HIROSHIMA DAY RALLY FOR PEACE AND A NUCLEAR FREE FUTURE
August 5, 2008
| August 9, 2008 | ||
| 1:00 pm |
Saturday August 9 th
1pm
State Library
NO URANIUM MINING
NO WAR, NUCLEAR WEAPONS
NO NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS
More info about whats going on here http://www.nukefreeaus.org/
VCC - Making Connections Fiji Tour
August 5, 2008
| September 27, 2008 1:00 pm | to | October 11, 2008 1:00 pm |
A fourteen day tour with ten people to observe, learn participate, question, make the connections. Be part of something bigger. Some places still available. Applications closing soon.
For a copy of the brochure click here.
Background:
Christian World Service, the international aid and development agency of the National Council of Churches in Australia gives financial support to “Just Peace” programs in Fiji focusing on the pursuit of social justice through economic justice, faith and society, peace, social empowerment and youth training.
Expectations:
To consider coming, you need to be 18 or over.
You need to be relatively fit and in good health, and able to carry your own
For the application form contact:
Jeff Wild
jwild@vcc.org.au
Upperroom - Jason and his Guitar
August 1, 2008
| 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
Praxis08 Planning Bubble
July 31, 2008
What’s Adrian saying here?
And what do YOU want to do at Praxis08?
Thriving Youth Australia Event- Clay Roberts
July 28, 2008
| October 1, 2008 | ||
| 8:30 am | to | 5:00 pm |
Creating a Value Focussed Learning Environment –
Wellbeing and the Future of Learning
with Clay Roberts
“As a trainer, I am constantly looking for ways to support trainees in changing their behavior. People leave trainings energized and with good intentions, but find the follow-through with young people hard to achieve. People know what to do; they just have a hard time doing it. Our job as trainers is to narrow that “knowing/doing” gap”
Clay Roberts, Search Institute senior trainer, April 2008
Clay Roberts from Search Institute is visiting Australia in October. This is your chance to hear one of Search Institute’s most experienced trainers.
Where: Knox City Council offices
511 Burwood Highway, Wantirna South
When: 1st October, 2008
8.30am – 5.00pm
Cost: Individual $195-
Students / health card holders $95-
Discounted group bookings available
Places for this special event are limited. Book now with
Steve Goldsmith
at Thriving Youth Australia,
0404 370 907, or
thrivingyouth@optusnet.com.au.
Clay Roberts is a senior trainer with Vision Training Associates and the founder of Roberts & Associates, a U.S. educational consulting firm. He has been featured on NBC’s Today Show as a prevention expert, and his programs have been highlighted on Frontline and in Good Housekeeping, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report and has been a keynote presenter at over 200 international, national, regional, state, and local community events. He is a co-author of the Search Institute book Great Places to Learn: How Asset-Building Schools Help Students Succeed. He holds a master’s degree in health education from the University of Oregon.
Praxis08
July 25, 2008
| September 19, 2008 7:00 pm | to | September 21, 2008 2:00 pm |
Think, pray, play and meet with more of your tribe who long for a Christian spirituality that interconnects social action and theological reflection.
Been waiting for this? Good, so have we.
Where: Merricks Lodge (3670 Frankston-Flinders Rd Shoreham Vic - 1hr40mins from Melbourne)
Online Rego here and online payment here
Costs: $100 Full, $60 5-10yrs, $30 3-5yrs, Free 0-3yrs
This is an All Play event - Come ready to share.
You have been preparing all your life to lead a conversation on something - come prepared to engage that conversation but don’t stress on the preparation. Currently options include a sacred space installation, sand labyrinth, a tech hub, activist hub, conversations on community leadership and conflict, sleep out in a slum experience, a kids quest, questions & canoes + your ideas/talents we would enjoy??
Also, there will be a space set aside for participants to propaganda/promote their group, cause, next action, t-shirt, study, book…. you get the idea. (byo stall & table for your promo space)
If you are at a junction where you need to think and chat about your vocation and the direction of your life with active, prayerful and wise mentors and co-travelers … there will be a bunch at praxis>08 to bounce ideas with.
If you are a family that is interested in connecting social justice and spirituality then this gathering has space for your needs. The site is well equipped for free play and organised chaos
Olympic Protest Flares - Action
July 24, 2008
| August 8, 2008 |
Urban climbers, city mountaineers - your time has come!
