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Romancing the Skull

11/18/2017

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Ballarat Art Gallery; two weeks of fabulous stories

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What a great two weeks of telling stories to accompany the Romancing the Skull exhibition. Started by acknowledging country and the traditional owners, the Wathaurong people, besides Josh Bowes sculptural piece "Memento". Made from a basalt boulder from the Baker family farm.
Then it was onto "Skeleton Women by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes from her collection of stories, Women who run with the wolves.  Eeerie story that totally captivated all listeners. If you would like to read the story, go this link, Skeleton Women or to find out more about the fabulous Dr Estes you can connect on her face book page here. Me drum is sitting in the corner, ready to beat the calling, flesh, flesh, flesh..... It is a great story.
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Fiona Hall is a leading contemporary Australian Artist and she was commissioned to make a piece. which was this stack of glass coffins, with floating skulls inside. It lent itself to the Ghost story, "The Dare". My version was set in the Ballan cemetery. Thrilling. 
For her commissioned piece Sally Smart asks a question, 'Were there any women pirates? I shared the story of my links to Captain Kidd the Pirate. You can read the story on my blog,​ here.
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The final room was devoted to Mexican art and I posed a question about the Mexican flag and told the story of the long journey. read more about it here.
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Romancing the Skull is on until 28 Janurary 2018 Art Gallery of Ballarat

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Baha’u’llah- Divine Messenger

11/18/2017

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about Enjoyed being part of the Baha'i Community's Children's Festival. One of the stories I shared was a dream .

When Baha'u'llah was a child, His father had a dream about Him. He saw Baha'u'llah swimming in a huge ocean. Baha'u'llah's face was so full of light that it glowed. The whole ocean glowed with the light from Baha'u'llah's face.
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ENTHRALLED: Storyteller Anne E Stewart captivates her audience with tales from long ago and faraway during the Baha'i community's Children's Festival on Saturday in Delacombe. Picture: Lachlan Bence; Ballarat Courier
His hair was long and dark, and it flowed out in the water around Him as He swam. Suddenly many fishes appeared and each fish took one strand of Baha'u'llah's hair in its mouth and followed Baha'u'llah as He kept swimming. 
The fish did not hurt Him, or slow Him down. When Bahil'u'llah turned one way, so did every fish. When He turned the other way, the fish followed that way. 
The fishes were following Baha'u'llah's light - the light of God in His heart. 
Baha'u'llah's father asked a wise man what his dream meant, and the wise man said that the ocean was like the world, and the fishes were the people. All the people would be attracted to the light of God in Baha'u'llah and would follow Him. They would attach their hearts to Him like the fishes in the dream attached themselves to His hair. The people would follow Baha'u'llah wherever He led them. 
Now we know that this wise man was talking about the Baha'is. We are the people who follow Baha'u'llah. Every day more people in the world find Baha'u'llah and follow Him. 
We can be like the fishes by following Baha'u'llah. If we do what Baha'u'llah teaches us, we will be full of God's light which He reflected on us.

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    Presenting the Stewart sisters, Anne E and Jane.

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