Traditional Persian Calligraphy Workshop

Part of the Our Global Village Celebrations.

Sunday, August 5th 2018

10:00Am-1:00pm

West Launceston School

24-38 Basin Rd,West Launceston TAS 7250(map)

Target audience: Open to general public

Event Type: Traditional Calligraphy Workshop

Event Description:

Persian calligraphy is one of the most famous traditional arts in Iran that is common in letters with Arabic, Urdu, some parts of India, Turkey, Tajikestan, and Afganistan…. but the style of writing is a bit different.

Iranian calligrapher performs their art works with two style of writing (Nastaliq and Cursive Nastaliq).

They are usually written in the form of short line of a famous poem or phrase. Calligraphy has an old historical background.

Calligraphy in the Middle East has always had architectural applications; as a sacred art to write holy words of Qur'an and other religious quotes and as a decoration to make architectural monuments such as mosques and shrines look more and more beautiful.

• To get community to look at one of the traditional style of writing in the world

• Compare different scripts of languages

• Community engagement to learn how to write the simple word or their name with traditional calligraphy tools: "Bamboo Pen", and "Traditional ink" over special paper.

• Promote social cohesion and creative new experience for the whole family

• Able to take home everything that has been written for them in a new language to put in a frame!

Venue: Music Hall, West Launceston School, 24-38 Basin Rd, West Launceston TAS 7250

Contact: Mehrangiz Modarres Tabatabaei

mehrangiz.modarrestabatabaei@utas.edu.au

Start Date: 5/8/2018 10:00am-1:00pm

WheelChair access: Yes

Do people need to book for this event? No

Group: Afghan Women's Friendship Group

https://wfgtas.wordpress.com/about/

Mandala Group Collage

Target audience : Open to the public. Mandala Group Collage is open to the general public of all ages, and there is wheelchair accessibility. Participants will be invited to join in the process of working as a small group to develop a joint collage using paper plates and CDs as our base. Small groups and families are welcome to attend, if you’re attending as an individual or pair please be open to the experience of meeting some new people. All material provided.

Event Type: The purpose of the event is to bring people together through creating a project together. It’s very much about the process and the interactions throughout the process and it’s a nice tool for existing groups or for individuals wanting to try the benefits of creating mandala’s and art.

Event  Description: Everyone is invited to make a mandala using the art materials supplied. The base for the mandala is a paper plate or CD and when each piece is completed it will be add to create a group mandala. All ages are welcome and catered for and no previous level of skill or creativity is required.

Venue: West Launceston Primary School - Kinder building, look for signs.

Contact: Sarah Poulton  : soulexpressionsmp@yahoo.com

Date: 5/8/2018  Time: 10:0:0 AM - 1:0:0 PM

Wheelchair access: yes.

Entry/Participation Cost: $0

Other Information/Questions: Donations will be happily accepted for art supplies provided.

Cook and enjoy an Afghan Feast

Target audience : open for all people interested to learn how to cook Afghan food

Event Type: Participants will learn how to cook an Afghan feast and have a shared meal following the workshop

Event Description: A delicious 3 course Afghan meal will be prepared in the Kitchen Classroom at West Launceston Primary School. The workshop will be limited to 8 people. Participants will sit with Afghan tutors and enjoy sharing the delicious meal together.

Venue: West Launceston Primary School 24-38 Basin Rd West Launceston Kitchen classroom

Contact: Joanne Dean   gentlefpjo@gmail.com

Event/Project Image: I have emailed an image.

Date: 5/8/2018    Time: 9:0:0 AM - 1:30:0 PM

Opening hours of your venue: 8am to 5pm

Wheelchair access: unfortunately no

Do people need to book for this event? : yes

Entry/Participation Cost: $15

Insurance: Northern Refugee Support through the City Baptist Church

Other Information/Questions: Participation cost of $15 is to cover the cost of ingredients

Group /Organisation: Women's Friendship Group

Website: http://wfgtas.wordpress.com/about/

Afghan Embroidery Workshop

Target audience : open event

Participants, with an interest in learning embroidery techniques, can come and work beside Afghan women to learn the beautiful art of embroidery.

