Event: Ripples Across South Australia – Rotary Park site launch
25 November, 10.00am, Rotary Park, Christies Beach
EVENT DETAILS:
Where: Rotary Park, 1 Beach Road Christies Beach, SA 5165
When: Thursday, 25 November 2021
Time: 10.00am to 12.30pm
Spirit of Woman and the City of Onkaparinga are excited to launch our first ‘Ripple’ site – a public art space designed to acknowledge the impact of DFV in our community, providing a safe space to reflect, grieve, connect, and heal.
Please join us, along with other community changemakers, as we officially launch our first ‘Ripple’ site at Rotary Park, Christies Beach.
We will be filling the park with doves on sticks as a symbol of a world free from domestic and family violence. We encourage you to display our promotional dove at your workplace, or download our hope dove here, write your message (can be anything that you want to say about DFV), and bring it along.
Pancakes will be provided by the Rotary Club of Morphett Vale.
Why is this site so significant?
In 1977, trailblazer Helen Oxenham, OAM, created one of the first women’s shelters in South Australia at Christies Beach. She did this in partnership with her two close friends, Peggy Robinson and Josie Harvey.
An advocate for women’s rights for over 40 years, Helen founded Spirit of Women in 2015, and conceived ‘The Place of Courage’ – Australia’s first public tribute to the victims and survivors of domestic and family violence. This Rotary Park ‘ripple’ site finally sees her vision and years of campaigning come to fruition.
Thank you to our supporters
Spirit of Woman wish to acknowledge the following support without which we could have not achieved this significant milestone in history.
We have been generously supported by:
A grant from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet
The City of Onkaparinga and Rotary Club, Morphett Vale.
Katrine Hildyard MP, Member for Reynell.