Call for contributions
The Reimagining KAVHA research team are co-creating ‘zines’ – DIY public history booklets – with the Norfolk Island community. The first zine in this series, See You at the Paradise, was released in 2021 and was followed by four volumes of Mais Daun’taun. You can download the zines here.
We aim to publish more zines over the course of the project. The next zine(s) will focus on workshops held in September 2022 which looked at routes, customary practices and emotions attached to Kingston through the activity of mapping. As the project progresses, there may be further opportunities to participate in workshop events where community members can collaborate with the researchers to create content for future zines.
Below you can see calls for participation for earlier stages of the project. All these calls are now closed.
CLOSED: Call for participation – Mapping Daun’taun
We team invite Pitcairn descendants and other community members with long and deep connections to Kingston to contribute to the next stage of our research.
In this stage, we are creating community maps that showcase your practices and feelings towards Kingston.
The first stage of the project started to build a community archive through the publication of zines (short for magazines) in which community members tell their stories about Daun’taun on their own terms. The zines incorporate conversations drawn from interviews as well as pages created by participants at zine-making workshops. Three zines have been published so far, all of which can be accessed on our website.
To create these community maps, we are holding ‘drop-in sessions’ where you can come along to contribute to a series of base maps representing KAVHA. Activities will include tracing your regular walking routes, adding stickers to illustrate what different sites make you feel, drawing symbols that represent customary Pitcairner practices, and chatting to us about what you’ve added. You can contribute to one or more of the maps, depending on your interests and time. Full participation should take no longer than 20 minutes.
If you’d like to participate – or simply talk to us about the project – feel free to come along to a drop-in session at any time listed below:
When: 1pm–4pm
Wednesday, 21 September
Saturday, 24 September
Sunday, 25 September
Where: The Centre for Democracy, Taylors Road
Afternoon tea will be provided.
Please note: The drop-in sessions will be photographed and video and audio recorded for research purposes. You will be asked to sign a consent form when you arrive. For more information on project ethics and consent procedures, click here. If you have any questions, contact us at ReimaginingKAVHA@gmail.com or text or call Chelsea on 50432.
CLOSED: Call for contributions – Mais Daun’taun
‘What does Daun’taun mean to you?’
The Reimagining KAVHA research team invite community members to contribute to our next zine, Mais Daun’taun.
The Mais Daun’taun zine will produce a record of everyday life in Kingston as it is experienced in the present, but will also capture living memories of the past and hopes for the future. The zine is a place for your memories, feelings and local knowledge about Kingston.
Do you have photos of Kingston to share? Stories from working Daun’taun or playing among the ruins? Memories of Anniversary Days, holidaying in Kingston from ‘Up Country’ or planting pines behind Emily Bay? Whatever it may be, we want to hear from you! Every story, every keepsake, no matter how small or seemingly ordinary, highlights something important about how Kingston is remembered and lived.
‘What did Daun’taun mean to your ancestors?’
Did earlier generations tell you stories about what growing up in Kingtson was like for them? What role has Kingston played in the life of people at different stages of the Pitcairner settlement? What would your great-grandparents, or your great-great-grandparents, think of Kingston today? The zine will feature reflections on how Kingston has changed over time and what that has meant for understandings of local identity and culture.
‘What future do you want for Daun’taun?’
In addition to memories and stories of the present and past, the zine will also capture your hopes for the future. What are your perspectives on heritage management in Kingston? What is done well, and what could be done differently? If you were in charge, what would your priorities be?
Contributions can be emailed to ReimaginingKAVHA@gmail.com. We are also happy to receive handwritten contributions and can arrange to collect these from you – just drop us an email. In addition to memories and reimaginings, feel free to send in creative submissions – poetry, short stories, short play scripts, song lyrics, drawings, sketches, comics, etc. We would also love to include your photos, which can be emailed if you already have a digital version or we can meet with you to digitise your photos or other artefacts to reproduce in the zine (copyright allowing). Contributions can be in Norf’k, English, or a combination of both. Contributors will retain copyright of their contribution.
If you would prefer, you can ask to meet with a member of the research team who can record you talking about your memories and these will then be transcribed for inclusion in the zine. In particular, we are keen to do ‘walking interviews’, where we walk (or drive) through KAVHA while you point out what is important to you and your family.
The first volume and second volume of Mais Daun’tan is now available. We are still accepting contributions for subsequent volumes.
CLOSED: Call for contributions – See you at the Paradise (Zine #1)
‘Do you remember the Paradise Hotel in Kingston?’
The Reimagining KAVHA team invite you to share those memories in the zine See you at the Paradise. The zine will produce a record of the Paradise site (also home to the Oceanside, and before that the Dewville) which celebrates its place in Kingston’s history.
Perhaps you have photos to share or other mementos? Maybe you have stories from working behind the bar or performing music for patrons? Or maybe you have memories of having drinks with friends and finding love on the dance floor. Whatever it may be, we want to hear from you!
We are also keen to include recollections of the removal of the Paradise in the 1980s. Do you remember it being torn down and carted away? Do you have a piece of the Paradise on your property from when parts of it were removed from Kingston?
We also want to include contributions from people who don’t remember the Paradise Hotel, but who have fond memories of using the area where the Paradise once stood. Perhaps you saw in the last New Year at the picnic site! Those stories are important too.
‘But what if the Paradise was never removed?‘
In addition to memories of Oceanside and the Paradise, the zine wants to also capture ‘reimaginings’. What would KAVHA be like if the Paradise was still there? What would the Paradise look like now? What would its role be in Kingston? Would it still be a hotel or might the building have been used for something else if it was still standing today? Would the Paradise be ‘heritage’?
Contributions can be emailed to ReimaginingKAVHA@gmail.com. You can also ask to meet with a member of the research team who can record you talking about your memories and these will then be transcribed on your behalf. We are also happy to receive handwritten contributions and can arrange to collect these from you – just drop us an email. In addition to memories and reimaginings, we are happy to receive creative submissions – poetry, short stories, short play scripts, song lyrics, drawings, sketches, comics, etc. We would also love to include your photos, which can be emailed if you already have a digital version or we can meet with you to digitise your photo(s) or other artefacts to reproduce in the zine.
Contributions can be in Norf’k language or in English, or a combination of both. Contributors will retain copyright of their contribution.
Call for contributions has closed. Click here to see the final product of this zine.
Frequently asked questions
What kind of copyright license applies to my contributions to the project zines?
Each contributor holds copyright to their submitted piece(s). Contributors can also republish their contribution(s) without permission from the research team. The zines will be published using the following Creative Commons copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution + Noncommercial + ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). This form of Creative Commons copyright license lets other entities remix, adapt, and build upon your contribution(s) to the zine(s) non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under identical terms. It is therefore one of the more restrictive Creative Commons licenses in terms of how other people can go on to use your contribution.
Can my contributions to the project be in the Norf’k language?
Absolutely! We welcome contributions to the zine in Norf’k, English, or a combination of both. We also encourage the use of Norf’k during interviews. To accomodate this we will be appointing a researcher to the team who is fluent in speaking and transcribing Norf’k and translating Norf’k to English.
Is a zine like a book?
Each zine we produce for the project will have an ISBN – an International Standard Book Number. This means each zine we produce for the project is identified as a book and will be legally deposited in the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales. A copy of each zine will also be deposited in collections on Norfolk Island (e.g. Norfolk Island Living Library, Norfolk Island Historical Society, NIRC Public Library, KAVHA Research and Information Centre).