Event Type: Through the process of creating beautiful artwork together people experience peace. The sewing circle will be supported by an interpreter to encourage conversation and clarification of the intricacies of Afghan embroidery.

Event Description: Over the centuries, many ethnic and regional groups have developed their own form of Traditional embroidery in Afghanistan. It involves a combination of a range of materials, stitches, colours and designs. The main ethnic, regional and urban groups have their own embroidery styles. We are fortunate in Launceston to have many talented women sharing the Hazara style of embroidery. 

Different types of silk, cotton and wool yarns are used for embroidery on a range of different fabrics Metallic threads, spangles, sequins, mirrors (shisha) and metallic braids are also often incorporated into the designs. Beads and mirrors are also used. 

Participants will have the opportunity to try a range of stitches and techniques and will be able to take a piece home with them.

Venue: West Launceston Primary School 24-38 Basin Rd West Launceston Multipurpose Hall

Contact: Joanne Dean gentlefpjo@gmail.com

Date: 5/8/2018 9:0:0 AM - 12:0:0 PM

Opening hours of your venue: 8 am to 5 pm

Wheelchair access: yes

Do people need to book for this event? : no

Entry/Participation Cost: $0

Other Information/Questions: All materials will be provided, participants can bring their own scissors to ensure we have enough

Maryam Soltani (pictured) will be leading the workshop

Group /Organisation: Women's Friendship Group
Website: http://wfgtas.wordpress.com/about/

 Building a portable garden box of recycled timber

Target audience : open

Participants will have the opportunity to build their own garden box

Event Type: People will be able to make their own portable garden box to grow their own food at home. Food security brings Peace and the added joy of planting and tending a garden for the person growing the garden.

Event Description: A hands-on practical activity where participants can build their own garden box. It is simple to do and fun to make.

Venue: West Launceston Primary School 24-38 Basin Rd West Launceston School Garden

 Contact: Jack Dean    gentlefpjo@gmail.com

Date: 4/8//2018   1:30:0 PM - 3:30:0 PM

Opening hours of your venue: 8am to 5pm

Wheelchair access: yes

Do people need to book for this event? : no

Entry/Participation Cost: $0

Group /Organisation: West Launceston Primary School
Gentle Footprints Permaculture

Website: http://westlauncestonprimary.education.tas.edu.au/

#D2KDay Caring for Ouselves with Joe Sehee - Part of Our Global Village Celebrations

Organisation: Dying to Know Day is about bringing to life conversations and community actions around death, dying and bereavement. It is the brainchild of The Groundswell Project.

Care Beyond Cure Inc provide free fortnightly access to complimentary therapies, Art Therapy and Art workshops for individuals with a diagnosed progressive life limiting illness and their family carer/s if they have one. This program also has a bereavement component. 

Care Beyond Cure Inc are also one of eight chosen sites across Australia as part of the The Groundswell Project's Compassionate Communities Forum - Click on 'Enter Site' for further information about the project vis this link https://www.comcomhub.com/

Website: http://www.facebook.com/CareBeyondCure

Target audience : This session is suitable for people currently working in this area such as family carers, support workers, nurses, doctors, social workers, chaplains or anyone who feels this session could be of value.

Event Type: Interactive Talk/Workshop via SKYPE

Event Description: Being around grief and loss, as with almost any job that connects us to human pain and suffering, exposes us to 'secondary traumatic stress.' Left unchecked this exposure can lead to debilitating conditions such as vicarious trauma, burnout and compassion fatigue. This workshop will examine the strategies and tools such as reflection, mindfulness and peer support, which can be used to mitigate the emotional/existential impacts of this work, as well as to help us be able to mediate meaning and purpose through this work.

Joe Sehee has worked in the end-of-life field for nearly 20 years. Founder and former Executive Director of the Green Burial Council in the US, Joe has more recently been working as a non-religious pastoral carer and wellbeing consultant. Joe currently serves as volunteer chaplain with the Victorian Council of Churches Emergencies Ministry as well as with Caulfield Hospital. He is also a burnout survivor.

