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City Songs
These portraits and these stories are part of the music created by the people
who live, work, visit, struggle and play in the city of Melbourne. Within the
boundary of one single CBD block we discovered a whole symphony of experience
and of worlds. We ask you to pause for a moment and to listen to the sound of
our city.
City Songs is the result of a 2016 arts residency for the City of
Melbourne. Writer Christos Tsiolkas and photographer Zoe Ali were asked to
document, through text and photography, the land that was designated at the
foundation of Melbourne as the '11th block', the block bordered by
Swanston Street, Russell, Bourke and Collins streets.
Working alongside social historian, Professor Andrew May, and his team from
the Melbourne History Workshop in the School of Historical and Philosophical
Studies at the University of Melbourne, Christos and Zoe walked along streets
and alleys, climbed and descended staircases, and were welcomed into shops and
studios. They discovered the rich chorus of voices that make up the people who
work, live and inhabit our city.
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These portraits and these stories are part of the music created by the people
who live, work, visit, struggle and play in the city of Melbourne. Within the
boundary of one single CBD block we discovered a whole symphony of experience
and of worlds. We ask you to pause for a moment and to listen to the sound of
our city.
City Songs is the result of a 2016 arts residency for the City of
Melbourne. Writer Christos Tsiolkas and photographer Zoe Ali were asked to
document, through text and photography, the land that was designated at the
foundation of Melbourne as the '11th block', the block bordered by
Swanston Street, Russell, Bourke and Collins streets.
Working alongside social historian, Professor Andrew May, and his team from
the Melbourne History Workshop in the School of Historical and Philosophical
Studies at the University of Melbourne, Christos and Zoe walked along streets
and alleys, climbed and descended staircases, and were welcomed into shops and
studios. They discovered the rich chorus of voices that make up the people who
work, live and inhabit our city.
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