Working with Trevor Jenkins of Darwin we have built a house from thongs. Trevor and I collected discarded thongs over 4 years which we finally built into a House. This was our way of making a comment of what a home is to a range of different folk. There was a film running inside the house that told different peoples stories about home. What makes your home a home?
About Anna Weekes
Anna Weekes has a Community Arts and Community Development background. Working both in Australia and internationally on community directed arts projects for social justice. Anna has previously worked in Cambodia for 18 months with a local arts and social wellbeing NGO, and in Vanuatu working with a group of women to nurture and support their ideas on women’s community development projects.
Working in Australia Anna has continued working in the field of CACD with Darwin Community Arts, Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation and Katherine Regional Arts. Anna has successfully run numerous community arts projects including ; Arts in the Long Grass program for the past 3 years which featured the ‘10 Swags’ project and more recently ‘a House of Thongs’ both projects entwined stories through public interactive art, broadening understanding and awareness in the community around the complexities of homelessness, Katherine arts Muster, a community arts program which encompassed the Katherine region. Anna coordinated the Larrakia Nation Arts centre for 3 years, to deliver arts and cultural activities with Larrakia, other indigenous people living in Darwin and the homeless community in Darwin. Anna is currently working with Katherine Regional Arts as a creative producer where she has delivered the successful 'Katherine Arts Muster' over the past two years.
Anna has skills in working with community to obtain outcomes that reflect the needs and wants of community members. Anna can communicate in a range of settings with people of different races. Anna has a passion in the creation of personal and group expression through the arts and media. Much of the art created is used as a passage for social commentary with the desire to provoke thought and change. Anna was awarded with the Kirk Robson Community Cultural Arts Development for her work over the past 10 years in the Community Arts and Cultural Development field.
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