[Edited extract from public address]
For the past 28 years Switchboard Victoria has been listening to the stories of LGBTQIA+ communities. In the last year Switchboard has taken over 4000 calls from our community, completed over 700 visits to older LGBTI people in aged and residential care, trained 75 new volunteers, visited 15 regional and rural Victorian centers and towns and spoken to thousands of health care professionals, family violence specialists, community leaders and everyday Victorians about the services we provide. Countless lives have been saved through our suicide intervention services and many more improved through the relief of loneliness and social isolation.
Switchboard continues to be the result of many individual and collective efforts. This Midsumma festival we are running a fundraiser. If this event is sold out we will be able to raise between $5,000-$6,000.
The following high profile speakers are donating their time to help raise funds for Switchboard.
Christos Tsiolkas – is the author of ‘Loaded’ (later made into the film Head On), The Jesus Man, Merciless Gods, The Slap (later made into TV mini series) and Barracuda. Christos is also a playwright, scriptwriter and essayist, and he is the film reviewer for The Saturday Paper. He is a Patron for Writers Victoria and an Ambassador for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.
Dr Lou Bennett - is a Yorta Yorta Dja Dja Wurrung woman and former member of the internationally acclaimed trio Tiddas. Bennett uses her own languages of Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung, extending to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages that can be retrieved, reclaimed and regenerated through songs, stories and performances.
Carolyn DÇruz - has been working in gender, sexuality and diversity studies since 2007 at La Trobe University. She is author of Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable and is co-editor of the anthology, After homosexual: The legacies of gay liberation.
Where: Deakin The Edge, Federation Square
Cost: $15 Concession / $25 Full / $50 Solidarity
Bookings: online through Midsumma
MORE:
Switchboard Victoria (SWVI)
Postal: PO Box 21291 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 8011
Counselling support (from 3pm to midnight 7 days a week) call 1800 184 527 or webchat qlife.org.au
Email: http://www.switchboard.org.au/contact-us/
Website: http://www.switchboard.org.au
A panel discussion on storytelling in LGBTQIA+ communities, digging deep into the stories we tell and how they shape who we are.
Featuring Lou Bennett, Christos Tsiolkas and Carolyn D'Çruz and hosted by community activist and gender transcendent diva Mama Alto. All monies raised go to Switchboard Victoria.For the past 28 years Switchboard Victoria has been listening to the stories of LGBTQIA+ communities. In the last year Switchboard has taken over 4000 calls from our community, completed over 700 visits to older LGBTI people in aged and residential care, trained 75 new volunteers, visited 15 regional and rural Victorian centers and towns and spoken to thousands of health care professionals, family violence specialists, community leaders and everyday Victorians about the services we provide. Countless lives have been saved through our suicide intervention services and many more improved through the relief of loneliness and social isolation.
Switchboard continues to be the result of many individual and collective efforts. This Midsumma festival we are running a fundraiser. If this event is sold out we will be able to raise between $5,000-$6,000.
Christos Tsiolkas – is the author of ‘Loaded’ (later made into the film Head On), The Jesus Man, Merciless Gods, The Slap (later made into TV mini series) and Barracuda. Christos is also a playwright, scriptwriter and essayist, and he is the film reviewer for The Saturday Paper. He is a Patron for Writers Victoria and an Ambassador for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.
Dr Lou Bennett - is a Yorta Yorta Dja Dja Wurrung woman and former member of the internationally acclaimed trio Tiddas. Bennett uses her own languages of Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung, extending to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages that can be retrieved, reclaimed and regenerated through songs, stories and performances.
Carolyn DÇruz - has been working in gender, sexuality and diversity studies since 2007 at La Trobe University. She is author of Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable and is co-editor of the anthology, After homosexual: The legacies of gay liberation.
Where: Deakin The Edge, Federation Square
Cost: $15 Concession / $25 Full / $50 Solidarity
Bookings: online through Midsumma
MORE:
Switchboard Victoria (SWVI)
Postal: PO Box 21291 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 8011
Counselling support (from 3pm to midnight 7 days a week) call 1800 184 527 or webchat qlife.org.au
Email: http://www.switchboard.org.au/contact-us/
Website: http://www.switchboard.org.au