Ethical
fundraiser for your
non-profit organisation
Help your non-profit organization
Help asylum seekers
Raise awareness about refugees
Delight your supporters
Hear music with heart
through partnerships to sell the award-winning "Scattered
People" CD!
"Scattered People" has been published independently by the Refugee Claimants Support Centre in Brisbane. We are distributing it in Australia via community organizations and other non-profit channels to ensure that maximum benefit from the sale of this CD goes where it can do the most good.
This award-winning CD has already sold almost 2000 copies in Brisbane alone!
We are looking for like-minded organizations in other
parts of Australia and around the world who are interested in selling the
CD as a fundraiser for their organization. We especially encourage you to
consider this possibility if your group works with refugees or asylum
seekers or struggles with little access to funding.
It makes a wonderful Christmas gift!
The music is great!
"Scattered People" sells itself. Just play the
CD and put up a poster!
Listen to samples of some of the tracks from Scattered People
Track
Track Name
MP3
1
Scattered People 2
Hometown
3
Alangkolam (chaos)
4
Sweet Freedom
5
Labarik Sira Hotu (all the children)
6
Rain
7
Put U Nepoznato (a place unknown)
8
Forsaken Child
9
Need One Another
10
Resilience
11
Senzeni (what have I done?)
12
Stand With Us
New Internationalist Australia
describes the "Scattered People" CD:"This is an album that is rich with humanity and hope, pain and patience, as asylum seekers from around the globe come together to put the story of their lives to us in music. The music is wonderful, drawing from the wealth of cultural diversity that migrants bring to our shores. The sound is contemporary but the influences range from the townships of South Africa to the hills of East Timor.
"The Scattered People
CD is highly recommended by New Internationalist."
See for yourself at
http://www.newint.com.au/catalog/musik.htm
2001 Sunnie Awards of the Queensland Recording Association
:The "Scattered People" CD received an award and two other nominations at the 2001 Sunnie Awards –
Winner, Best Producer
Nominee, Best Album – Folk/Ethnic
Simon Monsour and Brian Procopis have received the award for Best Producer at the 2001 Sunnie Awards of the Queensland Recording Association for their work on the album "Scattered People".
It is a fitting reward for the efforts of two hard
working, humble and generous people. It is also a great tribute to
their talent. In a real David and Goliath effort, their work came out
of Simon's home studio and yet outshone a field including productions
from some of the most well resourced studios in Queensland.
"Scattered People" in East Timor:
"Labarik Sira Hotu", one of the songs from the CD, has become well known in East Timor.
It was used by the United Nations in their advertisements to encourage people to vote in the August 2001 democratic elections. Afonso Corte Real, a Timorese Australian, was nominated for a Sunnie Award for this song.
Background:
The album evolved out of refugee claimants (asylum seekers) in Brisbane coming together to sing - finding and sharing their 'common ground' - their brokenness, their resilience, their frustrations and their hopes for the future. Songs were written and performed. Friends of the Refugee Claimants Support Centre contributed their songs as well and the CD was launched in late 2000.
Tragically, some members of the choir have been refused protection in Australia and have been forced to return to the countries from which they had escaped. We all fear for their safety. The Refugee Claimants Support Centre Choir has since dispersed, its members demoralized, disempowered or deported. But their voices and their spirit carry on in this CD.
Many refugee claimants in Australia are denied work permission, language classes, access to health services and basic financial support while they undergo a prolonged wait (often years) for their fate to be determined. As legislation becomes increasingly harsh, the Refugee Claimants Support Centre struggles with extremely limited resources to provide assistance. We rely entirely on donations and fund-raising activities for the money to provide emergency relief assistance to clients. The Scattered People CD Project received support from Lifeline, Brisbane City Council and the Sidney Myer fund.
All profits that we receive
from the sale of the "Scattered People" CD
go to projects that assist refugee claimants.
For more information please contact :
Chris Gibbings
email: refugees@refugees.org.au
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