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2019 projects and activities

Feb
14
to Dec 1

Moreland Food Leadership Action Group

Jen Rae is on the Moreland Food Leadership Action Group (FLAG) in 2022. The mobilisation of FLAG is one of the recommendations of the Moreland Community Food Hub Feasibility study which Council adopted in May 2021, conducted by the Open Food Network + Fair Share Fare.

The FLAG will provide a platform to drive food system change and support a Collective Impact approach to increasing food security in Moreland.

FLAG members will be working with dedicated and passionate people to provide socially and culturally inclusive support for people experiencing food insecurity. You will contribute to community-led decision making to establish a Community Food Hub model and Collective Impact Measurement Framework that responds to the Moreland context.

Benefits of the structured collaboration supported by the FLAG include:

  • Decisions / actions based on a deeper understanding of the needs across our diverse community

  • Shared / more efficient use of resources and less double up of food security effort

  • Strengthened food security network

  • Reduced data collection / reporting burden on individual stakeholders AND

  • More comprehensive and consistent evidence of the benefit of Community Food Hub activities, attracting greater support and funding

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Aug
18
12:30 PM12:30

Aboriginal Food Systems, Melbourne Conversations

Jen Rae is M/C’ing this important discussion on Aboriginal Food Systems with Joshua Gilbert and Tracy Hardy with provocation by Bruce Pascoe. Online. REGISTER HERE

The impact of climate change on food supplies is being felt the world over.

​Growing food insecurity is leading food growers and communities to rethink unsustainable agricultural systems.

This conversation will explore how past and present Aboriginal food and agriculture practices might enable access to healthy and culturally appropriate food. Underpinned by principles of self-determination, our panel will ask how we can enable Aboriginal ideas and Aboriginal people to influence food system transformation.

Presented with the Sandro Demaio Foundation.

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Nov
13
3:00 PM15:00

Communicating Food for Sustainability - mini-conference

Hyperlocal food sourcing: trendy or necessary? - Interactive Workshop

Live workshop: November 13 at 04:00 UTC - Check your local time
Panel Chair: Franzisca Weder

Introduction - “live” from community garden/food hub

  • Franzisca Weder

  • Jen Rae

Initiatives, communication and engagement strategies from a practitioners perspective

Introduction of projects, workshop and training concepts in international cultural and regional settings:

Food hubs

  • Jen Rae, Melbourne (Australia): (Hyper)local food hub, Melbourne

  • F.-Th Gottwald, Munich (Germany): Local food hub, Munich 

Sparking food related conversations in a digitalized world

  • Amanda Katili Niode, Jakarta (Indonesia): Climate smart eating, regional challenges

  • Ana C. Nepote, Morelia (Mexico): New ways to communicate about food sourcing  in a digital world 

Pedagogical approaches

  • Sheryl Cunningham, Alex Klug, Springfield, Ohio (USA): Engaging multiple audiences

  • Jennifer Good, Constance Gordon, Kathleen P. Hunt, Dara M. Wald, Maggie Siebert, Toronto et al (CAN/USA): Teaching through food 

  • Discussion

    Includes live question and answer session with people in the community & online.

    • Hyperlocality as part of “trendy sustainability”?

    • Why hyperlocal in Covid-times?

    • What and where do we talk about a Covid-19 related disruption (supply chains? panic buying? What about the retailers?)

    • What about “food security”?

    • Why are people more “sustainable” in Covid-/Post-Covid-times? Are they?

    • What are “hyperlocal communication strategies”?

    • How much is/can this be translated into an online world? (adaption strategies?)

    • What skills are needed in local food hubs?

    • Is there something like “public pedagogy” or: What skills can be learned in local food systems/community projects etc.?

    • What are strategies to engage with local councils/governments?

    • What about “investment” strategies (what kind of investment are we talking about)?

    • What about community, cohesion and inclusion – is COVID-19 bringing “values” back?

    • What about social inclusion and gender issues when we talk about sustainability, food & food supply?

    • How can academic works be translated into the hyperlocal communities?

    The workshop will be recorded and available to delegates.

