Accidental Celebrity: Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton in conversation with Dr Fiona Reynolds

Only the name needs be mentioned for Australians to know the tragic public story about how baby Azaria was taken by a dingo in 1980, the subsequent media frenzy, imprisonment and exoneration. It is one of, if not, the story of recovery and resilience in modern Australia.

The Tamar Valley Peace Festival’s 2021 theme is peace in recovery and is delighted to have Lindy speak at its 2021 event in conversation with journalist Dr Fiona Reynolds.

Dr Reynolds interviewed Lindy as part of her PhD thesis where she explored the behind-the-scenes story and impact of how a competitive media industry turned ordinary Australians into public figures.

The research led to a number one podcast Accidental Celebrity, featuring other survivors of trauma such as Stuart Diver, Todd Russell, James Scott, Bruce and Denise Morcombe and Rosie Batty.

Dr Reynolds, a journalist, editor and media executive with more than 30 years’ experience, will discuss her work then join Lindy in conversation.

Tamar Valley Writers Festival is a proud partner of this conversation.

Thursday 5 August 2021

Doors open at 5:30pm with light refreshments

Event starts promptly at 6:00pm

Cash bar at conclusion of event at about 7:30pm.

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Tonight's meeting of Launceston Toastmasters Club will feature speeches and impromptu speaking about 'Peace'. People join Toastmasters to improve their public speaking and leadership skills, guests are always welcome, and this is a great opportunity to not only feature the theme of Peace, but to give YOU a chance to see what Toastmasters is all about!

To come along, email: contact-2115@toastmastersclubs.org

Bienvenido = Welcome to the Special Spanish Peace Radio program at City Park Radio with all the highlights of Tamar Peace Festival 2021.

If you Love Spanish Music, rhythms & Latin style + also want to learn some of the most peaceful & friendly words in Spanish listen on-air or online. PAZ y AMOR

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*The event is not open to the public other than to Hazara men.

Join us for our weekly two course meal for the street community, a safe place.

So much of who City Baptist Church is, is not on display on Sunday mornings. We hope you quickly feel included and welcome in our midst!

We seek to be a welcoming presence and people to whom one can turn in tough times in the city centre.

Our desire is to follow Jesus in ministering to those on the margins of society. For well over a decade we have lived with the street community – providing a weekly meal, a listening ear and occasionally emergency accommodation or other help. We want to be a place of quiet and peace for those living rough.

Register for this free event here

'In It Together' is a large-scale play-and-sing-along musical lament and resolution to act. It can include any voice or instrument.

About this event

'In It Together' is a participatory choral symphony that can include any voice or instrument (although if we get many Scottish bagpipes, they may need to be offstage!). It begins with a collective wordless, chant-like lament for whatever grief each of us is experiencing (perhaps related to environmental issues, loss of friends and family, pandemic separation from people and places we love, financial hardship, big unanswered questions, etc.). The lament is followed by a drone-based time of stillness. It finishes with an energetic cacophony to revive, repair, reconnect - resolve to act positively in hope and love. Demo recordings and music bits to practice are available here.

Are the new QVMAG Royal Park permanent galleries a space for peace and reconciliation? Join a floor talk to contribute to the conversation.

Join artist Mandy Quadrio and QVMAG Senior Curator Ashleigh Whatling in a floor talk that explores the new QVMAG Royal Park permanent galleries for the Tamar Peace Festival 2021.

Click here to register for the free event.

The new display wants to create a space for peace and reconciliation. It aims to change the colonial narrative that has dominated Tasmanian Galleries since the 19th century.

The reinterpretation of QVMAG’s collection now reflects our histories, identities and stories in a fresh and contemporary context. Focusing on local Aboriginal cultures, colonial history and modern diversity, this exhibition encourages us to contemplate the ever-changing cultural landscape and our sense of belonging within it.

Through Mandy Quadrio’s eyes we invite you to re-think our story and our sense of belonging to place.

In partnering the Tamar Valley Peace Festival 2021 we open an honest conversation with our community. Has our attempt at diversifying the gallery succeeded?

Is it truly contributing to reconciliation?

Join in an open conversation between curator, artist and community.

About:

Mandy Quadrio is a proud palawa woman whose maternal, ancestral countries are Tebrakunna in the north-east, and the Oyster Bay Nation of eastern Tasmania. She is a Meanjin-based, practicing visual artist working across sculpture, installation, photography and mixed media.

Asserting the strength and resilience of her palawa ancestors, she acts to counter the pervasive inaccurate myth of palawa extinction.

Employing objects from her ‘cultural tool kit’ such as bull kelp, fibers and ochres, she combines cultural artefacts with found and Western manufactured objects such as steel wool and black velvet.

Through the re-ordering of these materials, Quadrio draws attention to historical, cultural and political events that have been ignored and buried by Australian colonial histories.

Currently a Doctoral candidate in Visual Arts at Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University, Quadrio is due to complete her Doctorate in 2021.

Ashleigh Whatling is QVMAG's Senior Curator of Visual Art and Design. She has delivered more than 30 exhibitions since arriving in Launceston, most recently the Summer Season and new Royal Park permanent display for QVMAG.

Ashleigh hails from Adelaide where she received her Double Masters of Art History and Museum and Curatorial Studies and formed the foundation of her professional practice working at Samstag Museum of Art for 5 years.

Traditional Food, Art, Dance, Handcrafts, Live Music to celebrate diverse cultures by fostering and supporting a harmonious, safe and welcoming community.

This event is in partnership with MRC North.

An evening of poetry, comedy, music and stories. Join local Launceston artists as they share their art and stories of finding their own peace in recovery.

