It’s Mental Health Week!
There are a bunch of activities on all campuses, from physical activities, seminars, meditation and relaxation programs, presentations to exhibitions. It is open to Monash staff and students.
The ABC are also celebrating Mental Health week by screening documentaries and raising funds for mental health research.
For this year’s Mental Health Week, the ABC’s Q and A program will broadcast live from the Pilbeam Theatre in Rockhampton, Queensland and will feature:
Please register for the audience now or submit a video question by 9am Friday.
Watch Q&A Monday 9.35pm on ABC, live 9.35pm AEDT on ABC News 24 or stream it on our website http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/
Quippings: Freaktastic Fringe will give you a crip tease under the lights. We will bend your mind, warp your perspective, make you hot and flustered, twist your ideas and ramp you up with our moves. Freaks, queers, poets, musicians and performers who are delightfully, unashamedly different and subversive, we are an experience not to be missed!
Auslan Interpreted Performance, Friday 3rd Oct & Saturday 4th Oct.
Companion Card bookings accepted (please phone the Fringe ticketing number).
See the Quippings Facebook page and Fringe Festival event page for more information.
Monash Mental Health Week marks World Mental Health Day and National Mental Health Week. The program includes physical activities, seminars, meditation and relaxation programs, presentations and exhibitions and is open to Monash staff and students.
Go to the Mental Health Week website to register for an event at your campus.
Hear from employers and gain knowledge to assist you making the transition from study to employment. This half day forum is open to students from all Victorian universities with diverse background or needs. The 2014 forum will be hosted by Australian Catholic University (Melbourne) and will focus on diversity in the work place.
The event aims to empower students from a cross section of our society, including those with chronic health conditions (mental or physical); or from an Indigenous or migrant background.
Key objectives
For full program information please go to: Careers Access Through Diversity
The event will be held at Australian Catholic University, Christ Lecture Theatre, 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy VIC 3065. See Venue Map.
For further information contact Amber Roberts on 9953 3373 or via email:amber.roberts@acu.edu.au
To book your place go the event page.
Experience the Fringe Furniture exhibition with a guide who will provide audio description of works and lead tactile interactions with the installations. Tactile Tours are designed to introduce blind and low vision visitors to new ways of experiencing and enjoying the exhibition. Led by an experienced accessibility guide, participants will be encouraged to engage with the works through informed discussion and touch.
The works selected for the tour have been chosen specifically by the Associate Producer and the accessibility guide. There will also be the opportunity for participants to meet an exhibiting artist and discuss their work.
Sunday 28 September, 2pm – 3pm.
Places limited.
Bookings essential, please phone 9660 9600.
Monash Uni Student Theatre (MUST) presents… Them Aspies, a play created by Jess Gonsalvez and Tom Middleditch
October 7-11 at 7.30pm, with an optional forum following each performance
With the increase in autism diagnoses and the changes in diagnostic criteria over the past twelve months, there is an air of misunderstanding surrounding Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Asperger’s Syndrome, Them Aspies is an uncompromising new performance piece exploring modern perceptions of Autism. Spanning a range of theatrical forms – from epic to verbatim theatre.
Tickets: MSA Card $10 / Conc $12 / Full $16
Bookings: msa.monash.edu/must or at the MSA Reception Desk
In the MUST Space, Ground Floor, Campus Centre (Bld 10), Monash University Clayton Campus
Enquiries:
(ph) 9905 8173
msa-must@monash.edu
MONASH UNI STUDENT THEATRE is an engine room of creativity, a department of the MSA that creates vibrant, innovative theatre by, with and for Monash students and the wider community. Works are diverse, ranging from new text-based and devised works to bold takes on classics, adaptations, events and exhibitions.
The MAC (Monash Autistic Collective) will be holding a morning tea, open to all interested students, at Wholefoods this week to celebrate our achievements this year as well as plan what to do for the rest of the semester and beyond. In particular we will be brainstorming ideas for our part in the ‘YES’ Campaign for the MSA Disabilities Office Referendum.
Thursday 11th September, 11AM-12PM at Wholefoods (upstairs, Campus center, Clayton campus).
This event is open to students on the Autism Spectrum, as well as Non-Autistic students.
If you have any queries please contact James at jomonman537@yahoo.com.au or Julia at juliapillai42@gmail.com
Hope to see you there!
What is the Monash Autistic Collective (MAC)?
MAC is a student-run group that aims to:
The MAC is run by students on the Autism Spectrum, but everyone is welcome to come to our events and our meetings.
The I CAN Netowkr is excited to announce that following the success of their first young adults camp they are putting on a second I CAN Camp for teenagers (aged 15-18 years) with high-functioning Autism or Asperger’s from Friday 17 – Sunday 19 October.
The I CAN Teens Camp is all about building connections. The I CAN Network wants to bring teenagers with Asperger’s together to have fun, make new friends and share laughs, talents, quirks and strategies. Joining the I CAN Camp will be Autism advocate Tim Chan (19-years-old) and Jim Anderson, an unstoppable 24-year-old living with quadriplegia.
The Teens Camp will be run by young adults with Asperger’s and professionals. It will adhere to I CAN’s well-being norms and practices.
RUOK? Day is a national day of action dedicated to inspiring all Australians to ask family, friends and colleagues, ‘Are you OK?’, to help build a more connected community.
Last year all Victorian Monash campuses celebrated RUOK? Day, with a number of staff and students hosting events, such as morning teas, information sessions and BBQs. In 2014 we aim to create the same sense of connectedness and community on all campuses.
Staff and students are encouraged to host an event and get involved!
Please complete this form for any RUOK? Day events, activities or general awareness raising you will be doing within your area.
The information collected from this form will be included on the RUOK? Day Monash website.
For ideas on how to get involved visit the R U OK? Day website.
Photos from 2013 RUOK? Day.
