lian Husi Klamar

15-16-17 MAY 2012
VISIT OF BEBA SEQUEIRA, LAURA S ABRANTES & ODETA BELO TO NEWCASTLE

Beba Sequeira, Executive Director of Asia Pacific Support Collective -Timor Leste, Laura Abrantes, Gender Consultant APSC-TL,  and Odeta Belo, Financial Adviser at APSC-TL, visited Newcastle from 15-17 May, 2012.  All these women are veterans of the clandestine movement of independence for Timor Leste and currently work to improve the lives of women and girls at grass roots level through advocacy, research, training, facilitation and publications.  All money raised by HETS goes to fund scholarships overseen by APSC-TL for womwen and girls.

The three HETS events over three days:  What life is like for women in East Timor  lunchtime talk at Hunter Women’s Centre,  Curry & Conversation fund-raising dinner and the book launch of Secrecy: the Key to Independence at the Lovett Gallery were great opportunities to meet and talk with Beba, Laura and Odete and hear about their work today in Timor Leste and also about the importance of women in the clandestine movement for independence during the twenty four year occupation by the Indonesian military. 

Below are pictures from the Newcastle visit and the two sessions at the Sydney Writer's Festival at which Beba and Laura were guest speakers.

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Secrecy:  The Key to Independence  

Compiled and edited by Beba Sequeira and Laura Abrantes

Through oral history interviews this book tells the stories of the lives of 13 women who were part of the Clandestine Independence Movement during the Indonesian occupation of Timor Leste from 1975 to 1999.   Blue Mountains East Timor Sisters (BMETS) has assisted the publication and distribution of this book which was published in Tetun in Timor Leste in 2008.  The english version was completed earlier this year.

Beba and Laura  were guests of the 2012 Sydney Writers Festival and appeared there on Saturday 19 May in a session on resistance and on Sunday 20 May they were interviewed about their book by Meredith Burgmann, prominent feminist and NSW Labor politician, on the tenth anniversary of Timor Leste regaining its independence.
 
Jude Conway, a Newcastle resident and member of HETS was one of the founders of APSC-TL in 2000, and edited Step by Step: Women of East Timor, Stories of Resistance and Survival published by Charles Darwin University Press in 2010.   The stories of Laura Abrantes and Beba Sequeira are both featured in this book as two of the thirteen women.

There was also be a launch of Secrecy at Parliament House, Sydney on 
8 May and also in the Blue Mountains in the same week. 

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HETS Book & Art Sale  
9am - 4pm
SUNDAY 17 JUNE 2012 

649 Glebe Road Adamstown  
(between Brunker Rd and the railway crossing)


pre-loved quality books, art, magazines and DVDs, 

tea & coffee, tais products for sale
plenty of parking - 

all money raised will go directly to fund educational scholarships for women and girls in Timor Leste

WE NEED GOOD SALEABLE BOOKS, ART, MAGAZINES AND DVDS FOR THIS SALE
THEY CAN BE DROPPED ON THE FRONT VERANDAH OF 
649 GLEBE ROAD (WHITE PICKET FENCE) ANYTIME FROM NOW UNTIL 9 JUNE.
click here for pdf flyer to donate
click here for book & art sale flyer