On Sunday 25 January, Multicultural Arts Victoria’s 2015 Piers Festival was celebrated at Princes Pier, Port Melbourne. This is the place where my parents and thousands of other immigrants arrived in Victoria to begin a new chapter in their lives. It was a wonderful day of poetry, immigration stories, art, music and food!! The video for Mother Tongue was included in the exhibition component of the Festival. It was showing in the Gate House on the first floor with a spectacular view of the pylons from Princes Pier. A wonderful celebration of the first generation of immigrants who made Mildura in Regional Victoria their home.
The pylons of Princes Pier, Port Melbourne
The Mother Tongue video showing in the Gate House. First generation immigrants from Regional Victoria sharing their stories of leaving Italy, the journey and their arrival. The view out the window is of the Princes Pier pylons.
Great music, Tania Bosak and the Barefoot Orchestra
Beautiful plates and tiles from Turkey
And shoes from Peru.