Answered by: Ravi Prasad — organiser
What made you want to get involved with Newtown Festival Week? It's a great way of letting people know about the work we do with asylum seekers, refugees and recent arrivals to Australia.
What is it about Newtown that makes it a great place to hold events or have a business there? People in Newtown are open to ideas, you can create things and it will find an audience. Our place is so unusual, outside of Paris or Shanghai; Newtown is the only place it would work.
How would you describe Newtown to someone who hasn't been there before? Newtown is everything that a mass media, for-profit corpratist consumerist is not. Newtown is weird, it's unconventional. It's a sanctuary, a place where you're not judged. It's open, accepting and tolerant.
What ways do you think Newtown could be improved? We need to rip up King St and turn it into a canal. Just imagine how great this place would be if instead of cars we had rowboats.
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What are you doing to celebrate Newtown Festival week? Showcase some of the food made by the asylum seekers, refugees and recent arrivals to Australia — they cook for us the way they cook back in their homelands. It's amazing.
