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Photos
There are many photos floating around from the festival. Check these places if you'd like to see some:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.370656073024543.88780.156541901102629&
https://www.facebook.com/events/348919775202025/http://lefugitif.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/laura-st-festival-2012/
http://theweekendedition.com.au/captured/laura-street-festival/.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.370656073024543.88780.156541901102629&
https://www.facebook.com/events/348919775202025/http://lefugitif.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/laura-st-festival-2012/
http://theweekendedition.com.au/captured/laura-street-festival/.
Donations
All profits from the Laura Street Festival 2012 have been donated to local groups. These include the donations made for wood-fired pizzas, ginger beer, cold-pressed coffee and chai at Turnstyle and for kombucha at the Garden Stage. In total the Laura Street Festival has donated $2140 to the following organisations:
Aunty Jean Phillips
Aunty Jean Phillips was born on an Aboriginal reservation in south-eastern Queensland about three and a half hours drive from Brisbane. Over the years Aunty Jean has been involved in prison work, hospital chaplaincy and pastoral care and is currently attached to the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology. She is an ambassador for Indigenous rights and a tireless campaigner, raising awareness and support for Aboriginal families and communities in south-east Queensland. The money donated from the Laura Street Festival will be going towards providing fresh fruit and vegetable hampers for Aboriginal families in need around the Logan and Woodridge areas.
Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy
The Brisbane Sovereign Embassy is a continuation of Aboriginal sovereign autonomy, culture and system of laws. Like other sovereign embassies, the Brisbane Sovereign Embassy seeks to raise awareness and discussion of Aboriginal sovereignty, provide sanctuary for Aboriginal people and a place for cultural, spiritual and ceremonial activity, focused on the sacred fire and circle that have been established as part of the embassy.
www.facebook.com/BrisbaneSovereignEmbassyMusgravePark
http://brisbaneblacksmonthly.weebly.com/why-an-embassy-in-our-own-land.html
Brisbane Independent School
Brisbane Independent School’s mission is to nurture, develop and trust our pupils’ innate love of learning and positive values, and to produce graduates who are respectful, confident, competent and self-motivated, with the skills necessary for life-long learning in all facets of their lives. To this end, we provide a supportive, flexible and democratic educational environment for the development of the whole child, including social, emotional, ethical, physical and cognitive development, within a school community that supports our values.
http://www.bis.org.au/
Environmental Defenders Office (EDO)
The EDO is a non-profit, non-government community legal centre dedicated to providing legal advice and representation to individuals and community groups working to protect the environment. The EDO:
http://www.edo.org.au/edoqld/
Romero Centre
The Romero Centre is a place of welcome for refugees. It works to support the community identity of people who came to Australia as refugees, who may have spent time in immigration detention and lived under the conditions of temporary protection visas. Practical assistance provided to refugees includes:
http://romerocentre.org.au
- Aunty Jean Phillips;
- Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy;
- Brisbane Independent School;
- Environmental Defenders Office; and
- Romero Centre.
Aunty Jean Phillips
Aunty Jean Phillips was born on an Aboriginal reservation in south-eastern Queensland about three and a half hours drive from Brisbane. Over the years Aunty Jean has been involved in prison work, hospital chaplaincy and pastoral care and is currently attached to the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology. She is an ambassador for Indigenous rights and a tireless campaigner, raising awareness and support for Aboriginal families and communities in south-east Queensland. The money donated from the Laura Street Festival will be going towards providing fresh fruit and vegetable hampers for Aboriginal families in need around the Logan and Woodridge areas.
Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy
The Brisbane Sovereign Embassy is a continuation of Aboriginal sovereign autonomy, culture and system of laws. Like other sovereign embassies, the Brisbane Sovereign Embassy seeks to raise awareness and discussion of Aboriginal sovereignty, provide sanctuary for Aboriginal people and a place for cultural, spiritual and ceremonial activity, focused on the sacred fire and circle that have been established as part of the embassy.
www.facebook.com/BrisbaneSovereignEmbassyMusgravePark
http://brisbaneblacksmonthly.weebly.com/why-an-embassy-in-our-own-land.html
Brisbane Independent School
Brisbane Independent School’s mission is to nurture, develop and trust our pupils’ innate love of learning and positive values, and to produce graduates who are respectful, confident, competent and self-motivated, with the skills necessary for life-long learning in all facets of their lives. To this end, we provide a supportive, flexible and democratic educational environment for the development of the whole child, including social, emotional, ethical, physical and cognitive development, within a school community that supports our values.
http://www.bis.org.au/
Environmental Defenders Office (EDO)
The EDO is a non-profit, non-government community legal centre dedicated to providing legal advice and representation to individuals and community groups working to protect the environment. The EDO:
- tackle major coal mines and climate change. eg Queensland Conservation Council V Xstrata. The EDO won in the Court of Appeal but then the government changed the law;
- stop cruelty to animals and protect biodiversity. In a series of 'bat cases', the EDO successfully stopped electrocution of flying foxes by lychee farmers;
- are active in law reform. New community enforcement rights in the Water Act 2000 and the Nature Conservation Act 1992 are directly due to EDO work;
- help people to help themselves.
http://www.edo.org.au/edoqld/
Romero Centre
The Romero Centre is a place of welcome for refugees. It works to support the community identity of people who came to Australia as refugees, who may have spent time in immigration detention and lived under the conditions of temporary protection visas. Practical assistance provided to refugees includes:
- settlement and citizenship support;
- a free meeting place for refugee community and family groups;
- computer and internet access; and
- visiting immigration detainees in Brisbane.
http://romerocentre.org.au