Australia Council Fellowship

2-year Australia Council Fellowship for Jen Lyons-Reid 2015 February - SA

Interrogate stories, values and best practice in CACD to identify new narrative and media strategies:

Informed, egalitarian societies rely on individual critical literacy – our ability to understand and meaningfully engage in the ethical, aesthetic and political stories that shape our collective lives. Valuing and exchanging stories is at the heart of CACD practice and I am interested in how we collectively script powerful stories for social change within a rapidly changing media landscape.

 This Fellowship will enable me to interrogate critical literacy strategies across the CACD sector. I will explore the values behind the thinking that drives our sector, via a robust collaborative and creative peer-exchange. It will result in an exploratory, transmedia CACD model, published on The Platform, as an open source Critical Literacy Forum. Currently there is no accessible exchange on how we use narrative in CACD – this Fellowship will break new ground.

From the Australia Council for the Arts website:

Friday 5 December 2014

Australia Council invests in leading artists

Some of Australia’s most accomplished artists working in various art forms have been recognized with prestigious Australia Council Fellowships. The highly sought after fellowships, worth $100,000 over two years, are awarded to outstanding, established artists for creative activity and professional development.  

This year they have been awarded to 12 artists in seven art form areas. Find full list and bios of selected artists here.

Australia Council Chief Executive Officer Tony Grybowski congratulated the recipients of this year’s fellowships and paid tribute to the outstanding body of work each had already produced in their respective art forms.

“Fellowships have always been central to the Council’s grants program and for many artists they are life-changing to their career,” Mr Grybowski said.

“Fellowships are only granted once in an artists’ lifetime to those who can demonstrate outstanding achievement on the national and international stage, so the calibre of these recipients is very impressive. 

“One of the goals in the Council’s new Strategic Plan - Australia is known for its great art and artists - aims to build the capacity of artists to make excellent work and foster experimentation and risk-taking in all art forms.

“Fellowships realise this goal by supporting artists to develop their arts practice, experiment, research and create new ways to present their works and further their artistic ambitions and career.

“They play an important role in providing artists with the time and financial security needed to focus on their work and the freedom to reflect, innovate, experiment and collaborate.”

Fellowship applications are assessed and awarded by peers in the relevant art form areas.

Under the Australia Council’s new grants model, which begins in January, Fellowships will be offered once a year with a June closing date.

Past Fellowship recipients include Gary Lang, Alana Valentine, Archie Roach, Tim Daly, Judith Wright and Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.

Jennifer's Fellowship will focus on interrogation of stories, values and best practice in CACD, to identify new narrative and media strategies.

Miwi Wisdom - TarraWarra Biennale

2014 August - TarraWarra Museum of Art Healesville VIC

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Change Media was invited to collaborate with Professor Diane Bell on her recent one-act play with Ngarrindjeri weavers, called 'Weaving and Whispers: Miwi Wisdom' to launch at the TarraWarra Biennial 2014 'Whisper in my Mask' in Healesville, Victoria, August 16th 2014.

The co-creative, community-driven play focuses on Ngarrindjeri women's knowledge, the Hindmarsh Island Bridge affair and the role of anthropologists and curators in suppressing traditional oral knowledge.

Our contribution included creative support for the performance team, prop-making, the production of a three-channel moving image projection to illustrate and illuminate the play, for 3 projectors, and the video documentation of the work and the Q & A, produced in collaboration with our community partners from the Ngarrindjeri Media Team.

A Word from the Playwright

In ‘Weaving and Whispers: Miwi wisdom’, we invite the audience into the world of women’s weaving. What do Ngarrindjeri women talk about while they weave?  What does that have to do with women’s sacred knowledge?  How is this knowledge understood by the institutions dedicated to conserve and preserve Indigenous knowledge? Stories, told as women weave, reveal the hidden truths of their relationship to their country, families and sacred beliefs. This knowledge is inaccessible to those who privilege written texts and dismiss oral traditions. Through their Miwi, their 'sixth sense', located in the pit of the stomach, Ngarrindjeri wisdom comes to full voice.

