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Awaken the Dream Symposium, Under Milkwood, Refugee Week Film Festival, SWICH, Stories & poems, Artwork
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Printed with compliments of Cr Charlie Pisasale’s Electorate Office
Support Links Agenda, Feature Story, Contributions & Enquiries
December 2010 -
Edition 10
For Enquiries contact:
Co-ordinator: Stella Gibbs
Ph: (07) 3281 6852
Mobile: 0408 816 856
Contribution to Newsletter:
If you would like to advertise a
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Exhibition, CD, book or you
would like to share some
interesting anecdotes, stories,
poems, jokes and news items,
please contact: Editor: Astrid Tholens
Ph: (07) 3202 2291
Email: [email protected]
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Ph (07) 3812 1270
Support Links Multicultural Group - NEWSLETTER
Support Links AGENDA
Monday’s 12pm - 2pm
Support Links group sessions
will close down from Monday 29 November and re-open on Monday 8 February. For
further enquiries, contact
Stella Gibbs.
The Support Links Newsletter will recommence first week of February. Please send in your
stories, articles etc. by mid-Jan.
Awaken the Dream Symposium –by Astrid Tholens Last Sunday I attended the Awakening the Dream-Changing the Dream Symposium and for the first time in many years, I decided not to take any notes. In hindsight I’ve regretted it, as there was so much information which I now can’t remember. But mostly what it was about couldn’t be recorded. It was something to be experienced. I had watched many videos on Transition Towns, Peak Oil and Permaculture on You Tube. But this was a performance of splendour; videos that were designed with love and consciousness, for us to experience an ‘awakening from the trance’ of our Industrial dream for ourselves and for this earth! We were all both shocked and nurtured; taken to the depth of despair and lifted up to hope and renewed possibilities. And the greatest gift of all was to share it with an excitable, passionate group of individuals who had already made an effort to be involved in initiating a change and yet were so deeply affected.
“To bring forth an environmentally sustainable,
spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet.
as the guiding principle of our time.” If you are interested in attending a Symposium, visit: http://awakeningthedreamer.org
ABN 76432600317
We've learned to fly
the air as birds,
we've learned to swim
the seas as fish,
yet we haven't learned
to walk the Earth
as brothers and sisters."
Martin Luther King
A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS GREETING This is the time when we can all celebrate We put on our different costumes Eat different food, celebrate differently But we all feel the longing of our heart To feel peace in our own lives. Dignity, Peace & Prosperity - Prem Rawat
www.millstreet.ie/blog
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Festivals & Concerts, Music & Song, Plays
Calendar of Concerts & Festivals December 2010 3 Dec ,Friday from 7:30am to 9:00am FREE 9th Annual Community Breakfast Celebrating International Volunteer Day * Official welcome by Mayor Paul Pisasale Ipswich Mall , Brisbane St, Ipswich FREE ENTERTAINMENT 3 Dec, Friday from 6:00pm to 9:00pm Twilight Tasting * Showcasing food & wine tastings, live entertainment, fantastic shopping, lucky door prizes! Dancing Tiger Studio, 203 Brisbane St, Ipswich. Tel 07 3288 7077 5 Dec, Sunday at 6:30pm to 9pm Classic Concerts in Historic Homes * Corelli’s Christmas Concerto & Vivaldi’s Summer * A reading of Bille Brown’s adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’ * Medieval & Renaissancee Carols ‘Gooloowan’, 43 Quarry St, Ipswich Tickets: $15 adults; Child (under 16) free; $20 family [email protected] Tel 07 3812 8308 Mobile: 0435 020 926 11 Dec, Saturday at 7:30pm (Ipswich) 14 - 17 Dec , Tues-Friday at 7:30pm (Brisbane) 21 - 23 Dec, Tues - Thurs at 7:30pm (Brisbane) Under Milkwood, by Dylan Thomas * Presented by IPAC & Fractual Theatre * Directed by Brenna Lee-Cooney. Ipswich: Dancing Tiger Studio, 203 Brisbane St, Ips. Entry by donation. Brisbane: Old Museum Building, Cnr Bowen Bridge Rd & Gregory Terrace, Brisbane Tickets: Adults $22 Concessions $16 Bookings at www.BRIZTIX.com Tel 07 3103 7437
Are you interested in work experience in Theatre? *Set Building, *Costume Making *Administration (marketing, publicity) Help is needed with the play Under Milkwood and other future plays. Enq. Fractal Theatre: Tel 07 3812 8308 or 4035 020 926
U n d e r M i l k w o o dU n d e r M i l k w o o d by Dylan Thomas Produced by Fractal Theatre & iPAC.(The Ipswich Performaning Arts Centre Inc)
This Arts Qld Regional Arts Development Funded production is the first INTERN programme for Fractal Theatre and iPAC. Thirteen young actors have been undergoing training with Helen Howard in
developing Welsh accents, and with Eugene Gilfedder in developing the ‘physical’ Fractal Theatre house-style. Norman Doyle and Niki-J Price (originally from Wales) take on the demanding roles of Speakers one and two. This rich lyrical play by Dylan Thomas perfectly suits director Brenna Lee-Cooney’s aesthetic of layering text and subtext through poetically inspired movement and music. Originally written as a radio play, in this production Lee-Cooney takes inspiration from the imaginings of the listener, and weaves a dreamscape of characters both hauntingly beautiful and mesmerisingly macabre, but at all times deeply human. This ‘promenade’ performance promises to enfold the audience in the work of UNDER MILKWOOD. www.briztix.com
Vintage by Lou LouVintage by Lou LouVintage by Lou Lou Shop Opening on Monday 6 December
at 9 Harlin Rd, Sadliers Crossing
A space where unique and one-of-a-kind pieces
can be found, just perfect for giving that special
someone a Christmas GIFT!
