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Pesta Babi: Colonialism in our time has become so popular in Indonesia and abroad that on May 14 organizers recorded around 130 simultaneous viewing locations.

There were over 30 attempts by then Indonesia security forces to close it down. Rather than relying on commercial cinemas or subscription platforms, the documentary is circulated free of charge.

Any community able to gather at least 10 people can organize a screening and receive the film directly from its producers.

Since its release in March, screenings have spread rapidly across the country.

It had become so popular that some enterprising ( thieving ) people in Indonesia cloned the internet address of the film and sold it for $10 for a viewing.

To maximize the films viewing audience on 22nd May the film was made free to view on You tube and it went viral with over 2,459,508 downloads on that day.

We expect that as the film is free and highly popular that we will need to have several showings of the film.

The Event Cinema at The Exchange has seating for 155. If that books out, we will release details of additional showings.

Pesta Babi – Colonialism in our time, by Dandhy Laksono:

Synopsis of the film:

Yasinta Moiwend, a Marind Anim woman in Merauke, was startled when, on a quiet morning, a massive ship docked at her village pier. The vessel carried hundreds of excavators under escort by military forces, sent to Papua for a National Strategic Project for food production, palm-based biodiesel, and sugarcane bioethanol.

Vincen Kwipalo, from the Yei community, was likewise shocked when his clan’s land was suddenly marked with a sign reading: ‘Property of the Indonesian Army’. Only later did he learn that the land had been seized for the construction of a military battalion headquarters, at the very moment when sugarcane, a plantation company, was also encroaching on his ancestral forest.

‘Pig Feast’ combines detailed field recordings with in-depth research to examine the power structures behind the operation. It exposes how government and corporate entities—collaborating with military and religious groups—advance international and national goals of ‘food security’ and ‘energy transition’ at the expense of Indigenous communities and landscapes.

The documentary illustrates the networks of Indonesian elites, oligarchs, and multinational corporations that benefit from the project, providing a vivid depiction of the political ecology of Indonesian governance in Papua. ‘Pig Feast’ serves as a record of colonialism that remains intact today.

About the director: Dandhy Dwi Laksono is an Indonesian activist, investigative journalist, and filmmaker. He is known for his critical documentaries which look at how political and business interests collude to undermine democracy, infringe on human rights and destroy vulnerable natural and social environments in Indonesia. Born in East Java, Dandhy Laksono majored in International Relations at Padjadjaran University in Bandung, West Java, before founding the research-based documentary and audio-visual production house Watchdoc.

Crim Con 2026, 26 - 27 June - Not just a conference but a space to hear from criminalised and formerly incarcerated people. Crim Con 2026! 26-27 June

Why Prison Reform Doesn’t Work.

Join us for this conference by criminalised and formerly incarcerated people.

Art / music / poetry exhibition - We Are More Than What They Did To Us - Fri 26th June 6-9pm.

The opening night of Crim Con is a community-led cultural gathering that centres the voices, stories and creative expression of community members through art, music, poetry and shared space we create a room grounded in lived experience, one that refuses silence, challenges stigma, and honours the complexity of our lives.

Before panels and before analysis, we begin with people, including:

Music by Nancy Bates (award-winning Barkindji singer-songwriter, musician, and social activist)
Silent Rhymes (South Australian hip hop artist)
Poetry by Matcho Cassidy, Fig Henry Kershaw and others.

Non-alcoholic drinks provided on Friday.

Panels / speakers / workshops - Sat 27th June 11am-6pm.

Presentations by Debbie Kilroy (Sisters Inside), Tabitha Lean (Sisters Inside), Samantha Burns (National Network of Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls), Brett Collins (Justice Action), Dan Vansetten (Level Up), Daniel Chung (DC Boxing & Performance), Sam Narroway (Second Chances), and more.
Workshops include song-writing with Nancy Bates, zine making, interactive art sessions, and an introduction to using Freedom of Information.

Light lunch and non-alcoholic drinks provided on Saturday.

More program details coming soon.

The ecological crisis has emerged from a deeper cultural crisis of story, belonging, and imagination. Our old, inherited narratives are exhausting the movement. This is an essential workshop for changemakers to learn how to identify the stories that are holding us back and collectively create and share new stories worthy of the best of us. Discover how stories can become sources of wisdom, identity, and ritual for effective change.