Click here to register for this event.

*The event is not open to the public other than to Hazara men.

Come to the City Baptist Church to learn English.

So much of who City Baptist Church is, is not on display on Sunday mornings. We hope you quickly feel included and welcome in our midst!

We seek to be a welcoming presence and people to whom one can turn in tough times in the city centre.

Our desire is to follow Jesus in ministering to those on the margins of society. For well over a decade we have lived with the street community – providing a weekly meal, a listening ear and occasionally emergency accommodation or other help. We want to be a place of quiet and peace for those living rough.

We are excited to welcome Matthew Evans from SBS, supporting the inaugural agriCULTURED event to provide a talk on Soil with practical hands on demonstration. This will foster support a harmonious, safe and welcoming community garden at NSCC for our participants.

This event is in partnership with MRC North.

Join us for the Inspiring Women in Business Networking Breakfast and celebration of the 2021 Tamar Valley Peace Festival. Hear from our two guest speakers about their experience with Resilience, Recovery and Restoration. We welcome all supporters of diversity and empowering women in the workplace no matter what your gender.

It is a great opportunity to meet and network with other peers and colleagues in a casual atmosphere whilst enjoying a delicious breakfast

Presenters

Bethan Frake, Principal, BDF Law
Bethan Frake is the owner and principal solicitor at BDF Law, a boutique law firm. British born; Bethan migrated to Australia in 2001. After arriving in Australia Bethan settled permanently in Launceston Tasmania where she married a local and is raising two children: Dylan and Scarlett. Bethan opened her own law firm mid-2015. In addition to running her own legal business which currently employs 3 staff members, Bethan was a non-executive board director of the NGO Amnesty International Australia (AIA) from 2015-2019. Bethan is still heavily involved in AIA and she is a member of the Governance Committee which is a subcommittee of the board, which provide advice and guidance on legal and corporate governance matters to the board and members of AIA. Bethan is also a volunteer at the Launceston Community Legal Centre where she provides free legal advice for community members who require it.

Rosy Green, Educator
Rosy is teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) in Tasmania. Her background as a nurse, midwife, counsellor and university lecturer, includes extensive experience supporting people through tough times, including grief, loss, depression and cancer. As a mother of four, cancer survivor and 15 years as a mindfulness practitioner, she is passionate about sharing skills that enhance resilience, foster self-healing, increase well-being and build compassionate communities. See Mindfulness Programs Australasia.

Register for this event here

Launceston poetry group - 'Tas Poets Performing' - will host a free Open Mic poetry reading event of 'Peace Poems'. Come along as an audience member, read your own poems, or present a couple from your favourite poet on the theme of 'Peace'. At 8.30pm, following 'Poems for Peace', will be the Launceston Heat of the Australian Poetry Slam.

No registration needed, everyone is welcome to attend this event!

Join our weekly meeting during which we practice public speaking and meeting procedure. The theme topic of the Tamar Peace Festival meeting will be 'Peace in Recovery'.
The meeting runs from 7:30 am until 8:30 am. After the meeting we have breakfast together, which we order from the cafe before the meeting.

Register here

Circle Dancing is gentle and meditative and nourishes the soul. All are welcome to join us for free during Peace Week, no registration needed!

This meditation session, as part of the Tamar Peace Festival 2021 includes a beautiful heart preparation, Reiki Usui attunement and channelling. No experience required.

Register for the event here.

Once you have completed this registration form we will send you the link to  join the Zoom session. 

Thank you to arrive in the "Zoom room" 5 minutes ahead of time to "settle in".

What is an Attunement?

A process where the crown chakra is opened as a special gate for Divine energy to enter the body. The body then connects and tunes with the Divine energy. The heart chakra is opened so you are connected to your heart. The arm energy is opened connecting your sushumna (the “pipe” for the Divine energy) to your palm chakras, which opens your palm chakras so you can channel the Divine energy.

What are you receiving after an Reiki Usui Attunement?

The ability to channel Divine energy and a more open heart to enjoy the Divine energy on a daily basis.

Once "attuned" you will be able to channel Reiki Usui energy for yourself and others.
What a wonderful way to share the gift of healing energy to family and friends.

Please join to zoom 5 minutes before the start to settle in and relax.

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Sing for Peace is part of the Tamar Peace Festival and will involve local community choirs singing about peace.

Click here to register for this free event.

Join us for a one-off afternoon pop-up exhibition of artworks that acknowledge patience, revival and strength associated with recovery from bullying and sexual assault. The exhibition will be accompanied by a performance that showcases the skill and endurance of pole dance. To heal is to replace trauma with kindness. Feel your power. Feel at peace.

Click here to register for this free event.

Come to NTDC's community walk to mingle with local community members and regional leaders.

NTDC's community walk will start at 11am and end by 1pm. In that time attendees will gather at Royal Park and walk to Riverbend Park while listening to our tour guide narrate the key sights along the way. Upon arrival at Riverbend Park, there will be a sausage sizzle and coffee van waiting.

Click here to register for this free event.

Join us for our Christian worship service.

So much of who City Baptist Church is, is not on display on Sunday mornings. We hope you quickly feel included and welcome in our midst!

We seek to be a welcoming presence and people to whom one can turn in tough times in the city centre.

Our desire is to follow Jesus in ministering to those on the margins of society. For well over a decade we have lived with the street community – providing a weekly meal, a listening ear and occasionally emergency accommodation or other help. We want to be a place of quiet and peace for those living rough.

Community bike ride from the Memorial Peace Garden to the Heritage Forest Community Gardens, then returning back to the starting point at the Memorial Peace Garden.

No need to register, just come along on the day!