Just Dates: May

30 April -6           Heart Week

1          International Workers Day

2           World Asthma Day

3           World Press Freedom Day

5           International Day of the  Midwife

6           World Labyrinth Day / / World Naked Gardening Day

6 – 14     Bike Week (Qld)

7-13     International Composting Awareness Week Australia

7           Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy  / Mothers Day

8 – 13     National Volunteer Week

10          World Lupus Day

10-16 Schizophrenia Awareness Week

14 – 20   Food Allergy Awareness Week

15            International Day of Families / Al Nabka 

17            International Day Against Homophobia /  World Telecommunication and Information  Society Day

21           World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

21-28    National Palliative Care Week

22           International Day for Biological Diversity

25-31        Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories / Spinal Health Week

26           National Sorry Day

27 – 3 June          Reconciliation Week

29           White Wreath Day / International Day of UN Peacekeepers

31    World MS Day

 Community Celebrations you might like to mark with me!!

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Easter Greeting 2017

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Welcome to the season of Easter. Yes, it runs much longer than tomorrow’s public holiday and the end of Easter specials on offer.

Thanks to joy filled Christianity there are 50 days for the greetings, the chocolate, the hot cross buns, and the ‘Alleluia” refrain that will echo with hope in worshipping communities.

As we Christians complete our Easter celebrations on June 4th we will join our sisters and brothers of Islam who will commence their holy season of Ramadam on May 27 .

Truly this is a season of new life, peace among peoples and universal hope for the future of our planet, May this time of renewal and f33cf-fullsizerenderpeace find a home in our hearts.

The tee-shirt I wore to services on Good Friday and for the Easter Vigil. Alongside the First eoples image of the cross is the sticker placed on each of us who attended the Lamentations at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Dormition of Our Lady, Mt Gravatt

The Easter spirit is captured in the burst of light across the top of the tee.

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Just Dates April

31 March – 9 April National Youth Week
14 Good Friday
16 Easter (West) Orthodox
18 World  Heritage Day
22 Earth Day
25 ANZAC Day / World Malaria Day
26 International Guide Dog Day
Local Community Events in Brisbane
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Neighbours on the Boundary

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A Photographic Exhibition to Celebrate  Neighbour Day 2017 in West End

Dates: 26th March – Late  April

Venue: Hope Street Cafe 170 Boundary Street West End

This exhibition celebrates Neighbour Day 2017 on 26th March. It features people for whom Boundary Street is a neighbourhood of life, work, relaxation, shopping , celebration, and friendships.


Boundary Street is a neighbourhood that embraces diversity. Shopfronts tell stories of the old and new cultures that have made a home here. Private homes and public space sit side by side. Street signs tell the history of a colonial presence on ancient land of the Jagera and Turrbal peoplesThis exhibition is running conjunction with an online exhibition and a Facebook Collection 

cropped-img_4898.jpgTony Robertson is a Brisbane photographer whose works in the tradition of social documentary and storytelling. His folio of images includes, political rallies, cultural celebrations and memorials for bereaved communities.

The exhibition will include a series of “Meet the Photographer Events so come back and check on dates and times!!
#neighbourday

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Just Dates March

National Epilepsy Awareness Month
1 First Day of Autumn /  Ash Wednesday /Project Compassion Appeal
3 Girls’ Day – Japan / World Wildlife Day / World Day of Prayer
5 Clean Up Australia Day
6-12 Queensland Women’s Week
8 International Women’s Day
9 World Kidney Day
11-12 Purim [Judaism]
12-18 World Glaucoma Week
13 Commonwealth Day
13-14 Holi Mahotsav [Hinduism]
13-20 Coeliac Awareness Week
15 Ides of March / World Consumer Rights Day
16 Close the Gap Day
17 St Patrick’s Day
18 Earth Hour
20 World Storytelling Day / Autumn Equinox
21 Eliminating Racial Discrimination Day / Harmony Day / International Day of Nowruz / World Forestry Day / World Poetry Day / World Social Work Day 
22 World Water Day
23 World Meteorological Day
23-29 Arthritis Awareness Week
24 World TB Day
26 Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness
27 World Theatre Day
28 Neighbour Day

Local Community Events in Brisbane

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Just Dates February

Supporting Febfast 2017

Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

1 Vasant Panchami [Hinduism]

1-7 World Interfaith Harmony Week

2 World Wetlands Day

4 World Cancer Day

6 Waitangi Day Aotearoa New Zealand

7 Safer Internet Day

12 Indigenous Freedom Ride Anniversary 1965

13 Stolen Generations Apology 2008 / World Radio Day

13-19 Australia’s Healthy Weight Week

14 National Condom Day

16 Chinese New Year [2018] [Year of the Rooster]

18 International Asperger’s Day

20 World Day of Social Justice / World Harmony Day

21  International Mother Language Day

27-3 March  Social Media Week

Local Events in and Around Brisbane

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