Followed by:

Advocating for Sustainable Food - Research Panel

Live question and answer session: November 13 at 19:00 UTC - Check your local time
Recorded presentations will be available ahead of time - see note below
Presentations abstracts
Panel Chair: Samantha Senda-Cook

Awareness of the Need for Transformational Change in Local Food System Participants in Providence, Rhode Island

  • Anna Palliser, Southern Institute of Technology and Wales University

Human-Like Animals? – The Effects of the Animal Rights Organizations’ Approach to Communicate for Reducing Animal-Based Nutrition

  • Tanja Habermeyer, University of Augsburg

  • Rebecca Hellmeier, University of Augsburg

Positioning Community Radio as a Catalyst for Food Sustainability in Kenya: A Review of Milestones and Challenges of the UNESCO Chair on Community Radio for Agricultural Education – Rongo University

  • Enock Mac’Ouma, Rongo University

Overmoralization of (m)eating behavior?

  • Stella Lemke, University of Lübeck

  • Thomas Fenzl, FH Munich

  • Franzisca Weder, University of Queensland

  • Denise Voci, University of Klagenfurt

Presentations will be uploaded approximately one week ahead of time so delegates can watch them at their convenience. Then, at the time listed above there will be a live question and answer session with the presenters. That session will also be recorded and available to delegates. In addition, there will be a chat stream so delegates can engage with the panelists asynchronously.

Platform

The conference will take place on the Pheedloop platform and will also use Zoom. Registered delegates will receive detailed instructions prior to the conference.

Registration

IECA Members: free, but please do not register unless you are certain you will attend. We have to pay a platform fee for each registration and don't want to waste funds.
New memberships will be available after November 1, 2020 here.

Non-Members: $25

Non-members living in low to upper middle income economies: $12

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Registration fees are non-refundable.


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RAISING THE BAR: Who needs artists in a climate crisis?
Nov
13
8:00 PM20:00

RAISING THE BAR: Who needs artists in a climate crisis?

According to Margaret Atwood, we’re no longer talking about climate change; we are facing ‘everything change’. There are infinite adjustments to make - so what's the importance of artists in these transitions? Jen Rae has been practicing at the intersection of arts and climate emergency for the past 10 years. Join her as she shares what she's learned from practicing across cultures and disciplines to find the place of artists in the climate catastrophe.

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Creative Disasters: What roles for artists in the coming disaster? (PANEL)
Oct
31
7:30 PM19:30

Creative Disasters: What roles for artists in the coming disaster? (PANEL)

  • Institute for Postcolonial Studies (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

PANEL with Michael Fikaris, Gemma Sou, Kate Sulan and Jen Rae

The number of “natural” disasters are increasing globally. Yet, disaster research is often trapped in a reductive paradigm couched in paternalistic and technocratic language of “solutions”, which are complicit with exclusionary approaches that re-entrench the very processes that exacerbate pre-disaster vulnerability. In addition, much of this research as well as mainstream media continue rely on colonial narratives that infantilize, dehumanize, and strip disaster-affected people of their identities.

The panel asks how can different creative practises and mediums offer epistemological alternatives to the dominant rhetorics through which disasters are framed, providing new vocabularies and imaginations for talking about the relationship between catastrophic events, histories, and processes of recovery. How might the arts help us to access alternative perspectives and human-centred understandings of disasters, which might provide spaces for disaster-affected people to exercise their political agency and voice to construct counter narratives to dominant discourses? The speakers will draw on their experience working with video games, graphic illustration, theatre, drawings and animation.

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Portage: Raft, Flotilla, Shelter, Camp (REFUGE: Displacement)
Jul
1
to Sep 6

Portage: Raft, Flotilla, Shelter, Camp (REFUGE: Displacement)

Portage is a 2-year scaffolded, multi-platform creative work consisting of workshops, walks, community co-creation, performance and installations in collaboration with Giant Grass commencing in May 2019 through to September 2020. More details to come. Supported by Australia Council, Arts House, Melbourne Museum, North Melbourne Language and Learning, Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre, Kensington Neighbourhood House and The Venny.

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