We have been busy shooting exquisite footage of Auntie Ellen Trevorrow's weaving techniques and worked with Diane Bell and Darrell Sumner on the moving image elements, prop design and dramaturgy of the play.

The play was presented in two performances at the TarraWarra Museum, at the launch of the international exhibition ' Whisper in my Mask', co-curated by Djon Mundine OAM and Natalie King in Healesville, Victoria.

Credits: Moving image creation and documentation

Change Media

Jennifer Lyons-Reid - Artistic Director, Editor

Carl Kuddell - Creative Producer, Editor

Johanis Lyons-Reid - Director of Photography, Trainer

Ngarrindjeri Media Team

Laurie Rankine Jnr - Second Camera  

John Karpany - Third Camera

Cyril Trevorrow - Supervisor

Weaving and Whispers Play

Professor Diane Bell - Playwright, Co-creative Director and Producer

Cast

Aunty Ellen Trevorrow

Ellie Wilson

Debbie Rankine

Destiny Rankine

Stephanie Russell

Djon Mundine AOM

Dr. Karen Hughes

Professor Diane Bell

A special thanks to the team at Tarrawarra Museum Healesville for the invitation to be part of the 2014 Biennial ‘Whisper in my Mask’:

Djon Mundine OAM - co-curator of the Tarrawarra Biennial

Victoria Lynn - Tarrawarra Museum Director

The documentation and moving image production was supported through

The South Australian Government Arts SA Partnership for Strategic Communities

Tallstoreez Productionz

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

The Play and Performance were supported by generous contributions to the '21st Century Lamington Drive' for the ‘Ngarrindjeri Women Weavers Project’ designated by the National Foundation for Australian Women as a preferred donor fund;

by the Meningie Uniting Church through a gift to the Ngarrindjeri Lands and Progress Association

and by Victor Harbor Removals through donation of boxes for props

© 2014 Change Media, Diane Bell, Ngarrindjeri Land & Progress Association, and the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

We Are Ngarrinjderi - ABC

Ngarrindjeri Media 2014 June - Coorong SA

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We are Ngarrindjeri is a Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and Change Media collaboration.
Through our ongoing groundbreaking cross-cultural partnership with Ngarrindjeri, Change Media has worked with the Ngarrindjeri Media Team, headed up by Luke Trevorrow, Clyde Rigney and Laurie Rankine Jnr, and the wider Ngarrindjeri community, to create a video to represent Ngarrindjeri culture, past and present, as part of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority’s Indigenous Cultural Support program between October 2013 and June 2014.

The project included eight collaborative workshops with Ngarrindjeri community members and their media team. The script for the video was developed with thw Ngarrindjeri Media Team over several months to identify the best way to represent Ngarrindjeri culture and ongoing connection to their lands and waters.

The participants and stakeholders decided to use excerpts from the Ngarrindjeri Land and Sea management plan for the narration. The very poetic text was developed over years by Ngarrindjeri elders and had been approved by their leaders. We then workshoped the most appropriate and feasible way to visualize the narration, to be shot across 3 main areas of the vast and beautiful Ngarrindjeri lands and waters - in the Coorong, on the Murray River and at the Encounter coast around Pt. Elliot, Goolwa and Victor Harbor.

The result is an inspiring video featuring several generations of Ngarrindjeri, elders past and present, and the breadth of Ngarrindjeri culture, lands and water, heritage and other activities.

