REAL Illawarra: April 2010

Friday, April 23, 2010

REAL: Illawarrra community forum Sat 22nd May

The Illawarra has a long history of active groups that have helped support and grow our community over the past years and decades.

However, recently some of these groups have begun to struggle. With this in mind, one of the actions to come out of the recent UNITY AGM was to hold a forum to discuss the role of local groups, their current direction and what the future holds.

Facilitated discussions at the forum will cover our community as it was and is — building a picture of who we are; what needs and challenges can we identify and how we approach them as groups; what forms do groups take and their relevance; other topics identified by those present on the day.

Groups will be invited to send their representatives to the forum. If your voice should be among them, please get in touch with your local community group and make sure your views are represented.

Throughout these discussions, it is hoped we can build a better picture of our community as it exists today and get ideas about ways to encourage more community involvement, new possibilities for events, new directions and approaches for existing groups to work together.

We are not just looking for representatives of community groups, but also people who are involved in informal social groups who are sure to have valuable input into how the more formal groups can work for them in the current community environment.

If you, or someone you know, would like to have input into these discussions, please contact the ACON Illawarra office on 4226 1163 for more information.

The forum will be held Saturday, May 22 from 1-3pm at the ACON Illawarra Community Space.

info: For more information about groups, services or organisations in the Southern Region, contact ACON on 4226 1163 or email tslattery@acon.org.au

Trevor Slattery is the Education and Community Development Officer at ACON's Illawarra branch.

Source: http://www.starobserver.com.au/soap-box/2010/04/20/community-forum-needs-your-input/24171

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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

REAL Talk @ ACON this thursday- Tarot

REAL Talk @ ACON
6-8pm, forth Thursday of month,
At ACON, Kenny st Wollongong

This Thursday 22nd April- Tarot
Should be fun! Come and join in.

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REAL: Fwd: Spiegelhaus 7

Spiegelhaus 7. Insert funny name here

It's that time of year again. The dear sweet William Shakespeare is having a birthday and it's the Anzac day long weekend so its time for the first Spiegelhaus of the year, and what a Spiegel its going to be. We have a Flaming Bitch, singers writers Mary Bug Weir before she goes off to the UK, sexy snail trails and so much more as well as the return of our beloved Inga Fagina from her whirlwind tour of the backstreets of China

Spiegelhaus is on Saturday 24^th April at 8 pm sharp. We have song, dance, physical theatre and spoken word, There will be bare bottoms and lots of naughty bits. Come along and join us for a fun night, its really going to be one of the best every and possibly the last one in the front Room J

Entry is free as we are still working towards our licence but anyone wishing to donate the $15 ticket price we would have charged will be warmly welcomed. All proceeds will go towards the final stages of installing our safety systems so we can get our licence, we are also waiting on a grant from state Gov and hope to finally open the theatre to the public later in the year.

Remember Spiegelhaus cabarets are strictly adults MA 16+ only as there will be nudity language and adult concepts. Bookings are essential as we have limited space, you can book at bookings@phoenixtheatre.net.au

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REAL: Fwd: survey

FWD,,,,,,,

Hi Everyone

Please find information and link below to the new online survey "Sexuality and nightlife in Sydney: Survey of same-sex attracted young people".

Kind Regards,
Nadia Sneyd-Miller, Administration and Volunteer Officer
Phone: (02) 4226 1163 | Fax: (02) 4226 9838
Postal: PO Box 1073 Wollongong NSW 2500 | Street: 47 Kenny Street Wollongong NSW 2500
Email: illaadmin@acon.org.au | Website: www.acon.org.au

Building our community's health and wellbeing for 25 years (1985 - 2010)
Winner of 2009 Australian Human Rights Award (Community Organisation)

----- Forwarded by illaadmin/Illawarra/ACON on 14/04/2010 02:07 PM -----

From:	Toby Lea <toby.lea@student.unsw.edu.au>
To:	illaadmin <illaadmin@acon.org.au>
Date:	14/04/2010 11:41 AM
Subject:	RE: online survey

TITLE: Sexuality and nightlife in Sydney: Survey of same-sex attracted young people CONTENT: Researchers from UNSW are seeking participants for an online survey exploring the relationship between sexuality and nightlife in Sydney. To participate you need to be 18-25 years old, same-sex attracted, and live in Sydney or regularly spend time there. It takes 20-30 minutes to complete and you can go into a draw to win one of two $200 Coles Myer gift vouchers. To complete the survey, go tohttp://nightlifesurvey.webs.com/Please feel free to forward the survey link to your friends. It would be a big help! ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visithttp://www.messagelabs.com/email______________________________________________________________________

REAL: Fw: Vote now for the name of the new women's group

The Sydney based Lesbian And Same-Sex Attracted Women's Health Project are currently running a poll on the ACON website to help name the new peer education group for women 26 - 40. Could you please promote this poll to your clients and encourage people to vote.....

To vote please go here

Have a great weekend,

Annaliese

Annaliese Constable

(Acting) Coordinator Lesbian and
Same-Sex Attracted Women's Project
Community Development, ACON

ACON (02) 9206 2007 Postal Address: PO Box 350 Darlinghurst NSW 1300 | www.acon.org.au | aconstable@acon.org.au

REAL: fwd Which-witch a Tomerong 7pm Sat 24th April

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

REAL FW: Bluemountains Anzac weekend camp date change

From: bushscout@bigpond.com
To: ;
Subject: Anzac weekend camp date change
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:43:45 +1100

Hi Lemons,

After so proudly sending out the flier for the Anzac Weekend camp I noticed that I had made a mistake with the date. The date is of course 23-26 April (rather than March), and the book-in date is 21 April. Obviously the year is going much quicker than I thought!!!!! Sorry about that and make sure you amend your fliers.

Cheers

Jocelyn

Bush Lemons

bushscout@bigpond.com

REAL Fwd: NEW Women Who Laugh Program

------ Forwarded Message
From: CIRCUS WOW <circuswow@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 09:48:56 +1000
To: CIRCUS WOW <circuswow@gmail.com>
Subject: NEW Women Who Laugh Program

Hi All & hope you are having a happy easter

NEW PROGRAM with Circus WOW
: WOMEN WHO LAUGH
Please also forward on to other women who might be interested.

Attached is flyer for a great new program for term 2 called Women Who Laugh which will cover a variety of introductory circus skills. It's less than half price at only $70/50 conc for the term. This is a subsidised program supported by Wollongong City Council -mostly for women over 40. However, if there are enough places available younger women may also attend so let us know details if would like to participate.

Since this is a subsidised program, if there is a high demand for places, offers of a class place will go first to women whom one or more of the following apply - so please let us know if any apply to you;

women over 50,
or on benefits
or without prior WOW or circus experience ; if you only have minimum experience such as the odd workshop or short class indicate that too. Women currently doing WOW classes are eligible to attend if there are places available.

to request to book in or questions, please contact us here at
circuswow@gmail.com and provide phone number in case we need to ring.
Interested people will be placed on standy list for offers of a place, so please let us know if you want to attend as soon as possible.

Details of our regular program will follow next week - the term starts early May this time.

regards
ellen for wow training

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REAL: April- Whats on in and around the Illawarra?

LISA Brekky
Sunday 11 April 10am
Coffee'liscious, Berry St, Nowra (next door to cinema)

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Bingay @UniBar

Monday 19th April
Tickets on sale at the now!
UOW Students $10.00
General Admission $15.00
http://unicentre.uow.edu.au/whatson/

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