Magnetic Places You Tube Clip

Check out this You Tube Clip of Magnetic Places projects from 2009-2010: click on this link

Activating Berkshire Park Hall - workshop updates

Workshops at Berkshire Park Hall engaging residents and young people, facilitated by artist David Capra.

Berkshire Park BIG DAY OUT!!!!

The Namatjira Annex Reconciliation Mural (NARM) project update

The Namatjira Annex Reconciliation Mural (NARM) project is progressing well. We have brought together a group of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal people who are keen to get paint on their brushes and with our Aboriginal Artist Brian, we are developing the idea of a design which will tell a story across a series of panels and allow individual people to incorporate their own creative ideas to parts of that story. We will be receiving the mural panels during the school holidays and in the meantime consulting with local Aboriginal Elders and inviting them to come along and guide us through the design process

We are hoping to have the mural ready to launch at the Werrington Festival on the 16th May 2010. If its not completely finished by then we will still celebrate it as a 'work in progress' at the Festival.

We are also planning to have an event (in additional to the Magnetic Places project) as part of NAIDOC Week in July 2010 to celebrate the mural and even more importantly the journey that we have been on, coming together to learn from each other and share our dreams of the past, present and future.

Koori Stories

Koori Stories workshops are about to start next week!!!!!!!!!!

Dates 12-16th April 2010
10 am - 4pm
Cranebrook Neighbourhood Centre
Hosking Street, Cranebrook

For more information email nerida@spyns.org.au

Activating Berkshire Park Hall

WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!

Activating Berkshire Park Hall is a collaborative, community project, which aims to promote Berkshire Park Hall and its immediate surroundings as a Magnetic Place for all of the local community.

The project involves the creation of a functional yet attractive space that can be used by residents of Berkshire Park as a meeting place for all to enjoy. It will be characterized by artwork by local people, complementary to the surrounding area. An intiative of Nepean Migrant Access (NMA).

Namatjira Annex Reconciliation Mural project

Werrington Community Project Inc, the Aboriginal Arts and Crafts group and other Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal stakeholders are working together to design and create a series of mural panels on the front of the Namatjira Neighbourhood Centre Annex to promote reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, celebrate Aboriginal history, culture and community and mark the Namatjira Annex as a centre as a place where Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people meet to learn, teach, work and be together. As part of this project a one hour reconciliation radio program is being broadcast every Thursday from 3-4pm via WOWfm (100.7FM) with the aim that the program be taken over by Aboriginal people and turned into a program for and by Aboriginal people. We are holding a consultation meeting at 2.30pm Wed 24th Feb 2010 to discuss and plan the design and creation stages of this project. We hope to launch the mural at the Werrington Festival on the 16th May 2010 and maybe we will see you there. For information call Robert on 9673 6133.

Koori Stories

Koori Stories is a digital storytelling project that will train young people from Koori backgrounds in script writing, filmmaking, editing, digital photography and online film preparation. The young people will incorporate text, drawings, photos and audio that tell stories about the place they live, about their school, friends, family and the spaces they use in the Cranebrook and surrounding Penrith areas. At the end of the workshop, all participants will have produced their own "digital story" and be ready to share with their local community about Aboriginal culture and its diversity. This project is an initiative of Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) and SPYNS.

Magnetic Places 2009 - 2010 - new projects underway - watch this space!

Participants and Penrith City Council's Neighbourhood Renewal Program in the Magnetic Places Best Practice Information Workshop, held on Thursday 11 February 2010, Penrith Library Theatrette.

Projects funded in 2009-2010 are as follow:

• Activating Berkshire Park Hall - Nepean Migrant Access
  
• Koori Stories - Information and Cultural Exchange


• Namatjira Annex Reconciliation Mural - Werrington Community Project Inc.


• Queerdom - Dante Barcoma auspiced by Philippine Australian Community Services Inc. (PACSI)


• A Touch of Heritage - Philippine Language and Cultural Association of Australia Inc (PLCAA)

watch this space for more details to come soon.....