A Letter from Dreamland. Creative workshops at Tarneit & Truganina

Activate your creative skills, share stories, and participate in this collaborative project. No Experience needed—come, make art, and Exhibit at the Wyndham’s Gallery.

Join Mita Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi-born, Melbourne-based visual artist and PhD student at RMIT. Her work explores identity and migration through art and community. Mita is inviting others with similar migrant journeys to join her creative project. To know more about Mita’s works and research, please visit the artist’s website at www.mitachowdhury.com

This art project, ‘A Love Letter From Dreamland’, invites Bangladeshi-Australian women to share migration stories through art, writing, and stitching. The project will run fortnightly for two hours over three months. If you’re 18+ and can join at least three sessions.

About the project:

This creative research, A Love Letter from The Dreamland, explores the lives and stories of Bangladeshi women who were born in Bangladesh, moved to Australia, and now live in Victoria. It looks at how they feel about their identity and belonging in a new country. The project aims to capture their voices through the creative practices they will take part in. The project involves six creative workshops over three months, including drawing, painting, creative writing, and hand-stitching. The outcome of these creative workshops will be exhibited at one of the Wyndham Galleries.

It is important to note that no significant creative research has been conducted to date that responds to and reflects on the challenges of first-generation Bangladeshi-Australian female members. This research aims to understand that through a series of creative workshops, including storytelling, drawing, painting, writing and hand-stitching handkerchiefs, the research creates spaces for sharing migrant experiences. These creative activities help us tell our stories and connect with others.

Eligibility to participate:

1. The participants must be born in Bangladesh and now permanently live in Victoria

2. The participants must be over eighteen years old.

3. There are six creative workshops in total, and participants must commit to at least three.

If you want to be part of this creative-research project and want to know more about the project workshops, then please register and attend the information session on the 5th of February 2026.