Feb 24, 2017 | Belonging, Your Stories
I was so stripped raw and at the same time I really felt like I was being held by the bricks, by the mortar, by the sound, by the community, by the people in that room. There was no judgement. It was powerful. I feel like the grandmother of the local music industry...
Feb 24, 2017 | Belonging, Wild Readings
There is a saying that it takes a village to raise a child. I believe it takes many communities to create a writer, or an artist. Tuesday night’s Wild Readings was another success: all the tables were filled with eager minds who’d come to listen to this...
Jan 18, 2017 | Belonging, Wild Readings
You never know how a free community event will turn out so Wild Readings was thrilled to have a full house at Mu’ooz Eritrean Restaurant for our first session this year. Yep, while everyone’s been feasting and holidaying, we’ve been working hard to...
Nov 25, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
Dad told a lot of stories and over the years. He’d repeat them and they’d be funny too and the fact that he’d repeat them, so I heard them at different ages, well, that made them stick in my mind. It’s probably nearly 40 years since the last time I heard him talk...
Oct 28, 2016 | Walking With Writers
In this third episode of Walking With Writers, things don’t go according to plan so I’m joined by my daughter and dog. We discuss writing, exercise and how self-care is important to productivity as we walk along Oxley Creek Common in Brisbane, Australia....
Oct 28, 2016 | Belonging, Wild Readings
Poet, philosopher and artist Abdul Ibrahimi reads from his poem ‘Home’ at the first Wild Readings event October 2016. Wild Readings: a public reading series for the storyteller in...
