A New Mural on the Walls and a New Book Celebrate WestWords New Centre Lauch

WestWords, Western Sydney's Young People’s Literature Development Organisation will launch a new centre on 28th Nov at 6 pm. I'll post photos in my facebook. A new cultural and arts hub. To celebrate its big step, WestWords will launch my illustrated North Parramatta primary school children's book (*not for sale, presents to the hardworking kids from non English speaking descendants), hang all the used illustrations and my image, below, enlarged will stay permanent on four walls, 2.8m x10,45 m, surrounding a stairwell. The staff has got so excited and me, too, in a frantically busy schedule! In the illustrations, I included children from any backgrounds. 

I really look forward to meeting my "authors," or the pupils. WestWords says that some children will read out the stories. Wow! WestWords ran a writing workshop for students and they worked hard in a writing club. An anthology book, "The Writers' Club" is truly a reward for a child. These books will be distributed to school libraries, too. 

Regarding a text analysis, Helen Chamberlin helped me, Books Illustrated (Ann James and Ann Haddon) gave suggestions incessantly and Margaret Hamilton AM gave me important feedback. WestWords staff has assisted me to create images. The students' writings are so precious in my eyes.  Any children are so gorgeous. They are our future. I hope they will remember this book in a tough time in life, get it through and reach their dreams. 

I deeply thank for anyone involved in this project and those who have supported me that makes my dream come true -- bring others love, hope and dream by my art activities. Finally, I quote the statistical data, a snap shot of Western Sydney people, culture and linguistic diversity, below. It clearly shows the importance of Western Sydney in Australia and indicates that young Western Sydney will have the great potential in rich cultural and socioeconomic phases.  

May this centre launch will cultivate Western Sydney and many talents will fledge out from WestWords!! Go, go, WestWords!! See you little authors at the party! 

Frineds, Draw On, Paint On and Create On!

WestWords demonstrates ; 

§  1% of Australia’s population live in the Greater Western Sydney (GWS) region.^* That’s 1 in 11 Australians.

§  7% of Western Sydney’s population is under the age of 35.^*

§  GWS residents come from more than 170 countries and speak over 100 different languages.^#

§  33% of people in GWS were born in countries where English was not their first language – with India, China, Vietnam, Philippines, Lebanon, Iraq, Fiji, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Pakistan ranked highest.^*

§  Greater Western Sydney has the third largest economy in the country after Sydney and Melbourne CBDs.^#

§  The majority of new immigrants (60%) that come to Australia settle in GWS and over the past decade 50% of these arrivals were from Iraq and Sudan.^#

§  One-fifth of the Aboriginal population is located in GWS, with the densest clustering being in Blacktown and the Macarthur region. Of these, 60% are aged under 24.*

*Source : 2016 Census
# Regional Centre of Expertise, Western Sydney University

Here's my research data from 2016 census, Australian Bureau Statistics. 

http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC13156?opendocument#cultural

People — cultural & language diversitydemographics & education | cultural & language diversity | employment

Ancestry, top responses	Parramatta	%	New South Wales	%	Australia	%
Indian	7,885	26.9	211,927	2.1	619,164	2.0
Chinese	4,766	16.3	514,594	5.2	1,213,903	3.9
English	2,242	7.7	2,302,481	23.3	7,852,224	25.0
Australian	1,899	6.5	2,261,062	22.9	7,298,243	23.3
Filipino	712	2.4	117,356	1.2	304,015	1.0

The most common ancestries in Parramatta (State Suburbs) were Indian 26.9%, Chinese 16.3%, English 7.7%, Australian 6.5% and Filipino 2.4%.

Respondents had the option of reporting two ancestries on their Census form, and this is captured by the Ancestry Multi Response (ANCP) variable used in this table. Calculated percentages represent a proportion of total reported ancestry responses in Parramatta (State Suburbs), and therefore the total responses count will not equal the persons count.

View the data quality statement for Ancestry (ANCP)

A New Mural on the Walls and a New Book Celebrate WestWords New Centre Lauch