Welcome to the launch of 'My Street'. Every street has a story and we want you to tell the story of your street. This launch is no red carpet affair; more pavements, darkened rooms and unexpected watery vistas, as we present our first My Street Sampler. It's a collection of stories told by young men and women about their streets. My Street is a user generated content project, based on the web, where we´re inviting you to tell a story of your choosing, whether in slideshow, video - it could be recorded on your mobile phone - in audio or text... The choice is yours. No more than 7 minutes or 700 words long. Create it and upload your story on the new My Street website: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/streetstories/features/mystreet/ Street Stories has always told diverse stories from across the country and in My Street we hope you´ll be sharing stories that take us to places we´ve never been... or perhaps we may have passed there but never knew what was going on behind the blinds. In our first My Street Sampler selection we hear about life in a squat on Harris Street in Pyrmont, where one young woman sings her avocado tree to fruitfulness; there's also the ripping detective story of the search for the trolley nappers of Frederick Street, Hornsby; then there are the romantic seaplanes of New South Head Road, Rose Bay; and finally, the mysterious Kastle of Abercrombie Street in Chippendale. Thanks to the students and lecturers of the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) for making this first sampler possible.
