Applications are now open for DJing, DJ production (Ableton live) and darbuka workshops as part of the 3CR Salaam Radio Music School. We have limited places available for each of the three streams of training and all workshops are free of charge. Applicants from the SWANA diaspora and First Nations communities are strongly encouraged to apply. The aim of the workshops is to solidify the participants skills to be able to perform (if they wish) by the end of the training course live on Salaam Radio Show. More detail and the application form are here. Applications are due by 5pm on Friday 18 October to projects@3cr.org.au. This project is financially supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
LISTEN BACK to HEALTH SOVEREIGNTY, 3CR’s International Day of People with Disability broadcast. On 3rd December, 7am to 7pm, we’re talking about what Health, Wellbeing and Body Sovereignty mean, for multiply-marginalised disabled people, their kin and communities, living on unceded Indigenous lands.
With programming by disabled broadcasters from the 3CR and broader community.
For detailed information on the theme ‘HEALTH SOVEREIGNTY’ and program details, head here.
This year’s artwork is once again by First Nations artist, Renay Barker-Mulholland.
ID: A digital collage, with Renay, a First Nations woman, laying back on her power wheelchair as the central figure inside a bottle, inside a monolithic rock. On top there is an old, yellowed lightbulb and eyes dotted around the figure. There is a hand on each side of the image, and going vertically down, in black text on tiles the word, Sick and above it a black graphic crown. On the right hand side the same style and the word sovereign, with a black snake above the hand. A bright yellow light hovers just above Renay's solar plexus.
3CR Committee of Management Statement on Palestine Remembered. Read here.
You are invited to the Beyond the Bars CD Launch on Thursday 16 November 6-8.30pm at Dardi Munwurro - Aunty Alma Thorpe’s Gathering Place 546-550 High Street, Preston. MC Shiralee Hood, talks by Kutcha Edwards and Chris Austin, music by the Robbie Thorpe Band and Amos Roach. Snacks and non-alcoholic drinks + free CDs. All welcome. Free event.
3CR has a long history of supporting the Palestinian struggle and over the decades we have given airtime to the Palestinian community to have a voice across the airwaves. Every Saturday morning at 9.30am you can listen to Palestine Remembered live or online and get informed and keep up to date with the current situation. You can also catch up with podcasts via your favourite podcast platform, or audio on demand.
On Saturday 7 October, from 1-2pm 3CR will be coming to you live from the ‘Stop Black Deaths in Custody National Day of Action(link is external)’ at the State Library of Victoria. The rally is calling for an immediate implementation of the recommendations of the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody(link is external). If you can’t be there in person listen in to the rally speeches on 3CR Community Radio! Listen in on 855AM, Digital 3CR, streaming on www.3cr.org.au or on the Community Radio App(link is external). Listen back here.
We know you love listening to us, but we also know that many of you haven’t downloaded the Community Radio Plus app yet. The App lets you tune in anywhere, AND share the station with your friends. It’s great for listening live while you’re out and about. So, show the love, and share the love, and search Community Radio Plus, wherever you get your apps.
Each year singers and artists gather to present a fundraising concert to support 3CR. This year, it will be held at Mark St Hall on Friday 15 September at 7:30pm. Grab your tickets to support local community radio. Five community choirs will be joining forces to fill a night with song. Enjoy songs and tunes from Living Out Loud with Sue Johnson, Sonidos Del Alma Spanish Choir with Iaki Vallejo, Gorani men's vocal ensemble, Carl Pannuzzo's FeelGood Choir and Mixed Drinks with Therese Virtue. For musicians, Music Sans Frontieres, presented by The Boite, and the hosts of other music programs offer airplay and opportunities nowhere else available. Come along and support your local community radio station!
This year, Done By Law's legendary trivia night returns yet again to light up the social calendars of the best and brightest minds in Melbourne. Expect another evening of sparkling wit, cunning competition and of course, the glorious glory of sweet sweet victory (which could be yours by the way). This your first year? Welcome!! You might just be the best among us, but you'll have to strut your stuff to prove it! Friday 15 September - pop it in the calendar now! Full details and tickets here.
We’re so excited for Lost in Science Trivia #∞ Yes, it’s ON! Monday 14 August, 7pm at the Carringbush Hotel in Abbotsford. Come early for dinner, bring a team, win prizes, show off your brains AND raise money for science on the radio! Email to book your table via email to lostinsci@gmail.com (And remember to tune in each Thursday at 8.30am for all your science goodness).
Last week the Beyond the Bars program teams broadcast live from six Victorian prisons. We shared the mic with First Nations women and men across the state for NAIDOC Week 2023. You can now listen back to all the broadcasts and hear the insights direct from First Nations people in the system. We look forward to a day when we don't need to go into prisons to give First Nations people a voice. Pictured: Loddon Prison broadcast team L-R Amos, Karina, Jody, Tash, Gab, Chris, Bart, Mercedes and Dale.