by Arc Up Australia!
Two oral historians with the same face and super similar voices investigate what it means to be Australian. Vox pop, candid conversations and interviews set the record straight on the past, the present, the places and the politics that shape who the Australians are and what they could be. Arc Up Australia! is presented by Katrina Lolicato and Gracie Lolicato and made in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
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Publishing Since
4/29/2020
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February 21, 2026
<p class="ql-align-justify">Meet Patrick</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Welcome to Lalor Library, one of Melbourne’s hardest working Libraries. </p><p class="ql-align-justify">Situated in one of the most disadvantaged suburbs in Victoria, this local library is far from being the silent, dusty, bound up old institution of the past! This is a community hub and a place that ‘fills the gaps’. </p><p class="ql-align-justify">It’s where people go for entertainment, tutoring, friendship, a creative outlet, personal and professional development, to access the internet and printing, language classes, job seeker and social services information and sometimes, just a safe and comfortable place to wait or rest. In this place, knowledge, information and works of the imagination are freely available to all. And the library provides the setting to observe the resilient community in action. </p><p class="ql-align-justify">This project was developed in partnership with the City of Whittlesea. How do people who share the same postcode become a community? How are connections made between people? How do little, ordinary moments become opportunities for cooperation, perhaps even friendship? Do people feel the limits of their neighbourhoods? Do people living in less resourced suburbs feel their disadvantage?</p>
May 1, 2023
<p>Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools - Salman Rushdie </p><p>Wogs, Dagos, Post-War migrants, New Australians, Zips, Marios and Marias, I-Ties, Multicultural Australia. This episode we meet heaps of Italo-Australians to subtly address these labels, some embraced, some forgotten and some derogatory by asking the question: Can we define ourselves? Is it possible to document the commonalities of experience and of culture and to start to trace the transition from migrant group to diaspora? </p><p>together, we create a collage that in some ways might confirm your impressions of Italian-Australians and in others, may also challenge it. </p><p>This is not a nostalgic gaze into tradition, nor is it a definitive contemporary document, but rather an introduction to the idea that it is possible to be both Australian and Italian, and it is possible to feel like you are neither.</p>
April 30, 2023
<p class="ql-align-justify">Meet Patrick</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Welcome to Lalor Library, one of Melbourne’s hardest working Libraries. </p><p class="ql-align-justify">Situated in one of the most disadvantaged suburbs in Victoria, this local library is far from being the silent, dusty, bound up old institution of the past! This is a community hub</p><p class="ql-align-justify">and a place that ‘fills the gaps’. It’s where people go for entertainment, tutoring, friendship, a creative outlet, personal and professional development, to access the internet and printing, language classes, job seeker and social services information and sometimes, just a safe and comfortable place to wait or rest. In this place, knowledge, information and works of the</p><p class="ql-align-justify">imagination are freely available to all. And the library provides the setting</p><p class="ql-align-justify">to observe the resilient community in action. </p><p class="ql-align-justify">How do people who share the same postcode become a community? How are connections made between people? How do little, ordinary moments become opportunities for cooperation, perhaps even friendship? Do people feel the limits of their neighbourhoods? </p>
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Two oral historians with the same face and super similar voices investigate what it means to be Australian. Vox pop, candid conversations and interviews set the record straight on the past, the present, the places and the politics that shape who the Australians are and what they could be.
Arc Up Australia! is presented by Katrina Lolicato and Gracie Lolicato and made in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
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