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Palm Sunday peace rallies
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Public lecture, Bestiary Images and the Psalter
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Exhibition 'YINALUNG YENU: WOMEN'S JOURNEY'
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Dance Together For Peace
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Sydney's Christian Brothers Sunday afternoon tour
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International speaker
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Mass for Religious - Brisbane
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Men's Health Forum
Palm Sunday peace rallies include:
SYDNEY: 1pm at Belmore Park, organised by Sydney Peace & Justice Coalition & Stop The War Coalition;
admin@search.org.au.
(source: ACSJC)
Public lecture
A public lecture, Bestiary Images and the Psalter, will be presented in Melbourne on Wednesday, March 19.
Hosted by the Allan and Maria Myers Academic Centre, the lecture will be presented by Dr Christopher de Hamel FSA, a world expert on medieval illuminated manuscripts. For many years he was responsible for the manuscript sales at Sotheby's and he is the first Donnelley Fellow Librarian at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is in Melbourne for the exhibition The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand, at the State Library of Victoria, March 28-June 15.
In the lecture, Dr de Hamel will speak on the ways in which animals from the Book of Beasts were used in the Psalters, the popular prayer book of the Middle Ages.
The lecture will be held at The Oratory, Newman College, University of Melbourne, from 5-6pm.
Following the lecture, an exhibition, Cambridge Collected: the Pierre Gorman Story,will be opened by David McKitterick, Fellow and Librarian, Trinity College, Cambridge, 6.15pm for 6.30pm in the Leigh Scott Room, 1st floor Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne. The final edition of Pierre Gorman's Catalogue of Books on Cambridge: the university, the town and the county, arranged alphabetically by author, otherwise by title, sponsored by the Friends of the Baillieu Library, will be launched during the exhibition opening. The exhibition, in the Leigh Scott Gallery, runs until May 30.
Women's Journey
The exhibition 'YINALUNG YENU: WOMEN'S JOURNEY' will open at the Powerhouse Museum , Sydney, on March 21. It will highlight Indigenous women's contribution to the Australian community by taking visitors on a journey into the sometimes unknown and often unexplained world of Indigenous Australian women.
It will feature, too, the stories of six prominent Indigenous Australian women: Dr Marlene Kong and Dr Marilyn Clarke; Bronwyn Bancroft; Professor Larissa Behrendt; and respected elders Aunty Beryl Carmichael and Aunty Sue Blacklock.
Admission: $10 adult, $5 child, $6 concession and $25 family. Powerhouse Museum members and children under four admitted free. 10am to 5pm. Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, Sydney. Telephone: (02) 9217 0111 or (02) 9217 0444 or visit
www.powerhousemuseum.com
Dance Together For Peace
For young people like Sophea, dancing is an expression of identity and hope. In her home village in Cambodia, it's being used as an important way of giving young people a sense of who they are, and pointing the way to future possibilities beyond the war and poverty they have grown up with.
Dancing gives me life", the 18-year-old says. "It makes me proud, because it allows me to show our beautiful culture to others. It is an important way to show who we are and the different aspects of our Cambodian personality." Sophea is one of a troupe of Cambodian dancers aged 16 to 18, accompanied by singers, musicians, dance teachers, chaperones and instructors, who will tour Australia from March 26 to April 11
According to one of the group's strongest supporters, Battambang Diocese Bishop Kike Figaredo SJ, faith is central to the identity of the whole group. The encounter between young Australians and Cambodians will be an opportunity for exchange, similar to what will happen across Australia ahead of World Youth Day.
"What we are bringing to Australia is not a dance group of young people, but a group of young Catholic people who share their lives and faith through their dance. This is what we hope this trip will accomplish, an opportunity of encounter between our young people and young Australians-to share our daily lives, experiences and dreams as well as to discover each other's way of living our faith."
Jesuit Mission is sponsoring the dance tour, Dance Together For Peace. Proceeds from the tour will go towards Jesuit Mission projects in Sophea's village. A much more detailed report can be found in Province Express.
The tour details are:
Sydney - March 27 at St Ignatius Riverview; March 28, at St Aloysius Milson's Point
Brisbane - April 1 at Stuartholme Girls College; April 2 at St Rita's College
Adelaide - April 4 at St Mary's College
Sevenhill, SA - April 5 at St Michael's Church Hall
Melbourne - April 8 at St Ignatius Parish Hall, Richmond; April 9 at Xavier College
Tickets to these performances may be purchased from the Jesuit Mission Office in Sydney: Tas Rafeeq on (02) 9955 8585, or email
tas.rafeeq@jesuitmission.org.au
Sydney's Christian Brothers Sunday afternoon tour
Interested people are invited to join Sydney's Christian Brothers on an afternoon tour to commemorate the work of Br Chanel Powell CFC (1932-2006) and the history of the Christian Brothers in Sydney. The tour - to experience today the journey of yesterday - will be guided by Br Athanasius McGlade CFC and Margherita McCaughey of the Edmund Rice Network NSW-ACT, on Sunday, March 30.
After gathering at St Patrick's Community, Strathfield, the tour party will journey to St Brigid's Church, Millers Point, St Benedict's Church, Broadway, the Christian Brothers Province Office, Balmain, St Joseph's Church, Rozelle and St Thomas Becket's Church, Lewisham, before stopping for afternoon tea at Treacy Villa Community, at Strathfield. Prayer and farewell will take place at 5pm. The cost of $30 includes afternoon tea and a copy of the book, Christian Brothers in Sydney.
International speaker
American Franciscan and international retreat leader and author Fr Michael Crosby OFM will speak on Heart themes in Matthew's Gospel: the understanding and forgiving heart on April 1, from 2-3.30pm. Then, from 7.30-9pm, he will address Heart themes in Matthew's Gospel: the non-violent and compassionate heart. The Rheinberger Centre, Yarralumla, ACT. Donation $5.
Mass for Religious - Brisbane
All Religious priests, sisters and brothers of the Archdiocese of Brisbane have been invited by Archbishop John Bathersby to a celebration of the Eucharist at St Stephen's Cathedral, Brisbane, on Saturday, April 5, at 9.30am. Mass will be followed by morning tea in the Francis Rush Centre.
(further information: Sr Patricia Scully, Vicar for Religious, 07 3336 9292).
Men's health forum
CLRI (NSW) Aged Care Task Force will present a Men's Health Forum and barbecue — for men, by men - on Tuesday, April 15, at Randwick, Sydney, from 10am-2pm. Dr Raymond Seidler, a highly-regarded general practitioner, will speak about men's health issues. A barbecue will follow the talk. Bookings are required by April 1; cost $25 includes morning tea and lunch.
NEW EVENTS AND UPDATES WILL BE ADDED TO THE DIARY AS INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE
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