Local Communities

A Legendary Lunch on 25 October

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!

3CR Listening Week: 15 - 21 September

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.

3CR T-Shirt Design Competition

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.

Beyond the Bars 2014

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.

Burning Vinyl Benefit Party!

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).

Yarra Elders Precious Memories

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.

Aunty Georgina Williams
Sunday
June
There are many significant and important elders in the community whose stories are yet to be heard. Yarra Elders Precious Memories documents a portion of these important stories.
Gardening Radiothon 2014

Dig Deep on Sunday 22 June and support 3CR's Gardening Show Annual Radiothon. We’ve got over $13,000 dollars worth of tools, books, seeds, nursery vouchers and subscriptions to reward your donation. So tune in, dig deep and clean up on Sunday 22 June between 7:30 and 10am, then join us at the station after to pick up your prizes, have a cuppa and say G’day. 3CR – Where Resistance is Fertile!

CRAM 2014

The 3CR CRAM Guide is the station's annual magazine free to subscribers. This year the 2014 CRAM joins the resistance! The guide focuses on how 3CR has been the voice of community activism and place of resistance since our inception. Plus we celebrate our proud history of union affiliation, Indigenous solidarity and our role in supporting and growing community campaigns both locally and overseas.

Doug Jordan

Doug Jordan, who co-presented City Limits on Wednesday mornings for 14 years, died on 19th May 2014. He was 63. Doug had been a community activist for many years, a member of many left groups and a confirmed unionist.

A memorial service will be held on June 14 at 2pm at the ETU Office, 200 Arden St, North Melbourne.