Black Diasporas Boorloo-Perth
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Black Diasporas Boorloo-Perth highlights the experiences of the African diaspora in Boorloo. Take a seat in the City Room and enjoy 10 short films and over 100 audio stories featuring over 150 local residents.
Join us for the launch of this digital installation, where Boorloo's African community share over 500 stories through captivating short films and audio stories.
Following the success of editions in Naarm (Melbourne), Tkaronto (Toronto), and Manhattan (NYC), this project celebrates the tradition of African oral storytelling. By hearing people tell their own stories, we uncover the rich diversity of Black life in Boorloo.
Explore our digital map and archive, showcasing stories from the anti-apartheid movement to everyday life, family joys, mental health challenges, and the impact of racial stereotyping. Covering suburbs from Fremantle to the Swan Valley, Joondalup to Mandurah, and beyond.
The joys of our success, joys of family life, playing as a child — the history of our suburbs.
Our voices telling our stories.
Events
Saturday 5 April | Black Diasporas Boorloo - Perth Community Opening
The community opening will include the following program of small group conversations.
2:00pm Welcome to Country
2:15-3:10pm A Black Motherhood Reflection Circle by Blossoming Kin
2:15-3:10pm Spotting the Signs: Identifying Practical Ways to Support Someone in Crisis
3:15-4:10pm The Western Experience: A Journey of Identity, Culture & Belonging
3:15-4:00pm The Final Journey: Death, Ritual and Remembrance across the Black Diaspora
4:15-5:00pm Working for Free
5:15-6:00pm Elders without Borders - The Black Diaspora Retirement Reality
5:15-6:00pm Can you speak? Raising children in the diaspora and keeping language alive
6:00-7:00pm Film Screening and Q&A
Monday 7 April | Experiences of the City, Architecture & Life
6:00 -7:30pm
A conversation about the Black Diasporas Boorloo stories, and the ways in which they have enriched our understanding of architecture and this city. This intimate conversation will be facilitated by a coordinator of the project, and include two participants from the project.
Organisers of the project are eager to engage locals, students, graduates and architects, newly arrived and settled migrants, international emerging architects in conversations about this city and how its design can create a built environment for us to thrive.
A Perth Design Week event in conversation with the Western Australian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects, Planning Institute of Australia WA, Cohen Connect, and EmAGN WA’s ArchiNATION.
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