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Creative Sparks Program bringing New Hope to Karen Community in Wyndham.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/03/2013 - 4:34pm

A creative outlet, aimed at promoting positive community engagement and individual empowerment will be provided for newly settled refugee children in Wyndham in March thanks to Melbourne based NGO Aware.

Aware’s Creative Sparks Program in 2013 will build on the success of the program achieved in 2012 in partnership with the Werribee refugee advocacy and welfare agency the New Hope Foundation.

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Limbo 24/7 Tales from the Cages of Detention

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/03/2013 - 1:43pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 21/03/2013 - 7:00pm to Wed, 27/03/2013 - 3:00pm

Location:

Studio 2 Northcote Town Hall, 189 High Street Northcote melbourne Vic Tix http://www.northcotetownhall.com.au/Page/page.asp?Page_Id=1165&h=0 or 94189500

Contact Name:

Jema Stellato Pledger

Contact Phone:

0414 85 99 22

Contact Email:

kommonground8@internode.on.net

Website:

http://www.facebook.com/KommongroundInc?ref=hl

A collaborative, interactive installation of film, digital storytelling and live performance that captures the lived experiences of asylum seekers. Created with filmmakers, photographers, storytellers across three generations, musicians and the asylum seeker community. Inspired by recent events and policies affecting asylum seekers and refugees.With Kavisha Mazzella, Carmelina Di Guglielmo, Phil Carroll. Project Created and directed by Jema Stellato Pledger
One live only at 7 pm 21 March.
Instillation times: 11-4pm 22-27th March
Venue; studio 2 Northcote town hall

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Melbourne

Whitehorse Community Fair

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/03/2013 - 1:26am

Date and Time:

Sat, 30/03/2013 -

12:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Kingswood College 355 Station Street BOX HILL SOUTH VIC 3128

Contact Name:

Quentin Loke

Contact Phone:

0425784947

Contact Email:

quentin.loke@fgam.org.au

Multibridge Community Centre will be running its second annual Whitehorse Community Fair on Saturday 30th March from 12pm. There will be food stalls, an arts and craft market, rides, activities for the kids and much more! So bring the family along for a day out and enjoy this free community event. We look forward to seeing you on the day.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 40 events from 24 February 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 23/02/2013 - 5:25pm

Newsletter date: 24 February 2013

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Event: Sun 24 February 2013: Fremantle, Perth, WA
Concert for the Kimberley:
A concert and march in the heart of Fremantle
The Wilderness Society WA
"Join us in Fremantle on Sunday 24 February 2013
for a free, open-air concert featuring the
John Butler Trio, Missy Higgins, Ball Park Music,
special guest Dr Bob Brown, and others."
"This concert and rally is a call to arms for
all West Australians to stand up and protect
one of our finest national treasures,

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Melbourne & Vic events: Jacky Green: Flow of Voices Exhibition + ISJA Meeting + Reflect Exhibition

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 23/02/2013 - 2:55pm

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 14 - 24 February 2013: Fitzroy, Melbourne, Vic
Jacky Green: Flow of Voices - Exhibition
Paintings from the Gulf of Carpentaria
With photographs and videos by Jessie Boylan
Opening: Thu 14th February 2013
Opened by Jacky Green, Prof. Jon Altman and Dr Sean Kerins
Centre For Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU
"I want the government and mining companies to
know that we are still here. We aren’t going anywhere.

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Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

FoE anti-nukes campaign meeting and radtour sesh

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 22/02/2013 - 2:19pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 26/02/2013 -

7:00pm to 8:15pm

Location:

FoE office, 312 Smith St Collingwood

Contact Name:

Gemma

Contact Phone:

0421955066

Contact Email:

radexposuretour@gmail.com

Website:

http://www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear/issues/oz/radtour

The first Anti-Nuclear and Clean Energy (ACE) collective meeting for 2013 is on Tuesday 26 Feb at 7pm upstairs at Friends of The Earth, 312 Smith St Collingwood. Please come along to make your anti-nuke schemes and dreams happen and generally plan for the nuclear year ahead!

Importantly it will include an information session about the amazing Radioactive Exposure Tour 2013 (Rad Tour) from 7pm.

So if you are thinking of going on this year's Rad Tour (or even if you aren't), come down to Friends of The Earth to find out more about the trip and ask any questions you have.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 39 events from 19 February 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 18/02/2013 - 9:29am

Newsletter date: 19 February 2013

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Event: 7 February - 10 March 2013: Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW
Production by emerging Koori playwright
Nakkiah Lui, called "This Heaven"
Director Lee Lewis
"'This Heaven' is the story about the
death in custody of a father and his
family's reaction on the night they're
told the police have been acquitted
of his murder."
Event details: http://belvoir.com.au/productions/this-heaven/
Event details: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1735970/Play-on-Indigenous-death-in-c...

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Victoria events: 5th anniv of the apology + Jacky Green: Flow of Voices + 'Lurujarri Dreaming' doco

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 10/02/2013 - 8:03pm

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 13 February 2013: various locations in Australia
National Apology Day
"Commemmoration of the day ex-Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd moved a Motion of Apology to the
Indigenous Peoples in the House of Representatives,
apologising for past laws, policies and practices that
devastated the Indigenous Peoples
(particularly those of the Stolen Generation)."
"The NSDC holds annual celebratory events on the
Anniversary of the Apology (13 February each year)

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 13 February 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 10/02/2013 - 3:59pm

Newsletter date: 11 February 2013

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FEB 6th : Solidarity Action For Egyptian Anarchists

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 05/02/2013 - 5:36pm

On the 6th of February we are asking for all anarchists, freethinkers & trouble makers to gather outside the building housing the Egyptian Consulate on 50 Market St, Melbourne CBD at 3:30PM in a show of solidarity for our Egyptian anarchist brothers and sisters who are currently facing serious repression from the religious fascist Morsi and his brutal Muslim Brotherhood backed regime.

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