The Bellingen Institute Inc.
A Voice For A Progressive & Just Australia
Upcoming Events
Film - The World According to Monsanto - Wed 25th June
Come and learn about the history and methods of Monsanto in attempts to gain ownership of seed varieties in this first Australian screening of the French documentary.
St Andrew's Uniting Church, cnr Ford and Hyde Sts
6.15pm for Chai
6.30pm Open meeting with Bellingen Local Food Network and Tim Cadman
7.00pm for film
Men and Relationships: The Real Story Wed June 18th 2008
Seminar with Alan Close. This seminar explores some of the issues raised in Alan's book 'Before You Met Me'. Questions such as: do men and women share the same idea of what makes a 'good' relationship? Is there a man's language of love which is different from women's? How much of our 'truth' is acceptable to make public.
Seminar to be held at Bellabookafe, 7pm Wednesday 18th June.
Surviving 'Care' - One day conference, Sydney, 3 October 2008
Surviving 'Care' - Towards a Meaningful Process of Healing in NSW.
This one day conference seeks to bring together a number of individuals, groups and organisations concerned with establishing a meaningful process of healing for survivors of care. Building on the 2004 Senate Inquiry report, 'The Forgotten Australians', the conference is aimed at facilitating discussion on how the New South Wales state government can respond effectively to the abuse, neglect and cruelty epxerienced by thousands of children in orphanages, children's homes and out-of-care homes over the past few decades.
2008 Bellingen Institute Seminar Series and Overground Film Club
Experiencing cruelty, embracing love: Caring for children in the contemporary era.
Facilitators: Richard Hil & Nick Rose
Thursday April 24, Bellabookafe Bellingen, 7pm - 9pm
What does it mean to care for our children in a world characterised by fear, threats and insecurity?
2007 BI Seminar Series
Is Life Like A Box Of Chocolates? 17th September 2007, Hugh Mackay, Advance Australia...Where
Bellingen Institute and the Centre for Peace and Justice, Southern Cross University
Seminar Series 2007 - Is Life Like A Box Of Chocolates? Reframing Social Values In Australia
Life may indeed be like a box of chocolates but we have to first pick them out of the box and taste them to confirm that they approximate to something called 'chocolate'. And not all people like chocolate, or have, or want, or need access to it. And as post-modernists would remind us, there are many different sorts of chocolate - multiple chocolates - and how we think and talk about chocolate(s) says much about whom we are and how we relate to ourselves and the wider world. And let's not forget: chocolate is a desired commodity in the global marketplace and many people who produce the ingredients for this confectionary are poor and heavily exploited.
THE FOLLY OF NUCLEAR INDUSTRY. THE SENSIBILITIES OF ITS ALTERNATIVES
Dr Helen Caldicott explained the medical dangers of going down the nuclear path
and Dr John Kaye offered the very real alternatives and, hence, a sustainable future to the overwhelming demands for
energy and, so, avoid the looming danger and environmental catastrophe of global warming.
As a followup
to this event copies of the Helen Caldicott/John Kaye talks are available for purchase for $10. from Brian Semple. He
filmed Saturday's talk in Bellingen and has recorded the events on CD. If you are interested or know of anyone who
might be, you can contact Brian on brian@crosstheline.com.au
Director's response - Well-being and its discontents: A satirical critique of Clive Hamilton's Affluenza
Well-being and its discontents: A satirical critique of Clive Hamilton's Affluenza was presented by Dr Richard Hil and Grant Cairncross.
Latest Publications
Dead Bodies Don’t Count: Civilian Casualties and the Forgotten Costs of the Iraq Conflic ... click here for more info
Latest Media Releases
Between Iraq and a Hard Place - Mike Otterman, Feburary 4, 2008