Browsing Tag 'homelands'
I was moved by this photo of a young Hazara taken, I’m assuming, some where in central Afghanistan. The photo was titled, “I have decided to learn, no power can stop me.” I’m not sure if that quote comes direct from Latif Kakbar whose site I’d found the photo on, but regardless it sums up [...]
Their names – Akbara, Doostizadah, Danesh and Hazara – were alien to my tongue. One or two I could barely pronounce let alone remember, but I will – in time. Their names were spoken, part-thereof, from the rear of their tongues where pockets of air seemed to surround the vowels in a hollow space rendering [...]
Tuesday late morning I’ll have arrived at the Dandenong Community Arts Centre for my first meeting with a small group of young Afghans. I’m now three weeks into a scoping report on a new, revitalised version of Home Lands, with myself leading its creative direction. I’ve done as much background research as I felt I [...]
Redrafted from an email sent to friends and family, written from a plane in the air and a bungalow in Johannesburg. I’m around 11,800 feet in the air on a flight from Buenos Aires to Johannesburg. It’s Thursday, 2nd of July and it’s a beautiful morning up here above cloud cover. It’s pink and a [...]
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