Monday, March 24, 2008

Values for a Sustainable Planet

Values for a Sustainable Planet    2008 SYMPOSIUM

28th, 29th & 30th April, 7.30pm - 9.30pm

Pilgrims Church, 12 Flinders St Adelaide

PROFESSOR MICHAEL NORTHCOTT (Ethics - University of Edinburgh. Activist, ethicist, author of A MORAL CLIMATE: The Ethics of Global Warming) WILL SPEAK EACH NIGHT and will be supported by panel members.

Monday 28th - CLOUDS OF WITNESS: TRUTH, LIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Professor Mike Young (Water management - University of Adelaide) &

Professor Barry Brook (Global Warming - University of Adelaide)

Tuesday 29th - THE GENESIS OF EXTINCTION AND THE END OF SPECIES

Assoc. Professor Sue Carthew (Environmental Science - University of Adelaide) & John Sibly, Former Chair, SA Conservation Council

Wednesday 30th - FAIRLY TRADING: DOING JUSTICE TO PLANET AND PEOPLE

Lorraine Caruso (CEO Oxfam Trading) &

Lily Pearce (Fair Trade activist)

DONATION $5.00

If you are concerned about the future of our world these sessions will assist you to understand your choices for action

Further Information from the church office: 8212 3295

..turning away from the ecologically destructive path on which humanity is headed requires humility and a

preparedness to change direction in response to the clear signs of impending danger.

Michael Northcott- A MORAL CLIMATE


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Saturday, March 8, 2008

Public Meeting

Palm Sunday – 16 March 2-4pm

Location: Friends Meeting House, 40a Pennington Terrace North Adelaide

Topic: Australian troops are coming home, but have we palmed off our responsibility for the war on Iraq?

Speakers: David Palmer, Senior Lecturer in American Studies, Flinders University

                 Renfrey Clarke, Committee Member, NoWar

The speakers will address Australian and US foreign policy on Iraq and Afghanistan

Live Music by Jane Bower

Refreshments available after meeting

Gold coin donation

This meeting is part of the world wide actions on Palm Sunday against the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan

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ARTISTSPEAK 2008

1:30-2:30 Tuesdays
Allan Scott Auditorium, City West Campus, Uni SA

Hot on the heels of Artist Week, the South Australian School of Art launches the ‘home and away’ series of ARTISTSPEAK 2008 with Adelaide born, Berlin based creator of the Festival icon (go, you little dynamo, go), the dynamic MICHAEL KUTSCHBACH [March 11].

In the following weeks we have the great pleasure of introducing fresh faces to our shores, with Danish ceramicist ANN LINNEMANN [March 18] and Japanese performance/installation artist SATSUKI TANAKA [March 25].

Finally we catch up on the recent UK exploits of local golden boy ANDREW BEST, before he departs again for the next chapter in his rocketing global career [April 1].

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

2008 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL OF ARTS – CRITICS’ FORUM

WHAT DID THEY REALLY THINK?
Tuesday, 25 March at 7.30 pm – 
Room 1004, Level 10, Schulz Building, University of Adelaide

THE PANELISTS
• Elizabeth Silsbury – The Advertiser
• Anthony Steel – former director of Adelaide, Sydney & Brisbane Festivals
• Murray Bramwell – The Adelaide Review & The Australian
• Stephen Whittington – The Advertiser
• Michael Morley – The Adelaide Review
• Graham Strahle – The Adelaide Review & The Australian

Please note the room change. Entry via Eastern door of the Scott Theatre, and follow the signs. A gold coin donation is requested.

 Brett Sheehy’s second Adelaide Festival of Arts significantly raised the profile of music. But did it work?
The centrepiece of Sheehy’s Festival, Golijov’s opera Ainadamar, receives its first Australian performance. Philip Glass’s new song cycle, Book of Longing, based on poetry of Leonard Cohen, is unveiled in its world premiere season. John Adams’ concerto for electric violin, Dharma at Big Sur, is performed for the first time in this country, and the ASO plays arrangements of the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s experimental 1970s jazz-rock with ex-band member Billy Cobham.

Renowned free jazz luminary, US saxophonist Ornette Coleman, makes his long-awaited first Australian appearance.
              
Hear the candid views of several of Adelaide’s leading music critics in this lively panel discussion. Joined by five-times previous Adelaide Festival director Anthony Steel, they dissect, weigh up and argue over what they thought were the 2008 Festival’s hits and misses. Chaired by MSA SA President, Jula Szuster, this public event promises to be as vigorously thought provoking as it was last time.
Organised by the Musicological Society of Australia, S.A. Chapter, Inc. in association with the Elder Conservatorium of Music, The University of Adelaide

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Monday, February 25, 2008

Adelaide Greens “Politics in the pub” debate and forum

Adelaide Greens "Politics in the pub" debate and forum"Populate and perish?"  Tuesday, February 26 from 7.30pm - 9.30pmDuke of Brunswick Hotel, 207 Gilbert Street Adelaide (upstairs function room)"Is population growth our number one environmental problem or is population growth merely a reflection of social inequity?"Check out these links: George Monbiot's thoughts: http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/01/29/population-bombs/A response to George Monboit : http://zone5.org/2008/02/01/monbiot-on-population/Friends of the Earth site: http://www.foe.org.au/population

RSVP to Katie McCusker 0421 829 458 or adelaide.convenor2008@sa.greens.org.au for forum attendance.People wishing to eat (6.30pm - 7.30pm) should book a table beforehand as they are very busy on a TuesdayMeal booking contact details and menu link: http://www.dukeofbrunswick.com.au/The_Brunswick_Menu_01022008a.pdfThe Duke of Brunswick Hotel, 207 Gilbert Street Adelaide    ph: 8231 9741
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Monday, February 4, 2008

Croak & Grist: 14 feb

Finally its here – the Adelaide launch of the long awaited collection of short stories, Croak & Grist. With the books authors Shane Jesse Christmass and Hop Dac coming all the way from Melbourne for this reading it really is a must see. So Adelaide crew get down to the next Hard Boiled sessions to see and hear live these two top shelf Paroxysm
writers. Both guys should be familiar to you, having previously appeared in both Waste and Shotgun.

