Circle of Friends invites you to a delicious dinner with friends at Rumi Palace Restaurant.
All money raised from the dinner will go towards paying for a visa application for Aziza, a young Afghan woman who is sheltering in another country. Aziza’s father recently received his Permanent Protection Visa from the Australian Government after 10 years of waiting and working on a temporary protection visa. Unfortunately, Aziza’s father has had a severe work injury and can no longer work. He is trying desperately to bring his family to safety.
Date: Thursday, 23rd November
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: Rumi Palace Restaurant, 303 Prospect Rd Blair Athol
Cost: $60 per person Bookings: www.trybooking.com/CMSUJ
Dinner will include a Silent Auction & Raffle so please bring cash.
“If You Miss Me From Singing” featuring Hot Gospel acapella choir, Director Quentin Eyers
Come join Adelaide’s Hot Gospel Choir & super-talented friends for an afternoon of song in a beautiful Adelaide community hall. We love to sing and – happily – friends and family often ask us if we’ll perform again. You’ll also hear from some of our favourite singer friends, including captivating songstress, Hanna, and powerful indigenous singer-songwriter, Si Wilson.
Hosted by the Effective Living Centre Circle (Circle 111) raising funds to support refugee and asylum seeker educational aspirations.
A chance to taste and buy wines from Seven Hills Wines and enjoy nibbles.
There will also be a table selling second hand books, a silent auction for some great prizes and a raffle. All prizes will be distributed at the event.
When: 2-4pm 24 September 2023
Where: Mercedes College Staff Room, 540 Fullarton Rd, Springfield
Cost: $30 includes wine tasting and nibbles Book Tickets on Humanitix
Enquiries to Pauline Kenny on 0408 802 291 or via email
Date: 22 Sept come 5:15 for supper and the drawing of the raffle before the theatre organ and movie.
Venue: Capri Cinema, Goodwood
Movie: A Haunting in Venice
Tickets: $25, Includes supper and glass of wine or soft drink
Book tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/CKVFF
Circle of Friends Australia is proud to host an online sale of a selection of Mahmoud Salameh’s graphic art. All works are signed digital prints, 42cm x 30cm, mounted on recycled board interleaved with an acid-free sheet. Cost of Art – unframed $75.00. All proceeds of sales will go to the artist to assist with further work.
Salameh’s work has appeared in the Australian press and he has years of international experience working as a professional artist in Syria and Lebanon for well-known Arabic newspapers and magazines such as Al Safir and Al Adaab. He started publishing his cartoons in Beirut, Lebanon in 1997. While in Australia he has created two award-winning animations: From Trouble to Trouble and Freedom is Mine.
In an interview with Yanis Kontos from 2015 Salameh observed: I respect cartoons and they respect me too. The brevity of the cartoon goes with the difficulties of being forced from one country to another to stay alive. Salameh is the child of Palestinian refugees and he grew up in Yamouk camp in Damascus. He arrived in Australia in 2012 and is now a citizen
The power of a great cartoon, like a poem is a distillation of great insight or emotion. It is a reminder of a deep care, a crucial cause, a social wound – an issue that you hoped would one day be addressed, one day be solved. This series of cartoons shows great insight into the struggle that asylum seekers face in trying to gain safety and freedom.
