CARLTON LIVE! is a collection of voices and songs from the Carlton Housing Estate. Each voice has a story to tell about living
in Carlton or coming to Australia or just about what is going on inside
the mind of the songwriter. Many of the songs were recorded as part of
the Carlton Musicians Course, staged in 2009 by 3CR Community Radio in partnership with the City of Melbourne’s Carlton Flats Arts Project. Featuring music by Ruth Rogers-Wright, Sekove Tui, Joseph Zammit and Mick Varney.
Join us to celebrate the launch of CARLTON LIVE!
Thursday 12 August 2010
12.30 – 2:00 pm
La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton
Light refreshments provided. Free. Everyone gets a CD!
ELECTION 2010: UNFINISHED BUSINESS In 2007 we had
'Your Rights at Work'. What campaigns will unions wage before the next
Federal Election?
Come to a Union Forum at 7pm on Thursday 24 June, Trades
Hall, Meeting Room 1, 2 Lygon St, Carlton South. Entry $5/$10.
Speakers: Steve Dargavel: Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
(AMWU), Ralph Edwards: CFMEU Construction & General Division,
Gwynnyth Evans: Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union
(AMIEU), Dean Mighell: Electrical Trades Union (ETU).
A fundraiser for 3CR's Stick Together union show. For more
information, contact Diana Beaumont 9419 8377 / 0431 462 933 or stick.together@hotmail.com
Join
the Friday Breakfast team for a great night of local music on Sunday
20 June from 7pm at Open Studio, 204 High Street, Northcote.
Live music from: Ducks in the Mud,
Genevieve & Jezebel, The Vertical Smiles, and Lucy Wise. $5
unwaged/$8 waged. Support alternative current affairs and local
music all in the one night!
\The
Squatters and Unwaged Workers Airwaves (SUWA) invite you to an evening
of troublemaking short films. Thursday 17 June, 7 - 10 pm, Irene
Warehouse, 5 Pitt St Brunswick.
Come and see inspiring short films about troublemaking from all
around the world with lush food, drinks and popcorn for sale. This is
a 3CR fundraiser - tickets are $5/$10.
The SUWA show is on every Friday, 5.30-6.30pm and covers a range of areas
from anarchist-feminist perspectives on the world, progress, pirates,
activist rights and resisting the loss of civil liberties, the far
right, state repression, squatting and other forms of resistance to
capitalist work-discipline from Australia and around the world plus,
love song dedications.
3CR has a range of annual events like the 3CR Radiothon, Subscriber Drive and a number of special broadcasts. Our website also has a Community Event Calendar.
Two to the Valley Radiothon Benefit :Come
along to this Saturday's 3CR Radiothon Benefit Show at the John
Curtin Hotel, 29 Lygon Street, Carlton South (opposite Trades Hall).
Support 3CR program Two to the Valley (Sundays at 11pm - 12.30am) with a great musical line up including Beaches, New War, Rubbish Warriors, and Interzone. Doors open at 8pm.
After many moons
and many afternoons Girly is Good is celebrating and saying
goodbye to the airwaves with a big seeya later cabaret night. Girly
is Good has celebrated and promoted women’s music and art on Sundays
from 2 - 3pm since 2001.
Come and laugh and dance and be entertained by these talented media
makers and their very clever friends. To raise funds for 3CR's annual
radiothon we are taking over the Empress Hotel (714
Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy) on Friday 14 May, 8pm til late.
Acts include: One Trick Pony (Circus chicas extraordinare) with
special guest Francesca Sculli; Anna's Go Go Academy Dance Army;
Emmy-Lou and the Side Saddle Gals (Emily Hayes's country comedy covers
band); Vivienne Black and her Viola playing side kick; DJ's Maria
Sokratis and much more ...
You are
invited to the launch of 3CR's new mural on Friday 26 March
6PM.
The street party will welcome the new mural to the neighbourhood
and will feature a BBQ, music including the Bulls and the Brothers
Grim, speakers - the City of Yarra Mayor and the Tony
Abbott's Ladies Auxiliary Club - and the mural unveiling by the
artists.