As from this year, we will also be supplying quality
fresh cut Christmas Trees from Harlin Rd. Nothing
can beat the beauty and scent of a real pine tree.
Vintage by Lou Lou Vintage by Lou Lou will also be visiting a number
of local boutique markets and intimate shopping
experiences, including the presentation of A Very
Vintage Christmas at Twilight Tastings, so come
along and join in the fun and festivities as
Christmas is our favourite time of year.
www.vintagebyloulou.com
Louisa Janke: 0403 597 479
Roses & One Teapot
At Vintage Lou Lou Shop!!!
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Education, Art Exhibitions, Films, Writer’s Festivals
Free English Lessons
Free English Lessons are available for all migrants and refugees as well as for visiting students or workers who need extra help. All lessons will be cancelled from
1 December 2010 to 3 February 2011.
If you wish to have lessons during this time
please make private arrangements with
your tutor.
Insanity is doing the same things
over and over again and expecting
different results. Albert Einstein.
No problem can be solved by the
same consciousness that created it.
We need to see the world anew.
Albert Einstein
Refugee Week 2010 - Film Festival
The Refugee Council of Australia, STARTTS & The Pitt St Uniting
Church, hosted the official opening of Refugee Week 2010. It was an
overwhelming success. A crowd of 400 plus attended the combined event.
Overall we were able to raise $1,500 from all these events. As part of the
film festival, 2010 marked the first year of a week long event. This year
we had a series of events held by the likes of UNHCR, Medicins Sans
Frontieres, Oxfam & Amnesty International. The aim of this is to use the
festival as a hub for other charities & NGOs to showcase, fundraise &
educate the public on their great work in the area of Refugee support &
advocacy.
The Australian Refugee Film Festival has the pleasure of
announcing the winners:
Steps to Freedom: Winner of The Best Film of The Night award,
determined by a vote from the crowd on the night. View video
Food Bank: Winner of The Best Australian Entry View Video
These two well deserving winners have each won $250 in prize money.
We hope next year to be able to help out other organisations by
increasing the amount of prize money on offer. www.australianrefugeefilmfestival.org
TRUST YOURSELF Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock
Systems die; instincts remain. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. Henri Poincare.
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. Jonas Salk
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant, and has forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein.
www.ideachampion.com/heart
How Many Hands-by Tricia
www.plymoth.org
Brisbane Writer’s Festival
The two BWF bookend events held
in October with Tim Flannery and
David Suzuki were a brilliant
success. Audiences walked away
feeling inspired and ready to
contribute to preserving our natural
world.
Don’t miss the film made about David
Suzuki ’s life: The Force of Nature due
out in 2011. Watch the trailer on You
Tube.
“Suzuki is the greatest environmentalist
of our age....What a life, what an
inspiration.” Tim Flannery
Machines - by Tarek H
Age Four
Photo of hands - at www.ceap.com
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Art, Poetry, Stories
Excerpt from THE SNOW GEESE,
by Paul Gallico
One November afternoon, three years after Rhayader
had come to the Great Marsh, a child approached
the lighthouse studio by means of the sea wall. In her
arms she carried a burden.
She was no more than twelve, slender, dirty,
nervous and timid as a bird, but beneath the grime as
eerily beautiful as a marsh faery. She was pure Saxon,
large-boned, fair, with a head to which her body was
yet to grow, and deep-set, violet eyes.
She was desperately frightened of the ugly man
she had come to see, for legend had already begun to
gather about Rhayader, and the native wild-fowlers
hated him for interfering with their sport.
But greater than her fear was the need of that
which she bore. For locked in her child's heart was
the knowledge, picked up somewhere in the swamp-
land, that this ogre who lived in the lighthouse had
magic that could heal injured things.