Credits

Producer: Carl Kuddell

Director: Jennifer Lyons-Reid

Writers: Ngarrindjeri Elders - edited selections from Ngarrindjeri Land and Sea Management Plan by Luke Trevorrow, Clyde Rigney Jnr and Laurie Rankine Jnr, in consultation with the NRA Board and Change Media

Production management: Luke Trevorrow, Laurie Rankine Jnr

Director of Photography: Johanis Lyons-Reid

Camera: Johanis Lyons-Reid, Owen Love

Editors: Johanis Lyons-Reid, Jennifer Lyons-Reid

Narrator: Ngarrindjeri Elder Major Sumner

Sound recording: Carl Kuddell

Participants and contributors include:

Auntie Ellen Trevorrow

Uncle Darrell Sumner

Uncle Major Sumner

Prof. Daryle Rigney

Prof. Steve Hemming

Margaret Sexton

Ngarrindjeri community members

Ngarrindjeri heritage rangers

Tal Kin Jeri dancers

Ngarrindjeri Media Team

Laurie, Owen, Johnny and Daryl

Funded through the Australian Government Office for the Arts Indigenous Cultural Support

Partners - Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships, Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of the Attorney General, Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association, Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting, Tal-Kin-Jeri Performance group, Tallstoreez Productionz

Meningie Foreshore Restoration

Ngarrindjeri Media 2014 May - Meningie SA

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Between April and May 2014, Change Media worked with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and its media team and the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, to produce a co-creative documentary about the Meningie Foreshore Restoration project.

The video was developed with the key stakeholders and shot during a one day production and training day at Meningie on April 16, 2014.

The edit included a one-day workshop with the Ngarrindjeri media team to finish the 5 minute promotional video.

The video showcases the amazing work done at Meningie, including the planting of over 23,000 local native plants, the naturalization of the concrete drain into a wetland corridor, the interpretive trail with signage, seating and bird watching platform.

It features all stakeholders, the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority rangers and heritage team, members of the CLLMM Restoration Project, the Coorong District Council, the Meningie community and school, the Friends of Meningie group, and Ngarrindjeri elder Ellen Trevorrow.

The project was funded through The Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Recovery Project is funded by the South Australian Government’s Murray Futures Program, and the Australian Government

Positively Fabulous - Women’s Voices

Women Living with HIV workshop - Bangkok ICAAP Women's Voices 2014 March - Bangkok International

Change Media collaborated with GloballyAware’s Artistic Director Kim Davis and women living with HIV from across the Asia-Pacific region during a series of co-creative community workshops in Adelaide, Melbourne and at ICAAP conference in Bangkok. We produced a 15min documentary and a series of Women's Voices interviews as part of a large scale public art project GloballyAware is creating for global HIV conference AIDS 2014 in Melbourne in July 2014.

‘Positively Fabulous’ will be a large-scale interdisciplinary community health-arts collaboration between GloballyAware, Straight Arrows, Living Positive VIC and Change Media, connecting Women Living with HIV, global stakeholders and communities through co-creative film-making, innovative public arts interventions and social media strategies, with on-line engagement via Feral Arts’ PlaceStories and ABC Open platforms.

‘Positively Fabulous’ combines an online platform with innovative engagement strategies through digital media and public art events and accessible peer-produced resource kit.

During the project we collaborated with women living with HIV to support their voices and offer them a platform to address the decision-making that affects their health, well-being and quality of life. With long-term benefits reaching well beyond 2015, this interactive arts project amplifies HIV-positive women’s voice for self-determination and effective harm reduction, human rights, social justice and equality.

View 18 short Womens Voices interviews here:

NUKSHINARO - Part 1 - Personal history

NUKSHINARO - Part 2 - NGO funding

ANANDI - Part 1 - Personal History

ANANDI - Part 2 - Stigma

JANE - Part 1 - Family Support

JANE - Part 2 - Children's Education

MELLY - Part 1 - Sterilisation

MELLY - Part 2 - Newspaper Media

MELLY - Part 3 - Social Media

NORLELA - Part 1 - Shelter

NORLELA - Part 2 - Condoms and Sandwiches

NORLELA - Part 3 - Relationships

PRUM - Part 1 - Capacity Building support

PRUM - Part 2 - Change Silent Places

SIRINTHORN - Part 1 - Women's Discrimination

SIRINTHORN - Part 2 - Knowledge Future Empowerment

SITA - Part 1 - Personal History

SITA - Part 2 - Treatment

Partners:

Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships

Australia Council for the Arts

Change Media

Globally Aware

Living Positive Victoria

Straight Arrows

Asylum Seekers Resource Centre training

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre media training 3 2013 September - Melbourne VIC

The Change Media team ran the final collaborative workshop in Melbourne with members and volunteers from the ASRC (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre). The 1-day workshop, focused on handover of a broadcast quality camera for the ASRC, to enable their members to produce their own creative myth busting videos and community campaign films.

