We were last week awarded the Blue Mountains Binfluencer Award for our Problems that Matter – Katoomba Cafes Send Plastic Packing. This project is still a work in progress, and it was great to get some recognition for it. We have secured funding from NSW government with the support of Penny Sharpe and Trish Doyle, […]
The international anti-racism day is to protest against racism. We use this day to educate ourselves and others and to start conversations about racism. We did a survey of our High School, we asked: “Have you ever seen or experienced racism.” About 95% of the High School said they had either experienced or witnessed racism. […]
Mycologist, Merlin Sheldrake, argues our identity as individuals shapes the way we form relationships with one another, and affects how we share resources and responsibilities. It also justifies exploitation and extraction of the ecosystems that sustain us. As an invitation to break down the fence between self and the ecosystems that sustain us, we playfully […]
We are beyond thrilled to announce that SBS has acquired A Murmuration, the documentary we have produced about our 2017 high-school drama project, Healing Place, Healing Home. Shot and edited by award-winning local writer, director and cinematographer, Michael Joy, our film speaks to the impact we can have when creativity, community and education intersect, celebrates […]
Year 11, transdisciplinary theme: What is it we need to think and do to restore, re-story our world? In tending the woundings of power imbalance, we delve into the deeps of a Dionysian story*, of a god who was girl-faced, strangely dressed, who had the power of tree and the ambiguity to scramble any either/or, […]
When the going gets complex, why persist? Rose is a young person who has from the get-go participated in the Send Plastic Packing in Katoomba Street Cafes project. It is now a year down the track since we started this project as a way of actioning change within community. Our determination to succeed is both […]
Where did this Story of Separation begin? It has been a pacy and yet slow unpacking of the very complex story of human separation from nature and the consequent arising of human exceptionalism, that has led to the exploitation of nature and the marginalisation of non-dominant cultures/people. We don’t need a definitive answer to […]
Years 8 – 10, Sarah, Roman and I, camped 8 days on an incredibly beautiful and remote island that is part of the Great Barrier Reef. Daily ecology lessons deepened our understanding of the intricacies of reef life and it vulnerabilities to climate change. We snorkelled the coral garden of the drop off, and had […]
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