I though this may combine some interests of our friends.
There is a “final ignition” planned for the 8th August to coincide with the lighting of the Olympic torch to begin the Olympics in China. Basically lighting red flares from peaks, landmark and monuments to protest China’s poor human rights record and its occupation of Tibet.
“We shall make these monuments talk the language of smoke, “the evanescent color of blood”, on the day on which the olympic torch, a double-headed symbol of peace and hypocrisy, will light the Peking Olympics. At exactly sixty years from the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the repression of Tibet during an event of world-wide interest has become the symbol of failure and betrayal on behalf of international governments: the principles then ratified have been and are still, more or less diplomatically, denied.
My friends and I in unison with other French activists, will move near, on sight, on top of, beneath, besides… the Eiffel Tower, in the heart of the city where UNESCO has it’s general headquarters, in a city that more than any other one has consigned culture and intelligence to the fundamental freedoms of man. Other cities throughout the world, mountains, hills, scenic areas, natural or urban sites are there, available, in their unchangeable locations, waiting. For You.”
http://www.sadsmokymountains.net/
RAC- Rhythms for refugees
July 21, 2008
| July 25, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
a refugee action collective fundraiser • www.rac-vic.org
BAR 303
303 High St Northcote
$8 unwaged - $12 waged
Featuring…
THE CONCH
11 piece Cuban ensemble!
PATAPHYSICS
Melbourne hip hop group
and more - from 7pm til late…
Christian Peacemaker Teams - Erin & Casper (Melbourne)
July 21, 2008
| July 30, 2008 3:30 pm | to | August 1, 2008 10:30 pm |
What would happen if Christians devoted the same discipline and self sacrifice to nonviolent
peacemaking that armies devote to war?
ABOUT Erin and Casper Adson
Erin and Casper Adson are a young Australian couple who have had their lives turned upside down by the power of creative nonviolence. Early in 2008 they joined a Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) delegation to the West Bank in Israel-Palestine where they explored a Christian response to international conflict and the people who are affected by it on a daily basis.
Since they’ve returned to Australia they have been presenting an alternative narrative of the conflict and
building solidarity in Australia. Erin works in community development and Casper is a chemical engineer. They want to join other ‘ordinary radicals’ in exploring another way for this war-torn world.
ABOUT Christian Peacemaker Teams International
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) arose from a call in 1984 for Christians to devote the same discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war. Enlisting Christians who advocate a nonviolent alternative to war, CPT has placed violence-reduction teams in crisis situations and militarised areas in several countries at the invitation of local peace and human rights workers. CPT aspires to the vision of unarmed intervention waged by committed peacemakers in bold attempts to transform lethal conflict
through the nonviolent power of God’s truth and love.
Initiated by Mennonites, Brethren and Quakers with broad ecumenical participation, CPT’s ministry of Biblically-based and spiritually-centred peacemaking emphasises creative public witness, nonviolent direct action and protection of human rights. CPT currently has teams in the Middle East
and South America. Website: www.cpt.org
Hear Erin and Casper Adson of Christian Peacemaker Teams.
The Program is yet to be finalised. We strongly recommend that you call the listed Contact person to confirm the latest times, locations and details.
Melbourne: 30 July - 1 August 2008
Wednesday 30 July, 3.30pm – Urban Seed
The Den, 116 Lt. Bourke Street Melbourne
Contact: Simon Moyle (03) 9650 4023
Friday 1 August, 6pm, – Friends Meeting House, Toorak
631 Orrong Road, Toorak
Contact: Dale Hess (03) 9592 5247
Surrender08 - Following Fire
July 16, 2008
| July 18, 2008 | to | July 20, 2008 |
Fire can refine and transform, fire brings light and heat, fire represents the power of God’s spirit to make a real and lasting change - but fire can be dangerous to a comfortable way of life
Would you follow the Fire of the Spirit no matter where it leads?
Surrender08 - Belgrave Heights Convention Centre
Speakers - Archbishop Elias Chacour (Galillee), Jackie Pullinger (HK), Aunty Jean Phillips (Aus), Mick Duncan (NZ), Dave Andrews (Aus) and John Smith (Aus) with Andy Flannagan (UK worship leader at Greenbelt) leading our worship sessions.
(I thought someone would have put this up by now. I am on a panel here this weekend chatting about social justice, genY and generally causing trouble. )
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