Her session is around eco-anxiety as the problem / symptom, but is mostly about addressing it through understanding the stories that cause that and learning how to shift them.

Join us to explore how we might create and share stories worthy of the best of us.

Trish Hansen works across arts, culture, health, design and community. Based on Kaurna Country, she leads ReWonder, works in Arts in Health, and writes children’s fiction. Shaped by the oceans and the spirit of seafaring, through her father’s Norse ancestry and her mother’s Celtic roots in wild places - Trish grew up on the unceded lands of the Kaurna People, on Tarntanya Country, South Australia, with the red gums along the creek.

What’s the Story? Tending stories worthy of the best of us The ecological crisis has emerged from a deeper cultural crisis: a crisis of story, belonging, imagination, and relationship.

Many of the stories we have inherited are exhausting us. Ways of living shaped by narratives told over centuries, and by industry-centric worldviews cultivated over millennia, are no longer serving us or the planet.

Now, as we live mostly among strangers, often with vastly different ways of seeing the world, beyond the coherence of kinship, we face unprecedented challenges of extraordinary scale and complexity together.

We have never done this before. Not in the 4.5 billion years it has taken for life to evolve to this moment.

And yet, other stories are stirring.

Stories of interdependence. Stories of enoughness. Stories of courage, reciprocity, and care. Stories that remember we are part of the living world.

This session offers participants a space to reconnect with what they love and to honour what hurts. It invites us to consider that eco-anxiety may not be pathology, but a natural response when what we care about is under threat. From that place, together we will explore:

What stories are exhausting us? What stories are asking to emerge? What stories hold shared meaning? What stories are coherent enough to trust? How might stories become sources of wisdom, identity, and ritual? What stories might we tend now? The planet is not failing us - our stories are. It’s all cultural.

Conservation Council SA is organising a series of one off skills trainings for members, supporters and friends of the climate and environment justice movement in SA.

Why Facilitation?

In the face of the climate and biodiversity emergencies, we don’t just need more activists; we need activists who can work effectively together. Environmental justice work is inherently complex, involving messy systems, high-pressure decision-making, and deep emotional stakes.

Facilitation is the “secret sauce” of healthy and effective movements and organisations. It’s about creating spaces where people feel heard, valued, and energized so they can move forward together.

Led by a specialist Groupwork facilitator Che Biggs, we dive into a practice based training incorporating:

Some of the hardest facilitation involves working with strong emotions and pop-up conflict, but if we can navigate the heat wisely, these experiences are where we can often help individuals and groups make the biggest breakthroughs.

In this facilitation taster session we will explore some fundamental elements for facilitating ‘hot spots’ and difficult conversations. Starting from a recognition that our own relationship with conflict and strong emotions will shape how we respond as facilitators, we will:

Normalise conflict in groups and explore how ‘hot spots' are a source of significant insight and potential gateways for change.

Unpack our responses to conflict and some principles for navigating hot spots in ways to that don’t ‘other' or shame.

Practice some communication skills that can help us support those principles.

Being only a short ‘taster’ session that delves into some of the more emotionally-laden elements of facilitation, attendees are requested they have prior facilitation training experience. This workshop is designed to ‘go deep lightly’ and aimed at everyday hot-spots - not for resolving your facilitation nightmares :).

The prior event Facilitation Essentials was is an introduction and is a prerequisite to this event “Facilitation skills for difficult conversations - “Facilitating Hot Spots.”

(Anyone with other facilitation training or enough experience is also eligible for this ‘Part 2’ session).

How do we make high-stakes decisions when there is no “right” answer?

Environmental and Climate Justice work involves messy systems and deep emotional stakes. Facilitation is the essential skill that turns a group of individuals into a high-functioning, resilient team.

Conservation SA invites you to Facilitation Essentials—the first in our new series of one-off skills trainings. This isn’t just about “chairing a meeting”; it’s about getting a taste for key skills in mastering the art of holding space for complex change.

