End of the journey - Bass Coast Post

Laura, Jihan and Khadija dressed up for the occasion.

Professor Sabri, Daryl Pellizzer and musos

Lukman and Sabri sharing a laugh while drumming.

Terry our brilliant videographer captures the joy.

Sabri and Jihan

By Daryl Pellizzer

LAST Monday at Bass Coast Adult Learning we celebrated our Long Journeys project. We had around 45 people party with us and we were honoured to host some special guests to our little party.

There was a beautiful welcome from Aunty Fay Stewart-Muir, a Boonwurrung / Wamba Wamba Elder. She made a special Welcome to Australia for our migrant students. We also had Kate Gorringe-Smith attend. She is an artist who lives in Melbourne. We have worked with Kate in the past creating some beautiful bird images using the cyanotype process.

We had Tony, Macca, Mat and more from the local drumming group join us with guitars, ukuleles and shakers and harmonicas. They were wonderful and accompanied our singing so well. We were all uplifted by the music.

Thanks, Laura, for writing such lovely songs and putting the students’ poetry, conversations and interviews to such great use. Our learning and teaching were enhanced and deepened through this process. We had many different languages included in our songs: Arabic, Thai, Karen and English.

This story was first published in Wonderful Students Hit the Page, Daryl Pellizzer's Substack newsletter about his English as an Additional Language (EAL) students’ learning journeys.

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Laura Brearley - Roots and Rainbows

Photostory by Laura Brearley

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Delia Bradshaw - 10 months ago

I’m glad to see this wonderful project being celebrated in this way.

Carmen Bush - 10 months ago

What a beautiful collaborative experience and production. Congratulations to all at BCAL.

Anne Davie - 10 months ago

So wonderful to read about the Long Journeys Project at this tragic time of so much grief.

Greg Johnson - 10 months ago

Always moving to see celebration in diversity, and the courage to leave one's own culture, reaching out for new learnings and friendships in a new home! Thanks Laura for showing us what's needed after such tragic events elsewhere.