Mar 18, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
I was introduced to Uncle Adam at a Close the Gap event in West End, Brisbane. Close the Gap events are held regularly to improve the health of Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, to close the gap between them and the rest of the population. What’s...
Mar 17, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
We started talking about writing first. In a Brisbane cafe. Then about the belonging project I’m working on, architecture, urban planning and how the three are linked often through art. James politely said he didn’t want me to record him and we digressed into social...
Mar 17, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
“I did this course, an Alpha course, about ten years ago. We just all talk and you learn and you grow within this course. And then we went into the chapel and we just had silent prayer between us and God and at this time all of this came out of my mouth — I was...
Mar 17, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
“I grew up in this Asian bubble in Sunnybank (Brisbane). You know you have people who have been here twenty, thirty years and they still don’t speak a lot of English….” “I never felt a big part of wider Australia because of racism and stuff. But then I...
Mar 17, 2016 | My Stories
Belonging is… patting a dog a hug from my son feeling accepted These are some of the things people — adults and a child — wrote on the Pop-Up Story Catcher’s portable blackboard at her inaugural event Friday evening at Bemac,...
