Launching at Vivid Sydney on May 26, new media project This Place is Yours aims to embrace creativity and storytelling as a way to celebrate the human experience, with a platform to connect on a level that matters.
The launch event will feature personal narratives from six leading speakers/storytellers who will discuss how the art of story has influenced their lives. The six speakers include spoken-word poet Miles Mirrell, FBi Radio’s ‘All the Best’ producer Belinda Lopez, children’s book author Melanie Lee, acclaimed photographer Cybele Malinowski, filmmaker Jordan Bryon, and mental health advocate Sebastian Robertson.
The launch will also celebrate the release of a book and a website, where the public is encouraged to share their personal narratives in writing, art or video. The result of a successful crowd-funding campaign, the book includes personal narratives about various human experiences, ranging from growing pains to coming out, surviving rape and abuse to finding happiness after grief, falling in love to breaking up, and many things in between.
Staying true to the project’s mission of destigmatising pain and mental health difficulties, the book includes reflections on depression, anxiety, and suicide – both from a person bereaved by it to a brave survivor of an attempt of it. Although not confined to contributors who have received notable recognition, the book includes contributions by local and international talent such as New York artist Jeremyville and musician Ben Lee.
The online platform is now live: http://www.thisplaceisyours.com
THIS PLACE IS YOURS – VIVID SYDNEY
Sunday, 26 May – 7pm to 9pm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Circular Quay
Tickets are $15/$10 – http://www.vividsydney.com
This Place is Yours (book) is available for purchase via select stockists and http://thisplaceisyours.bigcartel.com
