In 2008, Red Room Education worked with Year 9 students in Fitzroy's 'Excel' sessions, to construct a 'Cabinet of Lost and Found'. Encouraged by their participation in the program and by their energetic young teacher, Ms Briony O'Keeffe, the now Year 10 students revisited the program through a different project.
On May 13 2009, the class presented and performed their group and individual poems to an audience of friends, family, teachers and supporters in the School's new VCE block. Poet Lisa Gorton attended, and the reading included a dialled-in performance from one of the students holidaying in Manchester. They launched a series of posters created from their poems and illustrations, which have been taken up by local businesses for display in their toilet cubicles. Hosts of the posters include Dench Bakery, 3RRR, Cinema Nova, Tin Pot and The Green Grocer in Fitzroy.
You can download their poem posters below, in 3 sets. Poems and posters are copyright to individual authors, please contact Red Room if you wish to reproduce these posters:
Ms O'Keeffe and representatives from the class appeared on Alicia Sometimes' "Aural Text" program on 3RRR to talk about and read their new work.
Read what the FHS newsletter and Sun Herald had to say about the project.
