AAA presents Portal: A fundraiser for RISE

Anti-Colonial Asian Alliance Naarm presents Portal, a fundraiser for RISE: Refugees, Survivors and Ex-detainees. Portal is a night for our communities to come together to support local Bla(c)k and POC drag, dance & music acts, and collectively dream of new worlds. 100% of profits will be supporting RISE to buy a Food Bank Delivery Truck.

Donate directly here > https://www.gofundme.com/f/risefoodtruck <ABOUT RISE: RISE: Refugees, Survivors and eX-detainees is the FIRST eX-detainee, Refugee and Asylum seeker self-determined grassroots organisation in Australia which is unique and unprecedented in Australia as we continue to be managed and staffed entirely by people from eX-detainee, Asylum seeker and Refugee backgrounds. To read more: https://www.riserefugee.org/about/

—Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.
– Arundhati Roy: The Pandemic as a Portal

PERFORMERS
RO & SUNANDA: MC
ATE CHESKA: MOVEMENT
MO MONEY: DRAG
MAGGZ: MOVEMENT
CERULEAN: DRAG
KING SAUNA: DJ

BUY OUR T-SHIRT
(COMING SOON)

TICKETS:
$25 solidarity/allies
$15 waged poc
$10 unwaged poc
$45 family affair (package for family/housies sharing screen)
Free for First Nations folks and Refugees, Ex-Detainees and Asylum Seekers

Zoom link will be provided to folks who have purchased tickets on the night via email. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. If money is a concern, please message Anticolonial Asian Alliance.

Any accessibility needs, questions and concerns, please message AntiColonial Asian Alliance - Kulin Nation / melbourne or email anticolonialasians@gmail.com.

COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia. If you express any of these attitudes during the event, you will be booted and will not be allowed to return. This event will be moderated and there will be a point person that you can reach out to privately if you feel uncomfortable at any point during the event.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This online fundraiser takes place across multiple unceded Indigenous lands. AAA acknowledges the peoples of the Kulin Nation as the custodians of the lands on which we work. We pay our respects to Indigenous Elders, past, present and emerging. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land [-o-]

Special thanks to Tyronne Gietzmann for our T-shirt and poster design and Ella Shi for the cover photo graphic.