We have a position available as the Station Manager at 3CR. The Station Manager is responsible for the overall day to day management of the station, including the coordination of staff and ensuring access and equity for 3CR’s volunteer workers and affiliates. The Station Manager also acts as the Executive Officer to the 3CR Committee of Management and to Community Radio Federation. This is a permanent, full-time position (35 hours per week, nine day fortnight with an RDO). Applications close 9am Monday 5 September.
3CR's Radiothon is over for another year - did you pledge but haven't yet paid? It's not too late. You can pay online, at the station during business hours with card or cash, or post a check or money order to PO Box 1277 Collingwood VIC 3066. Honour your pledge and help keep Radical Radio on the airwaves.
Do you know the difference between entomology and etymology?
Your pleiosaurs from your pterosaurs?
Well brush up because the Lost in Science trivia night is on again for national science week! Come along to support 3CR and independent community radio.
Tickets http://lostinsciencetrivia2016.eventbrite.com.au/
The Boite World Music Cafe is hosting a fundraiser event to support The Boite's program 'Music Sans Frontieres' on 3CR. Join Serbian folk singers Prelo, Bolivian pan pipe marching band Zampoñistas, Singer/ songwriter Bruce Watson, Phoenix Choir, women’s choir Breathing Space, Zimbabwean spoken word artist Sista Zai Zanda and storyteller and songwriters, a colourful night of music, poetry and storytelling. Tickets:
Last Saturday thousands of people rallied around Australia to protest against the brutal treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids in custody. Listen in to an hour-long special produced by Monday Breakfast's Greg Rolles with speakers and community members at the rally, or check out today's Black Block to hear the call for action from WAR. Listen now.
We have a position available as the Program Coordinator at 3CR. The role of the Program Coordinator is to manage all aspects of programming at the station including special programming such as International Women’s Day, Survival Day, and May Day. The Program Coordinator reports to the Station Manager and is employed by the Committee of Management of the Community Radio Federation. This is a permanent, full-time position (35 hours per week, nine day fortnight with an RDO). Applications close 9am Monday 1 August. Check out the attached position description here. For further information please contact Marian McKeown via stationmanager@3cr.org.au or by phoning 9419 8377.
ON TOMORROW! 'Fallout' is the stunning Lawrence Johnston documentary about Neville Shute's end of the world nuclear holocaust film 'On the Beach' shot in 1959 in Melbourne. See Melbourne before the skyscrapers, see Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck gambolling on Brighton Beach, and remember the frightening feeling of Nuclear War that is still ever-present. Special film screening for Showreel Thursday 28 July at 7pm upstairs at 3CR Community Radio, 21 Smith Street Fitzroy.
Join us for a celebration of all things Queer with a night of music, art and poetry at Hares and Hyenas, 63 Johnston Street, Fitzroy, on Saturday 30 July from 7.30pm. Help raise funds for Queering the Air and celebrate Queer Artists and Radio, all welcome. Tickets are $10, $15, $20 (sliding scale, no-one will be turned away). Get your tickets online or at the door.
Each year 3CR celebrates NAIDOC Week with a series of special broadcasts and projects. 2016 marks 15 years on air for the Beyond the Bars project and each weekday you can hear from the men and women in the prison system as they takeover the airwaves and share their thoughts and aspirations. On Wednesday Breakfast we'll replay the Lisa Bellear exhibition broadcast from the Koorie Heritage Trust hosted by Viv Malo and featuring curators Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser. On Wednesday at 11am join NAIDOC Patron Robbie Thorpe for Fire First. Download the Beyond the Bars poster. Download the Beyond the Bars Media Release.
As a broadcaster Lisa Bellear was known as a regular 3CR host co-founding Not Another Koori Show and presenter of Beyond the Bars. In celebration of her years as a powerful broadcaster join us in the gallery at the Koorie Heritage Trust - home of the exhibition Close to You: The Lisa Bellear Picture Show - for a live broadcast with Viv Malo and guest curators Kim Kruger, Virginia Fraser and Destiny Deacon. A string of guests will join us for the afternoon talking all things close to Lisa. Sunday 26 June 3.30 - 5pm at the Koorie Heritage Trust, Yarra Building, Federation Square.
