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
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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 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.
Community Links with Cambodia
6 –9 Sep—ALARA World Congress (registration info, flyer)
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)
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