Events

Speaker: Anu Muhammad.

Professor Muhammad works in the Department of Economics at Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka and has played a leading role in the civil society campaign against the Phulbari mine.

Friday, 23 May

6.30pm. Northcote High School, St Georges Rd, Northcote.

For more information email cam.walker@foe.org.au.

A collection of shorts from indie film makers and activists.

A benefit for SUWA (Squatters and Unwaged Airwaves radio program on 3CR).

7pm. Loophole Community Centre, 834A High St, Thornbury.

Info crustofcrust@gmail.com.

Saturday, May 24 - 2.30pm.

Assemble Federation Square then march to MCG.

Music, Eritrean dancing, supper.

Proceeds to support the work of Caritas Internationalis.

6pm. Cardinal Knox Centre, 383 Albert St, East Melbourne.

Entry: $20 per person.

RSVP DrLuigi.Soccio@immi.gov.au.

Say no to John Brumby and the big end of town's urban nightmare and PPPs! Oppose more loss of public parklands!

Demand real solutions to our traffic and public transport problems! Real action on global warming!

Sunday,  25 May

 1 pm. Debney Park, Mt Alexander Rd, Flemington.

Rod Quantock to compere.

For more info ph Gab Pretto 9376 3060.

1.30pm. Library Group Study Room P219, Victoria University, Footscray Park Campus.

An update on the current situation in Afghanistan by VUT post-graduate student Natalie Zirngast.

Organised by Socialist Alliance & Resistance.

For more info ph 0406 402 401.

La Mama Poetica launches the Heart to Heart 2008 CD at the Reconciliation Poetry Evening.

Taking place during Reconciliation Week the La Mama Poetica event is a meeting place for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Poets.

Poets include Johnny Harding, Lauren Williams, Grant Caldwell and Jeltje. Hosted by Jennifer Harrison. 

La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday St, Carlton 

Monday, June 2, 8pm

$7/5

The CD is a tribute to Indigenous poet Lisa Bellear who sadly passed away in 2007. This limited edition CD is by donation.

Join 3CR at The Big Photo Party at the Elgin Street walk-ups in Carlton on June 4!

All tenants living in and relocated from the Carlton Estates have been invited to come and be part of a mass group photograph to show that many tenants live on this Estate and that public housing is important to Carlton.

Join tenants such as Dietrich and Maurice (left) and...

· See six amazing interactive vehicles with radio, video, live music, kids games
· Have your say at 3CR’s mini broadcast about what housing and home means to you.
· Children can play the Big Game with Polyglot Puppet Theatre
· There will also be free Sorghum Sisters food, Ethiopian coffee and a halal BBQ.

Wednesday 4 June 2008
4.30–7pm (photo at 5.30pm) in the Elgin St walk-ups courtyard off Canning & Palmerston Streets

Cuba: How the workers & peasants made the revolution

Speakers: Kevin Bracken (state secretary, Maritime Union of Australia), Joan Coxsedge (president, Australia Cuba Friendship Society), Chris Slee (author)

Thursday, June 5, 6.30pm

Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City.

Launch of new Resistance Books pamphlet on the Cuban Revolution. (56pp, $6. Available from Resistance Centre or online at Resistance Books.)

Organised by the Democratic Socialist Perspective (an affiliate of Socialist Alliance). For more info ph 9639 8622.

Overturn the ban on same-sex marriage!

Allow gays and lesbians to adopt!

Allow IVF for lesbians!

Saturday 7 June, 1pm.

Cnr Bourke & Swanston Sts, City.

For more information call James 0412 906 978.

DANGEROUS AND PERSUASIVE WOMEN: DOING POLITICS DIFFERENTLY – AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S ‘HISTORY OF SUCCESS’, CENTENARY OF SUFFRAGE IN VICTORIA 1908 - 2008

 
WHERE:       BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square

WHEN:          Monday 16 June 2008

TIME:             6.30pm for 7.00pm START

TICKETS:     FREE

BOOKINGS: (03) 9642 0422, or email.
 

3CR's Morrocan program stages it's Radiothon 2008 Benefit.

 Come and listen to Middle Eastern & North African music.

Performers include La Kasbah, Pin Rada Ensemble, Ali Coban & Evie Phil Gunter as well as Andrea Makris from Underbelly Dance.

Food by Half Moon Cafe.

