This workshop is for mixed age Deaf and CODA family groups. Designed by Jodee Mundy, Mother Father Deaf, combines bilingual storytelling, drawing and autobiography in a fun and heartfelt creative workshop.

Learn about the storytelling techniques used in the making of Personal and have a go at using them to share your own experiences.

This workshop will be delivered in a mix of English and BSL. BSL and English interpretation will be available.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jodee Mundy OAM is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural leader working across the independent, small to medium arts sectors, as well as, for festivals and in major art organisations. A creative director, performer, writer, activist, creative producer, executive producer, commissioner, interpreter, film and festival maker, Jodee is a coda (child of Deaf adults) and is the only person who hears as everyone in her immediate family are Deaf. Her mother tongue is Australian Sign Language while English is her second language.

A proud coda member of the Australian Deaf community, in 2019, Jodee was diagnosed with an incurable life-threatening illness. She lives with gratitude for each day and has an acquired disability. As a disabled mother to two young girls, she lives and works on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples in Naarm (Melbourne).

Personal has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.