Details
Free, no booking required
NGV Federation Court
180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC, Australia
Dates
Sun 17 May 1.30 – 2.30pm
This panel explores how children can design the world they want to see through artist-led, collaborative publishing.
The panel includes young authors and illustrators of the recent Kids’ Own publication Our Place, Your Place, Benim Place, Uri Place, created by the young people of Carlton Primary School. These students collaborated with Kids’ Own Publishing and the ARTP (Arts-Rich Translanguaging Pedagogy) Lab at the University of Melbourne.
A key element of supporting children to design the world they want to see is understanding how young authors can use ‘translanguaging’, going beyond the translation of languages as if they are separate codes, and instead seeing each person as possessing a single vocabulary which encompasses a fluid use of multiple languages and other meaning-making tools.
Our Place, Your Place, Benim Place, Uri Place reflects this approach in its development. ‘Benim’ means ‘my’ in Turkish and ‘Uri’ means ‘our’ in Korean, a word that also holds a sense of connectedness, belonging and shared responsibility. The title reflects how the students move across linguistic territories. The book incorporates Turkish, Korean, English, Portuguese, Somali, Arabic, Polish and Amharic, languages that surfaced in writing, conversation and drawing as the book developed.
Kids’ Own artists will share insights into co-creation methodologies that recognise children as authors of their own stories and experiences. Julie Choi will discuss translanguaging pedagogy and the role of collaborative arts-based research in strengthening relationships between schools, families and local communities. The young authors will also discuss their collaborative process, and an animation of the book will be presented, created in collaboration with Pressroom Philanthropy.
Participants
Dr Julie Choi
Dr Julie Choi is Associate Professor in Education (Additional Languages) in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. She is co-editor and author of multiple books on language, culture, identity, autoethnography, plurilingualism, and academic writing. Her work particularly examines transnational educational experiences and language-cultural identity intersections for migrants and minority language speakers.
Ailsa Wild
Ailsa worked as a teaching artist for Kids’ Own Publishing for 12 years, then became a lead trainer and mentor for new artists. She has facilitated over 30 innovative publishing initiatives with a diverse range of communities. Ailsa has a Masters of Creative Media (creative writing) from RMIT and has been a member of the Women’s Circus since the year 2000. In her life outside Kids’ Own Publishing, Ailsa is a much published and much loved author of children’s books including two junior fiction series: ‘Squishy Taylor’ and ‘The Naughtiest Pixie’ (Hardie Grant Egmont), is the lead writer of Small Friends Books (CSIRO Publishing and Scale Free Network) and has authored non fiction titles for older readers – The Care Factor: a story of nursing and connection in the time of social distancing and You’ll be a Wonderful Dad!
Rio Ramintas
Rio is a graphic and visual communication designer with over a decade of experience working in the industry. They have worked on many Kids' Own projects, including 'My Place Our Place, Benim Place, Uri Place.' 'A Quack in Time' and 'All About Me'. Rio is currently working part time at Magabala Books.