Pyjama Party for Peace - Sat 5
July 31, 2006
Saturday 5 August, 5pm
Northcote Uniting Church, 251 High Street, Northcote
Wurungeri welcome and smoking ceremony, artists, music, food, fire art, poets, meditation and films, raising funds for East Timor, refugees and orphans
Guest Artists include - Wurungeri elder Joy Murphy, author Arnold Zable, Paolo Almeida and Sol Timorese Band, Circus Mistique, singer-songwriter Mick Thomas, Dursan Acar, Kavisha Mazzella and La Voce della Luna Italian Women’s Choir, Sudanese singer Ajak Kwai, actor Majid Shoker, Tzigas, Eva Popov, The Sanctuary Ensemble, Blind Man Driving, Robin Rowland and the Midnight Poets, Playback Theatre, Anthea Sidiropolous with dawn chants, Andy Green morning Chi Gung, Bruce Watson’s politics and song, Shaking the Tree choir, blues singer Dan Dinnen, Timorese Singers, Jane Belfrage and Harry Williamson, filmmaker Nicci Ma, Zamponistas, bedtime stories with Susan Pepper and others….
COST: $10 donation
ENQUIRIES: Call 9482 2884 or visit http://www.chalice.org.au
It’s all about power… Nuclear Future Forum
July 31, 2006
Sunday 6 August, 2.30pm
St James Conference Centre, 12 Batman St, West Melbourne
A presentation by:
- Professor Jim Falk (Director, Centre for Science, Innovation and Society, Melbourne University)
- Associate Professor Martin Sevior (School of Physics, University of Melbourne)
The Victorian Council of Christian Education CJ Wright event.
ENQUIRIES: Contact Rev Con Apokis at office@vcce.org.au
create to advoc8 - this Sat!
July 28, 2006
Want to use your art to make a stand against injustice, want to help make poverty history? If you have an urge to create and a passion for justice come to the Create to Advocate workshop. The workshop also aims to provide information, stimulus and inspiration for artists to create works for the Create to Advocate Art Exhibition, destined for Parliament House, Canberra, in Anti Poverty week, in October.
The workshop will feature information on the Micah Challenge and Make Poverty History campaigns, performances by Water Carriers Dance Theatre, audio/visual input from around the world, an exhibition of art works from STIR- Art 4 Aid, drama, live music and time to respond and create. There will be opportunity to make connections, to brainstorm, and do individual and collaborative artwork.
If you’re a visual artist, performer, poet, writer, dancer, musician, multi-media wonder-worker, then be part of this exciting initiative.
- Saturday 29 July, 10am - 4pm
- Northcote Uniting Church, 251 High St, Northcote
- Cost: $10. Includes lunch & fair trade coffee. Some art materials
provided but BYO also!
Please RSVP for catering, by phone or email.
Enquiries: Jane McGeough janemc@tear.org.au, (03) 9877-7444
More info: http://advoc8.tear.org.au/?p=42
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Hiroshima Day Rally and Concert
July 28, 2006
Sunday 6 August, 1pm: Hiroshima Day rally
Stand up against war and for a nuclear free future @ State Library, city.
For more information contact 9639 8622/ 0417 506 150 or go to www.nukefreeaus.org Endorsed by: Melbourne Stop the War Coalition, Nuclear Free Australia, Friends of the Earth, The Greens (Vic), National Union of Students, Greenpeace (Australia Pacific), Australian Democrats, Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (Vic) and more…
Sunday 6 August, 3-5pm: Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki:
Peace Concert 2006 @ St Michael’s Church, 120 Collins St. Speakers include Junko Morimoto (author of My Hiroshima). Performers include David Bridie, singer/songwriter; Natsuko Minegishi, soprano singer; William Zurbo, Ukrainian musician on traditional instruments; Leigh Sloggett, musician and artist; Tom Bolton, musician and artist.
Entry: $10/$5 concession.
Profits from this concert will for to the NGO Doctors for Iraq.
Organised by Japanese for Peace. More info at www.jfp.org.au
Women for Palestine Vigil & Peace Rally - Sun 30
July 28, 2006
Sunday 30 July, noon: Women for Palestine special vigil @ State Library. Please wear black and white – black for mourning and white for peace – men * women * children.
To be followed by …
1pm, Sunday 30 July: Rally for Peace: Stop Israeli aggression against Palestine and Lebanon @ State Library, corner of Latrobe and Swanston Sts, Melbourne. Organised by Melbourne Palestine Solidarity Network.
Info 0406 402 401
Vic Peace network (post by Age)
Margaret Dooley Young Writers Award
July 27, 2006
now open for submissions!
Eureka Street magazine this week opened the second annual Margaret Dooley Young Writers Award, a competition open to all Australian writers under the age of 40. The award asks writers to submit two pieces of reasoned ethical argument, based on humane values – a tradition kept alive by EurekaStreet magazine for the past 15 years in Australia.
The winning essays will be published in the December edition of Eureka Street, and the writer will receive a $2000 cash prize as well as further opportunities to write for this iconic magazine.