Artists Bindi Cole, Tom Civil and Reko Rennie have designed and
created the artwork along with input from some of 3CR’s 400 volunteers,
local Indigenous organisations and a team of young Indigenous people.
This is a drug and alcohol free event.
The 3CR Mural Project 2010 was funded by Arts Victoria and the
Victorian Government through the Community Support Fund, the City of
Yarra and JBSeed.
Thanks also to Kads Plant Hire www.kadsplanthire.com.au and Manfax
Paints www.manfax.com.au for generously supporting this project.
Turn
Up Your Radio! and tune in to 3CR on International Day of People with
Disability on December 3rd 2009.
3CR’s mics will be turned over to people with disabilities – we’ve
been Shut Out but we won’t Shut Up!. With the financial support of Melbourne City Council Metro Access
Initiative 3CR Radio put a call out for people with disabilities to
make their own radio – and they did! - 12 hours of it!
So tune in and celebrate International Day of People with Disability between 6am and 6.00pm this Thursday and decide which barriers you’re going to help break down.
Beyond the Bars 6 is out
now! The CD contains highlights of 3CR's Award Winning prison broadcasts featuring
the voices and opinions of Indigenous men and women in Victorian
prisons.
A special congratulations and thank you to all those on the inside who
participated in this year's broadcasts. Beyond the Bars 6 is
available free from the station so please drop in, call the station on
03 9419 8377 or email to get your copy.
Thanks to the Department of Justice, the Community Broadcasting
Foundation, the Neighbourhood Justice Centre and the City of Melbourne
for their support of Beyond the Bars in 2009.
Everyone is welcome to come to the Calendar Launch on
Friday, 13 November at Readings Bookshop
in Carlton at 6pm for free wine and talk! Contributing artists Deborah Kelly,
Rayna Fahey from Radical
Cross Stitch and Tom Civil will be speaking.
Face Up To The Future! with 3CR’s fifth Seeds
Of Dissent Calendar. 3CR asked 12 artists who are part
of Australian activist culture to contribute an artwork that
reflects their idea of the future.
Buy your calendar online from 3CR for only $22 (see right) or call 03
9419 8377.
Read on...
3CR launches into the Melbourne
Fringe Festival (23 September - 11 October) with our very own
events! Join a People's Tour and discover some of Melbourne's
hidden histories with these uniquely personal tours. Book your
tour (from 1 September onwards) with activist author Iain
McIntyre, singer Irine Vela (both photographed here by Jacqui
Brown), stencil artist Civilian, and writer Jenny Lee on
three walking tours and one sit down tour. Read on...
One of the most popular gardening programs on the airwaves, 3CR's The Gardening Show is hosted by Pam Vardy and features the expertise of Gwen Elliot, Millie Ross and Stephen Ryan to name a few. Tune in this Sunday 21 June 7.30 - 10am to share in the green bonanza which is The Gardening Show Radiothon.
Make a donation and enjoy products
from Eco Organics, Neutrog Fertilisers, Grow Better, Seasol, Amgrow,
Yates, Mr Fothergills, Sage Horticultural, Bosistos, Scotts Aust, Fud
Organic Compost; compost from Australian Native Landscapes; books from McMillan Publishing, Simon and Shuster, Hyland House, CSIRO Publishing, Penguin; vouchers
from Fitzroy Nursery, Morrison Bros, Kurunga, Country Farm Perennials,
Silkie Rose Gardens, Beasley’s, Poynton’s, and Acorn Nursery; seriously sexy gardening tools from Fiskars; magazine subscriptions from Earth Gardens, Organic Gardener, Gardening Aust, Renew Magazine, Sanctuary Magazine; membership to Rose Society of Society and Diggers Club; AND two garden consultations from Mille Ross and Andrea Bishop.
So call 94198377 to make a tax deductible donation or buy some products!
