ABOUT
My Story Our Stories
The My Story Our Story (MSOS) initiative provides a platform for individuals, groups and communities across regional NSW to share
their stories and experiences with others in their community, celebrate diversity, and express their personal aspirations, hopes and dreams. This latest instalment of MSOS - THEN AND NOW utilises the power of storytelling to engender greater understanding, empathy and reflection among migrants & refugees in Orange NSW.
CCCW commissioned MSOS projects include ‘Then and Now; (NSW DET, Orange Culture Hub; Orange City Council); ‘Through my Eyes’ (Greater Western Area Health Service); Life through a Lens (Kids Xpress Inc; Art Gallery NSW), and Young Sparks (Essential Energy/NSW Family & Community Services).
MSOS projects promote community harmony and resilience and explore the potential of individuals and communities through their unique stories, voices and identities.
My Story Our Stories is a Community Connect Central West initiative, which fosters collaborative opportunities between Councils, NGO's, local service providers and our culturally diverse communities.
In 2015, twenty-five people from different cultural backgrounds visited the Canobolas Rural Technology High School to have their portrait taken and be interviewed by year 9 students. The resulting stories and images were presented as a public exhibition during the Orange Youth Arts Festival while contributing toward the development of a substantial cultural archive; a public record of the richness and diversity of cultures
in Central Western NSW.
