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COMMUNITY|BOFA
COMMUNITY BOFA is proudly supported by the City of Launceston. The organisation has been a champion of BOFA since its beginnings in 2010. Like the BOFA team, the City of Launceston believed it possible to create a small but world-class film festival that would become an iconic event for Launceston and the Tamar Valley. With its strong community focus and emphasis on consultation through the online forum Your Voice, Your Launceston, the City of Launceston is the perfect partner for Community BOFA at BOFA 2016.
Peter Kenyon Bank of Ideas
WHAT’S STRONG, NOT WRONG, WITH COMMUNITIES
The City of Launceston is partnering with two global leaders in grass-roots, community-led community development to trial a new way of working alongside communities.
The ABCD Learning Site is a new approach to citizen-led change in communities, championed by Cormac Russell of Nurture Development UK and Ireland, and Peter Kenyon of the Bank of Ideas, Australia.
As one of the first local governments in Australia to embrace the approach, the City
of Launceston is working with local leaders in the Rocherlea community to identify, connect and mobilise their resources in order to take action, make positive change and directly shape their own community’s future. This grass-roots approach will empower more democratic, local decision-making, with the City of Launceston’s role shifting from servicing to strengthening the community.
There will be a short film shown at the start of the day, followed by a panel discussion
on the new thinking around local government’s role in community development. The Rocherlea community will present some early findings from their citizen-led participative enquiry, with an opportunity to experience firsthand the strength when a community comes together to use what they have to get what they need, and the power that results when solutions are identified by the community and created with their own hands.
THURSDAY 9.00AM - 4.30PM / ARCH & DESIGN