Gather Your Circle for the Festival of Community Development 2021

Participating During Work Hours
For groups who want to Gather Their Circle during work hours or at a day or time other than Thursdays 6-8pm, CD Queensland will provide a private link to recordings of each session to groups who reach out and ask. These links will be available on the Monday following each session, so allow a three day buffer to ensure recordings can be uploaded to YouTube without technical issues. These links will only be available for a limited time during the life of the Festival. If you are able to join us each Thursday from 6-8pm please do! The live interaction is a great opportunity to connect across Queensland, Australia and Beyond! 

​If you have any more questions feel free to send them through to communityqld@gmail.com.
​​​Please note: one ticket gives you access to all six sessions! ​​
Subsidised tickets for low-waged and unemployed people are also now available.
​Operating on an honour system, choose the ticket which you feel is most appropriate for your situation.  
A portion of all tickets purchased will go towards the Yalari Indigenous Scholarship Program.
Visit our Facebook Event Page to share with friends and colleagues. 

Festival Schedule

Week 1: Thursday September 23rd, 6-8pm AEST (GMT+10)

Dialogue with ‘Them’
Adam Kahane and Dave Andrews
in dialogue
with Tomas Passeggi

​ How do we do dialogue work with people who hold diametrically opposed opinions across our communities?

Week 2: Thursday September 30th, 6-8pm
​AEST (GMT+10)

Gather Your Circle Trivia 

Kick your brains into gear for a night of Gather Your Circle Trivia! A bunch of CD (and some not so CD) questions will tease and tantalise the tips of your terrific tongues as Circles across Queensland (and Australia) fight for eternal glory! ​

Week 3: Thursday October 7th, 6-8pm
​AEST (GMT+10)

Community Development in Times of Crisis: Provocations
Sue Kenny
with Peter Westoby

This presentation will explore ideas of crisis, ways in which communities respond to crises and the  challenges facing community development practitioners in times of crisis.​

Week 4: Wednesday October 13th - Saturday October 16t

Choose Your Own Adventure

With your circle Choose Your Own Adventure and make a day of it (or a morning, afternoon, evening, night) and spend some time together doing something fun! A picnic, a hike, a comedy night, a bring-a-plate dinner, a bar hop - the choices are endless and entirely up to you and your circle! (P.S. This might be a fun opportunity to create some content for the CDQ Filmies!)​

Week 5: Thursday October 21th, 6-8pm
​AEST (GMT+10) 

Big Issues in CD - Online Communities and Identity
Bronwyn Carlson and Sandy O’Sullivan
with Emily McConochie 

What is emerging through our ‘community development’ practices when community identity and cultural practices strongly inform our ways of knowing, being and doing? What can be learned from digital forms of engagement and how has technology and the pandemic shifted every-day practices in community mobilisation? What can we learn from Aboriginal-led initiatives and approaches to connecting across various platforms, diversities and community ecologies?

Week 6: Thursday October 28th, 6-8pm 
​AEST (GMT+10)​

CDQ Filmies

Are you CDQ's answer to Martin Scorsese, or Tarantino, or more artful like Regina King's 'One Night in Miami'? Well this is your time to strut your stuff and lead our Multi Dollar CD Queensland short film competition! Make and submit a 1 to 3 minute short film about your community, work or practice and submit by October 20 for it to be showcased on our CDQ Filimies night! Make it fun, grab some popcorn, and let's close this show out with a bang!​
​​​Please note: one ticket gives you access to all six sessions! ​​
Subsidised tickets for low-waged and unemployed people are also now available.
​Operating on an honour system, choose the ticket which you feel is most appropriate for your situation.  
A portion of all tickets purchased will go towards the Yalari Indigenous Scholarship Program.
Visit our Facebook Event Page to share with friends and colleagues.