Gullinyjas, means good things happen.
The Gullinyjas program is a project of Nelly’s Healing, a Redfern-based, Aboriginal organisation facilitating communal and individual healing.
The Project serves women impacted by the child protection and criminal justice systems. Workshops cover alcohol & drugs, domestic violence, mental health, legal issues, cultural identity and cooking.
This year an "imagined context" was added to the outcomes of the Project's make-up and photography day. It was so successful that imagined contexts were then added to earlier series.
Studio portraits, placed within an imagined context
Three projects combined • Persona • Projection • Personal country
For over 50 years Beehive Industries operated as a not-for-profit social enterprise, providing mail house, fulfilment and packaging services to clients keen on working with community-level enterprises.
The community's members, mainly aged inner-city residents, formed the heart of the organisation. This year, imagined backgrounds were added to Beehiver Ross Wallis's original portraits to produce a series of birthday and Christmas cards.
The cards show how the last cohort of Beehivers identified and contributed to their community. With the facility's recent closure, the cards provided Beehivers with mementos of their time there and the friends they made.
St Francis of Assisi church and school community, Paddington, celebrate St Francis’ feast by inviting their members, friends and their much-loved pets to the church for special blessings. Since their founding 800 years ago, the Franciscans have shown a special affinity with the natural world including with animals.
As part of the project, people can download for free, portraits of themselves with their pets.
For nearly 13 years I have been part of a regular family roster that bags-up unsold bread from Bakers' Delight in Lane Cove and delivers them to the Matt Talbot Hostel for homeless men at Woolloomooloo. My involvement is once a month which is managed through the family roster. Ultimately the roster is a part of a larger project coordinated by St Vincent de Paul. As Baker's Delight policy is to close with fairly full shelves, there is literally a shopful of bread to bag and transport. Through the broader project, the residents of Matt Talbott regularly receive fresh breads, buns and pastries, representing a huge annual saving for those managing the hostel's budget. The staff always express their gratitude for the deliveries, and residents often help with unloading. And of course, consumer waste is reduced to zero.
