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Vice Chancellor’s AFL Ramadan IFTAR speech Time: 4:30pm -7:00pm Date: Thursday 30 June, 2016 Place: Adelaide Oval
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AFL Ramadan Iftar
Thursday 30th June 2016
Venue Adelaide Oval
Running Sheet
Time Content AV
3:00pm AV set AV tech to be available
3.30pm University of SA Students to arrival for an event briefing.
4.00pm SANFL Ready for Guest Arrival
4.30pm Guest arrival and directed straight to their seats
4.50pm Bachar Houli to recite Quran ( Ramadan Verse)
(Ramadan Verse followed by English translation on Ramadan)
Lectern Mic
Lectern light on
4:55pm MC (Miram Silva) to welcome and provide an overview of
Ramadan and event
Lectern Mic
Lectern light on
5.03pm MC to introduces AFL Head of Diversity Ali Fahour Lectern Mic on
Holding Slide on screens
5:04pm Ali Fahour to speak
Lectern Mic
Lectern light on
5:10pm MC Thanks Ali Fahour and explain formalities about Adhan
MC to mention proceeding of entree first then prayer. Prayer
room locations
Lectern Mic
Lectern light on
5:11pm Bachar Houli to the stage to performs Azan
Lectern Mic
Hand Held Mic
Lectern light on
5.11pm Guest break fast with entrée
Guests will break fast as soon as azan starts
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ENTRÉE:
Harira soup (Moroccan)
Lamb shoulder, chick peas, lentils, fresh herbs & Naan Bread
5.20pm Prayer Commences in Prayer Rooms
5:31pm Main meal served to guest
MAIN:
Zaatar Crusted Chicken Breast,
Spiced Potato (Batata Harra), Middle Eastern Pepper Salad
&
Grilled Baharat Aka Beef Fillet (Turkish Spice Mix)
Eggplant Tagine, Moghrabieh & Tabbouleh
Prayer Concluded
During break 4 x stools and Mics to be placed on stage for panel
5.50pm Plates cleared
5.55pm MC gets guests attention and and Introduces Uni SA Vice
Chancellor, Professor David Lloyd
Lectern Mic
Lectern light on
5.56pm Uni SA Vice Chancellor, Professor David Lloyd to speak
6.01pm MC Thanks David Lloyd and introduces panel
6:03pm MC introduces panel and Panel discussion
Bachar Houli‐ Richmond player & AFL Multicultural ambassador
<See the Bachar Houli Program in the pictures>
What made you start these programs?
Can you please talk to us about the programs both the
Islamic schools cup and the Academy?
How can people here get involved in these great
Programs?
Lectern Mic
Lectern light on
Hand Held Mics for Panel
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Alipate Carlile ‐ Port Adelaide Player and SA Multicultural
Ambassador
What are some of the programs you are involved with here in SA?
Can you please explain about the SANFL Alipate Carlile Diversity Academy
Based Baqeri‐ SANFL player and Bachar Houli Academy participant
What made you get involved in football?
How was your experience at the Bachar Houli Academy?
Salha Lemi – Ugandan born, female footballer
What made you want to try AFL football?
What is your favourite part of the game?
With the new AFL Women’s League, do you believe we will see more Multicultural females getting involved in playing AFL?
6:33pm MC thanks panel
Tea & coffee served to tables
DESSERT:
Gulab Jamun (Warm)
Fried Dumpling, Rose Water Sugar & Cream
6.41pm MC Introduces SANFL CEO, Jake Parkinson to conclude function
6:42pm SANFL CEO Jake Parkinson to concludes the function Lectern Mic
6.47pm Function concluded
6.48pm Isha prayer offsite available offsite
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Good evening.
I am honoured to be here with you today as we break
the Ramadan fast and celebrate with family, friends and
community.
And it’s fitting that we do it here in Adelaide, site of
Australia’s oldest permanent mosque,
which was built in 1888 from funds donated by a group
of Afghan and North Indian camel drivers.
The University of South Australia is very proud to be a
sponsor of this event.
Just as you have learned this evening that sport –
specifically football – is a ticket into Australian culture,
I’m going to add a plea for education.
We feel that education is just as important as football ‐
with significantly less chance of injury.
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Paper cuts, keyboard slouch and lecture room pallor just
aren’t in the same league,
and they don’t attract the same kind of pretty cool
dressings that eyebrow cuts, hamstrings and blown ACLs
get.
However, we are proud to use the power of education
to share cultural and religious understanding.
We know how successful the combination of sport and
education can be.
You only need to look at the SAASTA program –
that’s the South Australian Aboriginal Sports Training
Academy
which is jointly supported by UniSA, TAFE SA and the
football community
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and has seen some great results with Aboriginal school
children keeping up their school work and becoming
active members of their communities.
Many of you would know that the University of South
Australia plans to take a much more active role in the
process of cultural and religious understanding that is so
important to each and every one of you here tonight.
We’re about to become an Australasian hub for Islamic
studies.
In August we will officially launch our new Centre for
Islamic Thought and Education which will be based at
our Magill campus.
The new Centre will be led by one of Australia’s most
respected Muslim academic scholars, Professor
Mohamad Abdalla.
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No doubt many of you will know that Professor Abdalla
is an expert on Islamic civilisation and how it connects
with Western civilisation.
He’s an expert on Islam in Australia and on Islamic
thought and Islamic ethics and brings to us an enormous
body of work.
The Centre will bring together academics specialising in
Islamic civilisation, psychology, ethics, leadership,
management, sociology, finance and education.
Crucially, staff of the CITE have extensive community
experience and that will allow for genuine and grounded
engagement.
At the heart of CITE’s philosophy is our deep conviction
that academic research and teaching
– and football, although that won’t form part of our
scholarly work –
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will positively impact on our engagement with the
community, with media, government and non‐
Government organisations.
What we hope to create with this Centre is a revival in
Islamic thought and scholarship that comes from two
way conversations and insights between the Muslim and
broader communities.
We have much that we share with the Islamic
community and there are many opportunities to raise
awareness and drive engagement with the wider
community.
I expect to see many of you at the launch in August
which will most probably not have a football theme,
although I might be persuaded.
Enjoy the rest of the evening.
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Thank you