Image: Three to five-year-old participants at Roxburgh Rise Primary School and their families. Photo by Samara Clifford.
A program run by Westside Circus that combines literacy and art to meet the needs of newly-arrived refugee children to Melbourne, is launching a storybook which will coincide with a circus performance showcasing the skills learned by its participants.
Based on a traditional Assyrian Chaldean story, Zengilo and Bengilo is the culmination of two terms worth of work from 3-5 year-old participants from the VICSEG New Futures Assyrian Chaldean Playgroup at Roxburgh Rise Primary School.