Rio de Janeiro - A colourful and friendly city

This is my first trip to South America. I have loved visiting Rio de Janeiro while get over jetlag. It is such a colourful and friendly city celebrating people of all ages and cultures. 

Barbie Marathon on Copacabana Beach

Walking along Ipanema with Tom Jobim composer of "The Girl from Ipanema" :)

Multilingual Brazil - Portuguese, Spanish, English

An Australian Aboriginal churinga in the Museum of Tomorrow - "to be a bridge between what came before and what is yet to come. A concrete link between our visitors and our ethical pillars of Sustainability and Conviviality. It represents the dream of shared by all of us to build the tomorrows that we desire together"

I now travel to Sao Paulo for the FORL conference (https://www.congressoforl.org/) where I am a keynote speaker. I was invited to visit Brazil as a keynote speaker in 2011, 2020, and 2022, but each time health and family issues have prevented me visiting. Finally, I have made it. I am so pleased to be here.

Children's Voices Centre - Colour and logo conversation

 What a momentous meeting we had today.Today was the day that the Division of Customer Experience presented to us their intial concept designs for the colours and logos based on our inspiration and aspirations for the Children's Voices Centre @ The Treehouse.

Nilima Mathai (DVC-R's office) and I were really impressed with the ideas that Amy Felke and Brodie Miller (UTA) presented today. They have drawn on inspiration from the Indigenous plants around Bathurst = as well as the idea that we need a fun colour palette for our audience - children of the world. They will now do a little more work - and will soon have the designs ready for us to share with our team (for comment). How fun! Thanks for understanding our dream.

Nilima Mathai, Amy Felke and Sharynne -
discussing the new colour palette and brand design for the Children's Voices Centre