The five university students were standing and sitting around a very low sofa. I started chatting with them and found out they were all studying the dramatic ..
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“I didn’t realize community engagement was my passion until I started working at Inala Community House. We run different programs and work a lot with ..
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“Belonging? That’s why I started volunteering. It has been a turning point in my life. I’ve found it difficult to make friends in Brisbane and ..
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“Now, there’s always a solution. Before, it was always hopeless. I was always lost if mentally sick or physically sick, not that I get sick a lot. ..
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I met Shani at bean. in the centre of Brisbane. I’ll be at bean. in May for the Anywhere Festival collecting your stories of belonging and outsiderness ..
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Laurette didn’t like this photo of herself. But her brother, the other half of their musical group Laurette N James, did. So she let me use it. Laurette came ..
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Natalie de Jager, who is a singer and songwriter, talks about the practicalities of belonging and how contributing and feeling useful is part of belonging at ..
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I met Trent at the Close the Gap event in Brisbane’s West End. There was a dynamic vibrant painting hanging on one of the walls of the enclosed park and I’d ..
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Anje, who performs Brazilian music with her group The View From Madeleine’s Couch, talks about how a space, an unknown country, can grab us and envelope ..
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I met Trisha at Bemac’s networking night for female musicians. She didn’t know anyone when she arrived and looked a little uncertain walking into a crowd. ..
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