COURSE OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTATIONS

All around the world and in JCI, there are three types of people. Those who make things happen,

those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. Today, you will discover

how an active citizen makes the right things happen in JCI.

COURSE SUMMARY

Every exciting journey begins with discovering a new path. In this interactive course, participants embark on an engaging journey that goes down the path that answers why JCI exists. Through group activities and discussion, participants will understand the core values and framework that drive the JCI Mission, explore the skills they can develop through JCI, and what it means to be an active citizen creating sustainable impact in a changing world.

Details

Event Details: Date: April 13th, 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Venue: St James College - 201 Boundary St, Spring Hill QLD 4000
Entry Fee: Free

What to Expect: Creativity Unleashed: Witness young talents express their creativity through drawings and photography.

Exciting Prizes: Winners stand a chance to win exciting prizes and have their artwork exhibited overseas.

Basketball Fun: Little Boomers Basketball will be hosting a session filled with fun basketball activities for all skill levels.

About the Event: The event aims to increase awareness and knowledge about animal protection, conservation, and environmental sustainability among children. Through art and sports, we strive to foster a sense of responsibility towards our planet and its inhabitants.

Groups (International Category):
1. Junior Group (children aged 4-6)
2. Intermediate Group (children aged 7-9)
3. Youth Group (children aged 10-12)
4. Teen Group (children aged 13-15)

Awards (International Category):
1. Junior Group: 3 awards (1 x first place; 1 x second place; 1 x third place,10 x merit)
2. Intermediate Group: 3 awards (1 x first place; 1 x second place; 1 x third place,10 x merit)
3. Youth Group: 3 awards (1 x first place; 1 x second place; 1 x third place,10 x merit)
4. Teen Group: 3 awards (1 x first place; 1 x second place; 1 x third place,10 x merit)
Total: 52 awards for the international category

World Champion:
The first place of the Junior, Intermediate, Youth and Teens Groups in both the international category and Local category (i.e. Brisbane) will compete for the World Champion award for each group (i.e. Junior, Intermediate, Youth and Teens).

Local / Overseas Exhibitions: Award-winning drawings might have the opportunity to be showcased in both local and overseas exhibitions. One of the overseas art exhibitions will be at the Aisa Pacific Conference in Cambodia.

JCI Brisbane is very excited to partner with Clean Up Australia Day as a part of our commitment to a cleaner greener Brisbane.

JCI Brisbane will provide all the necessary equipment for the clean-up activity.
We are going to meet at QUT Gardens Point at the end of the Goodwill Bridge.

Come and go as you please over the course of the morning. You don't need to stick around for the full three hours (however, you are most welcome to)!

For last year’s highlight, please visit the link: https://www.facebook.com/JCIBrisbane/posts/pfbid027ztURmjctyh7FCUUFFmRd4skQ8Vo7LwC3DSPkKySUvGWc5ypmQnU5vjfao73wgyDl

Join us for a sizzling BBQ event on Saturday, Jan 20, 2024, at New Farm Park at 10:00! Everyone is invited – bring your friends and relatives for a day of fun. Connect, make new friends, and meet our 2024 board of directors. See you there! #JCIBrisbane #BBQEvent #NewFarmPark #yeahitsfree

More details here https://fb.me/e/3Yk4REhtu

It's December! This is enough of a good reason to celebrate!

We are inviting you to the End Of Year Celebration.

We are going to have a dinner all together. Afterwards, JCI Brisbane tradition is to go for some karaoke!

Dinner will be at the Korean restaurant Maru, right in the Brisbane City.

RSVP: please email brisbane@jciaustralia.org.au

JCI Brisbane is very excited to partner with the Brisbane City Council as a part of our commitment to a cleaner greener Brisbane.

The Brisbane City Council will provide all the necessary equipment for the clean up activity as well as making sure that COVID-19 restrictions are observed.
We are going to meet at QUT Gardens Point at the end of the Goodwill Bridge.

Come and go as you please over the course of the morning. You don't need to stick around for the full four hours (however, you are most welcome to)!
There will be a causal catchup immediately after for anyone interested.

This is a free event.

As Brisbane finds itself on the cusp of an historic Olympics announcement, it’s collective population looks forward to a future of possibilities and what might come of our incredible town.

This vision is none more-so impressed upon its young and emerging talent. Those who will witness such a great spectacle, and live in its after effects for decades to come. With this vision and possibility for the future of a city comes incredible responsibility and a need for understanding and determining the vision for the future on which this city will be built upon.

