Jubilee Community Dinner 2024

Welcome to our first ever Jubilee Community Dinner!

This exciting new event will gather the Jubilee Australia community to celebrate the impact we’ve made together, and raise funds to continue defending human rights and the environment in 2024 and beyond. 

A keynote address will be presented by activist leader Emmanuel Peni visiting from PNG, and award-winning Australian author Tim Winton and Fijian civil society leader Vani Catanasiga will be sharing special recorded messages with our community. (Learn more about them and the fascinating topics they’ll be speaking about in the speaker profiles below.)

The night will also be an opportunity to share stories over delicious food, enjoy live music, bid on exclusive auctions, and maybe even win a fantastic raffle prize. 

All funds raised will support our campaigns to put people and the planet over profit.

Menu:

Dinner will be Tongan and Pacific Islander soul food prepared by Lu Run x Foodlab. Please inform us of any dietary requirements when you book your ticket, or standard menu options include:

Snack upon arrival

• Tuna Poke: Wild caught Yellowfin with sashimi dressing, sesame oil, ginger, green onion, seaweed. (Gluten-free, Dairy-free)
• Vegetable Poke: Oyster Mushroom, sashimi dressing, sesame oil, ginger, green onion, seaweed. (Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Vegan)

Share platters

• Lu Pulu: Pickled bite-sized beef pieces marinated in coconut cream, steamed in taro leaves until tender. (Gluten-free, Dairy-free)
• Fijian-style chicken curry: Free range chicken pieces mildly spiced in a tomato coconut sauce. (Gluten-free, Dairy-free)
• Fijian-style tofu: Fresh tofu braised in aromatic spices and coconut milk. (Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Vegan)
• Manioke: Traditionally steamed cassava with green onion seasoning. (Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Vegan)(Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Vegan)
• Lu Run’s green salad. (Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Vegan)

Dessert

• Lu Run's unique take on their irresistible banoffee pie: fresh bananas, luscious cream, dreamy dulce de leche atop a buttery biscuit base. (Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Vegan upon request)
  

Drinks

Tickets include non-alcoholic drinks, fantastic wines generously provided by Australian Vintage Wines, and beer.

Venue:

• Guests will be seated in tables of 10.
• View venue access information or email us at info @ jubileeaustralia.org if you have any questions.
  
• Glebe Town Hall doesn't have a carpark but street parking is available in the area. There is also public transport close to the venue. 

Keynote speaker: Emmanuel Peni, Coordinator of Project Sepik, PNG

This is a rare, in-person opportunity to hear from activist leader Emmanuel Peni. Emmanuel is from Korogu on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. After years in Port Moresby and abroad, he returned home to work with his people to defend the Sepik River system from the threat of the Frieda River Mine, a giant mining project proposed for the headwaters of the Sepik. Emmanuel is a passionate and eloquent visionary on the power of Indigenous expertise, and his Ted Talk “The Sustainable Brilliance of Indigenous Design” has been viewed over 1 million times. 

Emmanuel will be sharing insights from the Save the Sepik campaign so far, what's at stake, and what the campaign hopes to achieve in the future.

Speaker profile: Tim Winton, award-winning Australian author

Tim is a patron of Jubilee, and one of Australia's most well-known and beloved novelists. He has written 30 books so far across his 40-year literary career, which have been translated into 28 different languages and won numerous awards. Tim is passionate about a variety of environmental and social justice causes in Australia, and has been a long-time supporter of our organisation.

In his video message, Tim will share his thoughts on on our responsibility to seek justice, be caring neighbours to those around us, and be good ‘ancestors’ for future generations. He will address why research exposing how political and business decisions affect lives in our region is important. Especially focusing on Australia’s role in the fossil fuel economy and the impacts it has.

Tim has also generously donated his entire back catalogue of books which will be available as a prize at our event.

Speaker profile: Vani Catanasiga, Executive Director, Fiji Council of Social Services (FCOSS)

Vani is the first woman executive director of FCOSS, a Fijian national body established in the 1960s to represent civil society voices to governments. Jubilee Australia and FCOSS have worked together on several initiatives, including supporting communities to make informed decisions about black sand mining and to protect their coastal ecosystems.

Vani has almost two decades of experience in youth work, journalism and public relations, and youth and sports policy, programs and development in various settings – government, civil society, and private sector.

In her video message, Vani will share the story of how FCOSS in Fiji and Jubilee in Australia collaborate. She will explore the work being done in Fiji on natural resource extraction, sovereign debt and fighting the impacts of climate change.


We can't wait to see you, your friends and colleagues there.


P.S. If you can't make it but would like to support, you can buy a Pay It Forward ticket to help a fellow community member attend.