The workshop forms part of an ongoing two year collaborative effort to debunk the myths surrounding asylum seekers and to create powerful media messages for TV, internet and/or video projection art. The Change Media team will skill up members and volunteers at the ASRC, to support them to create a self sustaining media hub as a resource for asylum seekers to have a voice in the digital age.

During the handover workshop, participants trained on their new camera and media literacy skill to enable them to transfer their stories into screen language.
This workshop conceded a successful 2-year co-creative process to support asylum seekers in Australia. The ASRC community media team now has their own iMac media hub with broadcast quality camera and all skills necessary to commence their own artistic work.

Big thanks to the Australian Nurses Federation for the use of their fabulous venue!

Partners

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

OurCommunity

Tallstoreez Productionz

Victorian College for the Arts Centre for Cultural Partnerships

Positively Fabulous - women living with HIV

Women Living with HIV workshop - Positively Fabulous 2013 August - Richmond VIC

Change Media collaborated with GloballyAware’s Artistic Director Kim Davis and women living with HIV during a series of co-creative community workshops to develop a prototype and teaser video for a large scale public art project GloballyAware is planning for 2014-2015.

‘Positively Fabulous’ will be a large-scale interdisciplinary community health-arts collaboration between GloballyAware and Change Media, connecting Women Living with HIV, global stakeholders and communities through co-creative film-making, innovative public arts interventions and social media strategies, with on-line engagement via Feral Arts’ PlaceStories and ABC Open platforms.

‘Positively Fabulous’ combines an online platform with innovative engagement strategies through digital media and public art events and accessible peer-produced resource kit. The project consults and collaborates with women living with HIV to have their voices heard and to input into the decision-making that affects their health, well-being and lives. With long-term benefits reaching well beyond 2015, this interactive arts project amplifies HIV-positive women’s voice for self-determination and effective harm reduction, human rights, social justice and equality.

GloballyAware’s Artistic Director Kim Davis is lodging a series of funding submissions this year to make the project happening; please contact us if you are able to support the initiative.

Partners

Arts SA

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Globally Aware

Living Positive Victoria

Straight Arrows

Change Media Training Toolkit

2019 August - Adelaide SA

Our Digital Media Training Toolkit offers a range of tips and tricks we have created over the years in collaboration with communities across Australia between 2010 and 2013. It covers the key elements of digital media production, from development, production and editing to ethics, impact and evaluation.

The toolkit has a strong focus on Indigenous media training and features many Ngarrindjeri participants explaining their step by step training process, during workshops in regional South Australia.

Interview Tips with Owen

Using Storyboards

5-Point Story Plan

How to upload photos

Sony A1 HDV set up

Basic 5-point story example

Storyboarding with ComicLife

Organize Your Shoot - Equipment

How to upload example

Camera basics with Cyril

Camera basics with Chris

Camera tripod with Rita

Camera basics with Rita

Camera training with Craig

Camera training with Arnold

Camera training with Laurie

Camera basics with Junior

Camera basics with Junior

Camera basics with Jeremy

How to set up a Sony A1 camera

How to set up a tripod

How to upload footage

Uploading demo

Distribution - Burn To DVD

The toolkit was produced with assistance from the Australian Government Office for the Arts Indigenous Cultural Support and the Australia Council for the Arts Community Partnerships.

The project also received support from the South Australian Government through Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships.

Partners

Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Australian Refugee Association Inc

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of the Attorney General

Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

VCA Centre for Cultural Partnerships

Tom Trevorrow tribute

Ngarrindjeri Elder Tom Trevorrow tribute - 2013 April - Coorong SA

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Media Release April 21, 2013
‘Tom Trevorrow passes away’
It is with considerable sadness that we announce the passing of Mr Thomas Trevorrow at the age of 58 years from a heart attack at his office at Camp Coorong, Meningie.

