This week felt like one of those weeks where many small projects quietly connected together.

Across Hobart, online spaces, workshops, music, woodcraft, and community support — there were constant reminders that meaningful work is often built through relationships, repetition, and showing up again.

Woodcraft Adventures

This week we continued creating pieces that carry story and character.

Priscilla worked on a giant wombat special order, carefully shaping and attaching the ears — one of those small finishing touches that suddenly brings an animal to life. We also documented part of the process behind carving and sanding one of our giant Huon pine tigers.

There’s something powerful about slowing down enough to make objects by hand. Every animal we create still feels collaborative — shaped through conversation, patience, sanding dust, and imagination.

Watch / Explore:

– Website: My Blog

– Giant Huon Pine Tiger video: YouTube Video

– Giant Wombat video: [INSERT LINK]

– Etsy / Storefront: Etsy Shop

Small Projects & Community Work

A lot of this week involved continuing what I think of as “Small Projects” — practical acts of connection that sit somewhere between friendship, community work, creativity, and grassroots organising.

The Food Loop project continued this week, helping move food, clothing, toiletries, and support toward people living rough or existing on the edges of systems. Much of this work happens informally: conversations outside shelters, shared meals, left-over food redistribution, volunteers arriving after work simply because they care.

One highlight was seeing new volunteers naturally step into leadership roles — cooking, organising, listening, transporting supplies, and helping create calm spaces for people doing it tough.

Pete’s ongoing engagement around the shelter community also continued developing in unexpected ways. Watching people slowly reconnect with community reminds me that trust is usually built gradually and relationally, not through quick fixes.

Follow / Support:

– Small Projects update: small projects

– Food support project: [INSERT LINK]

– Volunteer enquiries: [INSERT LINK]

Music & Creative Community

Music remained woven through the week as well.

Whether through choir rehearsals, conversations with performers, or preparations around grassroots arts events, I keep noticing how creative spaces often become community spaces first.

There’s growing momentum around inclusive performance opportunities — musicians, buskers, rappers, spoken word artists, and performers sharing public space and encouraging each other. The arts scene feels strongest when it creates belonging, not just performance.

Music & Creative Links:

• Christiaan McCann platform: Blog

– Choir / music updates: Sing With Me

– Street to Stage information: 

Digital Platform Development

One ongoing focus this year is bringing these different streams together digitally in a clearer way.

Woodcraft. Music. Community work. Storytelling. Collaboration. Workshops. Social connection.

Rather than separating everything into isolated projects, I’m increasingly interested in building a digital platform that reflects how interconnected these worlds really are.

The aim is not just content — but community participation, collaboration, and pathways for people to engage.

Explore the Platform:

– Main platform: Facebook

– LinkedIn: LinkedIn 

– Instagram: Instagram

– Facebook: Facebook

– YouTube / Videos: YouTube 

Final Reflection

This week reminded me again that meaningful change often happens through ordinary interactions:

A shared meal.  

A volunteer arriving.  

A song rehearsal.  

A carved piece of timber.  

A conversation outside a shelter.  

A person deciding to come back and reconnect.

Small things matter.

Thanks to everyone walking alongside these projects in different ways — online, in person, creatively, practically, spiritually, or simply through encouragement.

— Christiaan