‘Stories of influence fosters storytelling in multiple forms, weaving over three days and two nights into an overall message of country and community whose aim might be as large or as small as asking us to create new ways of being as Australians’.
We live in perilous times. Maybe we always have, but not on such a grand scale as now. So, what stories got us here? Stories of survival of the fittest, and that we should subjugate nature as we chant the neo-liberal mantra of never-ending growth? Are such beliefs bullshit? Dignified Anger: Stories for a Perilous […]
July 21st, 22nd, 23rd 2023 Sharing memories of the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust Football legendary players, games and histories has been emotional. Everyone had stories. Some elicited smiles in telling of the early days. In 1901 players walked from the Trust to Cunninghame (Lakes Entrance) to catch a boat to Bairnsdale to play, coming home […]
Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust : Time to share memories and memorabilia: Omeo League, Football history Friday 21 July: 5.00 – 8.30 PM – Lake Tyers Trust Hall Saturday 22 July: Swifts Creek game and memorabilia (transport available) Sunday 23 July – 10:30 am – Auskick game – Lake Tyers Trust Full Program available here
Stories is about our lake and we are delighted that people travelled from Mallacoota, Bruthen, Clifton Creek, Phillip Island and Melbourne to be part of this gathering that shared different yet equally influential stories. When we make the space people bring their stories and we all learn. Here is a snapshot of people who came […]
Lakes Entrance fishing: Whenever we listen to local fishing, farming or forestry folk the message is clear, bigger is not better for the region: not access to the product or for the environment. The corporate ownership of these finite natural community resources changes the agenda from long term use to short term extraction detrimental to […]
Stories of Influence 2021 involved some new faces and some familiar. Neil Murray and Todd Cook sang stories we relate to giving us hope. Jan Wositzky entertained and expanded our hearts, Don Ashby shared the power of art in all times, especially in this time, Chris Flynn used imagination to look at our world and […]
International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. In 2021, this day happened to fall on the first day of the Stories of Influence, Saturday 8th April 2021. Here are some of the […]
An inability to travel due to COVID meant that the authors of Never Say Die: Hundred year overnight success of women’s football, Lee McGowan and Fiona Crawford (2019) couldn’t make it to Lake Tyers Beach, Stories of Influence in 2021 to present in person. Plan B was to link then up by zoom being interviewed […]