UpperRoom - Sustainable Christmas/AIDS

December 1, 2008
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

The upper room project meets the first Monday of each month (6:-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet upstairs in the Shine Café/Bar (74 Kingsway Glen Waverley) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.

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)
Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month is a bit of an end of year fling plus thinking about consumption, Environment Victoria’s Sustainable Festive. And art space focusing on World AIDS Day.
(Come and have conversations about next year’s issues/people and )

Age

http://www.envict.org.au/file/EV008_FestiveGuide_Final.pdf

UpperRoom - Update - David Karoly

As of this morning Prof David Karoly will be attending the UpperRoom project on this Monday Night.

“There aren’t many people on the planet that know more about climate change than Australian climatologist Professor David Karoly.

His work with the Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change brought him international recognition. Now, as a Federation Fellow at the University of Melbourne, his expertise is back in Australia … and he’s determined to make a difference.” ABC-Catalyst

The inconvenient truth will be playing as we advertised earlier but now we can confirm that during the show we will be having a conversation and live commentary with David.

This is the night to bring your questions and friends who are interested in climate change and the environment.

more links

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change

The University of Melbourne, Earth Sciences

National Snow and Ice Data Centre

UpperRoom - Inconvenient Truth (date change)

November 10, 2008
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

note:

Not the first Monday this month but Nov 10.(Same Bat time and channel)

The Upper Room Project  each month (6-8:30pm) this month Nov 10 to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet upstairs in the Shine Café/Bar (74 Kingsway Glen Waverley) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.

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)

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month we will be thinking about the environment and global issues around climate change. We will have the info, resources and and the Inconvenient Truth playing.

Want to do something like sign petition on this stuff well that’s cause… http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/ClimateActionNow/8

Cya there.

UpperRoom - Development

October 6, 2008
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet upstairs in the Shine Café/Bar (74 Kingsway Glen Waverley) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.

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)

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month we will be thinking about the aid and development options. We will have the info, resources and a discussion with Jill from J.I.M. Plus an online game where you can try to match your understanding of the issues against poverty in 3rd world farmer. Should be educational and slightly addictive.

Cya there.

Upperroom - Faiths

The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet upstairs in the Shine Café/Bar (74 Kingsway Glen Waverley) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.

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)

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month we will be thinking about the different faiths. We will have the info, resources and a discussion guide with reflections from ‘Speaking of Faiths’ and view doc of the Chicago Inter Faith youth Core. There was some chatter about a group of young people who were interviewed from a few different faiths but I don’t think they will be with us. Also, some interesting images to spark conversations.

Cya there.

Upperroom - New Venue Search & Review

Ok Guys Last night I found out that the S-bar has sold. So a big thanks to the S-Bar owners and staff for being great hosts. Now of course, we will need to find a new home for the upperroom.  So next month we will be in a different space. somewhere???

Assuming people want to keep going.

So this also creates a natural space to have review of the upper room project.

What is good,useful etc?

What needs work?

The vision=

The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet in the S Bar (Shop 18, Village Walk, O’Sullivan Road, Glen Waverley ) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.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)

Upperroom - Jason and his Guitar

August 4, 2008
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet in the S Bar (Shop 18, Village Walk, O’Sullivan Road, Glen Waverley ) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.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)

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month we will be listening and thinking about the ideas within Jason Mann’s songs. Songs of justice, faith, hope and meaning. Jas will play some sets and have some table discussion material on lyrics and themes in his art. Some differnt this m onth - bring ya friends. Age

Upperroom - Exposure

July 7, 2008
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet in the S Bar (Shop 18, Village Walk, O’Sullivan Road, Glen Waverley ) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.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)

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month we will be thinking about internships, partnership, work parties, exposures and other experiences that help us see a wider world. There will be a dv of Ringwood UCA work party with their partner church in India.(They are returning in Jan09) Jen & Austin will be with us to chat about that time. Plus, Niki will be with us to sharing her expereince of being a nurse in Africa.  So, make sure you chat with them on the night. (hint, hint) Plus, info on groups and all our combined expereices in this area.

UpperRoom - Community - Jonny Baker

June 2, 2008
6:00 pm	to	8:30 pm

The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet in the S Bar (Shop 18, Village Walk, O’Sullivan Road, Glen Waverley ) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.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)

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month we will be thinking about building communities and what creates a healthy community be it a faith community or an intentional community of ‘normal’ people and their passions . I will be making a conversation menu to engage with and trigger some topics.

Plus we will have with us Jonny Baker from the UK. Jonny Baker lives in London a member of grace , an alternative worship community or emergingchurch a photographer and one of the co-ordinator of worship at greenbelt arts festival. He will not be presenting a seminar/talk but rather moving between our tables adding another perspective to our conversations on community. Also, we will have some of the resources and art he has been working on.

As always there will be others of our tribe to eat, drink and chat with and some art from Jonny’s world, info etc to fuel the conversation . So cya there. Bring your friends. All are welcome

UpperRoom - Close the Gap

May 5, 2008
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

The Upper Room Project meets the first Monday of each month (6-8:30pm) to engage with spirituality and justice as struggled with and fought for by the Prophets and Jesus. We meet in the S Bar (Shop 18, Village Walk, O’Sullivan Road, Glen Waverley ) with gallery space, discussion corners, opportunity for practical response and pondering space.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)

Please bring your friends - all are welcome

This month we will be thinking about Closing the Gap and the communities potential response to Rudd’s Sorry Day Speech. Rod’s Schools work has been working on making resources down this line - we get to be one of the test mobs :). As always there will be others of our tribe to eat, drink and chat with and some art, info etc to fuel the conversation . So cya there. All are welcome

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