#32 An invitation to a dance

Anne and the team received an invitation to go along to the African Women’s Dinner Dance, which is being held in a large club in Sydney. The reason for the invitation is because Anne had organised for us to document the African Cultural Day held a month or so ago and the organizers wanted to thank us.

They plan to have a table displaying some of Anne’s books and some information sheets regarding Anne’s new book project. In an earlier blog, we mentioned the effort Anne is going to reach out to the international communities.

Anne has also very kindly sent along a framed print of one of the African babies who came to the studio recently, to form part of the display. We were told by the mother of this baby that her own mother, grandmother and sisters were going to the dance and that they would be very excited to see her baby’s image displayed there.

One of the organizers of the event said that the whole concept behind the women’s dinner dance is to try to educate women from African communities living in Australia to assimilate with Australian people and Australian culture so that they do not feel isolated here.

It is very kind of the organisers to set up a display, which will tell these women about Anne’s new book project so that they understand more fully what Anne is trying to achieve and how we go about it.