The South East Regional Community Health Service (SERCHS) and the Limestone Coast Migrant Resource Centre (LCMRC) partnered in 2012 to initiate a healthy eating and physical activity program.
South Australian Visual Artist, Daniel Connell worked with community members in Mount Gambier, Naracoorte, Lobethal, Murray Bridge and the Riverland to assist them to identify and express their thoughts about health through art.
Country Health SA in partnership with the University of South Australia’s Human Rights and Security Cluster, funded similar projects around the state and the works emerging from each project have been collated into a published storybook ‘Together Here for a Healthier Life; improving migrant health in regional South Australia‘.
The workshops and artworks helped participants, to engage with the abstract question – ‘what makes a healthy life’, to express their own perspective, to feel honored as an individual through portrait making and to explore a potential career path in the arts.
The program assisted participants to create a book and an exhibition which will challenge our understanding about who makes up the community, raise our awareness of the changing face of rural Australia and remind us all, that making healthy life choices is grounded in a sense of belonging.
The storybook and artwork will be launched on Sunday 21 July and the exhibition will run for 2 weeks in the foyer of The Main Corner, Mt Gambier.
The Main Corner Foyer, 1 Bay Road, Mt Gambier.
Cost: FREE
Launch:
Sunday 21st July
5.00pm – 8:00pm
Exhibition:
21 July to 2 August
For More Information Contact:
Jamie Ryan
South East Regional Community Health Service
phone: (08) 8721 1460
Country Arts SA pays respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and recognises their continuing connection and spiritual relationship to these lands, waters and skies. We are committed to listening and helping care for Country, and to safeguard, share and celebrate First Nations’ living cultures.