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     Austin McLean Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 17 Registered: 09-2004 |
Exhibit until Feb 12 at Museum of Brisbane: http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:BASE:1590814292:pc=PC_1573 "Seven local writers speak of their own personal Brisbane. Brisbane is at a critical point as a city, with an expanding population, changing lifestyles and dwindling stocks of new land to develop. Through its Neighbourhood Planning initiative, Brisbane City Council, together with residents, is exploring the complexity of issues facing the city into the future and deciding how and where Brisbane will grow. In June and July 2005 Museum of Brisbane participated in Council’s Neighbourhood Planning by creating an exhibition for the five Your Home and Neighbourhood Fairs held across the city. The exhibition explored the theme of change - change in the lives of individuals and the life of the city, the micro and the macro, private and public. Seven Brisbane writers were invited to reflect upon their own experiences of change. Four local photographers - Jo Grant, Andrew Porfyri, Martin Smith and Carl Warner then created images to accompany the stories. The result is a fascinating exhibition called Parallel Brisbane. The Writers Ian Lowe - (Emeritus Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Griffith University, Futurist and Environmentalist) writes about the disappearance of market gardens and orchards but finds signs of hope in the Bushland Levy. Samuel Wagan Watson - (Indigenous poet) writes about the fabulous parks on Brisbane’s Southside and how much they mean to him. Lien Yeomans - (writer and proprietor of The Green Papaya restaurant) writes about whether Brisbane has an identity crisis. Clare Murphy - writes about graffiti and other forms of writing in the urban environment. Mary-Rose MacColl - writes about three trees in Brisbane that are important to her. Robert Forster - (songwriter and musician, of The Go-Betweens) writes about birdsong in suburban gardens. Susan Addison - (writer and editor) writes about being a suburban beekeeper. --- There is an article in today's Courier - Mail which reviews the exhibit and has this to say about Robert's contribution: "Go-Betweens musician Robert Forster remembers how, when his family decided to make the big shift to The Gap, it was seen as a major upheaval by his aunts, who couldn't imagine life so far away from their Hendra base. "We may as well have been packing up and going to Broken Hill," Forster writes. " In the landscapes of my aunts' minds The Gap was on the very far side of anything they could imagine. So amidst the powder, the tea services, the sponges and cakes and the rooms with knights' armour and Boer War swords. A decision made. Out to The Gap." ------------ Anyone have a chance to see the exhibit? | ||
| Megan Yarrow Member Username: Megan Post Number: 3 Registered: 06-2005 |
Yep. It's a pretty small, but pleasing exhibit in the City Hall foyer - certainly worth a look if you're in town. Each writer's 'Brisbane Story' appears on a banner that has been draped along columns within the foyer. I was surprised (and delighted) to see Robert Forster's contribution. Usually anything to do with the BCC'S Neighbourhood Planning is totally bogus. Still wondering when 'Danger in the Past' is coming to town though? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 144 Registered: 03-2005 |
Is Brisbane turning into Houston? | ||
| Megan Yarrow Member Username: Megan Post Number: 4 Registered: 06-2005 |
Not sure. Is Houston a one-paper Murdoch town, desperately trying to be something it's not? |