This is a Skyped event with Joe and is part of NDAN's #D2KDay Global Village Celebrations from 9am at the same address.

Venue: West Launceston Primary School 24-38 Basin Road West Launceston, TAS, 7250 Australia

Contact: Lynne Jarvis  carebeyondcure2@gmail.com

Date: 4/8/2018  Time 1:0:0 PM  - 2:0:0 PM

Wheelchair access: Yes

Do people need to book for this event?: Yes  https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/d2kday-caring-for-ourselves-with-joe-sehee-part-of-our-global-village-celebrations-tickets-47747921318?aff=erelpanelorg

Entry/Participation Cost: $0

Other Information/Questions: http://www.thegroundswellproject.com/dyingtoknowday/






http://www.dyingtoknowday.org/ 
www.facebook.com/CareBeyondCure

https://ndan.com.au/

http://www.dyingtoknowday.org/

https://www.comcomhub.com/

Weaving A Yarn

Target audience : Open to general public

Event/Project Type: Weaving Workshop and exhibition

Event Description:

• Weaving with Yarn will be a social, fun, and creative experience for the whole family.
• Its about community skill sharing.
• We will be working with Natural fibers as well as colourful yarns.
• For beginners as well as masters.
• It's very easy to sit down, pick up and have a yarn. 
• Everything is provided, it is free and you get to take home what you make.

Venue: Music Hall, West Launceston School - 24-38 Basin Rd, West Launceston TAS 7250

Contact: Justine Kelly: justinekelly@y7mail.com

Start Date: 4/8/2018     10:0:0 AM - 1:0:0 PM

Wheelchair access: Yes

Do people need to book for this event?: no

Group: Afghan Women's Friendship Group

https://wfgtas.wordpress.com/about/

Drumming for peace

Target audience: all ages welcome

Event Type: free community drum circle

Event Description: public welcome to try djembe drumming and percussion

Venue: west Launceston primary school

Contact: Diane Hayes: Tassiedrumcircke@hotmail.com

Date: 4/8/2018   Time: 11:0:0 AM - 12:0:0 PM

Wheelchair access: yes

Do people need to book for this event? : no

Entry/Participation Cost: $0

Other Information/Questions: as part of global village celebration at west Launceston primary school

#D2KDay Gentle Care in Death Workshop with Claire Turnham - Part of Our Global Village Celebrations

Target audience: Individuals, family members, community groups, medical professionals and anyone who may be interested.

Event Type: Workshop

Event Description: Claire Turnham, founder of ‘OWL’ (‘Only with Love’) Family-Led Home Funerals, is offering a workshop for individuals, family members, community groups, medical professionals and anyone who may be interested in offering better support, at and around the time of death. Claire will:
• share her personal & professional experiences as a death carer & educator, home funeral guide and independent funeral celebrant; 
• discuss the possibilities that are available to families who wish to care for their loved ones either at home, in hospital, a hospice or nursing home.
• demonstrate how to prepare the body of a loved one naturally for burial and cremation and how to dress the body in a shroud.

Claire is the UK based Founder of Only with Love and Chair of the Home Funeral Network. She is dedicated to empowering and guiding families to tenderly take care of their own and can undertake all aspects of a home and family led funeral.

Claire is recognised internationally as a leading Home Funeral Guide, Advocate, Celebrant and Natural Death Carer & Educator. She was shortlisted for her OWL funeral services at the Good Funeral Awards in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and awarded Runner Up, Green Funeral Director of the Year 2016 and Runner Up, Best Death Related Public Engagement Event 2017.

