Transcript available here: https://bit.ly/3A8CcTj

Episode title: Overdue: Jean (English)

Presenter/Co-producer: Jean

Jean is a Mandarin bicultural liaison officer for Yarra City Council and a fitness instructor with Yarra Leisure Centres where movement and communal activities have been vital during the pandemic. Jean explains how relationships, trust, and rapport with elderly speakers of various Chinese languages in exercise classes allowed her to have less judgemental conversations around health and the vaccine, as well as helping to bridge the digital divide.

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The Yarra Libraries Overdue podcast is produced by and for culturally and linguistically diverse communities in the City of Yarra in multiple languages.

The Covid-19 pandemic has kickstarted many overdue conversations. This podcast makes space for community members to share their personal insights and experiences. The pandemic has shown us that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work, and exposed a lack of culturally appropriate government support for these communities.

The Yarra Libraries Overdue podcast calls for more support to help determine and co-create community based solutions to ongoing challenges. This podcast is co-produced by community members from different Yarra projects and organisations working with Yarra Libraries to raise awareness around covid messaging and community-based responses.

Overdue is facilitated and produced by Yarra Libraries, and supported by the Victorian Government through the Priority Response to Multicultural Communities during Coronavirus (PRMC) program.

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Thumbnail image: Jean in Richmond Library makerspace studio

Image Description: Mid shot of a woman wearing headphones, smiling happily in a recording studio

Music: Maarten Schellekens, Will they find us? & Scott Holmes, Make your dream reality

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