what’s on in Adelaide SA

austin floyd and clinkerfield (both melb) and swayback tonight @ the grace emily

The Media Resource Centre and St Kilda Film Festival present the St Kilda Film Festival on Tour. Friday night’s program is eight of the best Australian short films, (from 6 to 18 minutes long). The program is available online here.

Further screenings:
Saturday 30 June 6:30pm Best of the Fest (Program 2)
Saturday 30 June 8:15pm Sound Kilda - video clips.                Tix $11 / $9 (Conc.)

SCALA at the joiners arms manton st hindmarsh 

Saturday, 7th July 2007
Geoff Hastwell / Jane Marie and Liz / Susie Keynes

Saturday, 14th July 2007
We have the night off due to a private function at the venue – back on 21st July

Saturday, 21st July 2007
Maxim / Vorn Doolette / Sandy Klose / Life of Reilly

Saturday, 28th July 2007
Paul Bulian / Fern Black / Sasha Galliver / Not To Be Blamed

Songwriters, Composers And Lyricists Association Inc (SCALA)
Phone: +618 (08) 8431 4063   Email: scala@scala.org.au    Website: http://www.scala.org.au

We want your creative ideas! We are developing a bag which will be made by worker-run cooperatives in Thailand and sold in Oxfam Australia shops around the country and online. We are now calling for entries for the design for the exterior of the bag and the design of the bag itself.

We want your creative ideas! We are developing a bag which will be made by worker-run cooperatives in Thailand and sold in Oxfam Australia shops around the country and online. We are now calling for entries for the design for the exterior of the bag and the design of the bag itself.

This competition is open to all ages and students, graduates, professionals and amateurs are welcome to apply. You can submit designs for the bag, the bag’s exterior motif, or both.

Be part of this exciting opportunity to support workers in Thailand to build their cooperative business and present your design for sale in Oxfam shops around Australia and online!

View the design brief here Contact daisyg@oxfam.org.au for more information.
Entries Close 5pm, Monday 30 July 2007

Oxfam Australia co-signed an open letter earlier this week regarding the Federal Government’s response to the Little Children are Sacred report. In this letter, Oxfam stated that the safety and well-being of Indigenous children is paramount. But successfully tackling child abuse in Indigenous communities, like in any community, requires a sustainable solution. Such a solution requires consultation with these communities, not simply prescribing one from Canberra as has happened here.

In its present form, Oxfam believes that the Government’s response is unlikely to be effective. What’s more, it has the unfortunate potential consequence of overshadowing and confusing the wider health crisis that Indigenous Australians are facing.

Read the full letter
Sign the pledge to Close the Gap 

POLITICIANS FORCED TO ACT

To say the Close the Gap campaign is gaining momentum would be an understatement. With AFL legend and Aboriginal activist Michael Long, singer-songwriters Kev Carmody and Missy Higgins, and 60,000 other Australians joining the campaign since its launch by Catherine Freeman and Ian Thorpe, the word is definitely getting out.

But what’s more important is that our politicians are being forced to take action as they risk looking out-of-step with public opinion on the need to address the Indigenous health crisis.

Thirty million dollars additional annual funding from the Government, a “first installment” of $65 million additional annual funding pledged by the ALP, and tremendous community support over this issue has obviously caught the attention of our leaders. But these funding announcements, while welcome, are insufficient to close the 17-year life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other Australians.

We must all continue to gather support Hot on the heals of the AMA’s 2007 Indigenous health report card – which again called on the Government to increase targeted Indigenous controlled primary health care by $460 million annually – Oxfam Australia and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation are about to launch the next phase of the Close the Gap campaign.

With online and airport advertising around the country set to amplify our message, we aim to lift the number of Australians supporting the campaign to 75,000 by September.

Make it your goal to spread the word to at least five friends by 1 July to help us reach this target.

Take action now!
Sign the pledge and ask five friends to Close the Gap
Close the Gap Touring Photo Exhibition – Dates and locations progressively available. Watch this link!
Find out more  

New Exhibition at SoMA Galleries: You are cordially invited to the Opening of our next Exhibition           JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS    selected by David Button from his Private Collection.                   opens  Thursday 5th July 6-8pm                     Exhibition runs July 5-July 29Original handprinted Japanese woodblock prints from the 18th and 19th Century. Landscapes by Hiroshege, Kabuki and Sumo by Kunisada, prints of beautiful girls, Bijin-ga by various artists. 

SOMA: next to big star, the parade, norwood