Join 3CR's Stick Together crew for a screening of two films Thursday 18 June at 6pm:
The Heart of the Factory (2007), by Molina-Ardito, addresses the struggle for worker-run factories in Argentina.
The Concrete Revolution (2004), by Xiaolu Guo, looks at the price being paid by Chinese construction workers for China’s economic
boom.
Radiothon Fundraiser Party for 3CR organised by The SUWA Show.
Friday 19 June, 7pm at Loophole, 834a High St, Thornbury.
Dinner provided, drinks on sale.
There will be a super raffle with books and t-shirts!
We need to raise $210 000!! Your donation to our 2009 People Powered Radio Radiothon will help us maintain a community
voice.
Join 3CR folks at the 3CR fundraising film screening of Melbourne animation masterpiece Mary and Max on Thursday 16 April 6.45pm at the Kino Cinema.
Director Adam Eliot will introduce the film.
Adam Eliot (Harvie Crumpet) and his film crew have created a funny and bittersweet tale of oddballness, friendship and humanity with their first feature length adventure.
Book your ticket now for only $20 full and $16 concession by paying online with your credit card or paypal account (see right) or call the station during business hours on 9419 8377.
Synopsis: As Mary and Max chronicles Mary’s trip from adolescence to adulthood, and Max’s passage from middle to old age, it explores a bond that survives much more than the average friendship’s ups-and-downs. Mary and Max is both hilarious and poignant as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from. Read a review.
The Kino Cinema is at 45 Collins st. It is in the CBD and is easy to get to on your bike or by public transport. The number 109 tram goes right past and Parliament train station is a block away. If you are car bound Kino Cinema goers can park at the Collins Place carpark on Flinders Lane free for two hours and then $2hr after that.
Tune in on 8 March and celebrate International Women's Day with 24 hours of women's voices and music. Wayward Girls Wicked Women will kick it off at midnight on Saturday night with a 6 hour chick music extravanganza!. Throughout the day enjoy special editions of your favourite Sunday shows including the Gardening Show with Pam Vardy, Latin American Update with Maree Dellora, Sally Goldner's Out of the Pan and Let the Bands Play with Jennifer Valls. We'll also bring you some of 3CR's great women programmers including Shiralee Hood with Good Job, the SUWA Show and Anne McAllister's Celtic Folk Show.

Tune into 3CR's live radio broadcast at the Sustainable Living Festival on 21 February, 11am - 1pm.
We shall also be having a 3CR stall at the broadcast so come down and meet the presenters of 3CR's seven environment programs!
Find out more about this three day festival on environment practices, principles and debates. And make sure you come down 20 - 22 February at Federation Square.
3CR celebrates another year of fiercely independent broadcasting and we'd like to invite you to contribute your slogan ideas for our 2009 Radiothon.
Radiothon kicks off 1 – 14 June in 2009 and is 3CR's major fundraiser.
Come up with a bright spark Radiothon slogan idea, designed to warm the heart and prompt the generous giving of all radical folks.
In previous years 3CR has rallied support with the following slogans:
Breaking Through The Static
Melbourne's Voice of Dissent
Sounds Like Change
At It Again!
So listeners and supporters email us in your lovely ideas by the 17 February.

3CR features fresh summer special programming while some broadcasters take a January break.
Tamil Voice will stage their annual appeal on Thursday 25 December 9am - 6.30pm to raise money for rehabilitation services in Sri Lanka.
On December 27 tune in at 7.30am and enjoy a re-broadcast of 3CR's World Human Rights Day Broadcast from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. 3CR's unique Beyond the Bars 5 (see below for details) - highlights from 3CR's NAIDOC Week prison broadcasts – will play on and on January 3.
Iain McIntyre will present a series of programs Twee Toy Makers And Melting Faces focusing on different aspects of 1960s psychedelia on Tuesdays 4.30 – 6pm.
Join Radio for Kids on Sunday morning at 9.15am as it fills in for Alternative News on January 4 and January 11 ... and don't miss great alternative current affairs with Alternative Radio each Wednesday afternoon at 4pm and Democracy Now! each Thursday afternoon at 4pm throughout January.
