Heard of Dungeons & Dragons and always wanted to learn more? Come along to this chat with Cody Dolan to find out if D&D is for you!

Attendees just to need to bring curiosity, everything else supplied.

Cody Dolan is a twenty-four year old emerging writer and aspiring drag queen from Berri with a passion for mental health. Cody is planning to commence study to become a counsellor in the near future. Cody is a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community and co-facilitates a local group for LGBTQIA+ young people in the Riverland for support and social connection. He loves to explore new things and is willing to try anything once, especially creative things. Cody is an active advocate for mental health and currently contributes to the work of headspace Berri through their hERO (youth reference) group.

This is one of the pieces that make up the Symposium mini-festival puzzle.

Symposium is a community-based and locally driven initiative to nurture a culture of skills and knowledge-sharing for local young people. The festival strives to build a foundation of small business skills, creative skills and life skills through means of live workshops. For more information and background on Symposium and where it began.

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Symposium is a project of Part of Things, jointly delivered with the Berri Barmera Council and Barmera Central and supported by District Council of Loxton Waikerie and Renmark Paringa Council. This project has received funding from the FRRR ABC Heywire Youth Innovation Grants Program, and the Department of Human Services Youth-led COVID-19 Recovery Grants and administered by the Local Government Association of South Australia. Views and findings associated with this project are expressed independently and do not necessarily represent the views of Berri Barmera Council, Renmark Paringa Council, District Council of Loxton Waikerie, FRRR, ABC, the Government of South Australia or the Local Government Association of South Australia.