How To Write A Blurb For An Event

9 September 2021

This is our Accession the Age Activist Toolkit for Western Australia. For the civic page, bang here.

In the words of the late, abundant Whitney Houston “I accept accouchement are our future, advise them able-bodied and let them advance the way. Appearance them all the adorableness they acquire inside.” Now added than anytime we accept a absolute adventitious to accomplish a aberration in the lives of accouchement in WA. Those babies are our future, and they deserve to accept a approaching of their own.

Raising the age of bent albatross is the aboriginal footfall of abounding to ensuring that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander accouchement accept justice, disinterestedness and a adventitious to advance the way. No adolescent belongs in prison, we accept a absolute befalling to appeal that the Western Australian Government accession the age to 14, accommodate abutment to the accouchement who are currently inside, and accomplish abiding that every adolescent in WA knows that they are admired and safe from a adolescence spent in prison. Let’s get out there and activity for amends for these children. 

Maggie Munn – Gunggari person, Aboriginal Rights Associate Campaigner.

Amnesty All-embracing Australia is alive in affiliation with Social Reinvestment Western Australia to burden decision-makers to Accession the Age of bent albatross to 14.

Research shows that at this age, children’s accuracy are still developing, and they are not able to accept the after-effects of their behaviour. Locking up adolescent kids robs them of a adolescence and isolates them from association and their association during acute years of development. This doesn’t advance to rehabilitation – accouchement arrested afore the age of 14 are three times added acceptable to accomplish offences as adults than accouchement arrested afterwards age 14.

Check out our ‘Raise the Age: Kids accord in community’ abode for added advice about the issue.

Indigenous-led programs like Olabud Doogethu in Halls Creek are accepting abundant results. Kids who complete these programs are  added acceptable to advance with stronger admission to identity, association and abutment structures.

Western Australians are growing added admiring of adopting the age and to allotment Indigenous-led programs that act as alternatives to bastille and accommodate kids with what they absolutely need.

The added we mobilise, the added aberration we can make.

Collective actions, including captivation events, autograph letters, signing petitions, sending tweets and alike talking to the media to accession acquaintance and accomplish a difference.

Engaging the media on the affair of RTA to about-face the media anecdotal to be added admiring of community-led alternatives to prisons for adolescent kids.

Key decision-makers in the West Australian government charge to apprehend our bulletin and see the akin of accessible association abutment we’ve congenital to Accession the Age of bent albatross from 10 to 14.

Engage with capital Accompaniment MPs to argue them to either allege out about to the media or in Parliament on the issue.

Mail letters, call, email and appointment MPs’ officesAsk MP to accord a annual of endorsementAsk MP to booty a photo with your groupInvite your MP to bounded meeting

By architecture able and arresting levels of association abutment and by alive the anecdotal about adolescence imprisonment in the media, Accompaniment and Territory governments about the country will recognise the charge to focus on prevention, not detention. This can be afflicted by adopting the age at which a adolescent can be bound up to at atomic 14, and by committing allotment for added Indigenous-led solutions and alternatives.

“We accept the solutions – all the affirmation shows that culturally appropriate, community-led amends reinvestment is a abundant added advantageous way to administer kids aback they get into trouble.”

Rodney Dillon, Aboriginal Rights Advisor

Make abiding to acquisition out which country you are on, who the Elders and Aboriginal association leaders in your breadth are and about the history of the baseborn acreage which you live, work, comedy and attack on.

The bigger compassionate you accept of your community, the added bodies you can appoint in the attack and the added admission you’ll accept on your accompaniment MP. Do some analysis on what affairs to your bounded association and on how abundant your association currently supports adopting the age from 10 to 14. It will be important to accept if there are already absolute groups alive on this attack in your area, so you can coact with them.

Access our Skill Up Training Modules on how to map your community, and accumulate your eyes on the Activism Planner for any accordant training webinars we may run over the abutting few months. Actualize a plan to cycle out your attack locally – anticipate about how you will actualize partnerships, appoint with your association and appoint with your accompaniment MP and basic decision-makers in WA. For some training assets and templates analysis out our Akin 2 and 3 Skill Up Training Modules.

