The Shocking Film Night! Disability Culture is out of the box… #Melbourne #geekgirl

August 26 · 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Location Ground floor, Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane Melbourne
Australia
 
Wesabi presents two films to provoke the historical/hysterical version of people with a disability:
Disability Culture Rap: http://is.gd/e9tze
Braindamadj’d: http://braind.apartment11.tv/

Also a fabulous raffle of original artwork by Wesabi’s award-winning artists.
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Gold coin donation. Food and drink available at small cost.

For more info or to RSVP, email wesabi.group@gmail.com or phone (03) 9639-6856

This is a fundraising and hair-raising event for Wesabi, a self-advocacy and peer support group for people with an Acquired Brain Injury. Brain Injury Awareness Week is Aug 16-22, 2010.

Buckminster Fuller – a short intro.

Buckminster Fuller
Fuller published more than 30 books, inventing and popularizing terms such as “Spaceship Earth”, ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their resemblance to geodesic spheres. Fuller developed many ideas, designs and inventions, particularly regarding practical, inexpensive shelter and transportation. He documented his life, philosophy and ideas scrupulously by a daily diary (later called the Dymaxion Chronofile), and by twenty-eight publications. Fuller financed some of his experiments with inherited funds, sometimes augmented by funds invested by his collaborators, one example being the Dymaxion car project.

17th World of Women Festival looking for submissions #wift #geekgirl #australia #film

iida 2010 green heart – Call for #design proposals #geekgirl

Submission Deadline 25 August 2010 :: Cash prize of 43,000USD

iida 2010 calls out for fresh and new design proposals to be made by designers with green hearts. Designers with a passion for preserving the environment are asked to suggest a future where humans and nature can coexist. as such, we welcome the participation of competent world designers in iida 2010, with the goal of generating new possibilities for sustainability through design.

http://www.designboom.com/iida_2010.html

National Science Week & The Institute of Backyard Studies present ‘Henry Hoke’s Guide to the Misguided’

National Science Week & The Institute of Backyard Studies present ‘Henry Hoke’s Guide to the Misguided’
10 -12 August 2010, 8.30am – 5.00pm :: Eyre Peninsula Field Days, Cleve

Throughout much of the 20th Century, in an isolated workshop on a dusty windswept plain, Henry Hoke labored mightily to conceive a string of dazzling inventions that, to this day, still defy the imagination.

Hoke inventions including Demagnifying Glass, Waterproof Tap, Wooden Magnet, Long Weight, and Dehydrated Water Pills had pretty much vanished from the public gaze before being rescued as a result of the Institute’s intervention. Take this rare opportunity to view some very special tools and inventions from this unsung Australian.

http://anat.org.au/news_items/308

Also worth checking out is the Institute of Backyard Studies – Home of Shed culture.

Jay Rosen in #Melbourne, 3pm, August 17 #journalists #pressthink #geekgirl

Jay Rosen teaches journalism at New York University and is a former chair of the department. In 1999, Yale University Press published his book, What Are Journalists FOR? which is about the rise of the civic journalism movement in the 1990s. He is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals, which he introduced in September 2003. In July 2006, Rosen announced the debut NewAssignment.Net, his experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. In 2007-08 he was the co-publisher, with Arianna Huffington, of OfftheBus.Net, collaborating NewAssignment.Net and the Huffington Post. In 2009 he founded the Studio 20 program at NYU, which is focused on innovation. He lives in Manhattan. He blogs at http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/. Follow Jay on Twitter @jayrosen_nyu.

Jay Rosen is also guest speaker at the What’s the Story? Walkley Media Conference 2010

Jay Rosen will deliver lectures to journalists and students in Sydney and Melbourne. Rosen will speak at the ABC in Sydney at 10am, August 16. He’ll be at Australia Post in Melbourne at 3pm, August 17. For more info or to register email events@walkleys.com.