Crafting of an Australian Citizenship Quilt NSW Contributions
Crafting of an Australian Citizenship Quilt NSW Contributions
Crafting of an Australian Citizenship Quilt NSW Contributions
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Liverpool Migr<strong>an</strong>t Resource Centre, <strong>NSW</strong><br />
Arabic Playgroup<br />
Families who attend this group have children under the<br />
age <strong>of</strong> five, living in Green Valley or surrounding areas.<br />
They include Australi<strong>an</strong>/Kuwaiti ,Australi<strong>an</strong>/Pakist<strong>an</strong>i<br />
<strong>an</strong>d Australi<strong>an</strong>/Fiji<strong>an</strong> families. With the help <strong>of</strong> Arabic<br />
speaking local artists, the families worked together to<br />
contribute a series <strong>of</strong> three “squares” for the Australi<strong>an</strong><br />
<strong>Citizenship</strong> <strong>Quilt</strong>.<br />
ID203<br />
ID204<br />
ID205<br />
New Bride<br />
One day while I was walking on one <strong>of</strong> Sydney’s<br />
beaches<br />
I remembered the wedding ceremonies in Pakist<strong>an</strong><br />
how the bride sits on a camel<br />
with colourful curtains around her<br />
<strong>an</strong>d is taken to the couple’s new home.<br />
With this beautiful memory<br />
I feel that I am that bride, with all the new possibilities<br />
opening up before her.<br />
The purity <strong>of</strong> the Australi<strong>an</strong> oce<strong>an</strong> symbolises the bad<br />
experiences <strong>of</strong> my past being cle<strong>an</strong>sed away.<br />
Like a new bride<br />
I c<strong>an</strong> start a new life.<br />
I am a new bride everyday<br />
in my new country<br />
Australia.<br />
The Coconut<br />
Coconut, brown, white <strong>an</strong>d pure water.<br />
A present sent to me by my cousin from Australia.<br />
I was a child at the time.<br />
I spent a long time looking at it before I opened it <strong>an</strong>d<br />
decided that my dream was inside it.<br />
A dream to be where my cousin lives<br />
Australia - brown coconut, white hearts <strong>an</strong>d pure<br />
relationships between people.<br />
Australia’s Sun<br />
As I walked I felt the sunshine on my skin.<br />
The Australi<strong>an</strong> sun goes inside my body, washes my<br />
soul with her bright light.<br />
Makes me whiter <strong>an</strong>d lighter.<br />
Gives me the energy to live in this beautiful l<strong>an</strong>d, <strong>an</strong>d<br />
take all the adv<strong>an</strong>tages it <strong>of</strong>fers to me.<br />
Carrying inside <strong>of</strong> me the most beautiful bright sun,<br />
Australi<strong>an</strong> sun.
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