Mr Trevorrow was a strong and proud Ngarrindjeri man and a leading advocate for Aboriginal Rights in Australia. He worked throughout his life to better the relationship between Indigenous and non-indigenous people and to support the advancement and recognition of the Ngarrindjeri People. With his wife Ellen, Tom worked for 30 years to develop program’s like the Ngarrindjeri Lands and Progress Association and Camp Coorong that fostered and supported Ngarrindjeri culture, arts and tradition, such as weaving. Tom shared with Ellen a commitment to enriching the life of the Ngarrindjeri community and ensured this focus was integral to the development of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority. He worked closely alongside his brother, Mr George Trevorrow and his Ngarrindjeri brother, Mr Mathew Rigney.

Tom Trevorrow was highly respected by all for his wisdom and insight into Aboriginal matters and a key leader in advancing Indigenous issues. His contribution to asserting the position of Aboriginal People and its proper relationship to Governments and non-Indigenous people was significant at state and national levels. His reputation as an Indigenous leader and educator was internationally recognised. He was a sought after speaker by political leaders at all levels of government, by universities, local councils and community organisations. Mr Trevorrow was highly respected for his spiritual and cultural life. He was a person of great honesty and personal integrity. He will be sadly missed by many people.

Tom Trevorrow believed strongly that the relationship between Indigenous and non-indigenous people needed healing. He felt that the government did not consistently act in a meaningful or respectful manner in its dealings with Indigenous People. This was particularly the case when issues of power and control of government were being challenged by Indigenous People. Mr Trevorrow believed that the original promises of a just settlement in the 1836 Letters Patent for South Australia needed to be followed through by the State Government and that a treaty needed to be negotiated between Indigenous People and the State Government. He thought that a treaty would be a powerful healer of the pain felt by Aboriginal People in their daily lives and would provide justice to those who had passed without knowing it, and provide a proper platform for those Indigenous People living in the future.

ABOUT

Tom Trevorrow was a highly respected Ngarrindjeri man. He worked endlessly and tirelessly to advance Ngarrindjeri interests, whether this was as a group of people or for individual Ngarrindjeri people. He was Manager of Camp Coorong: Race Relations and Cultural Education Centre and Chair of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority. He had a deep cultural understanding of his lands and waters, he knew that the lands and waters need not to be disconnected from the Ngarrindjeri People and he fought hard with governments to make them better understand. He passes with the knowledge that the government does have a better understanding of these issues. He passes knowing his beloved Ngarrindjeri People are strong and have a good base upon which to build their relationships.

Tom Trevorrow will be sadly missed by many people but the work he did throughout his life will continue to influence people’s lives into the future. Our condolences to Tom Trevorrow’s extended family including his uncles and aunties, his brothers and sisters, his wife, Ellen and their children, Thomas, Frank, Bruce, Tanya, Joe, Luke and Hank and his grandchildren.

SCREENINGS:
The tribute was screened during the funeral ceremony as thousands mourners paid their respects in Meningie, South Australia.

IMPACT & FEEDBACK:
Unfortunately we were unable to attend the funeral and farewell ceremonies in Menigie, as we were already booked and paid to be in Melbourne that day – but we said our good-byes to Tom over hours and hours of editing on the tribute. Luke had requested us to produce a tribute video that would serve as a memento of his fathers work and achievements.

We feel privileged to have had the chance to work with Tom for so many years; from Jen’s work with him, Uncle Matt and Uncle George and other Elders on the Hindmarsh Island bridge campaigns in the nineties, to our digital media projects with him over the last 5 years. Beyond his amazing work as an advocate for Indigenous lands right and cross-cultural understanding, Tom also was a visionary leader who early on saw the power of digital media for the Ngarrindjeri communities. Tom, your voice will be thoroughly missed.

