3CR Wins Two National Awards!

23rd November 2009
3CR is the winner of the 2009 CBAA Contribution to Indigenous Broadcasting for our Beyond the Bars 5 project as well as the 2009 CBAA Excellence in Digitial Media for our fabulous website.
The awards are great recognition of the station's innovation in online community media and its commitment to Indigenous voices on the inside and the outside. Congratulations to all the 2009 CBAA award nominees and winners.

3CR Nominated for National Broadcasting Awards

12th November 2009

3CR is in the running to win four prestigious national broadcasting awards at this year's Community Broadcasting Association of Australia awards. We have been nominated for:

Excellence in Digital Media for our amazing website!

Live Broadcast from Wangaratta Jazz Festival

19th October 2009
Jazz On A Saturday, Australian radio's longest continuously running jazz program, will again be broadcasting direct from the Wangaratta Jazz Festival on Saturday 31 October at 4pm.

Take a Tour of Eviction Resistance!

5th October 2009
Let activist and author Iain McIntyre (of 3CR's Suwa Show) take you back in time to the Great Depression. Thousands of Melbournians were thrown out of their homes and Brunswick was the site of some of Melbourne's fiercest anti-eviction battles (now the sites of some of Melbourne's fiercest real estate auctions!).

3CR's Seeds of Dissent Calendar Launch

1st October 2009
Everyone is welcome to come to the Calendar Launch on Friday, 13 November at Readings Bookshop in Carlton at 6pm for free wine and talk! Contributing artists Deborah Kelly, Rayna Fahey from Radical Cross Stitch and Tom Civil will be speaking.

Join a tour of a long history of a short river...

30th September 2009

Join a 3CR People's Tour at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Next stop is a long history of a short river - a historical walking tour along the Maribyrnong River with author and editor Jenny Lee this Sunday 4 October, 3 - 4.30pm.
Find out more at the People's Tour website.

3CR ENews - Keeping You Up To Date...

26th September 2009

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Keep up-to-date by subscribing to 3CR's monthly email newsletter.

Subscribe to 3CR ENews by writing your email address under 'Can We Talk?' (see left hand column) and receive your monthly update of 3CR news on events, program changes, new podcasts and giveaways to subscribers. The October ENews is out early next week so subscribe now!

Ready, Set, People's Tour!

17th September 2009

Have you booked your 3CR People's Tours?

Carlton Live! CD underway...

10th September 2009
Tuivanuavou Sekovi is the first musician to record his music for the upcoming Carlton Live! CD.

3CR will be scouting the Carlton Housing Estate for more musical and spoken word talent. Contact the Coordinator if you have ideas. Read on...

3CR - More Than A Radio Station

8th September 2009
Dale Bridge, from 3CR's Roominations, writes Do homeless people even own radios? in The Australian, 7 September. Read her original version and find out how a radio station can transform a person's life and why Dale is "Proud that a community like 3CR exists, proud that the vibrant, questioning and intelligent people who comprise 3CR exist".