Subbed In's fundraising efforts for climate action and recovery: January 2020
We’re currently running three fundraising efforts to contribute to bushfire relief and recovery work as well as First Nations justice and climate action. Help us raise funds for FIRE (Fighting In Resistance Equally), the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities, and the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS).
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When: Wednesday 15 January, 7-9pm
Where: Freda’s, 107-109 Regent Street, Chippendale NSW 2008
Entry: Free
This event is a fundraiser to support FIRE (Fighting in Resistance Equally) in their fight for First Nations justice and climate action. Entry to the event is free. We’ll be collecting donations on the night as well as donating $10 from every book sold on the night.
Join us for readings and performances by:
Alison Whittaker
Issy Phillips
Kenji Khozoei
Alex Gallagher
Claire Cao
Marcus Whale
Jonno Revanche
Sniz Rite
Dan Hogan
Jason Gray
Cash and card accepted for both purchases and donations to FIRE.
About FIRE:
United against all forms of oppression and exploitation, socially, culturally and environmentally, FIRE continues to tirelessly fight for First Nations justice and climate action. Since January 2019, FIRE has been delivering water and installing water filters to drought stricken communities in north-west NSW covering Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaray and Barkindji countries around the Barka (Darling River). Access to water continues to be an issue as the climate crisis deteriorates and governments continue to prop up colonial-capital agribusiness projects to the detriment of community and Country.
For full details and to read more about the artists performing head over to our events page >
To support FIRE & their efforts further, donations can be made to:
Bendigo Bank
FIRE
BSB : 633 000
Acct : 166 790 485
Put "water gift" in the description
Over on Twitter, we're offering a book pack containing our entire current catalogue (10 books) and a t-shirt for the #AuthorsForFireys auction to raise money for the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities. Auction ends Saturday 11 January, 11pm (AEST). Head over to Twitter to participate. (NB: Initially the auction only allowed for donations to CFA but have since been updated to include bushfire relief efforts outside the CFA in order to maximise resources.)
The aim of the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities is to offer a culturally sensitive, specific direct support to some of those communities with critical costs.
Auction ends this Saturday 11 January, 11pm (AEST). Head over to Twitter to participate >
See the Authors For Fireys website for full details.
Each month throughout 2020, a different Subbed In author is choosing an organisation or cause to support with donations from sales of their book.
For the entire month of January 2020, $14 from each purchase of blur by the by Cham Zhi Yi will be donated to the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) to assist at the frontline of the climate crisis and assist with bushfire recovery efforts. The NSW RFS is largely staffed by volunteers and volunteer retirees. Years of austerity measures installed and continued by the conservative Australian government have stretched the resources of the NSW RFS.
blur by the is a collection of fractures that make not quite a whole. It is a giving of permission to the self, to exist as messily as ( i s ). These poems are a record of navigation through longing and dis [ place ] ment of the body and of place, a shattering of expectation(s) of the self and of family, often through dreams, food and eroticism. blur by the is a yearning for freedom from grief, memory, and—ultimately—from definition.
The form through which the poems take in blur by the is dancing-in-your-bedroom free, un-velcro-ed false bravado free. The poems eat a lot and hope to feed you too.
Zhi is a Malaysian woman currently based on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country which now exists as the esoteric wormhole known as Canberra. She is a believer of deep joy mediocrity and aspires to full time tenderness. She is best digitised on instagram @chamzhiyi.