About the Event

A facilitated community conversation with immigrant participants who have arrived in Perth via Perth Airport, exploring first impressions, movement, and memory in relation to place.

Through guided prompts, participants will reflect on their initial experiences of arrival and how these moments continue to shape their relationship with public space.

Questions will include:

• What do you remember about your first arrival in Perth?
• What movements, gestures, or interactions stand out from that moment?
• What places have become part of your routine since arriving?
• How often do you travel back to your country of origin or elsewhere, and how does that compare to your movement within Perth, particularly within the Belmont area?

This is a safe and welcoming space for immigrant communities to share their stories, perspectives, and lived experiences, contributing to a creative project that reimagines everyday environments as living archives of migration and connection. Responses will be audio-documented and analysed to identify shared patterns of memory, migration, and spatial experience, directly informing the development of a new performance work.

Participants are invited to share their personal journeys, from the moment of arrival to the spaces they now move through every day, reflecting on connection, routine, and navigation between here and home.

Light refreshments will be provided.

All Participants must be 18+

About the Project

Echoes in the Pavement is a socially engaged, interdisciplinary project by Blue Joy Theatre Company responding to the SPACED KTN#4 theme Gestures. It explores how subtle, everyday actions, such as walking, waiting, or exchanging a glance, shape our connection to place and reveal the emotional and social dynamics embedded within public space.

Through community engagement and site-responsive practice, the project investigates how these small gestures carry memory, culture, and meaning, and how they accumulate to influence how we experience and understand our environments. Grounded in the Know Thy Neighbour framework, the work seeks to reframe familiar spaces and foster dialogue across diverse communities.

At its core, the project centres listening, reciprocity, and creation, positioning artistic practice as a way of engaging with people and place through care, attention, and exchange.

This project is commissioned by SPACED and City of Belmont as a part of Know Thy Neighbour #4: Gestures. Any queries about this event can be directed to Rebecca Riggs-Bennett: [email protected]