TAP - Team ASEAN Performers
TAP is a direct benevolent intervention through therapeutic artistic choreography showcase a structured, collaborative choreography and performance program specifically designed for artists from refugee, migrants backgrounds and CALD communities.
TAP – Team ASEAN Performers is a signature initiative of ASEAN Ltd, enshrined in the Constitution to showcase a unique cross-cultural collaboration.
Photo: Parliament House, Canberra, 28 November 2024, artists from Indonesian, Laotian, Khmer Krom, Indian, Cambodian and Burmese communities
By integrating the distinct skills and lived experiences of performers from refugee and displaced backgrounds into a unified joint choreography, TAP provides a vital therapeutic pathway to relieve the distress of social isolation and the trauma of systemic marginalisation.
Photo: ASEAN artists performed at Parliament House NSW, 14 October 2025, from Filipino, Cambodian, Indian, Lao, Khmer Krom and Burmese communities, led by Phina Camilleri.
Statement from Major Walter Robinson OAM (Retd):
During my life I have witnessed outstanding commitments and achievements for Human Rights Issues from great AUSTRALIANS – Australians , like our former Prime Minister The Honorable Gough Whitlam AC, QC and The Honorable Justice Michael Kirby AC CMC . Their achievements are an inspiration for our own ASEAN NETWORK.
But a special entertainment was by artists, performed for us in their different traditional styles from 5 different backgrounds under a piece of Cambodian Music. This is truly a remarkable collaboration, in a world where we often have difficulty understanding each other, and today we witnessed ASEAN ARTISTS collaborating and showing us the language of social cohesion through performing arts.
As an Honorary recipient of the ASEAN Founders Medal, I must say thank you to all the new Ambassadors for taking the pledge to promote Australian Values.