Gullinyjas project
Gullinyjas, means good things happen. It is a project of Nelly’s Healing, a Redfern-based Aboriginal organisation promoting communal and individual healing through a range of services and processes.
The project serves women impacted by the child protection and criminal justice systems. Workshops focus on alcohol and drugs, domestic violence, mental health, legal advocacy, cultural identity and cooking.
The project features a Pamper Day, where participants are professionally made-up and undertake a photo-shoot. Outcomes over three years, enhanced now with computer graphics, feature in the video below.
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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, were the heart of the enterprise. Beehiver, Ross Wallis's portraits formed the basis of a series of Christmas and birthday cards, produced with AI-generated graphics.
The cards acknowledged the way the last cohort of Beehivers identified and contributed to their community. With the facility's recent closure, the cards provided Beehivers with momentos of time spent there and the friends they made on the way.
St Francis of Assisi church and school community, Paddington, celebrate Francis’ feast by inviting their members, friends and much-loved pets to the church for the resident Franciscan friars’ special blessing. From their founder, the order has evolved a special affinity with all forms of nature, often welcoming pets into the services. Since the late 20th century St Francis has been regarded as the patron saint of ecology, an activity he would have recognised 800 years ago if the word had existed.