3CR staff will be back to work on 5 January 2009.
Thankyou to all our supporters this year and we look forward to your participation with 3CR in 2009!!
Come celebrate the end of another jam packed year at 3CR at our End of the 2008 Party!!
We shall be launching our Beyond the Bars 5 CD at 6pm and Done By Law's new website at 7pm.
Thursday 18 December, 6pm till midnight, at the Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall, cnr Victoria and Lygon Streets, Carlton.
Visit the Done By Law website
and sign up to the program's weekly podcast, browse the audio archive,
find links to campaigns and information, join the email announcement
list and pass on your ideas and comments. Many thanks to the Legal Services Board for funding this project.
Come to the launch of 3CR's Beyond the Bars 5 CD. This CD is a compilation of highlights from 3CR’s 2008 NAIDOC Week live broadcasts. These live broadcasts took place with Indigenous women and men incarcerated in three Victorian prisons.
The CD is distributed free nationally and the project is funded by the City of Melbourne, the Department of Justice and the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
For enquires about the Xmas party email the Station Manager .
Hope to see you there!
Tuesday 9th Dec at 7pm, on the eve of World Human Rights Day 2008, you are invited to attend a multi-media presentation by 3CR programmer Berhan Jaber. Earlier this year Berhan travelled to Ethiopia to interview Eritrean people living in the refugee camps there. Come along and hear a perspective on the ongoing conflict in Eritrea, which continues to be largely ignored by the media.
Berhan Jaber is a respected member of the Eritrean community in Melbourne, he has been programming at 3CR since 2003. He is a Social worker and Social Justice advocate for Eritrean people who are displaced from their homeland.
The presentation starts at 7pm in the meeting room upstairs at 3CR.
Please RSVP your attendance to Gab Reade by Mon 8 Dec
Tuesday December 9th 2008 7-8 pm
3CR Community Radio Meeting Room (upstairs)
21 Smith Street Fitzroy
Contact: 3CR Current Affairs Coordinator Gab Reade
Phone 3CR: 94198377
Eritrean Voices
Every Monday 7-8pm on 3CR Community Radio 855am
Streaming on 3CR!

Join 3CR on Wednesday December 10 for a day of human rights activism.
A highlight will be a live broadcast from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre on from noon to 2pm.
Tune in for unique stories and musical performances from Melbourne's refugee communities.
Supported by the City of Melbourne and the Victorian Multicultural Commission.
3CR won two awards and a highly recommended at the recent Community Broadcasting Association of Australia conference (14 – 16 November) in Alice Springs.
3CR's recording of the landmark Rudd government's apology to the Stolen Generations, The National Apology, won the station 'Most Innovative Outside Broadcast or Special Event Broadcast'. 3CR's Koori Survival Show presenter Gilla McGuinness (pictured) was on hand to accept the award with 3CR Current Affairs Coordinator Gab Reade. 3CR people also involved in the broadcasts are Robbie Thorpe, Larry Walsh, Kutcha Edwards, Greg and Deborah Segal.
Former 3CR Second Opinion broadcaster Barbara Hurley won the Michael Law Award. This award recognises an individual who has made a sustained and outstanding contribution to the sector.
3CR got a Highly Recommended for 'Excellence in Community Participation' for our 'general station material'.
3CR people at the conference were Barbara Hurley, Gilla McGuinness and Rachel Maher along with staff Juliet Fox, Leanne McLean, Gab Reade and Libby Jamieson.

Friday 21 November
Readings Bookshop, Carlton
Come along to our calendar launch! All welcome.
Meet 3CR folks, drink free wine and listen to Clare Williamson speak about Australian political posters (the theme of the 2009 Calendar) and Lyn Hovey talk about the Anti-Uranium movement and her artwork for the campaign. Broadcaster Rachel Maher will talk about the behind the scenes work of creating the calendar.
