Events

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

Synergy Gallery
253 High St Northcote.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Thursday, June 19

6pm. City of Darebin, Function Room, Level 1, 350 High St, Preston.

 Is it time Australia introduced a category for climate refugees?

Speakers: Fikau Teponga, president of Kaiga Tuvalu Victoria; Cam Walker, campaign coordinator for Friends of the Earth; David Manne, coordinator of the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre.

Trades Hall’s New International Bookshop today declared the end of the neoconservative era, presenting as evidence a large number of books already donated to their annual Big Red Book Fair.

Big Red Book Fair 2008
11am to 5pm Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 June
Trades Hall
Cnr Victoria & Lygon Sts, Carlton

National Day of Action - Stop the NT Intervention!
Start: 21 Jun 2008 - 12:00pm
State Library
Cnr Latrobe and Swanston Sts, City.

Aboriginal Control of Aboriginal Affairs!
Repeal All "NT Intervention" Legislation!
Restore the Racial Discrimination Act!
Fund Infrastructure & Community Controlled Services!

Trades Hall’s New International Bookshop today declared the end of the neoconservative era, presenting as evidence a large number of books already donated to their annual Big Red Book Fair.

Big Red Book Fair 2008
11am to 5pm Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 June
Trades Hall
Cnr Victoria & Lygon Sts, Carlton

Tuesday, June 24, 6pm.

Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall

Cnr Lygon and Victoria Sts, Carlton South.

John Pilger's first feature-length film, The War on Democracy, looks at the unfolding socialist revolution in Venezuela, with interviews with President Hugo Chavez and those who lives are being radically improved under this revolution.

The film also looks at Venezuela's many challenges in overturning the legacy of past United States interventions in Latin America.

Wednesday 25 June 6.30pm
Bar 303, 303 High St, Northcote.
Presented by Socialist Alliance North and Green Left Weekly.
Entry $8/5 concession.
Inquiries: Call 9639 8622 or Vannessa (0407-023-672).

John Pilger's documentary looks at the intervention of the US into Latin America.

$8/$5 concession. 6.30pm.

Bar 303, 303 High St, Northcote.

Presented by Green Left Weekly & Socialist Alliance.

For more info ph 0407 023 672 or 9639 8622.

Film screening and speaker about the NT Intervention:
Lousy Little Sixpence

In New South Wales, in 1909, the Aborigines Protection Board planned to break up Aboriginal communities by forcibly removing their children and hiring them out as servants to white employers.

The title of this powerful documentary comes from the wages that were to be paid to the children. Many never saw that lousy little sixpence.

In the mid-1930s, the Aboriginal people began to organise, and to fight the Aborigines Protection Board. Through old newsreels, archive film, photographs and interviews with Elders, the film weaves a moving account of a hidden history, the early struggle for Aboriginal land rights and self-determination. A meticulous study of how white Australians between the wars consistently broke up Aboriginal families to manufacture a black servant class.

A meticulous study of how white Australians between the wars consistently broke up Aboriginal families to manufacture a black servant class. Australia has produced few films of such quiet and ironic passion. - John Baxter, The Australian.

7pm, Thursday June 26th
Yarraville Community Centre
144 Blackwood St

Entry by donation.
There will also be mulled wine and cheese available.

Organised by Socialist Alliance.

For more info: 0406 402 401

Visit Socialist Alliance Melbourne West

Film Screening: Lousy Little Sixpence.
Start: 26 Jun 2008 - 7:00pm
Yarraville Community Centre,
144 Blackwood St, Yarraville.

Entry by donation.

A meticulous study of how white Australians between the wars consistently broke up Aboriginal families to manufacture a black servant class.

Organised by Socialist Alliance.
For more info ph 0406 402 401.

The Refugee Action Collective of Victoria invites you to join in a 'Happening'...

...... a pile of old suitcases will appear in the middle of the city .....

