3CR has a long history of community participation through our initiation and staging of one off and annually recurring projects.

Projects can include special broadcasts, book and CD production, radio training courses tailored to the needs of the participants and so on.

3CR seeks funding for our special projects and current funding supporters include the Community Broadcasting Foundation, the City of Melbourne, the Department of Justice and the Victorian Multicultural Commission.

For information about 3CR's special projects contact 3CR's Special Projects Coordinator.

Current Projects>>

Carlton Housing Estate Arts Project

In 2008 3CR began working with the Carlton Housing Estate in a three year multi faceted arts project.

Our collaborators are the City of Melbourne, RMIT's School of Architecture and Design, the Office of Housing, Polyglot Theatre and writer Helena Spyrou and photographer Angela Bailey.

On June 4th at 20 Elgin Street the Carlton community came together for Elgin Street Live (above) to create a dynamic and interactive evening amongst a huge community party! 3CR joined the party with an internal broadcast called Elgin Street Live which could be heard throughout the event.

In November 2007 3CR staged its first radio training project with Carlton residents. Participants produced audio and visual tours of their favourite Carlton spots. These podcasts will soon appear on the People's Tour of Melbourne.

A radio training course for Carlton Housing Estate musicians is planned for March 2008. Stay tuned!

3CR Annual Broadcasts>>

3CR has a number of broadcasts that take place each year and celebrate important community activist events. For more information about 3CR special broadcasts contact 3CR's Programming Coordinator.

Survival Day: January 26

This annual broadcast by 3CR's Indigenous broadcasters marks Australia's Invasion Day. 

Indigenous activists have broadcast at 3CR from the year 3CR began in 1976. Currently there are seven Indigenous programs on 3CR.

Tune in on January 26 and hear the truth about 3CR's colonial past and the current campaigns to right past wrongs. Come and visit the 3CR stall at the main Survival Day event.

International Women's Day: March 8

3CR's is proud of the feminist focus of many of our 3CR programs.

Women broadcasters make up approximately 40% of our presenters which is a standard for community broadcasting. 3CR has a unique female only policy for training technicians.

Every March 8 join 3CR in a 24 hour broadcast celebrating and promoting the human rights achievements and campaigns for women gloabally.

May Day: May 1

Worker's issues around the world are presented by union, feminist, queer and Indigenous 3CR presenters.

Often the broadcast will include live crosses from the May Day Rally organised by the Victorian Trades Hall Council.

NAIDOC Week/Beyond the Bars Project: July

3CR celebrates National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee Week with a series of special broadcasts during a week in July.

These live NAIDOC Week broadcasts
 form part of 3CR's unique prison broadcasts - the Beyond
the Bars project - which3CR has staged since 2003.

These award-winning broadcasts take place after a series of workshops in the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre women's prison, Port Phillip Prison, and Fulham Prison.

Since 2004 3CR has produced the Beyond the Bars CD.

This compilation of highlight's from that year's broadcasts is available free and distributed nationally. Contact the Special Projects Coordinator for more information.

Beyond the Bars 2008 was funded by the City of Melbourne, the Department of Justice and the Community Broadcasting Foundation.

World Human Rights Day: December 10

Join 3CR on December 10 for a day of human rights activism.

A highlight will be a live broadcast from the  Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

Tune in for unique stories and musical performances from Melbourne's refugee communities.