VicHealth Acting CEO Associate Professor John Fitzgerald says: “Through Arts About Us, projects like The Babel Project are encouraging dialogue in the community about the benefits of cultural diversity and the harmful impacts of race-based discrimination.”
Adriana Gomberg, Jewish Museum Project Officer, herself a Brazilian migrant, says “For six months we worked in an artistic medium with participants who aren’t artists and who came from such extremely different cultures and backgrounds – it is really incredible to see how much these people actually have in common.”
Jewish Museum’s Director Rebecca Forgasz says: “For the Museum, as a community cultural and arts organisation, to use art as a way of uniting disparate groups in Melbourne, is a really wonderful opportunity. But more than that, it allows our own Jewish community to forge real and lasting connections with other communities.”
