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ACT Anti-Poverty Week Events
This year ACTCOSS and Care FCS are Co-Chairs of ACT Anti Poverty Week.
Some events are open now! Activities for 2022 ACT Anti-Poverty Week include:
- Anti-Poverty Week Art Competition, open now for entries!
The APW Art Competition is a youth art competition open to all ACT Youth 18 years and under! Entries are open until Sunday 16th October and the theme of the APW Art Competition is “Including Everyone”. Winners will be decided by a vote during APW and announced on Friday 21st October.
To read more and enter, visit: https://www.antipovertyart.com/
- Anti Poverty Week Forum, Thursday 20th October 12.15pm – 1.30pm
This year as part of ACT’s Anti-Poverty Week, ACTCOSS and CARE Financial (Co-Chairs of ACT APW) are hosting a panel and forum at Canberra Museum + Gallery (CMAG) discussing issues of poverty and disadvantage.
The panel will be moderated by ACT Council of Social Service’s Head of Policy Dr Gemma Killen and will include expert panelists;
- Member for Canberra, Minister Alicia Payne,
- ANUSA Student Assistance Advisor, Mr Hassan Riaz,
- Director of ANU Children’s Policy Centre, and Poverty & Inequality Research Centre, Professor Sharon Bessell,
- UnionsACT Campaign Organiser, Kasey Tompkins
Reserve your spot on Eventbrite
To be held at the ACT Legislative Assembly.
- Finding Home: Advocacy for Inclusion’s online Anti Poverty Week Forum, Monday 17 October 12.30 – 2.00 pm
Members of Advocacy for Inclusion, people with disability and allies are invited to Finding home: accessible and affordable housing in Canberra – an AFI Anti Poverty Week Forum. This event will be held online via Zoom.
This forum is being hosted by Advocacy for Inclusion with support from the ACT Council of Social Service and will mark the start of Anti Poverty week highlighting housing accessibility and affordability issues for people with disability struggling to find and maintain suitable housing in our city.
Reserve your spot on Eventbrite
- Canberra Lit in Blue, 16 – 22 October
Telstra Tower, the Treasury Building and the National Carillon will be blue during the evenings of APW 2022.
The colour blue has been chosen in line with the lighting up of monuments across Australia to symbolise a brighter future of hope particularly for children living in poverty.
APW is partnering with Region Media to produce a number of feature articles regarding the events of the week, stories from local community about community initiatives to address poverty and the urgency of increasing community housing in Canberra. Keep an eye out on The RiotACT and please share any content to your networks!
This Anti-Poverty Week we are calling on all our Parliamentarians to commit to halve child poverty by 2030.
Help us urge all Parliamentarians to legislate to halve child poverty by 2030 with measurable targets and actions to achieve this goal.
Sign the pledge, take a photo of you holding it, post it on social media and don’t forget to tag us on Facebook @antipovertyweek, Instagram @anti_poverty_week, and Twitter @AntiPovertyWeek.
Alternatively, send a copy to [email protected].
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