Arts Wednesday 1 April 2015

This week, in Part 3 of Pocket Parks, Laila and I visit Glebe, where timber yards were the big employers, given its situation on the water. As in Erskenville, strong women are remembered in pocket parks named after them.

At 11:00 am, my special guests in the studio are Sosina Wogayehu and her biographer, David Carlin, talking about the book The Abyssinian Contortionist. Sosina was a very determined little girl who has grown up to become one very determined woman. Her story takes us from copying contortionists on television in the Ethiopian capital  to touring around the world with Circus Oz to establishing her own circus school in Addis Abbaba.

Music comes from the African continent, with music from Ethiopia punctuating my conversation with Sosina and David.

I look forward to your company!