Image credit: Birkit Mesfin. Photograph by Lidia Kidane.

Birkti Mesfin

Writer and Storyteller

After having started her postgraduate degree in late 2018, Birkti Mesfin was inspired to create her own blog titled “African Australian Stories” to discuss the first-generation experience in Australia by exploring different issues that exist within our communities.

Writing, storytelling and sharing experiences is important to Birkti, because she believes they create opportunities to amplify the voices of those who often go unheard.

Image credit: Birkit Mesfin. Photograph by Lidia Kidane.

Artworks

Dear little me by Birkti Mesfin

Birkti Mesfin

My written piece is a story penned to my younger self.

Projects

Past project

Shelter 2020

Sun 12 Jul 2020 - Mon 16 Nov 2020

Presenting 44 artworks by Victorian culturally diverse artists and artists of colour who have taken part in Shelter 2020.

MAV has a profound commitment to arts and artists shaping the narratives that define who we are as a multicultural nation.

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