This month sees the opening of Guy James Whitworth’s fifth solo Australian show, Artist/Activist/Arsehole at the M2 Gallery in Surry Hills. Coincidently, the show...
Sally McInerney is an established photographer based in Sydney. She travelled on two occasions over the last 12 months to the tiny remote Pacific island....
Children from less privileged backgrounds do not always get the opportunity to attend activities such ballet due to the cost of classes, costumes, uniforms...
The Redfern Legal Centre has received some much-needed financial support after announcing a funding shortfall. But one important service is still going to close.
Darlington artist Michelle Collocott is signing off, painting her own journey through conversation and letters. This exhibition, Signature, marks her relocation to the country.
The Welcome Dinner project, an initiative of non-profit organisation joiningthedots, is helping new arrivals and established locals get to know each other over a good meal.
On Wednesday June 17, a group of Christians from various churches and from around the country gathered in the foyer of Parliament House in Canberra to challenge the Government and, hopefully other people, to end the injustice and cruelty of placing vulnerable children into Detention Centres. It was called “Love Makes a Way” and had already held many vigils around the country, mostly at offices of various politicians.
Rhymes with Silence
107 Projects, Redfern
May 16-24, 2015
A timely offering as the Parramatta Eels linked arms this weekend [May 16] in support of the campaign to end domestic violence, Rhymes with Silence, a collection of new short plays, explores its subject with earnest candour. The 13 plays, written by nine playwrights featuring 26 actors working with 12 directors, have been carefully crafted into an artistic whole beginning with despair and ending in hopefulness.
In 2011, Andreas Aurin, a young musician from Berlin, was teaching piano to students at Camdenville Public School. In order to get the parents more involved in the children’s musical journey, he invited their parents to join a community choir.
Our June issue includes an interview with Nathsaie (Honey) Pakdeesush, an international business student from Thailand working part-time at the Pronprohm Thai restaurant in Redfern (page 8). Thai cuisine remains a popular choice (the number one choice for takeaway in NSW) and Pronprohm boasts a proud history as Redfern’s oldest Thai establishment – the ambience is relaxed, the meals nutritious and delicious. Honey’s story offers a window on Thai culture, and invites further reflection on current affairs in Thailand and south-east Asia.
Prominent community identities have spent three days walking in police shoes as they take part in a unique hands-on insight into policing in NSW. A total of 23 participants took part in the second Youth Community Awareness in Policing Program (CAPP), which started in Sydney on March 25. The program was launched in 2010 by the NSW Police Customer Service Program, and is the first of its kind for an Australian law-enforcement agency. To date there have been 12 CAPP programs run.
A huge rally in support of refugees was held in Belmore Park on Sunday April 19. Speakers included Graeme McGregor, Refugee Campaign Coordinator, Amnesty International Australia; Ged Kearney, President ACTU; Dr Sue Wareham, Medical Association for the Prevention of War; Kyol Blakeney, President Sydney Uni SRC; Lydia Shelly, Islamophobia Register; and Shokufa Tahiri, a Hazara refugee.
The SSH congratulates newly elected Members of State Parliament: Jamie Parker, Alex Greenwich, Ron Hoenig and Jenny Leong. We acknowledge their commitments to the democratic process – participation in community forums, long hours at neighbourhood events – and a shared commitment to serving the people of South Sydney. Thanks to all candidates and hardworking volunteers whose input will continue to inform debate and policy-making.
UnitingCare NSW.ACT marched for the first time in the Sydney Mardi Gras on Saturday March 7 to show its support and commitment to sex and gender diverse communities and staff, as well as clients and residents in its care.
Sydney Girls High Year 10 students have chosen to support the work of Red Cross this year by organising a street collection for Red Cross Calling in the Sydney CBD on Friday March 13.
DARLINGTON: Concerned residents of Wilson Street have formed an action group (Residents for CMEO Rescue) to highlight the deteriorating condition of two State heritage listed buildings, the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s Office building (CMEO) and the Scientific Services building, at 505 and 503 Wilson Street respectively. UrbanGrowth NSW is currently responsible for maintenance, conservation and adaptive reuse of both buildings.
In this climate of change, Redfern-based disabilty rights and advocacy organisation People With Disability Australia (PWDA) has launched its five-point NSW election platform.
PWDA's priorities...
GLEBE: For more than a year, a community of homeless people has been living in tents under the tramline at Wentworth Park. The community has been there for more than a year. Despite Council policy which refers to working with the homeless in a respectful and compassionate way (via a dedicated homelessness unit and a number of services and outreach programs), the rough sleepers have accused the City of Sydney of insensitive action.
To say that religious intolerance and ignorance are contemporary social problems would be an understatement. Religious identities and conflicts are forged in historical contexts, and religion is readily exploited by those who seek to destabilise, divide or simply distract. Religious traditions are a source of hope and innovation as well as harbouring resentment and prejudice. It would seem important to acknowledge this ambiguity and to think creatively and critically about religion.
The noise of demolition followed by construction followed by demolition followed by construction. Heavy vehicle noise, pump noise, construction tool noise accompanied by loud...
A Newtown law firm representing a local gay man has just won a landmark family law judgement which could re-write the Family Court’s perception of what constitutes a de facto relationship.
Over their weekly conversation in an inner-city café, photographer Michael Wee persuaded his friend, painter and writer Tom Carment, to embark on some walks into “wild” Australia.
The aesthetic link between these disparate ideas is the patterning they have left on the environment, both external and internal environments. It is these...
GREEN SQUARE: The 278-hectare precinct that includes Zetland and Beaconsfield, and parts of Rosebery, Waterloo and Alexandria will eventually be home to 48,000 residents and the workplace for 22,000 people.
It is improper that the Lord Mayor chooses to deliberately misinform and misrepresent the facts of the business vote in the City of Sydney with her histrionics.
