Are you an audacious dreamer?
Do you want to make a difference in the world?
Do you question, “the way things have always been done” and have ideas about “doing things differently to create improved outcomes”?
Are you looking for tools and connections to help you bring about change?
If you identify with any or all of those questions above, then the School for Civic Action is for you and you’re invited to join our next event-
Press for Change
Press for Change will be hosted by the School for Civic Action on Sunday Nov 10th 2013 from 10-4pm in Adelaide at Blank Space at the east end of Rundle St.
Why Press for Change, why now?
Im passionate about enabling people to discover how they can be agents of change and Im starting the School for Civic Action to overcome the tools & connections gap that Ive seen during my work over the past ten years as a tertiary educator
and changemaker. I’ve been inspired by the people Ive met who dream for change and Im keen to support them and others like them to explore their potential, expand their skillset and create a community of support to realise their ideas for change in the process.
If this sounds like you- then come along to Press for Change, we’re waiting to meet you!
Press for Change will give you the opportunity to hear from 4 local changemakers doing extraordinary things in Adelaide and Nationwide, followed by workshop sessions to identify for yourself what issue or campaign
you are most passionate about and to workshop your idea in smaller groups, connecting with others, sharing their ideas and sharing suggestions and support. Program details are below:
Start time: 10am sharp
Introduction & Welcome
Morning Speakers:
Dan Jones Life Without Barriers (SA Living Arts co-creator)
Living Arts is a flexible and creative therapeutic service offered by Life Without Barriers in South Australia. It began as a service to young people under the Guardianship of the Minister in the care of Life Without Barriers, Out of Home
Care program, but has grown to include the Disability and Homelessness streams. Living Arts typically involves regular and purposeful, music, dance, drama, art or play therapy sessions that cater to the specific and immediate needs of the individual.
Alana James The Oaktree Foundation (SA State Director)
The Oaktree Foundation is Australia's largest youth-run anti-poverty organisation. The foundation partners with overseas organisations to provide educational and empowering experiences to communities in the Asia-Pacific region. Here in Australia
the Oaktree Foundation is leading the movement to end poverty through community, High School and University engagement programs. Alana will present Oaktree's exciting new social Engagement Platform.
Oaktree website
Sam Wright & Fascination Street (Moving Music- recipient of 'Best Music Industry Initiative' - Fowlers Live SA Music Awards 2012)
Sam & Fascination Street are the masterminds who create seasonal Urban Safaris which lead their audience through the city of Adelaide on a mystery tour featuring elements of live music, design, performance and visual art mashed into a smorgasbord
of experiential delights for curious humans.
Moving Music website
Josh Fanning & Farrin Foster (cultural changemakers and media entrepreneurs committed to opening their readers eyes to all scales of Adelaide's urban wonder)
Josh & Farrin are part of the creative force behind a series of entrepreneurial media projects which present the value of a hyper-local approach and celebrate the city of Adelaide. Through their projects including Magazine Gallery, CityMag and Collect
Magazine (which Josh co-founded with Adam Johnson) they encourage a shift in cultural perception by taking pride in local talent and encouraging progressive, creative and empathetic investment in Adelaide. CityMag
website
Workshop Sessions following the speakers will help you articulate:
When do I feel most alive, useful and fulfilled in this world?
What issue or change am I most pasionate about?
What are my character strengths and how can I make the most of them?
During the workshop session, you'll work alone, in pairs & small groups to explore your ideas and begin to develop them through a facilitated process that involves collaboration and peer to peer learning alongside prompts and discussion generated
by the workshop leader.
As an introductory event, Press for Change will inspire you with a taster for the diversity of forms changemaking can take and begin to explore how it might work for you. Future courses and programs offered by the
School for Civic Action will offer deeper exploration too- so stay tuned and like ourfacebook page to keep in touch and the
School for Civic Action website (currently in development)