Led by specialist Groupwork facilitator Che Biggs, we’re diving into:

The Iceberg: Navigating those "under-the-surface" dynamics.
The Whole Person: Integrating Head, Heart, and Gut into our strategy.
Rank & Power: Naming the invisible dynamics of authority.

Join us to build a movement as regenerative as the ecosystems we’re protecting.

SAGE is a community for all folks who love and care for our planet. Our monthly gatherings are a space to nourish each other, so that we can nourish our world. For more information check out our website: https://sagrassroots.org/

Join us for an evening of delicious food, hearty discussion and new skills. The night will start with a shared meal, then we will move into community announcements, then into open space workshops, with lots of space for social breaks throughout.

As always, anyone can offer to run a session on the night – either on our theme, or on something else entirely! Some things you might want to bring…

🍲A plate of food to share 🌱Veggies or seedlings for this month’s produce swap 🧵Clothes or materials for the mending corner if you would like to do some mending - plus some coins for the SAGE community op shop! Run through of how the night will (roughly) go… 4:30-5:15: Arriving, sharing food. 5:15-5:45: Welcome, Acknowledgment of Country, community announcements. 5:45-7:45: Open space workshop sessions. 7:45: Closing circle. All are welcome. Come anytime that suits you. See you there! This event will be held on Kaurna Country, and we pay our respects to Indigenous people everywhere.

SAGE is a community for all folks who love and care for our planet. Our monthly gatherings are a space to nourish each other, so that we can nourish our world. For more information check out our website: https://sagrassroots.org/

Join us for an evening of delicious food, hearty discussion and new skills. The night will start with a shared meal, then we will move into community announcements, then into open space workshops, with lots of space for social breaks throughout.

As always, anyone can offer to run a session on the night – either on our theme, or on something else entirely! Some things you might want to bring…

🍲A plate of food to share 🌱Veggies or seedlings for this month’s produce swap 🧵Clothes or materials for the mending corner if you would like to do some mending - plus some coins for the SAGE community op shop! Run through of how the night will (roughly) go… 4:30-5:15: Arriving, sharing food. 5:15-5:45: Welcome, Acknowledgment of Country, community announcements. 5:45-7:45: Open space workshop sessions. 7:45: Closing circle. All are welcome. Come anytime that suits you. See you there! This event will be held on Kaurna Country, and we pay our respects to Indigenous people everywhere.

SURVIVAL DAY BANNER PAINTING MUTUAL AID CoOK UP

Come along on Saturday 17th to help paint banners and signs for this year’s Survival Day rally, and pitch in to make meals to support a local Elder and her family while she cares for her sick grandson we’ll be at the Exchange building from 12- 5pm.

drop in across the day - help will be needed with painting, cooking, cooling and packing meals, and clean up. all painting materials and ingredients provided, though donations are always welcome (swipe to the end to see what’s helpful).

Donations & Extra Help

donations of the following are always appreciated: • cardboard, especially large boxes • takeaway food containers • stock cubes/stock powder • cooking oil • garlic • basic herbs and spices • surplus homegrown fruits and veggies Meals will be prepared with food donated by SYC, with produce variable depending on what they have available. if you would like to help out with any additional grocery shopping on Saturday morning, or have experience cooking for large groups, please send me a message @taya.stocks

SAGE is a community for all folks who love and care for our planet. Our monthly gatherings are a space to nourish each other, so that we can nourish our world. For more information check out our website: https://sagrassroots.org/

Join us for an evening of delicious food, hearty discussion and new skills. The night will start with a shared meal, then we will move into community announcements, then into open space workshops, with lots of space for social breaks throughout.

As always, anyone can offer to run a session on the night – either on our theme, or on something else entirely! Some things you might want to bring…

🍲A plate of food to share 🌱Veggies or seedlings for this month’s produce swap 🧵Clothes or materials for the mending corner if you would like to do some mending - plus some coins for the SAGE community op shop! Run through of how the night will (roughly) go… 4:30-5:15: Arriving, sharing food. 5:15-5:45: Welcome, Acknowledgment of Country, community announcements. 5:45-7:45: Open space workshop sessions. 7:45: Closing circle. All are welcome. Come anytime that suits you. See you there! This event will be held on Kaurna Country, and we pay our respects to Indigenous people everywhere.