‘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’.
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, sounds...
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...
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...
Waltz for Wairewa A performance created from “Stories from Wairewa” conveying details of everyday life in a small, isolated rural community in its early days in the 1900s. The sources of material are the spoken word from residents in the valley, un-published family documents, and a limited use of the Public Records Of Victoria (PROV). […]
Lynne Kelly – The memory code – 3.30 Saturday Jan Wositzky introduced us to Lynne Kelly who’s writing on memory skills of indigenous cultures worldwide: Celtic, Welsh, Peruvian, Native American, Australian Aboriginal…. Lynne became aware of the thousands of animals and plants, astronomical charts, vast navigation networks, genealogies, geography, land management and geology … vast […]
Dr. Aunty Doris Paton Quilt making as a site for sharing stories. Doris Paton will share her story of choosing quilt making as a point of connection between academic knowledge and community ways of knowing. The focus is the Woolum Bellum School My quilts crafted with multiple layers of knowledge offer the community a visual […]
Her story of connection In December 2016 descendants of Bessy Flowers listened to her story. Aunty Phyllis is one of these descendants and she will share some of the story of her ancestor: the forced migration of the five mission girls from Albany, Western Australia, to Gippsland, Victoria, of whom Bessy’s story is the only one […]