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World Environment Day - Photo Challenge
We’re all a little too busy to start a new environmental project for World Environment Day 2012, this Tuesday June 5, but we would still like to show our support for such a significant global event.
The ‘Green Economy’ is the focal point for this year’s World Environment Day.
What is a green economy?
“UNEP defines a green economy as one that results in “improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities” (UNEP 2010). In its simplest expression, a green economy is low-carbon, resource efficient, and socially inclusive. In a green economy, growth in income and employment are driven by public and private investments that reduce carbon emissions and pollution, enhance energy and resource efficiency, and prevent the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services” (UNEP, 2012).
The Photo Challenge
Photo Challenge: Vase Jar. Drink Jar. Reuse Jars.
We are encouraging everyone to share the ways you are already green focused. To participate in our activity for World Environment Day 2012, simply follow these three easy steps:
1. Take a photo of your green activity
2. Upload on Facebook
3. Tag The Rising Project
By sharing ways in which you are acting sustainably, perhaps you may inspire change in others. So from now until Tuesday, get your cameras snapping and let’s show the world how important green economies are for all of us.
We’re bringing out the “greenie” in you!
The Rising Project (Green) Team
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Five Day Challenge: Vase Jar. Drink Jar. Reuse Jars. (Taken with instagram)
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Friday’s Hat: Mental health issues cloud your vision. It’s time to lift the hat on mental health issues. (Taken with instagram)
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Don’t hang up your hat. Support is available. (Taken with instagram)
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Wednesday’s hat: Don’t hide away from mental illness. (Taken with instagram)
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Australian Rotary Health - Hat Day
Australian Rotary Health is amongst the biggest non government funders of Mental Health Research in Australia.
According to Australian Rotary Health, more than four million people are affected by mental illness such as depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, anxiety and bipolar disorder at some point during their lives.
“The concept of the Australian Rotary Health was to raise a minimum of $2 million through Rotary Clubs throughout Australia, to invest these funds and use the interest earned to fund research into all aspects of community health” (Australian Rotary Health, 2012).
Since January 1, 2000, Australian Rotary Health has been committed to a five year plan to assist in raising community awareness of mental illness. As part of the National Community Forum Project, Australian Rotary Health has developed a fun raising and awareness day called ‘Hat Day’.
The Rising Project Inc. and Rotary Club of Ipswich North have been busy in recent weeks preparing to host our own Mad Hatters ‘Hat Day’ community event to increase awareness and raise some serious funds for mental health research in Ipswich.
Mental health shouldn’t be kept in the dark, or under your hat. Join us and be involved in this great event to raise awareness and funds for mental health research.
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Australian Rotary Health, Hat Day Commercial 2012
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Monday’s Hat. Don’t keep mental health issues under your hat. (Taken with instagram)
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Congratulations to Jessica King, who is our 150th ‘Liker’!
We owe you a coffee, or a cake, or a balloon. Either way we will get you a nice little something to celebrate this wonderful number.
Special thanks to all 150 of you who have clicked your support. You make us strive harder to build our little organisation into a GREAT organization!
From team at The Rising Project x
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Shoot! The Piano Player
Today marks less than two week until we kick off our afternoon event at the Croquet Club. While we’re busy behind the scenes, we thought that you might like to know a little bit more about one of the bands who will be playing. So today, just in time for some lazy Monday night reading, we have some words to share from the band.
They are Shoot! The Piano Player and this is what you can expect to see on Sunday, 20th May at the Mad Hatters Hat Day.
Analyst and patient perform cold war cabaret rock armed only with piano, drums and kitchen sink propaganda……. Shoot! The Piano Player’s lyrical repertoire skips jauntily through issues of psychological desolation and isolation, murder, warfare, self-identity glitches, intimate unspoken meltdowns and other lighthearted themes. You won’t find this stuff on the back of your cereal box, and you certainly won’t find it on reality TV - more’s the pity. Shoot! forges a brand of vivid vocal theatre that is thoroughly their own. Tight keyboards and drums frog-march you ever so gently through a playground of childhood reminiscence and adult conscience, while Eva Fritz’s sweet and lilting vocals assure that you’ll probably make it to the other side in one piece. Their pop- surreal musical stylings are not designed to put you at ease or to celebrate the homogeny of human experience. Been jilted and need sympathy and solidarity? Maybe you’ve found the Yin to your Yang and want validating power-chord anthems. Either way, I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong place. Shoot! The Piano Player’s capricious melodies are sometimes deceptively simple, often unsettling and always entertaining.
SHOOT! THE PIANO PLAYER is:
Eva Fritz (vocals & keyboard)
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Christian Paul Sargeant (drums & noises)Debut Vinyl / MP3 release due late-2012 on Sun & Air
“Tester” 3-track CD sampler available at shows, The Swich Contemporary Art Space & Cultiver, Top Of Town, Ipswich
From The Rising Project team x
