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Saturday Breakfasts: Conversations for Critical Times

Next breakfast:  August 7th 2010

Saturday August 7th 2010

Dean Merlino (flyer)

Art in the Community: Practice and Research
In this talk, Dean Merlino will discuss contemporary Community Cultural Development practices.  He will explore recent trends and changing styles in the delivery of arts in the community, charting social and aesthetic developments.  He will also examine the rise of Community Cultural Development as a body of knowledge and its impact as a form of research.

Where: Borderlands Cooperative; The Augustine Centre, 2 Minona Street, Hawthorn, Vic. Phone: (03) 9819-3239.

9am breakfast, program commences approximately 10am

$25 waged/ $15 concession

Dates and times may change so please be sure to book.

Phone +61 3 9819 3239 or email us


 

CALENDAR OF Upcoming EVENTS email us for more information

 
The second of our 2010 Community Development conversations
(in conjunction with the New Community Quarterly, the International Association of Community Development and the oases Graduate School)
Wednesday 21st July - 5:30 - 7:30 p.m  (flyer here)
 
We’ll have a ‘double bill’ for the evening…
 

Peter Westoby - Dialogical Community Development - restoring community

Peter will introduce participants to the ‘heart/hand/head’ (and feet) praxis which went into the construction of the dialogical approach. He will elucidate how CD praxis in Queensland has historically distinguished itself from the more ‘common’ ways of ‘doing’ and ‘thinking’ CD elsewhere in Australia, away from a narrow and self-defeating focus on ‘top down - bottom up’ paradigms (however important these also are in emancipatory, participatory, consciousness-raising processes…)

 
Cathy McCormack - Poverty Truth Commission in Scotland 

Cathy has been a long time activist around poverty, community and ecology and is on a reference committee for the IACD for our Scottish projects. She’ll tell us briefly about her work and involvements and what inspires her to ‘go on going on’ with her activist work and will be a further few days in Melbourne, ready to have further talks with people and groups. 

Wednesday 21st July - 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.(& join us for dinner after wards)
at AVI (Australian Volunteers International
88 Kerr Street, Fitzroy (close to the corner with Brunswick Street).
 
More information? Call Borderlands/NCQ at 9819 3239 or write to ncq@borderlands.org.au or borders@borderlands.org.au
 
A gold coin (or whatever you can afford) would be appreciated to cover costs. 
 
 

Community Links with Cambodia

Fund-raising Trivia evening
led by comedienne, Em O'Loughlin
 
Saturday 24 July - at Borderlands (flyer here)
Warmly encouraged to be there and enjoy… and support!

 


6 –9 Sep—ALARA World Congress (registration info, flyer)


Community Development conversations (flyer here)
(in conjunction with the New Community Quarterly, the International Association of Community Development and the oases Graduate School)

Saturday 4th September – 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Budd Hall: Community-University partnerships and the ‘Knowledge Commons’.

Delivering one of the keynotes at the September ALARA World Congress in Melbourne and working at the University of Victoria in BC, Canada, in CD and International CD, Budd agreed to arrive a few days early and share his ideas about Community-University Research Partnerships and Engagement. He will also share his thoughts about his work on the development of a “Knowledge Commons”, based on his long-standing experiences in Participatory Action Research in Africa and Canada.

Wednesday 17th November - 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Sue Kenny: Disasters and Emergencies: a role for Community Development?

Sue – well-known local academic, author and researcher from Deakin University – has been involved in the recovery efforts in Aceh after the tsunami and has witnessed a variety of more or less adequate response, both those involving communities and those which did not. The recent bushfires in Victoria have equally seen rather different ways in which communities have responded and – unfortunately – have been ignored in the recovery. Sue will explore possible roles for Community Development in the context of local and state efforts at recovery.


2011 —Kanyini 5 Day Intensive Course -Uncle Bob Randall (flyer)


OASES EVENTS

For coming oases events click here  (you will be taken to the Oases website, hit 'back' to return to the Borderlands site).