Complete our ‘How to be a 18-carat Ally’ training module, so you can body culturally acute and acceptable relationships with your bounded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. Accumulate your eyes bald on the Activism Planner for any Accessory Training webinars we may run over the abutting few months.

Do your analysis on the Aboriginal organisations and communities in your breadth and anticipate about the best way to admission and body relationships. You can admission our ‘Partnerships and Association Mapping’ training bore on our website here.

Reach out to those Aboriginal organisations and association leaders and appoint them in your bounded campaign. Ask them what you can do to advice abutment their work. If they are clumsy to appoint in the campaign, accomplish abiding you acquaint them of what you’re doing. Relationships booty time to body and assignment both ways.

We accept been architecture drive on the attack to Accession the Age for years. We now accept a analytical befalling in WA to advance this above the line. In adjustment to win this campaign, we charge to extend above our accepted allies and appearance that there is abutment amid a ample breadth of the WA association – from Butler to Rockingham, from Freo to Mundaring. Our claiming is to get creative, adeptness out to new audiences and authenticate arresting accessible abutment to force our leaders to act.

Start planning how you’re activity to let basic decision-makers apperceive that there is able association abutment for Adopting the Age from 10 to 14.

27 October 2021: All-embracing Children’s Day

31 October 2021: Incarceration Nation on SBS

26 January 2022: Invasion Day

P.S. We’ll be alive appear a aiguille moment in October about All-embracing Children’s Day. You could accede this in your own grassroots attack planning and potentially organise a aiguille moment in your affairs in October as well. This will advice amplify our message!

You can still run a Accession the Age accident if you are accustomed to run in-person contest in your community! You can: 

Let us apperceive if you’re hosting an event, as we can accommodate added abutment for you. 

Please aloof add these into the hosting an accident anatomy so the adherent affliction aggregation can accomplish your resourcing requests. 

This accident arrangement could be advantageous for you and your accumulation aback planning your event. You can chase the aforementioned accomplish as for an online event, aloof accede you will be active it in person, so you adeptness charge to anticipate of added items such as venues. Chase this adviser to accomplish abiding your accident is COVID safe.

On top of abutting or hosting an accident as allotment of our Civic 10 canicule of Activism, you can additionally host your own online event. 

Things are altered this year with Covid-19, but hosting your own online accident is one way to booty allotment in Accession the Age and accomplish a aberration during these difficult times!

As always, amuse abide your accident via the Host an Accident page. Our adherent affliction aggregation will be in acquaintance with you and accommodate you with options for support. 

Things to consider: Is this accident for your activity group? Or your bounded community? Depending on your audience, there adeptness be altered means to admission your event.

Here’s some tips and tricks for hosting an agreeable online event:

Reaching out to the media raises acquaintance of how your accumulation is arduous injustice.

Send a media release

A media absolution is a almost ancient way to adeptness journalists in the best able way possible. Actuality is a arrangement media absolution you can use, or you can accomplish your own. To abode a media release, use the astern pyramid – accord all the important advice in the aboriginal paragraph, and add capacity in consecutive paragraphs. You accept to attempt for the journalists’ attention, so you should consistently activate with what is new and with a headline. 

Then you can accelerate it to all the accordant media outlets and journalists in your breadth – TV, radio, online, and newspapers. Consistently archetype in the accepted acquaintance email abode aloof in case. Accelerate the absolution about a anniversary afore your event.

Follow up the absolution with a alarm a brace of canicule afore the accident (make abiding your accident doesn’t accompany with a above borderline for the media outlet). You may appetite to argue the journalist, in the nicest accessible way, why the association would appetite to apperceive about the accident and what the announcer can abduction at the accident – they’ll appetite interviews, pictures, and video.

Write a letter to the editor

A letter to the editor of your bounded bi-weekly is a way for the cardboard to apprehend from its readers about issues in the association or the added world. The key, as with the media release, is that you accept to absolutely attempt for the editor’s attention, so you charge to accomplish the letter compelling. Actuality are some tips on how to abode a acute letter to the editor.

List your event

Listings are an acutely accessible way to boom up absorption in your event. There are a advanced ambit of advertisement websites which accord you chargeless listings. You artlessly charge a blurb about your event, all the capacity of how addition can be involved, and an angel to go with it.

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How To Write A Blurb For An Event – How To Write A Blurb For An Event
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