Degrowth Central Victoria

Wage Peace
2024-03-04 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia
Australia’s new wave of militarism began long before AUKUS. What’s happening? Who profits from it? How far does it reach into our communities? Who is challenging this?
WHAT? — Wage Peace is part of the global campaign for earthcare not warfare, targeting companies making billions from the war machine. Their podcast Get Your Armies Off Our Bodies tells the stories of friends and colleagues in this and related campaigns, from Afghanistan and West Papua to First Nations on Country, from South Africa to the US and UK. Come and get a taste of these stories, and chat about some of the campaigns. Maybe have a listen ahead of time at https://wagepeace.podbean.com/ – or just wait till the event.
WHO? — This CFU event is presented by Matthew, sometime-podcast producer who has worked in a number of lands impacted by conflict over the past 20-plus years.

Degrowth Central Victoria meeting
2024-03-21 16:00 - 18:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Castlemaine Library, 212 Barker St, Castlemaine, VIC, 3450, Australia
Degrowth Central Victoria meets monthly. This is our March meeting. We meet at Castlemaine Library. If you’re new to DCV, to join please contact us beforehand.

Castlemaine Repair Cafe
2024-03-31 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-04-28 10:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Castlemaine Community House, 30 Templeton Street, Castlemaine, VIC, 3450, Australia
Castlemaine Repair Cafe

Last Sunday every month, January–November, 1st in 1st served
For more details see: https://castlemainerepaircafe.wordpress.com/

Degrowth Central Victoria April meeting
2024-04-10 15:00 - 16:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Castlemaine Library, 212 Barker St, Castlemaine, VIC, 3450, Australia
April monthly meeting of DCV. For more details, contact us through our site (here!).

LGBTIQA+ Refugees & Asylum Seekers
2024-04-22 19:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

Degrowth Network Melbourne Camp at Maldon
2024-04-24 13:00 - 2024-04-30 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Vic
Around ten Degrowth Network Melbourne (DNM) campers at Butts Reserve in Maldon 24–30 April 2024 appreciated the local ecological and social environs and collaborated with Degrowth Network Australia on a range of activities, including:

cutting firewood
planting fava beans (Vicia faba) and enjoying a fava bean based lunch
toasting dumpster-dived bread
fireside discussions
a no-talent night
visiting Castlemaine’s Lot 19 to admire the facilities there and the Opening Doors project ‘Home’ exhibition of photographs and text by Paul Dunn who was on site to chat
checking out the Good Op Shop, the Salvage Yard and three tiny houses being built in the Lewis Drive Castlemaine complex
enjoying Castlemaine Pride 2024 events in central Castlemaine
taking a Eudaemonia walk led by Peter Yates
engaging in discussions and exercises associated with the DCV Essentials Research project (see Collective Sufficiency).

Thanks DNM!!

Degrowth Central Victoria Launch
2024-05-13 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

ESSENTIALS WORKSHOP
2024-06-03 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

ORGANISING OCCUPY WALL STREET
2024-06-28 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia
Download LESSONS FROM OCCUPY WALL STREET FOR TODAY the last 1000 words in Marisa’s book on lessons from OWS for activism and activists today.

Essentials Workshop Bendigo
2024-07-27 14:30 - 15:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Old Church on the Hill, 36 Russell Street, Quarry Hill, VIC, 3460, Australia
The DCV Essentials Research project is exploring ‘essentials’ for everyday life, identifying essentials, and assessing how many essentials (goods and services) are produced – and could be produced – locally.
Come along to a talk, and participate in a couple of exercises and facilitated participant discussions by two DCV members Anitra Nelson and Peter Yates.
What is ‘essential’ to you?
What does ‘local’ mean, in terms of area?
What non-market forms of satisfying our needs do we have access to or could we create?
For details please contact Liena Lacey — lienalacey@gmail.com

Tale of Two Peoples (doco and talk)
2024-08-05 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

The Untamed Heart of Paradise
2024-08-25 14:30 - 15:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Paradise Bookshop, 46 Vincent Street, Daylesford, VIC, 3460, Australia
An hour-long journey of song, poetry and story: circling around what feeds the soul in the depths of winter.
Come compost your mind.
Share in the heart of community.
Join in some communal singing.
Be transported to poetic wintery realms!
Put on by Degrowth Central Victoria —
Kirsten Moegerlein re-enchants ways of being, making and relating through events, books and her art practice.
Anitra Nelson is an author of creative fiction and non-fiction, prose, poems, theatrical and screen plays.
Peter Yates is an anthropologist and garlic farmer keenly interested in mythopoetic connections between people and land.
And more performing friends!
Free.

Quit Nukes
2024-09-02 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

Come & Make a Zine!
2024-10-07 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

AI and Fungal Dreaming
2024-11-04 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

Degrowth Central Victoria meeting
2024-11-22 15:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Castlemaine Library, 212 Barker St, Castlemaine, VIC, 3450, Australia
Degrowth Central Victoria subscribers are invited to our end of 2024 meeting where we discuss proposals for new activities and reports and challenges regarding current activities. This DCV meeting will be held in the Castlemaine Library, special meeting room, 3pm Friday, 22 November.
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ENCORE!
2024-12-02 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

Agroecology & Food Sovereignty
2025-02-03 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

DEGROWTH short course
2025-02-05 17:30 - 2025-03-05 19:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Castlemaine Community House, 30 Templeton Street, Castlemaine, VIC, 3450, Australia

LESS IS MORE: Doco Screening and Q&A with director
2025-02-12 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

Degrowth Central Victoria meeting
2025-03-28 14:30 - 16:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Castlemaine Library, 212 Barker St, Castlemaine, VIC, 3450, Australia
All subscribers to our DCV enews are welcome to join our next DCV meeting where we will report on recent activities, propose and make decisions on future activities. Email us for more details – degrowthcentralvic@proton.me

DEMOCRATIC WELLBEING
2025-04-07 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

Degrowth: Handbook and Reading Group(s)
2025-08-04 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

Local Lives Global Matters: 10 years on
2025-09-01 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia

Degrowth Reading Group
2025-09-10 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-09-23 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-08 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-22 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia
Our Degrowth Reading Group meets for an hour or so fortnightly at the Northern Arts Hotel on Wednesdays at 6 pm. The group is self-organising with rotating members introducing the pre-selected reading and facilitating discussion at each session. All are welcome, including irregular attendees. Turn up or, for more details, contact degrowthcentralvic@proton.me

Literary, Cultural & Press Scenes: 1970–2025
2025-10-06 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Northern Arts Hotel, 359 Barker Street, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450, Australia
