We talk to people about how they use creative practice to get by

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Michele Elliot

Textile artist Michele Elliot survived an earthquake, but found her life shaken by the experience. Through her recovery, she found teaching her craft as a road for healing and connection.

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Annie Werner

Dip into the colourful, handmade life of epic craftivist Annie Werner. From bushfires to chemotherapy, all the way Annie has kept on knitting, sewing and leaning into joy

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Joshua Heath

A stroke at 38 was a crossroads for artist and photographer Joshua Heath, but in a funny way, art-making helped him through this dark, scary time

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Ernest Bukasa

Arriving to Australia from the Congo, Ernest had dreams of a professional soccer career. When his health got in the way, he found poetry as way to navigate lost dreams and new ones too

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Bec Sandridge

Hear about one musicians' dive into music as a form of play and also processing tricky stuff

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Drew Fairley

Stuck in quarantine, at sea for months, Drew talks about inventing his one-man cabaret show, Actual Cabin, Actual Fever to stave off fear, anxiety and deep depression

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Kirli Saunders

How do we as Australians reconcile the collective trauma of dispossession and the cultural disconnection of Australia’s First Nations people?

AKNOWLEDGEMENT

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners, Custodians and Elders past and present of the Indigenous Nations of New South Wales on whose lands we work. We pay respects to the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal Nation. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, and we live on stolen land.

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