FAIR SHARE FARE + FAWKNER COMMONS in conversation, panels, research and print
FERTILE GROUND (2021)
Dr Jen Rae, catalogue essay for the exhibition Fertile Ground, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, VIC
What is the future of food? Is it dystopic, utopic or something else? Is it palatable, accessible to all, nutritious and/or produced through ecologically sound methods? Who will hold the power to control our food futures?
Fawkner Commons - A case study in this report
Tucker, R., Mundell, M., Johnson, L., Hitch, D., Andrews, F., Liang, J. Thornton, L., Bower, I., & Moslehian, A. (2021). Creative Strategies for Tackling Locational Disadvantage in Geelong. Report prepared for the City of Greater Geelong by HOME Research Hub, Deakin University, April.
Dr Jen Rae talks about how community action builds and feeds people during stressful times and builds stronger communities for the future. (rebroadcasted on 3CR radio). The excerpt is from Jesuit Social Services Ecological Justice Hub OUR WASTE CONVERSATIONS in partnership with Moreland City Council.
MORELAND NORTH FOOD HUB FEASIBILITY STUDY (2020)
This report can be cited as:
Sheridan, J., Larsen, K. & Rae, J. (2020) A community food hub for Moreland’s north: Feasibility assessment and community consultation report. Open Food Network. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.13138646
Volunteers at the Fawkner Food Bowls + Fawkner Commons (from left) Charmaine Thomas-Daborn, Sally Beattie, Clare Casey, Jen Rae, Isabella Bertolacci, Gregory Lorenzutti, Sarah Mahmoud, Jeanette De Foe and Max Lim. CREDIT:JUSTIN MCMANUS
The COVID 'reset': how the pandemic has changed society
Fawkner Food Bowls and Fawkner Commons were featured in The Age’s feature article under ‘Community’.
Like Peeling an Onion - webinar panel
Open Food Network Australia is running a 6-part shared learning webinar series: Like Peeling an Onion. A series that explores the layers of community food enterprises. This third webinar event “Let’s Talk About Price” is related to all things price related. Guest speakers Jen Rae and Sally Beattie from Fawkner Commons, and Lydia Mofakhami, Regional Food Activator from Open Food Network shared their insights and methods with an engaged audience from around Australia & NZ.
Fair Share Fare’s Recipe for Disaster was presented by the Science Gallery Melbourne at the University of Melbourne in the South Lawn Car Park, 15 August2019, as part of the DISPOSABLE program. Photo: Nicole Cleary
Recipe for Disaster, Artlink essay
Rae, J. (2019). Fair Share Fare: Recipe for disaster. Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, 19 (4).
Article featured in PURSUIT for Melbourne University
First published on 7 July 2016
By Paul Dalgarno, University of Melbourne
Article featured in SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Published on 8 July 2016
By Aisha Dow
Article featured on EFFA website
promoting the Sustainable Feast at GRUB
Monday, October 3, 2016
JEN RAE of FAIR SHARE FARE in collaboration with EMILY JOHNSON/CATALYST
Then a Cunning Voice and a Night We Spend Gazing at Stars, Randalls Island, NY, 19/20 August 2017
Article featured in the New York Times Under, the Stars and Quilts, With Randalls Island as Her Stage, by Gia Kourlasaug, 11 August 2017
Article featured in the Village Voice, Emily Johnson Previews Her All-Night Participatory Project on Randalls Island, by Miriam Felton-Dansky, 15 August 2017
Review and the future is certain; give us time to work it out" Michael Niederman on Emily Johnson's Then A Cunning Voice, 27 August 2017