Get ready to impress your tastebuds with some new flavours coming to Monash Clayton. We’ll have some food trucks including Yogurddicition, The Little Mushroom Co and the Curry Truck at various locations around campus. Grab your lunch buddies and try something different for lunch.
See the Monash Food Truck website for schedule and locations.
Are you aged 18-24 and living with muscle, bones or joint pain? Do you want to connect with others in a similar situation? Arthritis and Osteoporosis Victoria are hosting a Youth Workshop to find out what you need.
The workshop has been organised with young people and will be run by young people. The event will be very relaxed and informal and will involve some discussion groups to capture your thoughts. These groups are led by young people with musculoskeletal conditions who really get it. The topics for discussion are:
Important things to know about the workshop
Absolutely NO lectures or formal presentations
For more information see the Arthritis Victoria website.
This camp enabled young people on the Autism Spectrum to enable others to say ‘I Can’ to life’s opportunities, all from the horse’s mouth!
– Daniel Giles, I CAN Ambassador
Have fun whilst challenging yourself
Build your confidence
Connect with others
I CAN Network’s young adults camp, hosted by I CAN’s tertiary networks, will empower young adults (aged 18 – 30) on the Autism Spectrum to live the ‘I Can’ attitude. It will equip participants with the confidence to be leaders in our growing network. I CAN’s Camps are unique. They are run entirely by young people on the Spectrum for young people on the Spectrum. Here’s some of what you will get up to on camp:
Register your interest by 25 February. After registering interest, one of our Camp Mentors* will give you a call where you will hear more about the I CAN Camps and the process of completing registration. Please note that the camp costs $150.
If you’ve got any queries, please contact James Ong (Coordinator, I CAN Tertiary Program) at hello@icannetwork.com.au or on 0432 405 384
To give you some inspiration, see our #AWEtismRethink video made at our I CAN Young Adults Camp in April 2014.
**All Camp Mentors have Working With Children Checks. Our team includes a Wellbeing Team with a registered psychologist and Mentors trained in First Aid and Mental Health First Aid.
The fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 9 to 20 March 2015.
CSW59 will focus on reviewing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BfPA) including current challenges that affect its implementation and the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women.CSW59 marks a major milestone in the history of CSW and presents an historic and once in a lifetime opportunity for women and girls with disabilities. The urgent need to strengthen efforts to address the rights and needs of women and girls with disabilities in all 12 critical areas of the BfPA along with all aspects of the post 2015 development agenda, has been recognised by Heads of State and Governments from around the world.
CSW59 offers women with disabilities the unique opportunity to ensure that disability and gender equality are mainstreamed as cross-cutting issues throughout the whole future development agenda.
The Commission invites interested organisations to submit proposals to attend the first week of the Session, and that meet the criteria of the Commission’s international participation program. Information on how to apply for funding is available here.
Proposals should:
Proposals close Friday 23rd January 2015 COB.
Applications for funding should be sent to: disability@humanrights.gov.au
For more information see the CSW website.
Conversational English Programs are beginning next month, with a range of different kinds of classes available.
These classes are a set of extra-curricular language activities aimed at developing the global competences of domestic and international students and enhancing the student experience through cross cultural communication and making new friends!
Classes for 2015 include:
Let’s Chat MUISS!
Let’s Chat BusEco!
Peer Support
Aussie Connect
There will also be a range of workshops and seminars across the semester looking at topics of cross cultural communication and international education. Watch this space for more information in early February!
A public memorial service will be held to rejoice in the life, achievements and legacy of the fabulously dishonourable comedian, journalist and disability activist Stella Young.
The party will be held on Friday 19th December at 11am at the Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne City. Federation Square will be offering an interactive screening program honouring Stella’s life and work from 9am – 3.30pm. The memorial service is open to everyone, and admittance will be on a first come, first served basis. We strongly advise getting there early to secure a seat. Doors will be open from 10am for an 11am service (60min duration). All guests are advised to please enter via the accessible entrance on Collins Street.
The organisers will make every possible effort to meet the access requirements of all guests. The service will offer Auslan interpreting, Live Captioning, Audio Description, water bowls for Companion animals, a hearing loop, additional accessible toilets and seating choices for people who use wheelchairs.
Please visit www.artsaccess.com.au for further access and transport information.
People from Stella’s home-town of Stawell are extended an extra heart-felt and warm welcome.
As the Melbourne Town Hall has limited capacity – and in recognition that some people will be unable to travel to the service – it will be simulcast live at Federation Square, on ABC News 24 & on digital radio 774 ABC Victoria.
The dress code is FABULOUS. If possible, we’d love you to wear red and white spotted shoes, bright colours and little to no black. Pink or purple hair is a definite bonus, as are the incorporation of chenille stems.
A Crip tribute to Stella Young is an evening of readings by crips and non-crips of Stella’s work or of letter’s we have penned to Stella to commemorate and celebrate what a great woman and amazing disability activist she was. Join us and read something, just sit and listen or share your favourite memories of Stella. Any money raised will go to Domestic Violence Victoria, as per the Young family’s request. www. dvvic.org.au
Confirmed readers include:
Bearbrass Asylum Orchestra- our house crip band!
Doors open at 7.30pm and the readings start at 8pm
Hares and Hyenas
63 Johnston Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065
This event is fully wheelchair accessible, but sadly this event will NOT be Auslan interpreted.
On Thursday December 11th at 7am, Dylan Alcott will attempt to break the world record for the longest continuous playing of wheelchair tennis, playing for 24 consecutive hours. Dylan is the current world number 4 wheelchair tennis player. and is a former Paralympic and World Champion winning wheelchair basketballer. Dylan is completing the challenge to attempt to raise $100,000 collectively for two charities he holds very close to his heart, The Starlight Foundation and Variety – the Children’s Charity, with all proceeds being split between both.
Thursday 11th December (7am) – Friday 12th December (7am)
Where: Tennis Australia – Melbourne Park (home of the Australian Open) – Court 24 (new National Tennis Academy side)
Who: Dylan will be playing with many sporting stars and celebrities from across Australia, including basketballer Elizabeth Cambage, actress Olympia Valance, AFL stars Chris Dawes, Jack Watts and Tom Hawkins, professional tennis players Storm Sanders and Luke Saville amongst others.
(Note: Absolutely anybody can come and have a hit with Dylan on the day, and we strongly encourage it. There will even be spare wheelchairs on site to try wheelchair tennis. If you would like to come down and ‘pay to play’ against Dylan, please email info@dylanalcottofficial.com for more details).
The 2014 Disability Sport & Recreation Festival is Victoria’s premier event for the disability sport and recreation sector. Running from 1 to 7 December, this unique community event promotes and celebrates physically active lifestyles for all people of all abilities through participation in accessible and inclusive sport and recreation.
During the Disability Sport & Recreation Festival, sport and recreation providers across Victoria are opening their doors for people with disability, their families, friends and carers to ‘pop-in’ and try an activity.
The Other Film Festival is the big party where everyone gets invited. The festival programs the very best new cinema about the lived experience of disability from around the world. The festival screens these films in the most accessible way possible, delivering global best practice in meeting the access requirements of all patrons. All speeches are Auslan interpreted, all films are captioned, all films are audio described and the venue is fully accessible. Inclusive, accessible and welcoming, the festival reveals how disability looks right now.
The Other Film Festival will run from the 3rd-7th December at the Melbourne Brian Centre, Kenneth Myer Building, 30 Royal Parade (cnr Genetics Lane), University of Melbourne, Parkville (Melways Ref: 2B B7).
See the full program here.
