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Melville’s Adopt-a-Stop Team Gets Creative
The City of Melville and the Disability Services Commission (DSC) are getting set to makeover their fourth adopted bus stop on Saturday, 18 April and Sunday, 19 April 2009.
The weekend workshop will allow residents from the DSC group home in Aldridge Street to paint a bus stop with interested community members, following on from the successful re-vamp of three other bus stops in the City. The staff and residents from group homes on Butler, Harris, Justinian and Aldridge Streets as well as Norwich Hostel have been working with artist Robyn Varpins to paint the bus shelters, which are located in Willagee, Brentwood, Bicton and Bull Creek.
Each bus shelter draws its design from the interests of the residents, most of who are participating in the Lost Generation Project run by DADAA (Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts). The Lost Generation refers to a group of people who have had little or no contact with the community in which they live. The project aims to reconnect these participants with their local community.
Community Development Officer (Arts) Hannah Katarski said painting local bus shelters was a combined community initiative by the City of Melville and the DSC. “The Adopt-a-Stop partnership allows participants to give something back to their community while raising awareness of the Lost Generation Project at the same time,” she said. “It’s a unique opportunity to get involved in a community art project that helps people to establish social networks.”
Mayor Russell Aubrey encouraged the local community to lend a hand with a paintbrush at the bus shelter on the corner of Moolyeen Road and Leach Highway in Brentwood. “The Adopt-a-Stop project helps create a sense of cultural identity within the community while adding character to public spaces,” he said. “Getting people to work together on a project like this helps community members to feel more connected to the places and people in their neighbourhood.”
The City of Melville Adopt-a-Stop program received a $15,000 grant from the Office of Crime Prevention to assist with the delivery of a series of Adopt-a-Stop workshops throughout the City.
To adopt a local bus shelter with friends or family, contact Ms Katarski on 9364 0650 or click here to find out more about the Adopt-a-Stop program.
Rossmoyne Senior High School Bus Stop too please
It would be fantastic if you could get the Rossmoyne Senior High School and its students to adopt their bus stop on Leach Hwy and paint it so that it doesn't continue to get covered in graffiti regularly and have to be painted over in the plain dark blue which just attracts more graffiti. It must have cost thousands of dollars so far to continually repaint over the graffiti since the shelter was first painted plain blue - over the top of the mural/painting that was on the shelter when it was first installed.
I would be happy to discuss this.
Regards
Noel Schubert - a regular stop user