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Woman in hat singing: Oooh yeah! Get down!
Woman speaking: 'Telling Tales' came about as a result of Health Active Ageing and Disability coming together with arts and culture to do a collaborative project. We wanted to work with seniors and provide them a platform to share their own stories to other seniors in the broader community.
Man speaking: I enjoyed the opportunity to tell my story on 'Telling Tales' and indeed I felt honoured because our family had moved around quite a bit and we're very proud of our family and that was the whole objective that I wanted to achieve.
Woman speaking (in Vietnamese accent): After 'Telling Tales' I got a lot of feedback, some excellent session.
Man speaking: They are true professionals and it was really a happy time for me to be part of it and I'm glad I did it. I think everybody else I feel the same too, because it brought me out.
Woman speaking: This was an experience where it didn't matter you talking about yourself because there were a whole group of people who were going to talk about themselves and, “ah! I can identify with that. How interesting!”
Woman speaking: The result that I got from my granddaughter was, my little granddaughter said “You know what, mummy, I mean I'm gonna do very well at school this is because they listened to Dora!”
Woman speaking: Memories of Camberwell in the 1960s and how much quieter and more friendlier and easier it was then.
Woman speaking: It’s dynamic
Woman 2 speaking: It is dynamic. And the big thing that came out of today’s debrief more than any other time, is how familiar they feel with one another. That they feel like a family.
Woman speaking: What happens as a result of going through the process of engaging with the participants, helping them discover their memories in certain places of Boroondara, means that they're reconnected with where they're currently living and then, when they come together and share those stories, they reconnect with each other, then when they share them on stage, they reconnect with the audience members.
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