Stories - Bread & Butter
Bread & Butter is a monthly dinner and storytelling event designed to make you think deeply about social issues. A new storyteller every month will share a personal story with 40 guests in the dining room at the Centre for Stories. Come along and make new friends, hear a new story, and get to know your community. Compulsory: open ears and an open mind.
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- Story Collections:
- All Stories
- Rubibi Yarning
- Colourful Stories
- Against All Odds
- Hear Our Voice
- Backstories 2022
- Game Changers
- My Art, My Armadale
- Death and Dying
- Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home
- Zooming In
- Side Walks 2021
- Backstories 2021
- Forbidden Love
- Words to Live By
- Untold Stories of Perth
- Out of Touch: COVID Stories from WA
- Journal
- Rule Breakers
- On The Page
- 16 Days, 16 Stories
- Saga Sisterhood
- Food, Faith and Love in WA
- Roaring Nineties
- Special Stories
- Bright Lights, No City
- A Mile in My Shoes
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- Interview Collections:
- All Stories
- Storybound
- Breaking Blueprints
- Green Leaves
- Heartlines
- On The Table
- Five Minutes With
- Singapore Hot Takes
- Off the Shelf
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Bread & Butter
Rushil D'cruz - Growing Up, Growing Old
"It’s just that for a certain type of kid, growing up in a certain type of place. You need to fight, and you need to muscle, and you need to make noise in order to be heard."Read More -
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Tami Xiang – When Someone Says You Can’t Do It, Do It Twice and Take Pictures
"And it’s funny, without those pushing moments, what they tell me, I think I wouldn’t make my road to be what I want it to be, at least, these kind of things make me think, I think my character is, if I don't agree and you think I'm not good, I will try to make my weakness to be my strength."Read More -
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Father Andrew Albis – A Vocation Story
"I was born inside a car. We call it a Jeep because it’s a big car, it’s a passenger car; they were taking my mum to the hospital, but I was scared of the doctor, so I got out before we arrived at the hospital."Read More -
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Zenatalla Ibrahim – Lost and Found
"I think a lot of them thought that I had changed completely different person because I put a piece of cloth on my head and I re-found connection to God. I’m exactly the same person, maybe just a little bit more cynical. But I’m definitely a lot more ‘me’ than I used to be."Read More -
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Lucy Aboagye - Not Yet Perfect
"It’s so disarming, it’s so peaceful, there’s a joy that comes in creating that it’s not so much about the end product, but the product represents this moment that you’ve had with people around you."Read More -
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Mary Raftopoulos – A South African, Greek, Australian
Mary reflects on her grandparents' journey from Greece to South Africa at the beginning of the 20th Century and the parallels of their journey and her own.Read More -
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Krishna Sen – No Such Thing As Bad Weather
Krishna Sen shares her experience of walking the Camino Frances, a trek of over 750km.Read More -
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Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes – Leaving Behind Two Africas
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes shares stories of his homeland and the confrontation of being a black man in Australia.Read More -
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Ron Bradfield – My Grandfather Was...
Ron Bradfield Junior is a saltwater fella from Bardi Country but grew up in Geraldton, WA. He now calls Whadjuk Boodjah, his home.Read More