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

3CR seeks funding for our special projects and we are open to collaboration with other organisations.

Contact the Special Projects Coordinator for information about 3CR's special projects.

Current Special Projects...

 

Girls On Air - International Womens Day Project

Girls on Air is a radio training project for young women from the City of Yarra's culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

The Girls On Air project provided radio training, as well as support and resourcing to produce radio features for broadcast and podcast on International Women’s Day 8 March 2010. The radio features cover social and political issues affecting young women.

Check out Girls on Air

 

Local History Project - People's Tours

3CR has been granted a Local History Grant to create audio tours of Melbourne’s social, activist and cultural local history.

The tours are a twist on a typical walking tour - they are fact-based but are also very personal, with tour guides describing why certain historical places, events and times have special meaning for them.

These tours will also be conducted as live walking tours with an audience as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

The four live tours take place Saturday 26 and every Sunday after during the Melbourne Fringe Festival:

* Irine Vela tours the hits, failures and challenges of her life as a working musician in Melbourne.
Live tour:  Saturday 26 Sept, 7 - 9pm, Horse Bazaar, City. FREE

* 3CR graphic designer Tom Sevil (pictured) follows a cobblestone pathway in Carlton to find street galleries and remanent political markings.
Walking tour: Sunday 27 Sept, 1.30 - 3.30pm, Readings Bookshop, Carlton.

* A long history of a short river is a historical walking tour along the Maribyrnong River with author and editor Jenny Lee.
Walking tour: Sunday 4 Oct, 3 - 4.30pm, Lily Street park, Essendon West.$10

* 3CR broadcaster Iain McIntyre's tour Sites of resistance is a walk around the sites of Melbourne's fiercest anti-eviction battles in the 1930s depression.
Walking tour: Sunday 11 Oct, 1 - 2.30pm, Brunswick Town Hall.

More information at the People's Tour website.

Bookings
Festival Tix: 03 9660 9666 or Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Press Contact
Jane Curtis or the  Special Projects Coordinator at 3CR Community Radio Station, 0422 064005 / 0413 895527.

The tours will be broadcast on 3CR on 5 November and be posted on the People's Tour website from September 2009. 3CR website volunteer Jane Curtis initiated the project. She is joined by broadcaster Nicole Hurtubise as audio technician of the tours.

Calling All Carlton Musicians!

3CR is currently staging a course for musicians who live in the Carlton Housing Estates July - October 2009.

3CR is collaborating with The Boite, Melbourne's world music community organisation, to deliver training and inspire local Carlton residents so they can establish themselves in the local music industry.

Participants (including Tui, pictured) will record their music in the 3CR studios, release a compilation CD (with audio content from other Carlton residents) and organise a final performance of their music at the CD Launch late January 2010.

Email the Coordinator for more information. This course is part of the Carlton Flats Arts Project produced by the Community Cultural Development program City of Melbourne and supported by the Office of Housing.

 

Mural Project for 3CR

3CR has recently been granted a JB Seed grant for our new mural project.

Indigenous artist photographer Bindi Cole (pictured), 3CR's Tom Sevil (the designer behind our logo, Seeds of Dissent Calendar, CRAM Guide and Radiothon publicity designs) and Indigenous stencil artist Reko Rennie will team up to create a front building mural at 21 Smith Street that reflects 3CR's role as a community media activist hub, local flora and fauna and Fitzroy and Collingwood's Indigenous history and contemporary culture.

Work starts in November so keep your eyes open for cherry pickers, paint tins and busy artists hard at work on the front pavement! We are seeking grants for our long side street mural too.

Past Special Projects >>

Doutta Galla Training

3CR recently ran a radio training project for a small group of people from the Doutta Galla Community Health Service.

3CR trainers Nicole Hurtubise, Michael Smith and Elena McMasters took the group through the steps of learning radio with the focus being the production of an audio segment each.

Three participants, Richard, Helen and Adam, produced segments. Listen here to their podcasts.

Richard's Ultimate Love Half Hour

Helen's overland travels from Asia to England

Adam's Dark Corner Show

High School Students To The Streets!

Collingwood College is incorporating radio training into its curriculum for students for years 6, 7 and 8. Eight students from the college recently completed a three day radio training course at 3CR. These students produced podcasts for our website and on air broadcast.

The project was highly successful with trainers and students having loads of fun. Students picked up the technical skills very quickly, particulary digital editing and they recorded some interesting vox pops with locals on Smith Street. 

Listen here to their podcasts...

Amber, Calista and 3CR staff person Leanne talk chocolate, radio and chat to the people at Queen Clothing on Smith Street

Reid and Ben discuss 'the amazing Collingwood College' and discourse with folks out on the street in front of 3CR

Liam and Pria chat about Collingwood College's kitchen garden and ask people on the street what they thing about Collingwood.

Rebekka interviews Jordan about wearable art and they take to Smith Street to experience the art of the vox pop.

We look forward to an ongoing partnership with Collingwood College students training at 3CR at the end of each semester.

Carlton Housing Estate Arts Project

In 2008 3CR began working with the Carlton Housing Estate on 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 2008 at the 20 Elgin Street square the Carlton community came together for Elgin Street Live (above) to create a dynamic and huge community party! 3CR joined the party with a live broadcast.

People's Tours of Carlton: Walk in Someone Else's Shoes

In November 2008, 3CR staged its first radio training project with Carlton residents. Participants learned how to prepare, record and produce audio and took it out on the road to share their stories and sounds.  The result was a series of audio and visual tours launced in March 2009 - the People's Tours of Carlton - which can be taken at People's Tours website.

This course is part of the Carlton Flats Arts Project produced by the Community Cultural Development program City of Melbourne and supported by the Office of Housing.

 

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