In 2006 3CR created a Seeds of Dissent! Calendar to celebrate 3CR's 30th birthday. The full colour, nationally distributed calendar teemed with radical dates, ideas and inspiration for social change. The calendar sold out of its 2000 copies. Since then 3CR's Promotions Sub Committee's Calendar Team has produced a yearly calendar, each with a fresh theme.

Listen to our monthly Seeds of Dissent podcast about the artists and ideas featured in the 3CR Seeds of Dissent Calendar 2010.

2010

Face Up ToThe Future! 3CR’s fifth Seeds Of Dissent Calendar looks ahead to imagine a future we want to live in, while also celebrating Australia’s radical history. We asked 12 artists who are part of Australian activist culture to contribute an artwork that reflects their idea of the future. Some artists have created images that imagine the ideal future and some have chosen to depict issues we need to address today in order to achieve it.

Australian history re-envisioned with a cheeky female bushranger, uranium mining and the need to recognise the interdependence of ecology, the tyrannical expectations of female beauty, the return of tumbling as a form of transportation (!), Indigenous people at the heart of popular culture… these are the some of the issues explored by artists such as Arlene Texta Queen, Deborah Kelly, Bindi Cole, Adam Hill, Tom O’Hern, Mitch, Jo Waite, Rayna Fahey, Tom Civil, Mickie Quick, Lachlan Conn and Paul J Kalemba.

Cross-stitched samplers, stencils, felt pen drawings, collages, cartoons, illustration, computer art… these are the media the artists use to take us into the future of the 2010 Seeds of Dissent Calendar.The 2010 Seeds of Dissent! Calendar invited 12 fabulous Australian artists to create their vision for the future.

Come to the Calendar Launch on Friday, 13 November at Readings Bookshop in Carlton at 6pm for free wine and talk!

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2009

The 2009 Seeds of Dissent calendar documented radical history through the visual mass medium of printed posters used for decades by Australia’s social agitators as a tool for social change.  Filled with inspirational images and stories of the people who asked for a better Australia, this calendar offered a fascinating insight into the people who have fought for our rights, and payed homage to their efforts. From the small collectives making photocopies to promote a rally or dance, to the artists who painstakingly lined up multiple-colour screenprints.

 2008

The 2008 Calendar exposed Twelve Australian Myths with satire and aplomb as we asked questions such as:
-Who really founded modern Australia?
-Is the Aussie BBQ really so great?
-Could it be that all Australian Muslims are terrorist suspects?
-Does Australia live up to her national Athem, "For  those who've come across the sea, we've boundless plains to share"?

 2007

The 2007 Seeds of Dissent Calendar profiled twelve campaigns that changed - and are still changing -Australia.  Celebrating Australian Activism with activist photographs from modern day and historic struggles campaigns featured in this calendar included Equal Pay for Women, the 1910 Anti-Conscription fight back, the 60's and 70's Gurindji and the Buga Up!s 1980's anti-smoking campaign.

2006

In 2006 3CR produced our very first Seeds of Dissent Calendar to celebrate 30 years of Australian activism and to mark 3CR's 30th birthday.  This first calendar honours with a rich archive of photographs Australia's rich and diverse history of revolutionaries, renegades, and just plain outraged folks who make trouble, resist colonisation, stick up for their rights and improve the lives of all.

Each 3CR’s Seeds of Dissent! calendar features:

• Radical historical dates for each day of the year from Invasion year (1788) onwards
• Issues ranging from workers and Indigenous rights to nuclear power, terrorism and international solidarity
• Days of the week in English, Italian, Greek, Vietnamese and Arabic
• Public Holidays, religious days and activist days such as Survival Day, May Day and… Speak Like A Pirate Day!

The Calendar Team:

The Seeds of Dissent! Calendar is produced yearly by 3CR's Promotions Sub Committee's Calendar Team.

This group of volunteers is coordinated by 3CR's Special Projects Coordinator with design by 3CR's freelance graphic designer Tom Civil. Calendar Team members through the years include Iain McIntyre, Bree McKilligan, Tom Civil, Elanor McInerney, Rachel Maher, Lou Smith, Craig Garrett, Mohammed El-leissey, Nicole Hurtubise and Sonya Everard with proofing by Peter Cahill.

Pictured above at the November launch at Readings in Carlton is the 2009 Calendar Team. Left to right are Bree, Tom, Rachel and Elanor with Iain stretched out in front.

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