MUSEUM Victoria’s Talking Difference Portable Studio will be coming to Sydenham Library, offering young people in Brimbank another opportunity to share ideas and dialogue about cultural identity and tolerance.
Talking Difference is an online media project aimed at promoting diversity and challenging discrimination by encouraging young people to create new works in film, sound, images and text.
The project was launched at the Sunshine Library in September and proved popular, with youngsters making almost a hundred responses in text, video and audio that ranged from beatboxing, to Auslan signing, singing and couples reminiscing.
The portable studio is currently touring Brimbank libraries until November. The project is expected to help strengthen the community further by widening understanding and acceptance of cultural differences.
David Henry, senior programs officer of Immigration Museum, said he was impressed with the ideas and creativity expressed by community-members when the Portable Studio was in Sunshine.
“People really engaged with each other’s work and clearly have a lot to say about cultural diversity and racism,” Mr Henry said.
“Our goal is that people not only become new media makers through the project but also become champions for sharing ideas and dialogue about cultural diversity and intercultural understanding”.