Venue: West Launceston Primary School 24-38 Basin Road West Launceston, TAS, 7250 Australia

Event  Contact: Lynne Jarvis  carebeyondcure2@gmail.com

Date: 4/8//2018   Start Time: 10:0:0 AM   End Time: 12:15:0 PM

Wheelchair access: Yes

Do people need to book for this event? : Yes   https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/d2kday-gentle-care-in-death-workshop-with-claire-turnham-part-of-our-global-village-celebrations-tickets-47826711983?aff=erelpanelorg

Participation Cost: $70.00

Organisation: Care Beyond Cure Inc and Jumave

Website: http://www.jumave.com.au

Other Information/Questions: www.thegroundswellproject.com/dyingtoknowday/

www.onlywithlove.co.uk 

www.facebook.com/onlywithlove.co.uk 

https://ndan.com.au/

www.facebook.com/CareBeyondCure

www.facebook.com/Jumave

 Yarn Bomb an Octopus' Garden

Target audience : open event

Participants will be involved in creating an Octopus' Garden on the quadrangle fence at West Launceston Primary School. Students, parents and friends of WLPS have been busily knitting, croqueting and creating wool yarn artwork to create a marine underwater scene. We feel peace when we imagine a world where we hold respect for all living things. On Saturday Aug 4 everybody is welcome to put the pieces together as a dynamic community art project.

Event Type: Inclusive Community art project using wool yarn

Event Description: Working together towards a common creative goal is a lot of fun. Participants can expect to be involved in a welcoming, colourful, workshop to create a beautiful work of art. A marine underwater scene is being created to celebrate the amazing diversity of marine species we currently know of. We envisage the artwork will encourage informal discussion of ways we can all use less plastic to assist life in the ocean. Come and join the fun and bring your creative flair! Sharing a passion for ocean life through community art creates happy moments of peace and respect for all living things.

Venue: West Launceston Primary School 24-38 Basin Rd West Launceston Quadrangle

Contact: Joanne Dean  gentlefpjo@gmail.com and Jo Dodds
jjsdobbs@gmail.com

Date: 4/8/2018  Time: 10:0:0 AM - 2:0:0 PM

Opening hours of your venue: 8am to 5pm

Wheelchair access: yes

Do people need to book for this event? : no

Group /Organisation: An event at Our Global Village Celebration, West Launceston Primary School

Website: http://westlauncestonprimary.education.tas.edu.au/

 Building a garden bed with Eco-bricks

Target audience : open

Participants will be involved with hands-on construction of garden bed at the WLPS garden. It will involve using eco-bricks which are 2l milk containers filled with soft plastics in an effort to reduce the risk of plastics entering the ocean and impacting on marine life. The garden bed is designed to complement the kitchen garden by creating a growing space for healthy vegetables and herbs.

Event Type: In all countries across the globe we share a common link of experiencing peace in community when people are nourished with health-giving food. This workshop demonstrates a simple technique to create a garden bed, with the added benefit of respecting marine life by reducing plastic pollution.

Event Description: Building an eco-brick garden bed is simple but like all jobs in the garden "many hands make light work". Participants will each have a task to perform and assist with building the garden bed. The physical construction of the garden bed will be stage one, with completion of the garden bed occurring over the following weeks in preparation for planting in spring.

Venue: West Launceston Primary School 24-38 Basin Rd West Launceston

Contact: Joanne Dean  gentlefpjo@gmail.com

Date: 4/8//2018  Time: 1:30:0 PM - 3:30:0 PM

Opening hours of your venue: 8am to 5pm

Wheelchair access: yes

Do people need to book for this event? : no

Entry/Participation Cost: $0

Group /Organisation: Gentle Footprints Permaculture

Feeding a growing world population with sustainable practice’s and ethics - A presentation with Costa Georgiadis

Target audience : closed event for Launceston College Food and Hospitality English Humanities and Science students

Event Type: Presentation and discussion with Costa Georgiadis of Gardening Australia.

Event Description: As stated by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), investing in resilience and food security helps to fight hunger and build Peace.

This will be the theme of discussion at Launceston College with Costa Georgiadis. Costa will share his knowledge and passion for food growing and sustainability with students in a presentation followed by question and answer session.

Venue: The Launceston College Flight Deck

Contact: Madiyantika Varma madiyantika.varma@education.tas.gov.au

Date: 3/8/2018   Time: 2:0:0 PM -  3:0:0 PM

Opening hours of your venue: 8am to 4pm

Wheelchair access: yes

Do people need to book for this event? : no

Entry/Participation Cost: $0

Group /Organisation: Launceston College

Website: http://www.launc.tased.edu.au/