Family, tails & opportunities. Photos of the weeks.

Posted by Chris Vanstone on 4 July 2010 | 0 Comments
Tags: Family Project, Photo of the week,

Three weeks ago we ran a family festival for 100 families. Two weeks ago we finished up our family dinners and ethnographies with a trip to Port Augusta. Over the last week, we've been trying to make sense 'family thriving' and identifying opportunities areas with our ethnographers and sounding board. Phew!

After all that the three of us are taking a week break before turning our thinking to date into something that will makes sense on the page. Until then here are the retrospective photos of the weeks.

Our family festival attracted over 100 families to 10 tents of developmental activities.

We challenged families to come up with their own "family boosting experience". The winning family won $100 to spend on an op-shop dress up project.

Sound dude Matt, a professional sound engineer, introduced young people and families to making music on the computer.

Stalls and games, like kids vs adults tug-o-war, were organised by local residents.  Tug-o-war result: Adults 2 Kids 1

 

In Port Augusta, we met three families and began to learn about family life in a country context. We helped run a BBQ at the Sunday flea market and got invited to go bush for a lesson in how to cook and eat kangaroo tails

 

Back in the studio we shared the stories we'd heard from families and began to make sense of the opportunities.

We came up with over 60 different ways to describe the opportunities we see for families.  Most of them didn't work - but here Sarah thinks she's found 'the one'.

On Thursday we checked out our thinking with the Sounding board. Here Carolyn checks out our service story with Sue Christophers of Communities for Children Onkaparinga.