In 2020, Think+DO Tank Foundation took delivery of a custom-built outreach caravan to deliver creative and language arts programming to regional settlement locations in Sydney and across NSW.

Using our purpose-built multi-arts caravan, “The Universe of Possibilities", LOST IN BOOKS will connect with regional artists; community workers and educators; and community members to continue our creative work with newly-arrived communities.

This project is an expression of Think+DO Tank Foundation’s work as a creative force for social cohesion and belonging; a champion of multilingual creative production and self-expression; an accelerator of creative talent; an investigator of complex social needs; and an agile, experimental, collaborative force, with community members and service partners, in shaping fairer systems through the arts.

 

CREATIVE PROGRAMS

DIGITAL PROGRAMS

Table of Plenty Youth Arts Program Online

The Story Corner Digital Storytelling

World Travels Online Book Club

We Love Music Online Videos

OUTREACH CAPACITY

“The Universe of Possibilities” is a multi-arts outreach caravan, designed to spread joy, create optimism and empower regional and rural communities through multilingual creativity, creative programming and community engagement.

The Universe of Possibilities is designed to deliver the full benefits of our program on the road. It was commissioned to deliver high quality creative programming to resettlement hubs throughout South Eastern Australia. We propose that it begins its work in Newcastle and Coffs Harbour. It is capable of delivering outdoor events and workshops, a preferable modality in this new COVID era. Further, it is capable of delivering programming regionally, even if our core team in Sydney is locked down.

The Universe of Possibilities can operate as a pop up shop; a workshop space; an events space; an outdoor cinema; or as a venue. It carries a solar array and battery; water tanks; storage; awnings; a sound system; and a large flat screen that rises from within a wall for screenings. It draws a crowd wherever it goes!

IN THE MEDIA
Paul Ramsay Foundation's Life's Lottery Podcast features TDTF Community House

In this episode of The Paul Ramsay Foundation’s podcast series, “Life’s Lottery”, take a trip into the Think+DO Tank Foundation’s Community House in Fairfield and hear how our Community Connectors and Creative Educators work to build holistic, people-centred practices that promote creativity, wellbeing, social connectedness, joy and the conditions for equity.

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The Great Digital Divide - TDTF advocates for digital inclusion in Western Sydney

Inequities in internet access existed before the COVID-19 pandemic, but its onslaught has only exacerbated the gap. Monica Crouch talks to the people trying to close it.

Monica Crouch follows the story of inequities in digital connectivity, capacity and devices and hardware in Western Sydney in conversation with Wester’ly members, Jane Stratton, CEO, Think+DO Tank Foundation and Claire Thomas, Manager of School and Community Engagement for Jesuit Social Services.

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TDTF Bilingual Storytelling Headlines Lunar New Year Celebrations
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Google shares inspirational stories of Australian small businesses

Google Australia is recognising the resilience of Aussie small businesses and the tools available to help them, as the community focuses on recovery from COVID-19.

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From Hardship to Hope: New Google Campaign shares the inspirational stories of Aussie small businesses

The hero spot (60 & 30”) features a children’s multilingual bookstore in the western suburbs of Sydney, where the owner and storyteller share their remarkable story of how they’ve used digital tools to continue connecting with their loyal customers through this time.

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SBS Language: "I love Australia" a new poem for Wadea Shamekh

This interview is only available in Arabic. By Manal Al-Ani. Presented by Australia Alyaom: Ghassan Nakhoul & Manal Al-Ani

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WSC Forum: Digital Access and Digital Literacy in the COVID-19 Economy

Join us as our host Anita Hanna, Western Sydney Community Forum, explores the perspectives of our diverse panel including Think+DO Tank Foundation CEO, Jane Stratton.

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Sydney Writers Festival: SHOP TALK - Writers On Bookstores, Part 2

In this edition of Shop Talk, Winnie Dunn (Sweatshop Women) tells us about a multilingual independent bookshop for children in Sydney that is also a café, safe space for women, creative learning centre, and language exchange hub.

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TEDx Parramatta: Books are Dead. I Opened a Bookshop.

Jane Stratton shares her vision for a society that not only values reading, but also the power of speaking, dreaming and making meaning in more than one language.

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Fairfield Champion: 'Universe of Possibilities' New people mover to address transport disadvantage

The wheels on this bus will not only go round and round - it will be a community arts centre on wheels. Introducing the 'The People Movers' and 'Universe of Possibilities'.

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Think+DO Tank Foundation acknowledges that we meet and work on the traditional lands of the Cabrogal clan of the Darug nation and pay our respect to Elders both past and present.

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