'Lounge Around' update - Wishes in progress
11th May 2010
In arts, Community, health, wellbeing
Lounge Around: Wishes from a travelling chair is under way in the community and has been travelling to various groups for the last four weeks.* So far we have collected over 150 wishes and are looking to at least double that amount. The wishes will then be installed in an exhibition in Mortlake around August.
Some places the chair has visited so far: Abbeyfield Mortlake; Senior Citizens; Probis; Mortlake College; St Coleman's Primary School; Terang College; Mount View Terang and currently the library and information centre in Mortlake. The
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Wishes in progress - 'Lounge Around' Mortlake
7th April 2010
In arts, Community, health, wellbeing
Mortlake project, Lounge Around, Wishes from a travelling chair UPDATE: See below some embroidered wishes that will adorn our chair - a small community group has nearly finished decorating the chair which is now due to travel around the Mortlake community from April 14th. Community members will be encouraged to sit in the chair and write their wishes which will be collected and displayed in a public installation later in the year.
NB: If you would like to post your own wish on the blog to be included in this project, please follow the 'make a comment' link and post your wish (no names
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Mortlake 'wish' project starts
3rd March 2010
LOUNGE AROUND : Wishes From a Travelling Chair is a small community project that asks the people of Mortlake and district to participate in a wishing exercise.
Inspired by Enid Blyton’s 1937 novel about a magical wishing chair, Lounge Around will attempt to engage and excite the community by inviting them to anonymously write and post their wishes, hopes and dreams to form part of what will eventually become a special community exhibition.
The centre piece of the project is a battered
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'Share Africa' project
23rd February 2010
In arts for young people, Community, cultural exchange, education, wellbeing
Things hot up as Nyanchar, Nyalip, Nyibol & Chuol ,Sudanese women from Ballarat, are preparing to deliver their cultural exchange workshop - Share Africa - to schools during Cultural Diversity Week March '10 under the guidance of tutor, Shiree Pilkinton.
The project
A group of Sudanese women are undergo training to develop a 1 ½ hr-2hr Cultural Awareness Workshop Package about African Culture suitable for delivery in
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A Stitch in Time - Update
23rd November 2009
In arts, Community, Recovery, Victorian Bushfires
UPDATE ON THE BOOLARRA QUILTERS - From Meg Viney, Project Manager
Over the past few weeks we have had correspondence from afar:
- A woman from Geelong has offered her mother’s vast collection of fabrics;
- A woman in Kyneton is doing a mosaic project on the Kyneton Hall, and would like us to donate fragments to their Project in return for a small quilt expressing their experience; and,
- A woman from Cornwall, in England is coming for a visit, and would like to see our quilt, and will bring a small piece from her group, who call themselves ‘The Material Girls’.
We have continued to
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