Best of Oceania
How do young women from Oceania define their generation? The best answer you could ever get is right here! Come see ten phenomenal stories from this region that captured your hearts and minds in the two years of Imagining Ourselves.
Sit back, relax and soak up the best of the best. Then, vote for a winner by logging in, joining the conversation and posting your favorite three stories. Vote by Thursday, December 27 and check back throughout the month to see if your favorite is in the lead. Don’t forget to invite your family, friends and co-workers. Make this a personal affair! May the best win!
We will announce the winners on December 28 and they will go down in history as the Best Of Imagining Ourselves in the Exhibition Archive launching January 1, 2008. Imagining Ourselves may be wrapping up, but your favorite stories will resonate with young women for generations to come.
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Welcome to the Best Of Oceania Contest! You have 10 incredible stories to choose from and I know that it will be difficult to decide on your favorite three because this is really an incredible roster of animated films, photography, personal stories, short films and songs.
So register as a member, log in this conversation, and vote for your favorite stories. Tell us why you think they're the best. Why should your favorite story be proclaimed the winner?
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Posted on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:14 PM
Thank you IMOW, for trying to change the world one byte at a time; thank you, Voters for showing us that you care, and thank you, dear fellow artists, for creating a vibrant tapestry of words, images and sounds that connect us to each other and show that our differences are not cultural barriers but cultural riches, precious and revealing.
Your effort is crucial for shaking the dust off from concepts that have become dangerously habitual (war, motherhood, self-realization), so that their rediscovered meaning can once again inspire.
Thank you for creating a forum in which we re-cognize ourselves…
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Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 11:08 AM
Congratulations to Nina Cullen! Mother Tongue wins Best of Oceania. |
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Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:26 AM
Thank you all for your votes. Voting is now closed. Please check back on December 28th for the winners. |
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Posted on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:27 PM
I vote for "the past decade" by Marcela Nievas as the best of Oceania. What an amazing life! and lots still to come . . . |
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Posted on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 2:13 PM
Mother Tongue is a fantastic story, beautifully written. The words and emotions jump off the page. |
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Posted on Sunday, December 23, 2007 4:03 AM
i vote for'Mother Tongue' great story |
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Posted on Friday, December 21, 2007 12:23 PM
I vote for untitled by Bea--she has done so much for the infertile community. |
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Posted on Friday, December 21, 2007 2:02 AM
'Mother Tongue' a clever, emotionally rich but gentle story on many levels |
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Posted on Friday, December 21, 2007 1:29 AM
The Last Decade by Marcela Nievas,a wonderful story about an intense period of life and change! |
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Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 8:23 PM
Mother Tongue, by Nina Cullen is of course my favourite, firstly because Nina is my daughter, and I am the subject of the story! I had no idea she was writing the story until it was submitted to the anthology, and I was very proud of her when I read it. I was surprised at how much she had the perception to see that a lot of my daily living was still in connection with my home country, even though I feel very much at home in Australia. |
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Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 8:03 PM
My favourites are:
(1)Mother Tongue, by Nina Cullen. It is beautifully and gently written, and manages to capture the bond and the divide between mothers and daughters, as much an inter-generational difference as a cultural one.
(2) This Is Me, by Marama Davidson, because it celebrates the strengths of her parents and her grandmother so beautifully, and was so positive in its tone, whilst still not glossing over the difficulties faced in the past (and present) simply because you are a Maori.
all the entries are interestting, but these are my favourites! |
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Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:41 PM
'Mother Tongue' for me captured the essence of how it is for migrants to come and live in a strange land. great. |
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Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:49 PM
"Mother Tounge" beautifully captured the displacement and hopeful act of will so many migrants undertake in a new homeland. Nina you have painted a picture of two lives that leap off the page into the imagination. Well done. "Ram" was a very clever and wry look at kids and technology, I see my own son reflected here! |
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Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:35 AM
"Untitled" by Bea is my favourite. She captures the aching and longing for motherhood completely with this film. |
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Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:34 AM
pure beauty. i loved it. Nina has a brilliant way of, as well commented by another, making one want to laugh and cry all at once. Excellent work...I'm off to read it again! |
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Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:06 AM
Mother Tongue, by Nina Cullen. Resonant, lyrical, beautiful. |
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Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:34 AM
Mother Tongue, by Nina Cullen. The evocative depiction of one woman's journey as a migrant to Australia is beautifully intertwined with her daughter's own experience of place and space. It has that fantastic quality of making you want to both laugh and cry at the very same time. The writing is both emotionally moving and technically brilliant. I loved it. |
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Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:57 PM
Loved mother tongue, very evocative, melancholy story with universal notions of the adult child/mother relationship and the crossing of cultures |
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Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:34 PM
Mother Tongue by Nina Cullen is brilliantly written. A powerful and very personal story of the layers of cultures |
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Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 6:39 PM
"Mother Tongue" by Nina Cullen, Australia. A lovely story, well told. |
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