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'Multicultural Wellington'
During five workshops, former refugee and host society participants worked together to interweave diverse experiences of ‘home’, ‘belonging’ and ‘public visibility’ within a group mural. Amidst the global ‘refugee crisis’, the mural tells a story of cross-cultural encounter and interaction; contested and shared geographic, social, and cultural spaces; and a vibrant, multicultural home and city. To acknowledge diverse, complex, and ever-changing identities, we left the faces in the mural blank. We hoped that viewers would see the image as representative – to imagine that that those people depicted could be any one of us, on our journey to belong in Wellington.
'Multicultural Wellington'
During five workshops, former refugee and host society participants worked together to interweave diverse experiences of ‘home’, ‘belonging’ and ‘public visibility’ within a group mural. Amidst the global ‘refugee crisis’, the mural tells a story of cross-cultural encounter and interaction; contested and shared geographic, social, and cultural spaces; and a vibrant, multicultural home and city. To acknowledge diverse, complex, and ever-changing identities, we left the faces in the mural blank. We hoped that viewers would see the image as representative – to imagine that that those people depicted could be any one of us, on our journey to belong in Wellington.