Each suitcase represents the human suffering experienced by refugees, their need for a safe place to call home, as well as the riches they bring to our community

WHEN: Saturday 28th June. Meet @ 11.30 am SHARP! It will all be over by 12.30pm.
WHERE: Meet at Atrium at Federation Square (opp. the Forum Theatre, Flinders St)
 BRING: Old unwanted suitcase (they are very cheap at op shops) with a slogan painted on it.
WEAR: a long coat.

PLEASE CHOOSE FROM ONE OR TWO SLOGANS BELOW:

Stop Refugee Deportations; Justice for Refugees; Abolish Unfair Citizenship Tests; Open the Borders; Let the Boats Land, Let Them Stay; End Mandatory Detention; No-One is Illegal; Free the Refugees: Abolish Bridging Visa Es; Close Christmas Island.

Come to a Suitcase Painting Workshop: Sat 21st June @ 3.30 pm

For those who would like to take part, come along to rear Wesley Uniting Church, 148 Lonsdale St , b/w Russell and Exhibition Sts (north east/far right corner).

BRING: paint - including spray cans, brushes, old suitcases, stencil/letter templates. (You dont have to bring all this but please bring an old suitcase.)

Enquiries: 0409 190 738

Download a flyer at the website.

 

Saturday, June 28

4-6pm:Photographic exhibition, film & poetry session.

6-9pm: cultural celebration.

Victorian Trades Hall, Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton.

Organised by Salvador Allende Centenary Committee.

For more information phone Alejandra 0433 540 932, Andrew 0419 523 886 or Paul 0448 786 253.

25th Anniversary of the Saving of the Franklin River, 1 July

Join Senator Bob Brown (Greens Party) in the the celebration at The Federation Ballroom, Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart.

A fast-moving panoply of reminiscences, music, film footage and spectacular photography of the will be Bob Hawke, David Bellamy, Shane Howard, Doug Lowe and more.

Tuesday, 1 July 2008 6:30 for 7:00pm.

Call Centertainment on 03 62345998 or go to www.centertainment.com.au to book your tickets. Tables of 10 or 12 available. Tickets $65/$50 conc.

Includes light refreshments during the night. More info

 Melbourne premiere!

The Doctors of Tomorrow

Thursday, July 3, 7pm

Victoria University City Campus, Room 11.01 (11th floor)

300 Flinders Street, City

A film about how the people of two countries, East Timor & Cuba, are working together to build a health system. Discussion with film-maker Tim Anderson will follow the screening. Entry by donation. Organised by Green Left Weekly & Victoria University Community Development Students' Association.

For more info ph 9639 8622 or Vannessa 0407 023 672.

No desalination plant! No new freeway tunnel!
No bay dredging! Yes to renewable energy & public transport!

Saturday, July 5, 1pm

City Square, Cnr Swanston & Collins St, City then march to Alexandra Gardens to form human sign. See list of sponsors at Climate Emergency rally.

For more info & to add endorsement of your group ph Ben 0413 580 706.

Performers include: Agency Dub Collective, Culture Connect, West Papuan Singers & Dancers, Chant Down Sound, Pataphysics, A Mapmouth Exploder, B12 Shot.

Saturday 5 July.

$10/15. 8pm.

The Corner Hotel, Swan St Richmond.

Proceeds to Australia West Papua Association.

Federation Square, City.

Start: 6 Jul 2008 - 11:00am
10th Anniversary Commemoration of the Biak Massacre in West Papua.
Come and show solidarity by participating in a flag raising re-enactment ceremony.

 

Resistance Centre, Level 5,
407 Swanston St, City.
Start: 10 Jul 2008 - 6:00pm
Includes a political update discussion about most recent events in Venezuela followed by planning our solidarity work.

All welcome.

For more info ph 0448 064 755 or 9639 8622.

 

The march provides an opportunity for all Australians to show their support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Friday 11 July at 10am.

 

Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, 186 Nicholson St, Fitzroy.