Monday 9 June (Queen's Birthday)

60 High St, Sth Preston

$12/15

More information after at www.carni.com.au

Australian Ethiopian artists exhibition Opening:

Tuesday June 10 @ 5.00pm

45 Downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 

EMERGE - The Journey: From Ancient Ethiopia to Contemporary Melbourne
An exhibition by Befekir Kebede, Sutueal Bekele & Tamirat Gebremariam

Exhibition runs:
June 10th - June 21st
Open hours:
Tues - Fri 11am – 5pm & Sat 12pm - 4pm

@ 45 Downstairs
45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
more info: eo@multiculturalarts.com.au or www.multiculturalarts.com.au

To help the Victorian community understand the options provided by the Victorian Law Reform Commission on the decriminalisation of Abortion,  EMILY's List has organised a public form:

Panel members will include:
Cheryl Davenport (former WA MLC who decriminalised abortion via a Private Members Bill),
Dominque Saunders, Lawyer
Susie Reid, Women's Health Goulburn East EO.

WHEN:         Thursday 12 June, 6pm
WHERE:       Queen Victoria Women's Centre, Level 4, 210 Lonsdale St, Melbourne

TICKETS:     FREE

Start: 12 Jun 2008 - 7:00pm
Fitzroy Town Hall reading room,
Cnr Napier and Moor Sts,
Fitzroy. 

Speakers:
Paul Mees (Victoria's No.1 public transport advocate and a Yarra resident)
Stephen Jolly (Yarra councillor) 

 The State government is planning to build a tunnel linking the Eastern Freeway to the western suburbs. Come to this public meeting to learn more about the proposal and join with other residents to organise against these environmentally disastrous plans.

For more info ph 9639 9111.

Synergy Gallery
253 High St Northcote.

For more info
phone Michaela 9419 8700 or
uka@melbpc.org.au

Join a special Go Red For Women event!

Go Red For Women Breakfast
Friday 13 June 2008 (7am-9am)
Zinc, Federation Square, Melbourne    

Go Red for Women is a national, month-long awareness campaign held in June to educate women about the risk of heart disease.  In fact heart disease is the leading cause of death for Australian women.

For information: (03) 9321 1506 or http://www.heartfoundation.org.au/

 

After 40 years of performing, legendary comedian Rod Quantock reckons he’s now ready to pack his hatchet of humor and for the first time tackle the audiences: Way Out West.

Rod said: “With the ice caps melting and Williamstown so low in the water already, if I leave it any longer I’ll have to do the show on a pontoon.”

Ever the carbon-conscious performer Rod has figured it is better he goes to his audience than the audience drive in their droves to the city to see him. He thinks the newly refurbished Mechanics Institute is the perfect place to meet.

Like all Quantock shows, Way Out West will be wise, witty and wickedly funny.

Three shows only - 8.00pm, 13-14-15 June
Mechanics Institute, Williamstown
Cr Electra St & Melbourne Rd
Tickets $25 & $20 concession
BOOKINGS: 9923-1000 or website.
Booking fees apply.
For further information call 9397 8226.

After 40 years of performing, legendary comedian Rod Quantock reckons he’s now ready to pack his hatchet of humor and for the first time tackle the audiences: Way Out West.

Rod said: “With the ice caps melting and Williamstown so low in the water already, if I leave it any longer I’ll have to do the show on a pontoon.”

Ever the carbon-conscious performer Rod has figured it is better he goes to his audience than the audience drive in their droves to the city to see him. He thinks the newly refurbished Mechanics Institute is the perfect place to meet.

Like all Quantock shows, Way Out West will be wise, witty and wickedly funny.

Three shows only - 8.00pm, 13-14-15 June
Mechanics Institute, Williamstown
Cr Electra St & Melbourne Rd
Tickets $25 & $20 concession
BOOKINGS: 9923-1000 or website.
Booking fees apply.
For further information call 9397 8226.

Public Seminar: Guam, military bases and the struggle for an independent Pacific.
Start: 14 Jun 2008 - 12:30pm
End: 14 Jun 2008 - 5:00pm

Green Building,
60 Leicester Street, Carlton.
As the Pentagon prepares to move thousands of Marines from Okinawa to Guam, find out about the struggle for indigenous self-determination in the Pacific and Australia's links to regional militarisation.

Speakers include:
Lisa Natividad and Julian Aguon - Chamoru activists from Guam
Maki Yonaha - Japanese for Peace
Nic Maclellan - Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific
Richard Tanter - Nautilus Institute

For more info ph Nic Maclellan 0421 840 100.

After 40 years of performing, legendary comedian Rod Quantock reckons he’s now ready to pack his hatchet of humor and for the first time tackle the audiences: Way Out West.

Rod said: “With the ice caps melting and Williamstown so low in the water already, if I leave it any longer I’ll have to do the show on a pontoon.”

Ever the carbon-conscious performer Rod has figured it is better he goes to his audience than the audience drive in their droves to the city to see him. He thinks the newly refurbished Mechanics Institute is the perfect place to meet.

Like all Quantock shows, Way Out West will be wise, witty and wickedly funny.