Entrants must submit two previously unpublished articles that offer the following: ethical reflection directed to a non-specialist audience on any serious topic, appeal to humane values, clear argument and elegant expression, and a generosity and courtesy of spirit animating forceful argument.
Entries close 5th October 2006.
The Dooley family supports this award, in loving memory of prominent community member Margaret Dooley; this award is offered in honour of her appreciation for the value of communication and education for young people, based on personal values.
For more information on how to enter, and to read last year’s winning essays, please visit www.margaretdooleyaward.com
For further comment contact
Marisa Pintado, Coordinator Margaret Dooley Award
PH: 03 9427 7311
dooleyaward@eurekastreet.com.au
August - Upper Room - “Rise up”
July 25, 2006
Shine cafe & bar. 6-8:30pm
Theme: Rise up - “We don’t come lightly and We will not go quietly.’
In our first night we want to engage in conversations about what we hope this gathering will be; what issues and ideas people will not be silenced about; and how do we respond to the prophetic call to rise up with God in personal, social and politicial transformation - non violently
Sound interesting? Then bring your friends and lets meet in the upper room.
$5 donation towards future gathering
Feel free to join in planning the night
SOJO - The new war in the Middle East
July 24, 2006
Below is an email reflection from Jim Rice editor of Sojourners
What is the proper, appropriate response of a nation to violent attacks by terrorists or other radical extremists? We have seen one model illustrated in the response of the British government to last year’s attacks on London’s public transportation system, in which 52 people were killed and 700 injured. The British rightly understood the attacks as terrorist acts, but responded in a measured manner, dealing both with the investigation of the terrible crime and the need for enhanced security in its wake. Pointedly, the British did not opt for a military response to these acts of terror.
We have also, of course, seen an altogether different model of response, perhaps most clearly exemplified by the U.S. invasion of two countries - one of which was an actual source of the terror - following the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001.
Unfortunately, it seems to be in the latter spirit that Israel responded to terror attacks in the past fortnight. Provoked by the Hamas kidnapping of an Israeli soldier, Israel not only invaded the northern Gaza Strip but also destroyed a significant portion of Gaza’s infrastructure, including airstrikes against Gaza’s power grid.
Likewise, days later, when the Syrian-backed terror group Hezbollah seized the opportunity to raid northern Israel and capture two Israeli soldiers, Israel responded with a massive attack on Lebanon’s civilian structures, from the Beirut airport to a dairy factory, civilian buses, bridges, power stations, and medical facilities, according to reports. Hezbollah responded by firing hundreds of rockets a day - more-modern, longer-range rockets than in the past - aimed intentionally at neighborhoods in Haifa and other Israeli cities. The result, not surprisingly, has been the death of many civilians on all sides.
Multifaith Multicultural Youth Forum - Sun 30
July 20, 2006
On Sunday 30 July the Victorian Government and partners are hosting a Multifaith Multicultural Youth Forum that aims to promote ongoing dialogue between young people from a range of faith and cultural backgrounds and strengthen youth participation in the community.
This forum is an ideal opportunity for young people to share their ideas on issues that are important to them with government, faith and community leaders and with each other.
Please find attached a Forum invitation/registration form. Ideally we are looking for individuals between 15 to 28 years of age. Please note, places are limited so ensure your representative registers early.
This forum is hosted by the Department for Victorian Communities, in partnership with the Victorian Multicultural Commission, the Australian Multicultural Foundation, the Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues and the Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria.
If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact me on (03) 9208 3184 or via email at mmyf@dvc.vic.gov.au. Natalie Zaibak
(Post by Age)
The Upper Room Project
July 19, 2006
So here is our current vision for the upper room. We will put as much up on morepraxis allowing all of the morepraxis community to help shape the nights and direction of this gathering. (and hopefully give some fuel to see more local project develop)
The upper room project will meet monthly to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. It will run upstairs in the Shine Café/Bar with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space – Also food, wine and coffee 
The upper room is the place of meeting with Jesus where he reflects on the bloody struggle ahead of him and his follows (Luke22: 7-38); the place where loved disciples rest their head on Jesus’ breast to hear his heart beat (John 13:22-25); and a prophetic call by Jeremiah to not build prosperity by unrighteousness ‘upper rooms’ by injustice – to know God is to defend the cause of the poor and needy. (Jer 22:13-16)
These three interpretations of upper room will help shape the formate and vision of the upper room project.
We hope the upper room will be
- Space to rest/relax with your tribe
- Be challenged by the prophetic call of compassion
- Connect with heartbeats for living
There will be food, wine and friends plus
- a gallery space for photos and other art.
- activist space - activities, information and people deeply into that topic to meet
- conversational space - multimedia and communally led (an interview, music, texts, a place to chat)
More than this we desire to help build a movement of young adults and people of good will who hold each other accountable to live with integrity. Our mantra being “We don’t come lighty and we will not go quietly”
So any thoughts?
Does this cover what we have chatted about?
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