Seen and Heard - Boy to Man

31/03/2019

This will be great...

Youth arts project about teenagers exploring misconceptions held about young people, giving voice to

10/03/2019

What it means to be a man today is something young men are facing the world over...

What’s on the average 16- and 17-year-old’s mind? We talked to young men across the UK about masculinity, , role models and coming of age now

09/12/2018

In this week's Mail. (and thanks Josh for helping with the reinstall).

On the wall of Healesville’s main supermarket is a large black and white mural, titled ‘Seen and Heard – Boy to Man’. It is a photographic collection of 17 male students from Healesville High School, along with their feelings about the journey from boy to man. The mural, sponsored by Yarra R...

05/12/2018

It is back up on the wall! Please leave a comment here if you like the mural. Thank you to the awesome crew who helped reinstall including Josh (also on the wall), Savaad, Jenny, Christian, young Brodie, Kate

02/12/2018

IMPORTANT - Mural Reinstallation will now be WEDNESDAY 3:30pm.
Dearest Healesville Community, the weather forecast is Wind and Rain this afternoon and evening, which is really not good for mural installations!
Wednesday is dry so I would like to now install Wednesday afternoon 3:30pm after school and because Thursday is due to be sunny the mural will have plenty of time to cure in the sun.
If you are interested in helping please leave a message here and watch this post and any further updates will be here. It is fun to be part of it and we are possibly going to have a story in the Mail.
Any questions phone me, 0411 446070,
thanks! Kate

02/12/2018

NEWS UPDATE: i finally have a clearer picture re what might have happened. On Wednesday the mural was fine and in tact. On Wednesday after some heavy rains, the final additional assault of rain has possibly finally drenched itself under the mural and lifted it, causing the whole thing to slip like a mud slide. Donna Simnett, who works at Coles saw it at 5am Thursday morning like this and then apparently cleaners came by and I guess pulled the rest down and discarded it. As they didn’t inform the shopping centre management they had no knowledge of that when I ask and were as flummoxed as we were. A security guard had noticed a panel pulled down and had sent pictures to centre management but didn’t know the rest of the story. So...... I think this means we can all rest easy, it was a possibly due to a natural weather event! The really good thing is that so many people have expressed support for the mural and for this way of honouring our young men of the community. We will still reinstall and pray the wild weather will stay away another couple of months. Please check the page for installation updates as rain is now forecast tomorrow. Thank you, Kate

29/11/2018

MURAL REINSTALL
Dear friends and Community, thank you for all your comments of concern and outrage about the mural destruction.
We community are going to reinstall it.
Council wants this to happen.
Burgess Rawson(the shopping centre management) want this to happen.
And it is clear to me that our Community wants this to happen.
Would you like to help?
We do not yet know who did this or why but we will rally and rebuild the mural that showcases the valuable young men of our community.
Reprinting will take place this weekend and I plan to reinstall from 2pm on Monday (weather dependent, watch for posts). I already have one volunteer but would like 2 or 3 more. I would love our young men to join us after school to help install, as they did the first time. Please message if interested.
Thank you everyone for your support and care for our young men, because they matter.
Kate

27/11/2018

The mural has disappeared. Sometime between Saturday and Sunday. Probably Saturday night. Do you know what happened to it?
When was the last time someone saw it please?
From reports so far it was there Saturday during the day. It was missing by Sunday afternoon 3pm.

16/11/2018

One more amazing young man added to the wall...

09/10/2018

Well the mural is up! Thank you to my team of awesome helpers yesterday including some of the amazing young men of Helaesville. Thank you Lauren Hutchison, Samuel Bear, Nicole Fox and Gabriel, and Will and thanks Lou for taking photos, most of these here are by Lou with a couple of others include by Lauren, Nic and Natalie Perrett... thanks! So far a really great response by the community. This mural is temporary but we hope it will show, while it is here, the value of the incredible young men who are within this community. Please leave any comments here on our page, we appreciate it! - Kate Baker
This project has been proudly sponsored by Yarra Ranges Council - thank you to the Shire for enabling this kind of art project to take place and thanks to to Burgess Rawson who have donated the use of this wall for this public art project

07/10/2018

MURAL INSTALLATION tomorrow MONDAY 8 October from 3pm or earlier. Would love some of our young men to come and help with the install -will be fun - come straight from school. Will be at the big wall in the carpark of the main shopping centre, near Coles - epicentre of Healesville! ; See you tomorrow, Kate

04/10/2018

Mural panels printed! Ready to install MONDAY in Healesville from 3pm - who wants to help install it? Keen to have some of these amazing young men help install what will now be a 10metre long x 2metre high mural. Excited! UPDATED now Monday 8 October 3pm. Message Kate here if interested. Thanks Papyrus Printing Press for great printing job. Thanks to Yarra Ranges Council for supporting this project.