Episode 02: Jane Vaughan
Meet the enthusiastic and passionate Jane Vaughan… co-founder, co-director and employee of Big Sky Stories, a community-based organisation in Broken Hill which wants to give children in the far west of New South Wales a love of stories and reading.
She is today’s guest on A Home in the Outback - an independent podcast about people living, working and creating in the far west.
You can listen to the interview on YouTube, Spotify, apple podcasts or google podcasts.
Jane chose to move to Broken Hill about 15 years ago after finishing her university teaching degree in Sydney. Living in the city was not her cup of tea so she opened the street directory in her car one day and decided Broken Hill was ‘pretty west’.
She moved here without a job but word soon got around town a teacher was in town and she soon had a job at Railway Town Public school.
Around 2010 Jane started seeing new models of engaging children in creative writing open up in the cities and thought it was an exciting way to engage children in a rapidly changing world.
But there were no opportunities in the far west.
She sat on the idea for 10 years before deciding to do something about it and in 2022 Big Sky Stories began with a physical space in Argent Street in Broken Hill.
You can listen to the interview on YouTube, Spotify, apple podcasts or google podcasts.
The interview will also be rebroadcasted on 2DRY FM on Saturday the 24th February at 11am ACST.
A Home in the Outback is produced by Katherine Waite, an interviewer and writer based in Broken Hill, NSW.
Thanks to Foundation Broken Hill for its support in this project.
Music by Aimee Volkofsky.
Books mentioned by Jane in the podcast (purchase through One More Page to support Big Sky Stories!)
