Activities

2011 DREAMERS’ PROJECTS

2011 DREAMERS' PROJECTS

The Dreamers of 2011 graduated at Tranby Aboriginal College on 11 December 2011. Everyone who began the program graduated – an amazing achievement! We are super proud of them! Here they are on graduation day with the HBaYD Team.                       You can immerse yourself in [...]


September Again – Redfern Magic

We met twice in September. On 24 and 25 September, we returned to the Redfern Community Centre and the music studio with the capable assistance of Tania Bowra. Nadeena joined us again to help to produce the music. Before we moved inside to work, Nadeena gave the group some insight into Redfern “then and now”, [...]


September – Back at the Ranch @ NCIE

We had a busy month in September. On 10 – 11 September, we camped out at NCIE to work on our projects again. We were thrilled to welcome Nadeena Dixon to our program for a while. Nadeena looked after the participants at night and continued to work with Taminya and Taylor to make music. Both [...]


August – Project Day @ CuriousWorks

With only four months to go until graduation, it was a focused day of activities at CuriousWorks near Central Station. Each participant worked with staff and guest specialists (Stephen Beeson (games); Kate Box (acting)) to progress their projects. The acting posse (Georgia & Jeremy) began to rehearse and shoot scenes on video. Blake moved his [...]


July – Culture Camp – Nowra

Read about our time out at Illaroo Farm on the outskirts of Nowra!


June – The National Gallery of Australia & The Tent Embassy – Canberra

June - The National Gallery of Australia & The Tent Embassy - Canberra

Read about our awesome trip to Canberra!


The Room

The Room

‘The Room’ was created and shot by the 2011 HBaYD participants in April, 2011.


May – Project Day – La Perouse

We were blessed with beautiful weather and once we all found the venue (Yarra Bay House), we set about working individually and in small groups outside in the sun with beautiful views of Botany Bay.Zoe worked with Luwana (Micky) on her poetry project. She has said that she would like to write some poems in [...]


April – Shooting our Short Film – NCIE

April - Shooting our Short Film - NCIE

What a crazy big weekend of film making we’ve had!
Our latest residency at NCIE has been a really fun and exciting weekend and we’ve managed to write and shoot our very own short film!


March – Project Day – Redfern Community Centre

March - Project Day - Redfern Community Centre

Today was our first Project Day at Redfern Community Centre! We spent most of the day coming up with visual ways to represent ourselves as a group, and beginning to articulate our dreams more, and what we can do to achieve them.