Jen, Carl, Johanis, Jesse and Felix from Change Media

Flow - Life Giving Lands and Waters

Flow - Life Giving Lands and Waters

Ngarrindjeri Media - 2013 February - Meningie SA

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The Change Media team partnered with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority in association with the SA Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources to produce a collaborative community-driven documentary about the Ngarrindjeri lands and waters and The Living Murray Initiative’s ICON sites during a four day capacity building workshop in Dec 2012 and edit process in Jan-Feb 2013 with the Ngarrindjeri Media Team.

Our crew worked with 12 scientists selected by DEWNR and the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, to address a series of issues about managing the River Murray, the Lower Lakes and the Coorong. Over 4 days we investigate the different western scientific and economic approaches, in comparison with Ngarrindjeri knowledge and cultural practice shared by their elders, and find out how both sides can work together for a better understanding of the fragile environment of the Ngarrindjeri lands and waters.

The film has already triggered some interesting responses, a researcher from Flinders University said the film sets a new benchmark for collaborations between Indigenous communities and government departments, especially on the contentious issue of water and land management and related cultural rights.
We also have been asked to co-present Flow at the World Indigenous Network conference in Darwin in May 2013.
The Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority will use the documentary also as part of their Native Title claim, as it provides supporting evidence of their ongoing cultural connection to their land and waters. If our work can make a contribution on this level, then may be not all is lost…

Partners

Arts SA

Australia Council for the Arts

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport

Murray Darling Basin Authority

Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority

South Australian Government Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources

headspace Virtual Tour

headspace youth media workshop - Adelaide Northern Virtual Tour2013 January - Elizabeth SA

headspace Adelaide Northern Virtual Tour - PLAY FILM

For their first project of the year, the Change Media team got together with headspace Adelaide Northern and their YAC(youth advisory committee) to create a fun and engaging virtual tour. During a two day workshop at the centre the team brainstormed and shot the film, which was aimed to make the service more accessible, fun and friendly and give some information about it for those considering accessing it.

The participants were part of a professional production, building on previous experiences from their July 2012 workshop with Change Media. Participants learned good interview skills, set dressing, and lighting theory.

“It looks professional and fresh and colourful and !!!!!! So excited about it! Thanks to everyone for giving us the opportunity to make something that will hopefully help more young people feel brave enough to come to headspace!”
-Suzanne

Partners

Arts SA

Australia Council for the Arts

headspace

Tallstoreez Productionz

Ngarrindjeri Projection Masterclass

2012 October - Hindmarsh Island SA

As a precursor to the Kumuwuki Big Wave festival, Craig Walsh and Country Arts SA held a projection masterclass in Goolwa with Ngarrindjeri participants. The masterclass explored the importance of context and space, and the meaning and context an artwork shares with its environment. Change Media were invited along to document the masterclass and develop a piece of digital media to be projected at the Regional Arts Australia festival.

Participants shared their experiences using the medium of projection art, and their experiences of person and place. The short documentary showcases the fun and adaptability of the medium, with a uniquely Ngarrindjeri perspective.

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Country Arts SA

Indigenous Cultural Support, Office for the Arts, Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport

A Life Well Lived - Disability Services SA

Strathmont disability arts - 2012 August - Strathmont SA

This 22-min community documentary is a great discussion starter for anyone working in or interested in supporting for people living with intellectual disabilities.
The DVD was officially launched at the national ‘Stronger Together’ disability conference in Adelaide, August 14-15, 2012.

The Change Media team ran a series of workshops with residents and staff at the Strathmont Centre, documenting the process, challenges and improvements as people are moving out of institutional care into houses in the community.
During the collaborative production in Adelaide, Strathmont Centre, Salisbury and Elizabeth, Strathmont residents and staff members of the Disability Services also learned skills in film narrative, interview and editing techniques.

Our team in collaboration with staff and community members produced a unique person-centred documentary with people living with intellectual disabilities. What does it take to shut down an institution and move its residents into community care facilities? Will they be better off in their brand new community house?

Partners

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Community Partnership Initiative

Department for Communities and Social Inclusion – Disability Services

OurCommunity

Strathmont Centre community