3CR's wall calendar is now for sale at 3CR for $22 (+ postage) and at all good book stores for $25. The 2009 calendar features Australian Political Poster Art
of the last 30 years.
These feisty posters by Australian social
agitators give an insight into the urgent issues of the last three
decades.
Buy your calendars now by clicking on 'Buy Now' in this website's right hand column or call 03 9419 8377!
Come to the screening of UK film Hunger on Wednesday, 12 November at 7pm at the
Cinema Nova in Carlton.
Directed by Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen the film takes an uncompromising look at the last six weeks in the life of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. For six weeks in 1981, Sands went without food in an action initiated to demand special status. IRA prisoners wanted to be treated as political prisoners, not criminals. The demand was given short shrift by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who said there was "no such thing as political murder, political bombing or political violence. There is only criminal murder, criminal bombing and criminal violence."
After 66 days without food, Sands died at the Maze prison in Northern Ireland at the age of 27. A terse statement from the Northern Ireland Office read: "Mr Robert Sands, a prisoner in the Maze, died today at 1:17am."
Tickets are $17 and this is a fundraiser for 3CR's Connolly Association. Contact 3CR.

Stick Together Show's Colm McNaughton has won a Walkley Award for “Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special”. The winners will be announced on SBS on November 27.
His radio documentary (co-produced with Russell Stapleton and Tony MacGregor) Awakening From History?, commissioned by Radio National's Radio Eye program, examined the difficult question of intergenerational trauma in the north of Ireland and drew on his personal experiences growing up in the north of Ireland.
His debut documentary has also been nominated for a United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award. It will be announced on October 24. Contact Colm if you would like a copy of Awakening From History?
“Community Radio stations across Australia have been training grounds for corporate and government run media for over 30 years and while our audience continues to grow, stations are under funded and under resourced. 3CR relies on the support of its listeners, if people cherish a media that is independent they need to financially support it,” said Libby Jamieson, 3CR Station Manager.
From 5-12 Nov 2009 3CR will be promoting on air its annual Subscriber Drive, for only $25/$50. Subscribe and help support independent media in Melbourne.
Spark those brain cells, meet 3CR folks and help 3CR reach our 2008
Radiothon Target.
Bring a team (maximum of ten) or join a table and swing on down on Thursday 30 October.
Venue: Fitzroy Football Club Grandstand/Edinburgh Pavilion, North Fitzroy. (Located in the Edinburgh Gardens near the beginning of St Georges Road).Tram number is 112 and the stop is 19. Melways reference is 2C1C and parking is on the street.
Doors open 6pm for a 7pm start. Cost per person: $20 full /$15 concession. For bookings and information contact Gab or Loretta at the station on 94198377.
Thanks to the lovely people at Mountain Goat for supporting our bar on the night.
3CR's Done by Law radio show presents The Winter of Civil Liberties - The Erosion of Civil Liberties in the 21st Century
By Jim Kennan SC, Former Attorney-General of Victoria.
MC’d by Fear of A Brown Planet’s infamous Aamer Rahman
September 11 at 6pm for a 6.30 pm start.
Generously hosted at TressCox Lawyers, Level 9, 469 La Trobe Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Price $15 full/$10 concession
Email to RSVP: (places are limited)
A fundraiser for 3CR community radio 855AM
Presented by Done by Law – Taking a radical look at the law since 1980!
Indigenous people in three Victorian prisons speak out in live radio broadcasts during NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) Week.
Melbourne’s community radio station, 3CR 855AM, will conduct live radio broadcasts with Indigenous prisoners in Port Phillip Prison, Dame Phyllis Frost Centre and Fulham Prison.
Part of 3CR's Beyond the Bars project, the broadcasts will go to air on 855AM and stream globally on www.3cr.org.au from Monday 7 to Friday 11 of July.
Highlights of the broadcasts will be launched as the Beyond the Bars CD in November this year.
