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"I first voiced my desire to go to art school when I was 16. The school careers
adviser asked me what I wanted to do, not what I should do, not what my parents
and community expected, but what I wanted. So I told him, maybe art school. His
response was alarm. He moved his reading glasses on his straight nose, made a
note in his folder and then, after I’d left the meeting, contacted my parents
to urge them to re-enrol me in three-unit economics.
The only way to grow healthy, robust social fibre is through building an
independent and confident culture. And the only way to build a confident
culture is through encouraging the arts, in all their forms, by creating the
conditions to tell our own stories."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