Thursday Feburary 14th .
Hard Boiled @ La Boheme, 36 Grote St,
Free entry
7:30 for an 8pm start
(so be on time to catch the readings as the launch is up first)
Then stay on for the open mic where the best poet on the night gets the cash.

CROAK & GRIST:
Read with caution. Croak & Grist is a psychotic collection of work from two thoroughbreds of the Paroxysm Press stable. The stories are host to paranoia, schizophrenia, illusion, delusion, mysticism, love and redemption, themes that are excruciatingly extracted, and transmitted in such an unflinching manner that they may cause a contamination in the
mind.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

“Behind Closed Doors”

“Behind Closed Doors” Directed by Alirio Zavarce
A forum theatre piece dealing with Domestic Violence in Non English Speaking Background Communities
Friday 30th November 2007 at 2:00pm & 7:30pm and
Saturday 1st December 2007 at 2:00pm
Gold Coin Donation

Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre at the Lions Art Centre Corner, Morphett Street& North Terrace
For Bookings, please contact Gerri or Suzanne on 8239 9600

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

“Reclaim the Food Chain” 3 dec

On monday soursob bob is playing before and after a meeting at Sarahs Cafe. The meeting is about the way we make and move food, he’ll do songs about food 

You are invited to “Reclaim the Food Chain” - A public forum on the state of our food and agriculture, a discussion on how we can work to build just and sustainable, community-based food production, and the launch of Friends of the Earth’s bio-regional eating challenge, the ‘Local Food Feast’.
Time: 6.00pm for 6.30pm (8.00pm finish for speakers)
Date: Monday 3 December
Place: Sarah’s Cafe, 12 Leigh Street, Adelaide

Featuring:
Kaurna elder Auntie Josie Agius

Simon Bryant (Executive Chef, Hilton Adelaide; co-presenter ABC’s ‘The Cook and the Chef’)
Stuart Gifford (Sarah’s Cafe restauranteur)
Joel Catchlove (Friends of the Earth)
Zannie Flanagan (Adelaide Showgrounds Farmers’ Market)
Steve Lancaster (Sarah’s Cafe chef)
Live music by Soursob Bob with Emma Luker  and good food from local producers!
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Monday, November 19, 2007

POETRY & THE OTTO DIX EXHIBITION 2 dec

ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA Gallery 22     SUNDAY 2nd December 2007  1pm - 1.30 pm
               “My subject is War, and the pity of War
        The Poetry is in the pity.
        Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory.
        They may be to the next.  All a poet can do today is warn.
        That is why Poets must be truthful”
        ~ Wilfred Owen ~
Friendly St. Poets have prepared a half hour program of poetry to coincide with the opening of an exhibition Otto Dix etchings on the subject of War.
The exhibition opens on 30/11 and our poets will be performing on the first Sunday of the exhibition, on 2nd December at 1pm.
In the first part of our presentation we will be reading some of the ‘great’ First World War Poets such as Wilfred Owen, Seigfried Sasson & Issac Rosenberg. In the second part SA poets will be reading their own work wriiten in direct response to the confronting work of Dix. Poets performing include: Alice Sladdin, Lyn Arden, Belinda Broughton, Raphael Sabu, Maggie Emmett other readers include Gaetano Aiello, David Bailes & Paul Wilkins.
Please come along and hear the poetry and visit the exhibition.
It is in Gallery 22 starting promptly at 1pm   Cost to see exhibition & hear poetry $10/ $8

Friendly Street Poets Inc PO Box 43 Rundle Mall Adelaide SA 5000 e-mail: poetry@friendlystreetpoets.org.au
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UNIFEM Informs Seminar: The security of women; building a safer future 21 nov

War and violence against women go hand in hand. Consider Sarajevo, Darfur and East Timor and other regions of conflict and tension. What can be done to improve security for women and their families?  How effective are international institutions in reflecting the needs of women, and what roles could women play in security frameworks and peacebuilding processes?

Wednesday 21 November 2007 UniSA Bradley Forum – Hawke Building, level 5, City West Campus, 50-60 North Terrace

5.15pm for 5.30pm start – 7.00pm  The seminar will be followed by the launch of UNIFEM Australia’s Powerful Women photographic exhibition by Ros Strong, President, UNIFEM Australia in the Kerry Packer Civic Gallery – Level 3, Hawke Building. 

Jointly presented by UNIFEM Australia and The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre at UniSA - Highlighting White Ribbon Day United Nations International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) 25 November

Guest speakers:

Professor Elisabeth Porter, Head of the School of International Studies, UniSA, and author of a brand new title: “Peacebuilding.  Women in International perspective” (Routledge, London & New York, 2007).

Mr Keith Wilson, Director, Grip Consultants Pty Ltd and former Political Affairs Officer, Government Relations and Political Affairs, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons The Hague

Bookings essential:  Attendance $5 at the door (includes a white ribbon)
Bookings: via the Hawke Centre web site: www.hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au or RSVP line 08 8302 0215

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