Logan, QLDLogan, QLD 

Wherever we come from, water is part of our story. It may be the river where you played as a child, the beach where your family gathers, the local pool where you learned to swim, the rain you waited for, or the ocean crossed on a journey to a new home.

Sea Country to Safe Harbour invites you to share what water means to you. This welcoming, all-ages experience connects freshwater and saltwater storytelling in First Nations Australia with the journeys of people who have crossed oceans to make Australia home.

Explore community stories, maps and sensory activities. Join a workshop, listen to the experiences of others, or contribute a memory in your own way. Your story may be joyful or challenging, recent or long remembered, personal or shared through family and community. You do not need to be a storyteller - simply bring a memory, object, sound, place or feeling connected to water.

Each contribution helps this living exhibition grow and reflect the people and waterways of your community. Together, our water stories can reveal what we share, honour what makes us different and create new connections across cultures and generations.

In Logan, Sea Country to Safe Harbour takes shape in one of Australia’s most culturally diverse communities. The project is centred on connection: bringing migrant communities into conversation with First Nations histories, stories and knowledge, while also inviting First Nations people into spaces that may not traditionally have been designed for them.

Logan’s stories are shaped by rivers as much as by the sea. The Logan River offers a natural metaphor for movement and connection, linking inland places to the coast and carrying stories across Country and community. First Nations stories sit beside stories from migrant communities, including experiences of journeying from places far away, building new lives and finding belonging through everyday encounters.

The project’s participatory elements are central in Logan. Visitors are encouraged to share words for water in their own languages, mark places of meaning on local and world maps, respond to sensory prompts and contribute personal stories. Workshops create opportunities for people to sit side by side, make with their hands and speak across cultural and language differences. The outcome is not simply an object or activity, but the conversation that unfolds around it.

*Workshop program details will be announced soon. Please check back for updates.