Vidya Karnamadakala, East Hills Girls High School
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I feel SO honoured to
speak to all of you about my poster and at the same time receive an award for
it.
I’ve been to many countries and communities where harmony is some thing they’ve
never heard of and it’s not until you see the discrimination and prejudice that
others bear that you realise how lucky you are to be in a country such as
Australia that embraces harmony.
This was my main inspiration to make a poster to motivate people to appreciate
and get more involved in community harmony.
Harmony has another meaning: music and that’s what I depicted in my poster. Different pitches, tunes, notes etc is what makes a perfect harmony and different colours, [people and backgrounds are the things that give life a flow and melody.
I have shown different instruments and vibrant colours to symbolise this. But there is the inevitable noise of racism and hatred which we need to block. To do that, we have to build harmony as a community. In my poster there are pictures of how you, as part of a community, can help to build this harmony.
I know that one day the world will come together into that large piece of land we were a billion years ago and get over the pointless hatred we hold against being different.
I’d like to thank B’nai B’rith and all the other associations for giving me this opportunity and for spreading the light of harmony all across Australia
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