Three shows only - 8.00pm, 13-14-15 June
Mechanics Institute, Williamstown
Cr Electra St & Melbourne Rd
Tickets $25 & $20 concession
BOOKINGS: 9923-1000 or website.
Booking fees apply.
For further information call 9397 8226.

ANZ towers
55 Collins St
Melbourne.

For more info ph 9038 0888.

Would you like to see Tassie’s forests pulped or protected?

Gunns Limited are planning on building a pulp mil in the north of Tasmania that will be a disaster for climate change, will be 80% native forest based and destroy an area forest equivalent to 100,000 MCGs.

The ANZ Bank can help stop the pulp mill by refusing to fund the development.

Help convince the ANZ Bank not to finance the pulp mill.

Join thousands of others who want to see Tasmania’s forests protected, not pulped, in a Rally and March on Sunday June 15 at 12 noon. 

Starting at the ANZ towers 55 Collins St and heading down to Federation Square, come for an afternoon of live music and celebration of Tasmania’s forests.

Public Forum: Speeding toward dangerous climate change.
Start: 15 Jun 2008 - 2:30pm
Melbourne Town Hall,
Swanston St, City.
Hear what the world's leading climate scientists are discovering about the speed of climate change, the potential impacts on our way of life, and what we need to do to safeguard our future.
Speakers:
David Spratt (climate policy analyst and co-author of Climate Code Red),
Dr Patrick Moriarty (senior research fellow at the Australasian Centre fo the Governance and Management of Urban Transport (GAMUT)),
Elliot Fishman (Policy Advisor, cycling promotion fund).

Heart
Whitelion's Young Women's Support Service
Photographs by Jacqui Brown

Opening: Tuesday July 1, 6-8 pm
Continues from Wed July 2-Sat July 5
Wed and Sat 11-4pm, Thurs & Fri 11-4pm and 7-9pm
Synergy Gallery
253 High St
Northcote

Whitelion is a community organisation which helps young women involved or at risk of being involved with the youth justice system.

Launching Refugee Week 2008>>

Made in Australia
An Exhibition about Power Complacency and Consequence
by renowned photographer Viv Mehes.

Launch: June 16 at 6.15pm.
Dates: 16 - 11 July, 2008
The Foyer, 1 Spring St, Melbourne

The launch will include storytelling by Arnold Zable who has contributed a compelling essay for the catalogue.
Music by Mesopotamia.

About the exhibition>>
Created over 2 years, this close collaboration with Asylum Seekers from Sri Lanka, Burma, Lebanon, Cyprus, Fiji and Ghana, gently draws on their inner resilience creating a powerful and intimate narrative. A Series of silent commuters towers over the narratives, whilst set apart is a disquieting Installation of portraits printed onto delicate, swaying fabric hung from the iconic Hill's Hoist; at first intriguing and familiar, it carries a bitter sting to offer a powerful statement about human rights in Australia over the last decade.


For Viv Mehes, Made in Australia comes hot on the heels of her multi-award winning exhibition Shadowland, a powerful exhibition also about refugees. Following a 2-year Victorian Regional Gallery Shadowland was placed on the Amnesty International website on World Refugee Day, 2007.



Viv Mehes' work is represented in most Australian public galleries, and in private and corporate collections.


In late 2005, Anial, an asylum seeker from Sri Lanka, implored Viv to create another exhibition like Shadowland, 'Please show Australian people how Bridging Visa E is affecting our lives'.

For interviews with Viv Mehes or asylum seekers contact Viv on 0408 035 258 or email.


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Produced in partnership with Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Project

Made in Australia is proud to be part of Multicultural Arts Victoria's Emerge Festival 2008

Funded by: Perpetual, City of Melbourne and Victorian Multicultural Commission

In conjunction with the much anticipated:

MADE IN AUSTRALIA: An Exhibition about Power, Complacency and Consequence by Viv Méhes

 16 June 2008, 6.15pm

The Foyer, 1 Spring St, Melbourne

TO BE LAUNCHED BY

Mr James Merlino, Minister Assisting the Premier on Multicultural Affairs

Stories by Arnold Zable

 Music by Mesopotamia

For more information about the Launch contact Annette McKail, Refugee Council of Australia on 9348 2245 or email annette@refugeecouncil.org.au

For more information about Refugee Week visit www.refugeecouncil.org.au

For more information about made in australia visit www.multiculturalarts.com

Justice Behind the Walls: Human Rights and Prisons

with Michael Jackson QC, Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia and Legal Research Director at Lawyers Rights Watch Canada and Jim Kennan SC, former Deputy Premier of Victoria

Date: 6.00 to 7.30pm, Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Venue: Allens Arthur Robinson, Level 34, 530 Collins Street, Melbourne

Cost: $25 / $15 for full-time students and pensioners

Registration is essential.

Use Booking Form available at www.hrlrc.org.au.