She had never seen Rhayader before and was
close to fleeing in panic at the dark apparition that
appeared at the studio door, drawn by her footsteps -
the black head and beard, the sinister hump, and the
crooked claw.
She stood there staring, poised like a disturbed
marsh bird for instant flight. But his voice was deep
and kind when he spoke to her.
“What is it, child?” She stood her ground, and then edged timidly
forward. The thing she carried in her arms was a
large bird, and it was quite still. There were stains of
blood on its whiteness and on her kirtle where she
held it to her.
The girl placed it in his arms. “I found it sir. It’s hurt. Is it still alive? “Yes. Yes. I think so. Come in, child, come in.”
Artisan Wonderland Exhibition Sunday 28 November from 2pm - 4pm Queens Park Environmental Centre Cost: $2 gold coin entry
You are invited to join with us and celebrate the success of the 2010 Artisan Wonderland Workshop
Series. To wrap up a creative year, we are holding a final exhibition of works created by the
wonderland participants.
We invite all workshop participants to bring along their art pieces created during all wonderland
workshops throughout the year - creating together an exhibition on the day. Artworks can be received
from 1.45pm on the day. Pieces can be collected on leaving the exhibition. Please bring a plate of food
to share - tea, coffee & cool drinks will be provided.
For more details: Tel 07 3281 7819 [email protected]/ www.artisanwonderland.blogspot.com
Ipswich Contemporary Arts
Network - A collaborative community
of artists supporting the arts in Ipswich.
The Ipswich Contemporary Arts
Network is a group of artists, creative
people, and innovative thinkers who are
or have been involved in art exhibitions,
events, community activities or
collaborative projects with the
SWICH Contemporary Art Space.
Being actively involved and engaged in
the art community creates opportunities
to meet and work with other innovative
and creative people. This is important
in developing artistic relationships and
networking opportunities to discuss
ideas, and to develop, plan and
implement projects that support the
arts, in particular, projects that have
potential social, cultural, and economic
benefits for the Ipswich Community.
Expressions of interest can be lodged
through our Artists & Business
Registers.
Artists will have the opportunity to
exhibit and sell their works at our
Art Gallery, SWITCH, at
191 Brisbane Street at Top of Town.
Leanne Vincent - Gallery Coordinator
Gilbert Burgh - Project Coordinator
www.theswichcas.com.au
Tel 07 3281 9192
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you Don’t go back to sleep you must ask for what you really want Don’t go back to sleep people are going back and forth Across the doorsill where the two worlds touch The door is wide and round don’t go back to sleep J. Rumi
Phnom Penh: Cambodia - Annual Report 2009, The Prem
Rawat Foundation (President Linda Pascotto)www.tprf.org
The landfill district of Steung Meanchey, located on the
outskirts of Phnom Penh, is one of the most toxic
garbage dumps in Southeast Asia. The children living in
the area spend their days scavenging for food and
recyclables. Child mortality rate is 20%.In an ongoing
effort to remedy the situation, TPRF awarded a second
grant to the Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF), bringing
its total contribution to $60,000.
The 2009 grant supported CCF’s programs that benefit
nearly 60,000 people per month. Their broad outreach
programs include: nutritious meals at the Community
Child Care and the Community Centre Nursery; bread and
rice distribution to the community; subsidized rice sales;
nutritious subsidized meals at the Community Cafe; and
nutritional programs at four education centres.
A growing Appetite for Life - Annual Report 2009, The Prem Rawat
Foundation (President Linda Pascotto) www.tprf.org
Pov Som Heng, born two months premature in Phnom Penh,
weighed in at a dangerously low 1.76 pounds. Chances for his
survival were slim. His father scavenged garbage for a living. His
mother did not have enough milk to feed him and had little
understanding of the special care he needed.
Then Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF) heard about the
situation and began providing services, including in-home nursing
visits and a steady supply of high-protein formula and other
supplements.
Pov was one of the first children to attend CCF’s Community
Centre Nursery. His mother visits daily and continues receiving
guidance from the staff on how to best care for her son’s needs at
home. Several months later, Pov weighed in at over 15 pounds. Each
day he grew bigger, brighter, and more curious - lighting up the
nursery with his smile. He may be small, but his appetite for life is
huge, entertaining the staff daily with his uncanny ability to get total
strangers to pick him up and tour the facility, where he delights
everyone with friendly smiles.