These award-winning prison broadcasts are unique in Australia and give Indigenous prisoners in Victoria their only chance to participate with the community during NAIDOC Week, a time of celebration and coming together within Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
3CR Indigenous broadcaster and comedian Shiralee Hood will be part of the team conducting music and spoken word workshops with Indigenous women prisoners in the lead up to the broadcast at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre. For Shiralee the broadcasts are a way of getting voices heard from the inside. We aim to encourage and support the women during the week of celebration that is NAIDOC Week.
The prison broadcasts are part of a week of Indigenous special programming on 3CR 855AM from 7 –10 July. The prison programming will be simulcast on 3KND 1503AM.
Beyond the Bars 2008 is funded by the City of Melbourne, the Department of Justice and the Community Broadcasting Foundation.
For more information or to arrange interviews:
Bree McKilligan, Special Projects Coordinator, 03 9419 8377
Juliet Fox, Programming Coordinator, 03 9419 8377
Elgin Street Live!
On June 4th at 20 Elgin Street the Carlton community came together to create a mass group photo of Carlton housing estate residents past and present.
There were also many other things happening during the party including music and dancing by residents as well as delicious halal food and Ethiopian coffee.
3CR joined the party with an internal broadcast called Elgin Street Live which could be heard throughout the event. Carlton housing estate residents Phoebe Belbin and Maurice Milroy, as well as 3CR’s own Pilar Aguilera (pictured above right with resident Maria) and Mohammed El-leissy hosted Elgin Street Live,
taking their microphones into the crowd to listen to residents’
thoughts and feelings about many aspects of existing and upcoming
redevelopments in the Carlton Housing Estates.
Many stories were shared about growing up in Carlton and about moving
away through relocation. We also talked with the photographer Angela Bailey and writer Helena Spyrou about their ongoing art projects within the estate including the evening’s photo shoot.
Mohammed El-leissy also scooped a quick interview with Housing Minister Richard Wynne
about the redevelopment plans for the area. 3CR produced our broadcast
on-sight from a fantastic portable studio designed by RMIT design
students for the event.
Elgin Street Live was a dynamic and interactive evening amongst a huge community party!
Thanks to everyone mentioned above as well as 3CR technicians Lotti Stein and Michael Smith, and the 3CR Elgin Street Live! Coordinator Nicole Hurtubise.
The project was staged by the City of Melbourne, RMIT, the Office of Housing, 3CR, Polyglot Theatre and writer Helena Spyrou and photographer Angela Bailey.
Radiothon is 3CR's yearly fundraising event where we aim to raise as much money as we can! The 2008 Radiothon dates are 2 - 15 June.
As an independent media voice 3CR does not receive commercial sponsorship and is the recipient of small, one-off government funding only.
3CR depends on the financial support of its audience, broadcasters and supporters.
For 2 weeks in June 3CR broadcasters are set funding targets to raise through donations directly to their radio program and by staging fundraising benefits.
Many 3CR programs give away prizes to donors.
3CR would like to thank its supporters over the years and encourage everyone to maintain support for independent media in Australia.
You can donate to Radiothon anytime, including online - the easiest way to donate to uncensored, community radio.
Read the Station Manager's article on why you should donate to Radiothon in 2008!
Every November 3CR stages a week-long Subscriber Drive.
We encourage all of our listeners to Subscribe. Subscribing means that you become a member of the station. As well as supporting independent media, Subscribers receive 3CR's CRAM Guide twice a year and get subscriber discounts.
3CR Programmers must be subscribers in order to be on air.
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
This broadcast by 3CR's Indigenous broadcasters marks Australia's Invasion Day.
A 24-hour broadcast by 3CR's many women programmers focuses on women's issues globally.
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.
3CR celebrates National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee Week with a series of special broadcasts during a week in July.
Part of the week-long broadcasts include 3CR's unique Prison Broadcasts - the Beyond
the Bars
project - which 3CR has staged since 2002. 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.
The Beyond the Bars broadcast highlights are produced as the Beyond the Bars CD. For a free copy of the CD and for more information contact the Special Projects Coordinator.
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