‘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’.
As an organiser, I want to know the impact of Stories, whether it’s worth creating these gatherings. What people told us: Loved the stories and songs. The feast of food and ideas. It “fed” me in so many ways. This [event] inspired me with the rich knowledge of presenters. I felt nourished by the creativity. […]
Listen to a selection of interviews, from ABC Radio Gippsland, with Rachael Lucas and presenting artists at the 2021 Stories of Influence, March 6 – 8, 2021. Aviva Reed is an author who demystifies time, scale, and relationship using storytelling, visualisations, soundscapes and conversations. Her book Eon: The story of fossils is a ‘gorgeous picture […]
Stories of Influence 2021 has a theme of healing the land. An invitation to listen to the land and people. Alice Ann Pepper speaks of this during her residency on The Floating Art Studio on Lake Tyers. (2021) Interviewer Rachael Lucas, ABC Gippsland, on 7th February, 2021
Stories begins at mid-day Saturday 6th March with walk and talk at Onenta (place of peace) then moves to Lake Tyers Beach Hall -ends mid day Monday 8th. Come and join conversations that can reshape how we experience our lives as Australians. Like the rest of the world we have made changes: some new faces […]
ABC Journalist Rachael Lucas’s interview with legendary singer songwriter Neil Murray takes us through the early years of Neil’s search to ‘find out’ more about the people who once inhabited this country, their lives and stories. Neil speaks of the fun and influence of those early years setting up the Warumpi Band, holding their own […]
Stories of influence @ Lake Tyers Beach Hall October 18th – 20th, 2019 Offers seemingly diverse stories from writers, storytellers and artists. Come along and find your own connections with these stories that fill in gaps in our public knowing. Cal Flyn – talks to us via zoom from her home in Orkney sharing her […]
2019 Stories of Influence Program available now
When storytellers craft stories from hidden histories it can reshape our understanding of the world. This is a weekend for listeners and thinkers, writers, word weavers and walkers. Writers Victoria is celebrating 30 years with a panel of writers talking about writing and publishing over 30 years, 20 years, 10 years and new writers. Come […]