Mar 17, 2017 | Belonging, Your Stories
In this extract from the Walking With Writers podcast Alana (Lani) Bosgra talks about how she interprets the world through synaesthesia, the support of belonging, and the compulsion to create. “My aim is to create what I can’t see.” On Belonging: “It’s the...
Mar 9, 2017 | Belonging, Your Stories
There was another incident where I fell down outside and I was crying. I was in the foetal position and I was screaming and I had this feeling that I wanted to go home. So I was screaming inside that I wanted to go home and had to figure out what that meant. My life...
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 | 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...
Oct 19, 2016 | Belonging, Wild Readings
Wild Readings: a public reading series for the storyteller in everyone Our first Wild Readings was a success. Tables were full at Mu’ooz Restaurant in Brisbane’s West End and writers were ready to read. In order of appearance: Lisa Southgate, who works on...
Oct 19, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
“A lot of people didn’t understand why I quit my job when I had a permanent contract, which is still rare with the economic crisis going on in Europe. For some people it would be a big thing for them, but it didn’t feel that way to me. I just resigned, put my...
Oct 19, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
But maybe this is a whole different spiritual level that I’m just starting to tap into. It’s not on a human level. It’s on a spiritual level. It’s not fair to expect others to fill the hole. So it’s a very strange concept, belonging. You’ve got to feel it. No one can...
Oct 4, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
Paula and her son Joshua (12) discuss the colour of belonging, immigration and learning a new language Paula: Belonging is every experience you have, like every morning in your life you have some experience and putting everything together it belongs to you and you can...
Sep 16, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
I’m still shocked to this day when anyone compliments me on how I look because I’ve been brought up, programmed even, to not to like myself as I am. The colour of my skin is not something I can change. I grew up mostly here in Australia and...
