Our good mate Kaff-eine is finally launching her new book HEARTCORE. HEARTCORE is a special project Kaff has been working on for some time in association with Berry Street. Check out the information on the project and charity below. We hope to see you at the launch.

The HEARTCORE Project/Book.

Some children suffer great distress and significant harm growing up with violence, neglect, abuse, trauma and poverty. What would these young people choose to tell strangers about their lives, if they had the chance? What would their stories look like?

In an Australian first, a child and family services organisation and a street artist are collaborating to create a unique and compelling body of work for the benefit of disadvantaged young people.

Short stories and poems written by young people in the Berry Street School have been interpreted by renowned Victorian street and contemporary artist,Kaff-eine, and painted as a series of street art works on walls across Melbourne. Professional photos of each of the walls have been shot by Rowena Naylor Photography. A coffee-table book titled HEARTCORE will be launched at the conclusion of the project, including curated photographs of the works alongside the stories that inspired them.

The HEARTCORE book will offer audiences a raw and confronting insight into the lives of these young people. It will offer the young people themselves a genuine opportunity to have their voices and their stories heard by many people, in their own words. It will also bring to graffiti and street art followers a new understanding of the challenges these young people face, and how they negotiate growing up in such complex circumstances. All proceeds from the book will support Berry Street’s work with children and young people.

You can grab a copy of the book here.

Berry Street.

Established in 1877, Berry Street is the largest child and family services organisation in Victoria and worked with over 24,500 children, young people and families in the last year. Berry Street’s greatest challenge is to help these people recover from the devastating impact of family violence, abuse and neglect.

Who: Kaffeine.
What: HEARTCORE Launch.
Where: 5 Glasshouse Road. Collingwood.
When: Thursday 25^th September 6pm to 9pm.

Facebook event page HERE.