1 International Day for Older Persons
4-10 World Space Week
6-14 Mental Health Week
10 World Day Against the Death Penalty / World Mental Health Day
13 International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
14-20 Anti-Poverty Week
17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
19 – 28 Queensland Children’s Week
24-30 Disarmament Week
Single File is a temporary artwork trying to turn the tide. Made up of several filing cabinets mounted on the bank of the Brisbane River, artist Warraba Weatherall’s installation explores notions of buoyancy within the city’s landscape. Strategically placed near the cultural precinct, Weatherall questions the Museum as a disciplinary institution where its archives reaffirm the rhetoric of colonialism. As an institution which retains a large collection of Indigenous artefacts and ancestral human remains, western interpretations render Indigenous cultures as ‘knowable’ and ‘possessable’. The artwork aims to encourage conversations around cultural repatriation.
Presented as part of Co-MMotion, Brisbane City Council’s 2018 Temporary Art Program, produced by people+artist+place.
This installation is best viewed at low tide. Expected low tides during the installation period are as follows:
Saturday 8 September: 2.55pm
Sunday 9 September: 3.44pm
Monday 10 September: 4.30pm
Tuesday 11 September: 5.15pm
Wednesday 12 September: 5.56pm
Thursday 13 September: 6.38pm
Friday 14 September: 7.21pm
Saturday 15 September: 7.31am and 8.08pm
Sunday 16 September: 8.11am and 9.02pm
In Brisbane this is Black History Month
Celebrate Plastic Free July
1 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday
7 International Day of Co-operatives
8-15 NAIDOC Week
June is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
3 Anniversary of Mabo Decision (1992)
4 International Day of Innocent Children / Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989
11-17 Men’s Health Week
12 World Day Against Child Labour
16 International Day of the African Child
17 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
17-23 Refugee Week
23 United Nations Public Service Day
26 International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking / International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
30 Introduction of Unemployment Benefits Australia
Some more Community Celebrations you might like to mark with me!!
28 April – 7 May Bike Week (Qld)
29 April -6 Heart Week
1 International Workers Day / World Asthma Day
5 International Day of the Midwife / World Naked Gardening Day
6-12 International Composting Awareness Week Australia
7 Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy
10-16 Schizophrenia Awareness Week
13 Mothers Day
13 – 19 Food Allergy Awareness Week
15 International Day of Families / Al Nabka
17 International Day Against Homophobia / World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
20-26 National Palliative Care Week
21 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
21-27 National Volunteers Week
22 International Day for Biological Diversity
25-31 Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories
27 – 3 June Reconciliation Week
29 White Wreath Day / International Day of UN Peacekeepers
31 World MS Day
A good life is celebrated with rituals that mark significant milestones. Along with birthdays and commitments a rite of passage that many of us know is the ending of a career.
On April 6th friends and people with whom I have journeyed gathered to celebrate my leaving Micah Projects after more than 11 years of advocacy and solidarity with Forgotten Australians, people who experience social,isolation as well as those who struggle to find a place in our culture and community.
The invitation to celebrations that went out through various networks included this amazing image that says much about my work and ethic. A few years ago I created “ Bananaman”, a promotional character for our fledgling social enterprise in South Brisbane. That enterprise now includes Hope Street Café.
The celebrations of farewell were led by people I have supported, work colleagues, and members of the local West End Community. As well as the obligatory speeches the ritual included a time of memories, cards and signing of the Banana suit. I am grateful to those who spoke, took pics and gathered for this rite of passage in my 65th year.
Nothing is quite as humbling as listening to other people speak of their memories of you. Work in the community sector can be demanding and challenging as much as rewarding. It is a diverse workforce that brings together people who can organise, strategize, plan, create, report, write grants, lobby, budget, debrief, unpack, defuse, drive, intervene, document, and make a decent coffee.
The comments in memories and written on cards and the banana suit reminded me that I bring a sense of joy and humour to my work and life. It probably isn’t one of the seven habits of highly effective people. It has been my strength and takes me back to a childhood memory. I was a at a footy match with a school friend when I over heard one of the parents say: “that Tony Robertson is a cheeky lad but you can’t help liking him”.
Bananaman has made his curtain call. The work of social change and advocacy includes wild humour, a good dose of eccentricity and a costume from eBay. The costume may be retired but the eccentricity and wild humour will continue in my work as a Community Jester.
