Monthly Newsletter February Issue 2018

Radio 4EB - Celebrating 39 years On-Air in 2018

Are you here tonight

feeling the love

on the first

Convenor’s meeting for

2018

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Welcome to 2018 and welcome to the first Convenor’s meeting tonight for the

year as well. I trust everyone is ready

for another busy year of multicultural broadcasting on 4EB and GLOBAL Digi-

tal. In the February edition you can

read about all Brisbane festivals and

Film Festivals coming up, Women’s Profile Broadcaster Maureen Mopio has

put together a radio documentary Called ‘How Do I Cope’ on Mental

Health related issues that will go to air next month, Serbian News, Lithuanian

News, Training News, our special talk program on air, and our special studio

photo section. Settle back and enjoy

your meeting. Keep us all informed on your events

in 2018 by sending through your group’s contributions and photos for

our March issue due to be published on 19 March. The closing date for all ma-

terial will be 5.00pm Monday 12th

March.

Editor - Jeffrey Milne

This Month...

International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, eco-nomic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to ac-tion for accelerating gender parity.

RISE - 4EB & GLOBAL Digital Conversations with Dr Kim Mackenzie

Feb 21 - ‘Cultivating emotional balance’ - A unique insight behind the founders, history and mission of the Chenrezig Institute, with Sanskrit Scholar and translator, Cory Jackson. Feb 23 - ‘An heroic affair with Ancient Iceland’ featuring the creative talent of Kari Gislason, QUT Associate Professor in Creative Industries.

#PressforProgress

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Festivals in Brisbane

Get ready for Australia’s most evoc-ative culture event, the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival from 8 March through to the 4 April this year in Brisbane. Celebrating its 29th season the festival will show-case the passion, artistry and diver-sity of contemporary French Cinema through 47 features, 2 documen-taries and a Parisian TV Series. Iconic stars such as Juliette Binoche, Vincent Cassel, Vanessa

Paradis, Isabelle Huppert and Gér-ard Depardieu will star in a range of films that will make you feel, dream, reflect, laugh and even shed a few tears. There’s something for every-one at this years French Film Festi-val epitomizing the bond between both nations and cultures. Listen to a French Program special on the event on 24 February on Radio 4EB. For more information and venues www.affrenchfilmfestival.org.

You can still catch the final two weeks of

the popular BrisAsia Festival supported by the Brisbane City Council. The month

long festival will continue to showcase traditional and contemporary Asian Arts

and cultural events. The festival has a

schedule of over 80 events planned in various locations across the city.

The Annual International Chinese Film Festival begins its season on the Gold Coast this year from Feb 23 –27. Fol-lowing on From Chinese New Year cel-ebrations the frestival now in its 9th year will aim to show off the best world class Chinese films, promote Chinese culture in them and provide a common ground for the exchange of ideas in the film world. For more information www.ccff.cc

Kisaragi-Sai Festival returns to Roma Street Parkland this Satur-day 24th of February, for it's 4th year. Experience the many facets of Japanese culture and society with a range of Japanese music and dance with performances across two stages. There will also be martial arts, Bonsai, Ikebana (the Japanese art of flower ar-rangement), market stalls, artistic demonstrations, exhibitions and

children's activities. This is a great family event to attend to journey back to Japan without leaving Brisbane. Experience the flavours of Japan with a range of pop-up food stalls near Celebra-tion Lawn then at 8.30pm head to the Amphitheatre to catch a free movie screening of Ancient and the Magic Tablet - which will be in Japanese with English sub-titles.

St. Patrick’s Day is coming up on

March 17 and this year it falls on a Sat-urday!

Listen to all the Irish news on Radio 4EB and get ready to go green.

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Women’s PROFILE and FOCUS March Radio Special

Coming up on 8 & 9 March tune into 4EBFM 98.1 for a special one (1) hour feature on Mental Health related issues amongst culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) adolescents and Non-English speaking women, girls and families in and around Brisbane. The radio documentary ti-tled, ‘How do I cope’ will be first aired on Focus on Thursday 8 March at 12noon, coinciding with International Women’s Day and then again on Friday at 12noon-during Women’s Profile will explore the issues surrounding one’s men-tal health. The feature length program funded by the Queensland Govern-ment and supported by YWCA Queensland is being produced by Women’s Profile Broadcaster, Maureen Mopio together with 4EB. “How do I cope, will bring

unique voices, unheard voices of women, girls and families in our communities, to empower, enrich and evoke thoughts on a health issue that is swept under the car-pet in some cultures,” She said. Hear the voices of experts in the field, such as Brisbane Psy-chologist, Ana Borges, who will look into the stigmas associated with this issue and encourage one and all to have the conversation. 4EB Broadcaster, Maureen Mopio said “it’s important to bring more voices from ethnic, multicul-tural backgrounds to just have a chat because in some cultures, talking about Mental Health is a taboo, not to be discussed or ad-dressed in the public forum,” The program will feature an interview with ‘Elizabeth’ (first name given only) who talks about her experience going through do-

mestic violence and has been told repeatedly that she has a “mental health problem” even though she has been diagnosed otherwise. “This type of stigma will be brought to the discussion table in this upcoming radio documentary, ”How do I Cope”, for all to listen to and learn,” she said.