Join us, and our incredible panel to hear & learn the possibilities and opportunities our city will face and how you can & will shape it.

Following a keynote address by Li Cunxin AO of Queensland Ballet, hear from our esteemed panelists:

• Amanda Mather - CEO of Sporting Wheelies & Disabled Association

• Phillip Di Bella - CEO of The Coffee Commune

• John Lee - Acting Director General, Queensland Department of Tourism, Innovation, and Sport

Have you ever wonder how to pair a wine with a dish? 
If the answer is no, you're lucky! JCI Brisbane is organising an event with the City Winery to learn how to pair food and wine like a sommelier!
This hosted experience with our wine experts will give you the fundamentals for how food and wine should be paired. 

The experience includes 4 tasting snacks with 3 glasses of wine. 
Get in quick as the number of participants is limited. Sign up down below to collect your pass to the event!

Single ticket is $49 for JCI Brisbane members and $65 for non-members

Social enterprise is a hot topic at the moment, but what really is a social enterprise? Are all businesses capable and responsible for creating positive social impact further to the defined model of creating jobs?

Come along, network and listen to the panel debate whether businesses should have both economic and social goals.

On the panel we have:

Marvin Fox

Marvin has a background in International Business, marketing, advertising and promotions. He has worked with QUT’s Business School facilitating social entrepreneurship programs and Enactus which is a student association at QUT that runs social enterprise projects. In 2019 Marvin supported the Enactus students to win the national championships in Sydney, then took them to represent Australia at the Enactus World Cup in Silicon Valley, USA. Currently, Marvin is the Program Facilitator at QUT Entrepreneurship, delivering a range of programs to empower students to develop their enterprise skills.

Ruth Knight

Ruth Knight is a researcher and lecturer at QUT. She has worked with young people and community organisations for over 30 years, to develop projects and initiatives making social change. Her interest in social enterprise started when she was looking for more innovative ways that government, business and nonprofits could make sustainable social impact. She then trained as a business coach, and now teaches social enterprise at QUT and conducts research to build the evidence base for social enterprises. Her goal is create great places to live and work.

Leanne Butterworth

Leanne is on a mission to create happy and healthy workforces  and communities - and save lives - by empowering leaders with empathy skills that make everyone feel heard, valued and visible. Based in Brisbane, she is mum to Rowan and Zara, has a degree in Applied Science and a Graduate Certificate in Business. She has developed and runs her own social enterprise, is a tutor at QUT teaching Social Enterprise, and works with the Queensland Social Enterprise Council (QSEC).

Ebony Fowler

Ebony works with organisations in the non-profit and for-profit sectors to co-design purpose-driven strategies that embed and scale impact.  She is one of Blab AANZ ’s first B Consultants, and supports businesses striving to be better for people and planet to become Certified BCorps.  She is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper & come July will be Vice Curator of the Brisbane Hub.  Ebony’s approach to change-making is informed by her training as an architectural designer.  She finds meaning in bridging the gap between leaders, the decisions they make, and the people & places most impacted. 

Wayne Denning

15 years ago, proud Birri Gubba and Guugu Yimidhirr man, Wayne Denning saw an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of his fellow Indigenous Australians. After more than a decade of working on landmark government policies in Native Title and Land Rights, Wayne’s vision put storytelling and creativity front and centre with the goal of changing hearts and minds on a grand scale. Carbon Creative was born. From the mainstream to the marginalised, Wayne’s vision has evolved further to empower and motivate behaviour change en masse. When he’s not leading the charge at the agency as Carbon Creative’s Managing Director, Wayne keeps busy as the Deputy Chair of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) as well as doing keynotes for like-minded organisations.

Tickets: $10

JCI Brisbane is very excited to be partnering with QUTs Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS) to deliver this event.

Join JCI Brisbane in collaboration with Southside Art Market for an evening of some of Brisbane’s finest emerging artists at BackDock Arts in Fortitude Valley. The event will feature a gallery showcase along with several artists selling their pieces at market stalls.

We will also be featuring a panel of accomplished Brisbane artists facilitated by JCI Brisbane President Alex Beard. Key points that will be discussed include developing Brisbane’s brand domestically and internationally through visual art, as well as how these artists have successfully commercialised their practices.

Artists on the panel include Tamara Beale, Jesse Irwin and JCI Brisbane's very own Olivia Dean-Jones.

The event will start at 5pm and run until 8:30pm. The panel discussion will start at 7pm. Come and go as you please!