You're invited to a special get-to-know-you day and fundraiser for Left after Breakfast on Saturday 25 October. This is a chance to meet some Living Legends over lunch! No, we don’t mean we’re the Legends. Every Listener counts at 3CR, every Listener is a Legend, and we’ll be having lunch with some well-known Legendary Listeners. Come and join us, then you get to have lunch with them too!
Come to the first Melbourne screening of this great new documentary and support 3CR Community Radio and Green Left Weekly this Friday! Radical Wollongong is the documentary tale of miners battling deadly working conditions, women fighting Australia's biggest company, activists jailed for resisting the Vietnam draft, and today's movement to stop coal seam gas.
3CR is very excited to announce that we are finalists in two 2014 CBAA award categories. Longtime programmer, Bill 'The Greek' Pappaionou has been shortlisted for Outstanding Volunteer Contribution for his dedication to the station and his outstanding work on Monday Greek. Shortlisted for Excellence in Training was our Aboriginal Women's Radio Training project that trained local Aboriginal women in radio presentation, paneling and audio editing.
For one week a year 3CR listeners and programmers dedicate time to listening to each other's programs and providing feedback. Our programmers really appreciate the feedback and it helps improve the sound of 3CR.
Are you a graphic designer, artist or even a doodler? We are looking for a new T-Shirt design made by lovers of 3CR for our next run of T-shirts! There is a $200 cash prize for the winner, so get creative and send in your design! Competition closes 30 September.
3CR would like to thank all the amazing listeners who donated to our Join The Resistance 2014 Radiothon. We have received a huge number of pledges so thanks for all the Radiothon love! We haven't quite met our target, but we've been blown away by the support for 3CR and are glad we can be your voice of dissent for another year. If you haven't donated yet you still can - just click here or give give us a call on 9419 8377. Thanks again!
Done By Law, the Federation of Community Legal Centres’ radio show, will be hosting a Trivia Night to help 3CR meet its Radiothon target and pay the bills. This trivia night has it all: dancing, limbo, BYO drinks, food by Gumbo Kitchen and obviously TRIVIA! Show off your Encyclopaedic knowledge of everything from nerdy to sporty, family law to mergers and acquisitions, and from Paris to Paris Hilton! Tickets are only $20 per p
“Why is there a revolving door when it comes to indigenous community and incarceration? What sort of justice is it when our people’s parole conditions are so stringent that they are constantly landing back in prison? To hear the answers to those questions, you need to tune in to Beyond the Bars.” Kutcha Edwards.
3CR's Burning Vinyl is having one last Radiothon Benefit Party for 2014 with these excellent bands: Dead River, Matt Bailey & Band, Ninetynine, and Slow Motion Pictures (featuring Sianna Lee).
There are many significant and important elders in the community whose stories are yet to be heard. 3CR's latest project,Yarra Elders Precious Memories, documents a portion of these important stories. Listen in over the coming weeks to Gilla McGuinness' show Precious Memories on Wednesdays 12-2pm as we broadcast these recordings, or go to Yarra Elders to listen online.
