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Map Making takes locals on an interesting journey Local artist Kylie Harvey took a group of Kylie said participants had the option to area and have done that in a grid reference 10 residents on an interesting journey on make a variety of different styles of maps. style,” Kylie explained. Saturday through a mapmaking workshop. “Some people might want to map a physical “Other people are doing a memory of the town where they grew up; one is doing a memory of a walk through Edinburgh; and others are doing fantasy maps that have particular meaning to them. “It’s not just a topographical road map kind of style but more, ‘creative’ mapping that we’ve been doing,” she said. “We’ve looked at: What is a map? What’s the map mean to you? What can you put on to a map? “We folded paper to make Turkish Map folds and looked at ways of actually storing a map. “We’re also going to look at cutting maps so that you can bind them and keep them in creative ways.” One of the workshop participants, Kay Stingemore said it had been really interesting listening to everybody’s stories as they make their map journeys. “People are really getting into their memories and what they need to include in their map and try to remember where the place is at and where to extend their maps so they can include all these things that are meaningful to them,” Kay said. The workshop, along with another Map Making workshop next month, and then two Book Binding workshops in June and July, Cora and Isla McKervey and their mum Louise, at Saturday’s Map Making workshop at have been coordinated by Cobar Shire Counthe Cobar Shire Library. The workshop, along with another one next month and two cil and are being offered free to residents Book Binding sessions in June and July, are being offered free by Cobar Shire Council thanks to funding from Outback Arts’ 2023 Country Arts Support Program (CASP). thanks to funding from the Country Arts Support Program (CASP).
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