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Place Names Melville gets Lotterywest funding boost

News, Mandurah, Melville

Place Names Melville gets Lotterywest funding boost

CAN is proud to announce our partners, the City of Melville have received a $709,175 grant from Lotterywest for the Place Names Melville Project, which will help the City to continue work on this important Reconciliation project.

09 November 2022

Rooted in Freedom

Event, Perth

Rooted in Freedom

A collaboration between Soul Alphabet and CAN, Rooted in Freedom aimed to inspire young bla(c)k women aged between 16 and 28 to honour their freedom and express themselves authentically through the written word.

01 May 2021

Kep Koorliny

Process, Perth

Kep Koorliny

Kep Koorliny (Rain Coming) supported Noongar community members to use poetry as a medium for storytelling and to express their personal histories.

01 January 2020

Ngala Daa-Waangkiny

Event, Perth

Ngala Daa-Waangkiny

Ngala Daa-Waangkiny unified and amplified the voices of Rekindling Stories on Country participants with an innovative group exhibition and performance held during NAIDOC Week celebrations in Perth.

09 July 2019

Northbridge Poetry and Banksia is Lit

Process, Perth

Northbridge Poetry and Banksia is Lit

Running over 2018 and 2019, this project collaborated with the Centre for Stories in Northbridge to run poetry workshops led by award-winning local poet Nandi Chinna.

05 February 2019

Bilya Kep Waangkiny

Process, Northam

Bilya Kep Waangkiny

During the winter of 2017, CAN delivered a series of weekly evening workshops where community members gathered to write and share poetry, while enjoying a warming bowl of soup.

11 February 2017

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