How Do I Cope

Presented by Maureen Mopio

Listen to FOCUS 12noon on 8 March, 2018

and

Women’s Profile 12noon on 9 March, 2018

A special radio documentary project on Mental Health Issues funded by the Queensland Government and supported by YWCA Queensland

Brisbane Psychologist - Ana Borges

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Serbian News

Lithuanian News Lithuania celebrates a cen-tenary of the Restoration of the State.

Brisbane Lithuanian community at the Father Bacinskas Lithuanian Club cele-

brated its 100th anniversary of the res-toration of Lithuanian Statehood. On

February 16, Lithuanians celebrated

the birth of modern Lithuania. In 1918,

an independent, modern state of peo-ple was established, which had to be

ruled by a democratically elected gov-ernment. It also had to symbolically

revive Lithuanian statehood tradition

that was upheld in 1253-1795. The building of the modern Lith-

uanian state in 1918 was based on the

principles of the equality of all, as well

as the freedom and prosperity, and this is why all the people of the country

and Lithuanians living abroad, have chosen to be free, for the first time in

the history of Lithuania became the

creators of their state, and later on, during the years of the occupation, the

guardians of its tradition.

Lithuanian Group Convenor Ona

and Ruta

The Serbian Language Group and Radio 4EB congratulate Ranko Cosic on becoming the 1st Honorary Ambassa-dor for the Serbian Radio Group last December in a celebration held at Radio 4EB. Ranko gladly accepted the position signing the Am-bassador’s agreement and receiving a special certifi-cate. The group also offered gifts before celebrating with an afternoon tea and photo session. Ranko Cosic was also a special guest on the Serbian Radio program.

Pictured L to R, Ranko Cosic with Serbian Group Convenor

Vlastimir Jokic and with Donald Gunn below and members

of the Serbian Group

Applications are now being

accepted for the Next Panel Training classes to

begin on 15 & 26 March

Monday Nights 6-8pm & 8-10pm and Thursdays

12noon-2pm

There is still time to join us for

the Next Broadcast/Induction

Information Session

To be held on Tues Night 6 March at 6.15pm

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Last month I talked about the proce-

dures for playing sponsorships on-air in live and pre-recorded programs and

yet we still continue to find that some broadcasters are still not sure on how

this works. If there is anyone in your group who broadcasts or is a panel

operator but only doing a few pro-

grams a year they still need to know how this system works. Playing the

sponsorships in your programs is a very important revenue stream to Ra-

dio 4EB and also GLOBAL Digital. We

do, however, acknowledge the difficul-ty in locating the sponsorships for

GLOBAL programs for the moment until a second screen is installed in the

Digital Studios.

This month I would like to re-mind all broadcasters about Mic Tech-

nique in the studio. On listening across the station to several different pro-

grams it seems broadcasters are for-getting to use the Mic correctly by not

being positioned in front of the Mic.

Using a Mic correctly in the studio as a broadcaster or a guest is important for

the sound of your program and even more importantly for the listener. Re-

member if the listener cannot hear the

program properly they are likely to switch off or tune in again at some

other time. During the broadcast sessions

and also again during the panel train-ing courses I instruct new people on

how to use the studio Mics effectively.

I demonstrate good Mic technique and also show broadcasters how to use the

Mic in an interview situation with a guest. Remember, it is the panel oper-

ator who must check that the Mics are

set correctly for the broadcasters and also the guest in the studio. It is also

the responsibility of the panel operator to check that all headphones are work-

ing as part of their studio check before

going to air. As a general rule you need to

place the Mic in front of you and only be a short distance away (Maybe a

pen length). The studio Mics are not really suitable to be shared between 2

or 3 broadcasters so you may have to

decide who is going to talk and move into the MIC as required.

Good Mic technique is important in any studio and when it sounds good

your listeners will be happy as well.

From the Training Desk with Jeffrey Milne

4EB Training Coordinator

Radio 4EB and GLOBAL Digital - It’s all about the language

Listen to any program on 4EB and Global anytime,

anywhere. Click On Demand on

the 4EB website.

4eb.org.au

Elisabeth from the Portuguese Group

demonstrating good Mic technique.