Awakening the Dreamer -
Changing the Dream Symposium
R e s o u r c e s
www.awakeningthedreamer.org
www.pachamama.org
www.globalfootprints.org
http://wiserearth.org
www.earthcharter.org
www.un.org/milleniumgoals
www.drewdellinger.org
www.massextinction.net
www.brianswimme.org
www.globalcommunity.org
www.nwei.org
www.oneearth.org
www.gapminder.org
www.global-mindshift.org
http://ellabakercenter.org
www.betterworldshopper.com
www.bioneers.org
www.storystuff.com
www.bethechangeearthalliance.org
www.greenforall.org
Humanitarian Initiatives, Awaken the Dreamer Resources, Photos & Artwork
Launching a new School Teaching Healthier Life Style Habits Watering gardens
Map of Cambodia
Dawn Breeze - Google.com.au/images
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Stories, Poems, Photos and Artworks
WALLS, by Stella Gibbs From ‘A Local Miracle - and other real life stories of survival, benevolence, hope and inclusion by South-East Queensland Women’, edited by Mark Svendsen & Barbara Damska
It was early the 1980’s and our small band of volunteers in the city of Ipswich were weary with the continuing waves of refugees from Vietnam who were constantly coming and needing our assistance. We were still keen to help but our supply of resources was sadly depleted. Affordable housing was scarce at the time. A new family arrived from Hong Kong. Because they had come from the north they had been considered political opportunists by the authorities in Hong Kong and they were denied their rights as refugees. They, along with another family, had been sponsored by an Anglican priest who had been working in the camp in Hong Kong. He had returned to Australia and put in the sponsorship papers but had been sent abroad before the families could be processed. He asked us if we could care for them whey they arrived. The first family consisted of a mother and father and seven children under eleven and an old man whom they had adopted in the camp. We found a house in East Ipswich that they could afford, but it was very shabby. It had not seen a coat of paint since it was built in the 1930’s. The lino was torn and the old newspapers under it were poking out. My friend and I cleaned it as best we could but were embarrassed to put a family in it as we would not like to move in ourselves. The mother, a pretty girl in her thirties who looked sixteen, wandered around the house stroking the walls with tears quietly running down her face. My friend and I looked at each other, embarrassed. We thought we knew how she felt. How wrong we were. She noticed our glances and said, ‘Please, you don’t understand. I am crying with tears of joy. We have walls! We have walls! For the last four years we have lived in a shed that housed over two thousand people. We slept on wire racks five deep. The mattresses were burned to prevent the spread of disease. We had no privacy, no walls. No way of knowing we would ever get out. Please under-stand we are so happy to have walls.’
Old Ipswich homes, unpainted
a lone beetle queen nested in the folds of a brown beret. i signalled to her and her new friend; in her innocence she had mistaken the colours worn by our enemies for the bright shades of this year’s spring.
Childhood Memories 1. From ‘ICE-Poems and Stories’ by Angelica Fremd from a high window i watched spring undress the garden while in the distance the Rhine snaked to the land of chocolate and peace. below, soldiers walked measuring cobble stones with practiced feet. an army of beetles ravaged chestnut leaves, leaving them ragged
The Valley Wind, by Lu Yun www.judithpordon.tripod.com/poetry
Living in retirement beyond the world Silently enjoying isolation I pull the rope of my door tighter And stuff my window with root and ferns My spirit is tuned to the Spring Season At the fall of the year There is autumn in my heart Thus imitating cosmic changes My cottage becomes a Universe. Translated by Arthur Waley
Chestnut Tree
& chestnuts
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Gallery of Photos, Poetry, Artwork, Music
Visit to Northey St City Farm
by members of Support Link.
A thoroughly enjoyable event!
Visit to Northey St City Farm
on 25 October, 2010
by members of Support Links
Going Nowhere, by Astrid Tholens
From walking and going
And moving and achieving
To stillness and music
And longing and breaking
From mountains and seashores
And rivers and sunsets
To no thought and feeling
And loving and praying
From landscapes and combies
And markets and people
To silence and secret gardens
And meditation and quiet
From noise and pollution
Toxins and perfumes
To pure oils and fresh air
And herbs and nutrition
A new life is emerging
A chrysalis breaks open
Its wings are outstretched
Reaching the skies
The Bloom, by Lucy Iman
The Deep, by Lucy Iman
Art Auction from Lucia Iman - Mission “Mele a Hakuweal’
Earlier this year, Lucia auditioned for a life changing
Advanced Vocal Workshop in Hawaii to learn from the
inspiring singer Rhiannon about ‘being connected, working on
skill and improvisation and being a channel for this gift ’.
Sometime later she received a message saying she was
accepted. So, with great zest, she pulled out some of her
drawings and paintings that she had completed over the
years, and decided to put some of her artworks up for auction
for one month, which has now expired. She still has a live
auction planned in Los Angeles to raise further funds for this
project. If you are interested to support her, you can contact
her at [email protected] and listen or purchase her
recent album Tame the Night via www.luciaiman.net.