BCCAN guests at the July Cafe Chew – Friday 23rd of July at Cafe Kai.

Cathy McCormack:
“In 1982 I became active in my community’s campaign in Glasgow to find a long term solution to damp housing, fuel poverty and the associated health problems. The first ever tenant-led passive solar housing energy demonstration project was completed in 1992. When we made the links between our sick housing, our sick children and the sickness of the planet, I became involved in the international struggle for justice. In 1982 Britain was also changed from an industrial to a money market economy and I was forced to live on welfare. When the propaganda began I realised there was a war going on: a “war without bullets” that was being fought with briefcases instead of guns. My recent biography, “The Wee Yellow Butterfly”, is a social history and critical analysis of the social, economic and psychological world war being waged against to poor. www.argyllpublishing.com ”

Cathy McCormack and David Fryer – a community critical psychologist currently based at Charles Sturt University – have been working together for over twenty years bringing together community activism and community psychology, within a critical frame of reference, to understand and contest oppression and the war without bullets. At Chewing the fat, David will introduce Cathy and begin a conversation, in which others are welcome to join, with her about climate change, the wider war without bullets, links between community activism and academic and professional allies and the relavance of work in Scotland for Australia.

Join in our monthly Cafe Chew at Cafe Kai in George St, Bathurst . $20 per head for a great meal and lively discussion.
This month our topic of discussion will be the science of climate change and sceptical views about it. Guest speaker will be Dr. Andrew Rawson – Department of Environment and Climate Change, NSW Government and lecturer at Charles Sturt University.
RSVP: by 22nd June, pforman@csu.edu.au or 0429 941 339.

Bathurst Communty Website – General meeting

The Bathurst Community Website went live on April 7, 2006 and it is intended to “be a place where the community of Bathurst are encouraged to contribute content and ideas to make www.bathurst.nsw.au dynamic, interesting and relevant.”

Bathurst Folk Club Concert

* * CONCERT * * WITH SUPPER

7.30pm, Tuesday 9 December
Cafe Kai, 133 George St, Bathurst
Alistair Hulett
and
David Rovics

Alistair Hulett is a long time favourite with Bathurst Folk Club audiences who always enjoys performing in Bathurst each time he tours Australia. ‘Folk On Tap’ called him “One of the defining voices of Scottish music” and a reviewer in the influential music magazine fRroots wrote “Hulett is at once an intense singer, radiating conviction, and a genuinely imaginative lyricist.” Many of his songs such as “He Fades Away”, “Destitution Road” and “The Swaggies Have All Waltzed Matilda Away” have become folk standards.

Touring Australia with Alistair is American progressive singer-songwriter, David Rovics, and we welcome him to Bathurst for the first time. The BBC’s Andy Kershaw described him as “a guy George W.Bush would probably like to clamp in chains in Guantanamo Bay”. Pete Seeger simply said “Listen to David Rovics…”

Find out more about these outstanding artists at www.alistairhulett.com and www.davidrovics.com

Cafe Kai is a new venue, hoping to become a meeting place for groups and providing a friendly space for live music performances. Come and enjoy the great music and food at Cafe Kai.

This will be the Bathurst Folk Club’s one and only concert for 2008, so don’t miss it.

Tuesday 9 December
Concert with Supper – $25