I met Tina in Catherine Deveney’s excellent Gunnas writing class http://www.catherinedeveny.com. We happened to be sitting next to each other and had to tell a bit about ourselves so we could introduce each other to the class. Tina is beautiful and intelligent. She talked about......
Jaime de Loma Osorio Ricon is the Deputy CEO of Banksia Gardens Community Services. Jaime is a dedicated, hardworking man driving many community development initiatives in the City of Hume, Melbourne Australia. http://banksiagardens.org.au "I do struggle with the concept of masculinity. I know i am a man but I think more and more, we find that can be expressed in lots of different ways. Perhaps we can rescue some of the things that we have thought of as masculine and maybe repackage them...like responsibility and courage. For example the courage to look at yourself and see that you need help and you can't do that by yourself...and that you are vulnerable."...
99% of this little piece came to me as I wandered around the Salamanca Market in Hobart taking photos. I was intent on taking a photo of the bustling market with the backdrop of Mount Wellington. Probably the billionth time that scene has been photographed. I was unaware of the woman in sunglasses in the foreground. When I saw her in the photo later I was delightfully surprised and intrigued. She stood out and there was a story there. Who was she and what was she doing there? I was pleased with the outcome of my writing. I hope you enjoy reading it. ...
Guest writer Tanya Hunter and her story “CTA” Early morning. Crowded close, but the air is still cool. The bus smells of soap, perfume and aftershave. Nothing recognizable – just the mingling of scents into a general aroma of clean. The smell of morning before the......
Rachel Wood interviews poet and artist David Regan as they walk through Green's Bush near Shoreham Victoria "I love it in here; it's so silent. As I walk through the bush it feels like the silence can actually invade your body....so it coexists....I'd really like to capture that silence in my art. So that's a work in progress."...
Guest writer Andrew Morrish "My entrance into performance and specifically improvisation....was driven more by a need to explore my “vulnerability” rather than my ego."...
Rachel Wood interviews Peter Forrester about his improvisational dance practice. "I came to dance very late in my life... It felt like I was coming home to myself. It allows me to express this deep essence of myself; my authentic self. No-one else is in this situation, in this location, at this particular time—its a unique creative act. Its kind of rebellious in a way."...
