We are getting ready to launch

Hope you are all free this Saturday 1st June to join us for the launch of the project. 

From 1-4pm at the Maritime Museum, we will be installing soundscapes and stories into the different chambers of the HMAS Diamantina.

We have also been fortunate enough to have talented singers and musicians who contributed to the project perform for us for the afternoon as well. 

Ewan McKenzie will be performing Gypsy Jazz as a duet as well as providing music for one of our favorite true blue storytellers and singers Sylvia Delaney. 

Come join us for the afternoon on board!

Morse Code Messages in Queen St

Today I met with the talented Michelle Freestun as she set out to install morse code in dot form along the phone boxes in Queen St.
Each box will once deciphered reveal a sentence which will be a clue to unravelling different historic stories from Brisbane's past.
We will be linking relevant stories from the project that tie in with the messages here on the blog so you will be able to check whether you got the clue and discover a piece of Brisbane's history in the process.

Michelle's work is the start of the launch of our artist phoneboxes, with the Artist Hive installing an artist trail out of phone boxes from the Fortitude Valley through to Woollongabba; decorating the path with chalk and temporary signage.

We will also be creating a series of small installations of tiny scenes from the stories in the project into the shelves of phone boxes around Brisbane, so if you see something unusual its probably worth investigating.

And while you are at it, you may as well ring the number to hear a free story. We have selected one from a different participant for each day, so a range of tales from as large a sample of our contributors will be available.