Photos of Feb Broadcast session

and Panel Training groups.

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Special Talk Programs on 4EB and GLOBAL Digital.

The Wire on 4EB & GLOBAL

Producers: Eduardo Jordan and Steven Riggall Mens and Women’s Stories on Friday on GLOBAL

with Tim Easton

Outside In on Monday Nights on 4EB

Sam Moreno, Rose Richani & Sam Kelly

Letter of Thanks from Radiothon

winner - Brian Mathews who col-lected 2nd prize A food voucher

for Mega Continental Deli.

“When I first arrived at their ware-

house, I was treated with the utmost

friendship and courtesy by Helen. She

extended the same welcome to my

driver and we wandered around the

many lines of shelves holding the

greatest variety of goods. Helen’s

time and attention were graciously

given. Because of my situation, I

would never have been able to use

such a generous amount of goods.

However, with the cooperation and

understanding of Helen, and the com-

pany, I have been able, along with my

friendly driver to organise distribu-

tion of the selection of the $400 worth

of produce to a charity group who

help destitute , needy people of Bris-

bane. The selected goods were taken

last Friday (Feb 2) and will bring

comfort and sustenance to many”.

Always nice to receive good feedback from our winners on the collection of

major Radiothon Prizes and our spon-

sors. Thanks Brian, Your letter was very

much appreciated by us all at 4EB.

FOCUS on Thursdays on 4EB

Bep Torkington with new Minister for Multi-

Cultural Affairs, Hon Stirling Hinchliffe MP

Rise on Fridays on GLOBAL

and 4EB with Kim Mackenzie

Women’s Profile on Fridays on 4EB

with Maureen Mopio

Fair Comment on 4EB and GLOBAL

With Eduardo Jordan and Matt Dennien

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Radio 4EB is using social media to reach an even bigger multicultural audience. Encourage your friends to LIKE the 4EB page on Facebook as well as their language group Facebook page. Show your support, get the latest 4EB News on your language group, find out about events and station information by staying in touch through Facebook. ...4eb.org.au

Log on to facebook.com/RADIO4EB

Global Digital Program Guide ...Enjoy listening to an eclectic mix of world music in between language programs

Sunday 8.00am Telugu 2.00pm Scottish 4.00pm Punjabi 6.00pm Swara Lahari 7.00pm Tamil 8.00pm Samoan Monday 10.00am Spanish 5.30pm The Wire 7.00pm Tamil

8.00pm Asia Calling 9.00pm Filipino 10.00pm Persian 11.00pm Arabic Tuesday 10.00am Spanish 3.00pm Richard’s Traditional Jazz 5.30pm The Wire 6.00pm Portuguese 7.00pm Persian 8.00pm Arabic

9.00pm Filipino 11.00pm Arabic Wednesday 10.00am Spanish 5.30pm The Wire 6.00pm The Tiki Lounge 7.00pm Tamil 9.00pm Filipino 11.00pm Arabic

Thursday 10.00am Spanish 1.30pm Fair Comment 2.00pm Maori 4.30pm The Captain’s Hour All things American 5.30pm The Wire 6.00pm Punjabi 8.00pm Fijian 9.00pm Filipino 10.00pm Studio D’Essai 11.00pm Arabic

Friday 8.00am BEMAC 10.00am Spanish 3.30pm Men’s & Women’s Stories 4.30pm 1st Friday ( Multi-communities Gold Coast) 3rd Friday ( Middle East Stories) 5.30pm The Wire 7.00pm Tamil 9.00pm Japanese

Saturday 9.00am German 10.00am Samoan 3.00pm Slovenian 5.00pm Dutch 7.00pm Tamil 8.00pm Cantonese

Applications for the Lord Mayor’s Multicultural Busi-ness Awards are now open, providing an opportunity for Brisbane’s business leaders to get the recognition they deserve. Small business is the backbone of Brisbane’s economy, and these awards are just one way Council is helping to support up-and-coming entrepreneurs. Applications close on July 13, and the winners will be announced at the annual Lord Mayor’s Multi-cultural Business Dinner on 24 August. An epic program of science will take over Bris-bane for 5 days this month, as part of the 3rd annual World Science Festival.

The festival will take science out of the laboratory and into the streets, museums and performing arts venues of Brisbane from the 21st to the 25th of March As Australia’s New World City, we are proud to bring the World Science Festival to our shores to showcase Brisbane’s brightest minds. Music brings people together and the Brisbane City Council’s program Bands in Parks is there for every-one to enjoy. Check the full program guide so you can sit back and relax to a band in a park near you. To find out more visit www.brisbane.qld.gov.au or call Council on (07) 3403 8888.

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