Projects can include:

• online projects
• special broadcasts
• book and CD production, and
• radio training courses tailored to the needs of the participants.

Support or collaborate

3CR seeks funding for our special projects and we are open to collaboration with other organisations.
Contact the Special Projects Coordinator for information about 3CR's special projects.

Refugee Radio - Human Rights Day 2010 

Join Nasro (pictured) and nine other refugees and asylum seekers for Refugee Radio. Listen as they share their experiences of arriving in Australia, of working and learning in their new country, of family reunion, and of their hopes and aspirations for the future.

The Refugee Radio features were produced by 3CR's Maja Graham with financial support from the City of Melbourne.The pieces were broadcast as part of 3CR's Human Rights Day programming 2010.

I Just Can't Hide It - Disability Day 2010

I Just Can't Hide It is a 3CR project featuring eight young women with a disability - first broadcast on International Day of People with Disability 3 December 2010. The women explore everything from self advocacy, fashion and parliamentary representation to dating, technology and queer rights.

"I just can't hide it" was financially supported by the Henry Stein Fund, a subfund of the Melbourne Community Foundation and by the Victorian Women's Benevolent Trust. 

Girls On Air - International Women's Day 2010

Girls on Air is a radio training project for young women from the City of Yarra's culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

The Girls On Air project provided radio training, as well as support and resourcing to produce radio features for broadcast and podcast on International Women’s Day 8 March 2010. The radio features cover social and political issues affecting young women.

Check out Girls on Air 

3CR Mural Project 2010

In 2010 3CR created an exciting new mural on the outside of its building at 21 Smith Street Fitzroy. Artists Bindi Cole, Tom Civil and Reko Rennie collaborated, consulted and included the community in painting, pasting and designing window stickers, neon lights and light boxes.

The 3CR Mural Project was supported by Arts Victoria, the City of Yarra and the JBSeed Fund. Come check it out at 21 Smith Street Fitzroy anytime!

Carlton Live! Voice from the Flats

CARLTON LIVE! is a collection of voices and songs from the Carlton Housing Estate. Each voice has a story to tell about living in Carlton or coming to Australia or just about what is going on inside the mind of the songwriter.

Many of the songs were recorded as part of the Carlton Musicians Course, staged in 2009 by 3CR Community Radio in partnership with the City of Melbourne’s Carlton Flats Arts Project. Featuring music by Ruth Rogers-Wright, Sekove Tui, Joseph Zammit and Mick Varney.

Past Special Projects >>

Local History Project - People's Tours

3CR was granted a Local History Grant to create audio tours of Melbourne’s social, activist and cultural local history. The tours were a twist on a typical walking tour - fact-based but are also very personal, with tour guides describing why certain historical places, events and times have special meaning for them. These tours were also conducted as live walking tours with an audience as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

* Irine Vela toured the hits, failures and challenges of her life as a working musician in Melbourne.
* 3CR graphic designer Tom Sevil (pictured) followed a cobblestone pathway in Carlton to find street galleries and remanent political markings.
* A long history of a short river was a historical walking tour along the Maribyrnong River with author and editor Jenny Lee.
* 3CR broadcaster Iain McIntyre's tour Sites of resistance was a walk around the sites of Melbourne's fiercest anti-eviction battles in the 1930s depression.

More information at the People's Tour website. The tours were be broadcast on 3CR and acessable on line at  the People's Tour website. 3CR website volunteer Jane Curtis initiated the project. She is joined by broadcaster Nicole Hurtubise as audio technician of the tours.

Doutta Galla Training

3CR recently ran a radio training project for a small group of people from the Doutta Galla Community Health Service. 3CR trainers Nicole Hurtubise, Michael Smith and Elena McMasters took the group through the steps of learning radio with the focus being the production of an audio segment each.
Three participants, Richard, Helen and Adam, produced segments. Listen here to their podcasts.

Richard's Ultimate Love Half Hour

Helen's overland travels from Asia to England

Adam's Dark Corner Show

High School Students To The Streets!

Collingwood College is incorporating radio training into its curriculum for students for years 6, 7 and 8. Eight students from the college recently completed a three day radio training course at 3CR. These students produced podcasts for our website and on air broadcast.

The project was highly successful with trainers and students having loads of fun. Students picked up the technical skills very quickly, particulary digital editing and they recorded some interesting vox pops with locals on Smith Street. 

Listen here to their podcasts...

Amber, Calista and 3CR staff person Leanne talk chocolate, radio and chat to the people at Queen Clothing on Smith Street

Reid and Ben discuss 'the amazing Collingwood College' and discourse with folks out on the street in front of 3CR

Liam and Pria chat about Collingwood College's kitchen garden and ask people on the street what they thing about Collingwood.

Rebekka interviews Jordan about wearable art and they take to Smith Street to experience the art of the vox pop.

We look forward to an ongoing partnership with Collingwood College students training at 3CR at the end of each semester.

Carlton Housing Estate Arts Project

In 2008 3CR began working with the Carlton Housing Estate on a three year multi faceted arts project.

Our collaborators are the City of Melbourne, RMIT's School of Architecture and Design, the Office of Housing, Polyglot Theatre and writer Helena Spyrou and photographer Angela Bailey.

On June 4th 2008 at the 20 Elgin Street square the Carlton community came together for Elgin Street Live (above) to create a dynamic and huge community party! 3CR joined the party with a live broadcast.

People's Tours of Carlton: Walk in Someone Else's Shoes

In November 2008, 3CR staged its first radio training project with Carlton residents. Participants learned how to prepare, record and produce audio and took it out on the road to share their stories and sounds.  The result was a series of audio and visual tours launced in March 2009 - the People's Tours of Carlton - which can be taken at People's Tours website.

This course is part of the Carlton Flats Arts Project produced by the Community Cultural Development program City of Melbourne and supported by the Office of Housing.