Workshop: Digital Mentoring Session
Date: Wednesday, May 20
Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Venue: Inner Sydney Voice
Workshop: Free Heatwave Preparedness Workshop in Redfern
Date: Thursday, May 21
Time: 10:30 am
Venue: Redfern
Workshop: Using Evidence to Inform our Practice
Date: Thursday, May 21
Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Venue: UTS, Ultimo
Details: Deep-dive workshop into evidence, understanding research and core components to best design your programs. No-cost for CAFS providers. Delivered by Dr Katie Blair, Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion at UTS.
CHSP Leaders’ Network — Leadership and Development Event
Date: Tuesday, May 26th
Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Venue: Inner Sydney Voice, 770 Elizabeth St, Waterloo
Learning Hub: Demonstrating Impact Learning Hub
Date: Tuesday, June 9
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Venue: Online
Topic: Linking Evaluation to Organisational Strategy
To join: Email sspo@innersydneyvoice.org.au
CAFS Learning Series: Community Engagement
Date: Wednesday, June 10
Time: 9.30 am – 10:30 am
Venue: Online
This year’s Marg Barry Lecture brings together people on the frontlines to confront one of Sydney’s fastest-growing challenges: heatwaves.
Each year, the Marg Barry Memorial Lecture honours the legacy of community advocate Marg Barry, a tireless campaigner for social justice, inclusion, and a fairer Inner Sydney.
This year, we turn our attention to the inequitable impact of heatwaves in our city. As our summers grow hotter, the risks are not shared equally. Older people, renters, and residents in public housing often face dangerous conditions without access to cooling, green space or safe community refuges.
Inner Sydney Voice, with the support of Reconstruction NSW, is working with local people to confront the intersection of climate, health, and inequality – issues that go to the heart of Marg Barry’s vision for a fairer city.
Join us for an evening of conversation and collective insight featuring:
- Emma Bacon (Sweltering Cities)
- Jon Swain (Churchill Fellow & City of Sydney)
- Done By Us Community Educators
About Marg Barry
She was gut-strong, mind-quick and moral-certain. Therefore formidable. But also light of heart, vivacious, funny and a self-put-down merchant. She was single, single-minded, singular. She was a young woman who had grown old trying to make things fairer and had, therefore, grown fair. She was irreplaceable. She was what every community needs. If this society, Australia, hasn’t got a front line of young Marg Barrys coming on, we’re in trouble.
Barry, who died suddenly at the age of 66, was officially the Coordinator of the Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development until 1999 (when she retired to the Central Coast). Unofficially she was a networker, a provocateur, a community activist, an organiser, more a barbed-wire fence in the path of bureaucrats than a thorn in their sides.
She was sometimes regarded as a character, as happens to those who do not conform. She was the survivor of an era in which the working class of Sydney and especially South Sydney, where she had lived and worked, was a community.
