After Lesley’s fifth child Jack was born profoundly deaf, she and her family become unexpected advocates for CALD communities as Jack charts a remarkable journey through the WA school system.
Lesley Klem
Food, Faith and Love in WA is a nine-piece video series that has captured the stories of an incredible and diverse group of West Australians surrounding three of the most basic human values. This series was created for the Office of Multicultural Interests for Harmony Week 2017.
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"So much of storytelling is about lowering a bucket into some deep, dark well inside yourself and sorting through what comes up."
Islands of Home is the second series in Centre for Stories’ collection, The Indian Ocean. This is story three, Being Fashionable in the Land of Sharia.
“My dad’s parents are from Myanmar. They emigrated here in their 20s and this is that one curry that my family has eaten our whole lives.”
"In time, more and more poets have started to write more honestly and poignantly about their own lives. I hope this means that the ecosystem here has become more diverse."