“Hopefully you can see my head singing a seasonal language vocabulary in a little plaza,” Georgiadis laughs. “It was really something special and Clarence did a fantastic job. When you think about what is actually sung, and how it’s not only focused on the seasonal changes in the plants, but from what I’ve been talking to with elders in different parts of the country, the most What excites me is that we are hearing this language again here in a land that has not heard its language for so long.
“It’s a landmark moment with all these random people singing the language of the land.”
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For Georgiadis, the project brought back childhood memories of singing carols to the Greek community in suburban Sydney and being rewarded with Greek candy. This Christmas, he’s planting a vegetable patch in the Blue Mountains for his goddaughter to help her care for her newborn.
Meanwhile, Slockee was visiting family in Tasmania and had planted four NSW Christmas shrubs (ceratopetalum gummiferum) at his Sydney home in Redfern.
he wants his version oh christmas tree Will capture this season for all Australians.
“It’s not a Christmas carol per se,” he said. “It’s about that time of year. It’s a celebration of family and life. It’s a time when everyone comes together and not thinking about themselves for a single time — thinking about others and the bigger picture.
“If we want to take that into the space of thinking about nature, globally thinking about what we can do to heal the planet.”
This australian gardening Christmas Screen on ABC on Dec. 16 at 7:30 p.m.
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