Part of Things is very excited to be collaborating with Our Town Berri on a new storytelling project in our community.

Together we will be building a collective history of the Berri community by the Berri community. We want to hear about what needs to be remembered, celebrated and woven into a new collective identity for Berri.

We are currently seeking Berri based storytellers to be part of this project in a variety of ways. You might be a poet, an artist, a historian, a great talker or any other type of storyteller. We would like to hear from people of all ages and all backgrounds with a strong connection to Berri. Express your interest here and we will be in touch to make a time to speak with you one one one about the project and how you can be involved.

Our Town Berri is part of the wider Our Town initiative instigated by the Fay Fuller Foundation and is designed as a place based, long-term initiative to address the limits of clinical response services in rural areas by supporting community determined response to mental health and wellbeing in rural and regional towns in South Australia. Our Town Berri is led by a collective of self-nominated community members committed to improving outcomes for our community.

 

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This project is an initiative of Our Town Berri, delivered in collaboration with Part of Things.

 

About Part of Things:

Part of Things is a new initiative founded in 2019 by award winning Riverland writer, creative producer and community organiser Alysha Herrmann.

PART OF THINGS is a space and connector to bring new ideas to life. It is an experimental gathering place inspired by DIY attitude, entrepreneurial thinking, community service and a ferocious pursuit of "how could this be better?"

Our vision is that when people think of the Riverland, they think quirky and creative experiences in the same way that when people think of Melbourne, they think of fancy coffee. Our mission is to nurture a creative and connected generation of doers in the Riverland region of South Australia. We organise projects, events, gatherings, meetings, workshops, mentoring and everything in between to achieve this mission. We present quirky, unique and memorable experiences created and curated by Riverland artists and thinkers: audio walking tours, immersive theatre, collaborative writing projects, video game jams, intimate concerts, creative based workshop tasters and other gatherings that bring together like-minded people.