Sometimes they sang as they went, led by some members of the Cheep Trills choir, and sometimes they stood alongside passersby and sang “We will keep on walking forward” with its various verses about justice and compassion. This raised quite a bit of interest.
At the corner of Barrack and George streets, they stopped to admire the metal sculpture of a little boy and imagined him as a refugee child as they sang their song to him.
When they arrived at the Town Hall, they found a large group of children from a Castle Hill Anglican School seated on the steps. After the Grandmothers had sung their song standing alongside the children, the teachers asked them to share with the students why they were there and what they were standing for. After that, the children cheered and sang for them.
Given that the Grandmothers are not a large group, this way of relating to the people of Sydney is surprisingly effective. They were accompanied by a group of students from UTS and a TAFE campus who filmed them all the way.
