Pilot tested in February 2016 with the Welcome to support of the Dykes on Bikes, the Festival Program Featured Performers Thank you response gave us a strong foundation for the Campaign. We are now focused on Talk, Touch, Test is an authentic ALL DAY Kids Activity Tent MC Denise Hanlon That Redhead continuing to engage women and build the community based Campaign. It was 10:00 am Welcome to Country Denise Hanlon is an award- That Red Head is an extension sustainability for this work into the future. winning singer, comedienne of Lozz Benson and her love developed by community, with community 10:30 am RainbowDance class with Brendon Midson and Alana Patience and MC. The great thing is for Rockabilly and Blues and for community. ACON is deeply With generous sponsorship from the 25 February 2017 from Dancing With The Stars – she does all three at once! music. She drives the band grateful to the literally hundreds of Cancer Institute NSW and support 11:30 am Older Women’s Choir Moving in colourful circles, she from behind her drum kit with community groups, organisations and from the Inner West Council, we hope has shared the stage with talents such as groove and attitude, and has a soulful individuals who have been involved in that ‘Welcome to Breastiville’ inspires Marrickville Town Hall 12:00 pm Sydney and Choir Bob Downe, Libbi Gorr, Jean Kitson and voice that evokes Patsy Cline and Etta creating this breast health campaign for our communities to take the Campaign 12:30 pm Aboriginal Weaving Workshop with Peta-Joy Williams Courtney Act. A talenated singer, it just James, yet flies freely in its own unique women in LGBTIQ communities. wouldn’t be Denise if her singing wasn’t style. thatredhead.com.au messages further to support better breast 1:00 pm Older Women’s Drumming group and chest health. interspersed with her quick one-liners ACON launched Talk, Touch, Test in May 1:30 pm Streetscape Photography with Sue Lightfoot Lillian Starr and involuntary audience participation. 2016. We are very appreciative for a 2:30 pm Zangdrum – Frame Drumming workshop with Creative denisehanlon.com.au From the high-glamour of the We would like to acknowledge and small grant we received from the Aurora Down Under international burlesque circuit express our sincere thanks to everyone Rosie Rivette to the seedy underbelly of the Foundation to initiate the Campaign. who has helped create and sustain the 3:30 pm Dykes on Bikes & the World’s Biggest LGBTIQ Women’s Photo Miss Rosie Rivette is a 1950’s club scene, Lillian Starr Using data from the Sydney Women and Talk, Touch, Test Campaign so far. 4:30 pm Chillout space opens – setting up for the night event inspired and experienced is known around the world for Sexual Health Survey, we developed 5:30 pm Bar Opens Sydney based performer who her audacious & conceptual routines that a concept to address the invisibility of has danced her way around cross the divide between performance women from LGBTIQ communities in FROM THE TEAM AT ACON 6:30 pm MC Denise Hanlon opens the night Presented by ACON’s Aus, all the way to the heart art and burlesque. Wacky & glamorous, breast cancer awareness, screening and Campaign 6:50 pm Rosie Rivette of . Heavily Influenced by iconic her shows are a skilful perversion of prevention programs. 6:55 pm Bad Bitch Choir Queens of pin up and vaudeville, she is ‘traditional’ burlesque. lillianstarr.com.au #TalkTouchTest known for her comedic style of tease, 24 Yarn Hollow Mile, Adriane Burkhart, Alex Fox, Alison 7:20 pm Rosie Rivette adapting storylines and her ability to Bluehouse King, Amanda Honey, Ann-Marie Calihanna, Aunty Yvonne 7:30 pm “Welcome to Breastiville!” bump and grind. She evokes a hoot, Bluehouse have been AcknowledgementsWeldon, Aunty Millie Ingram, Aurora Foundation, Bad Bitch Choir, described as ‘rambunctious’ Beccy Cole & Libby O’Donovan, Bentstix Hockey Club, Bluehouse, Bradley Byrne at #TalkTouchTest is a breast health campaign for women in 8:00 pm Swing Out Sydney holler and laughter from her shows. @missrivette by the Indigo Girls, had sell- Avestar.com.au, BreastScreen NSW Staff and Clinicians, Cancer Institute NSW and Staff, Cast and Crew LGBTIQ communities to increase awareness and encourage us to: 8:05 pm That Redhead out seasons & 5-star reviews of Starting From…Now!, Christine Forster & Virginia Edwards, City of Sydney, C. Moore Hardy, Creative 9:35 pm Lillian Starr Bad Bitch Choir around Australia and across Womyn Down Under, Crochet by Mia, Denise Hanlon, Different Strokes Dragon Boat Club, DJ Sveta, Este #Talk about breast and chest health with our communities: start With a roster of 20 the globe. The creative partnership of Louder (Jess Hill), Dykes on Bikes Sydney, Faye Reid at Pink Productions, Femme Ninjas, Fran Bowron a conversation with our partners and families, our workmates, 9:50 pm #TalkTouchTest – A How-To Guide fatales, the BBC is devoted Bern Carroll and Jacqui Walter has given and Steph Sands, Fran Kelly, Fresh Tea Towels, Gildaly’s Cheeky Craft, Gretel Killen, Hanna Lawrence, 10:15 pm Lillian Starr Happy Nipple Balm, Hope Douglas, Imperial Hotel Erskineville, Inner West Council and Staff, Jean Kittson, teammates, lovers and friends. to reworking musical guilty birth to four albums and a truckload of 10:20 pm Bluehouse pleasures from the 80’s and tours, all the while staying independent. Jerome F Dubois, Joan Dandy and Leanne, Joy Kyriacou, Judy at Bongo, Julia Price, Kate Mac, Kelpie 90’s as well as incorporating bluehouse.net Courage Coldpress Coffee, Kylie Borland, Lei Tai Make Up, Lemons with a Twist (SGLBA), Lexi Myers and #Touch to get to know your body and how it usually feels, so contemporary influences to keep their Angela Buckfield, Lillian Starr, Long Breast Press, Lyrebird Wear, MAKER Kitchen, Manda Hatter, Mariana you can more easily detect changes. Make breast checks and sound vibrant. The BBC interpret beloved Sydney Gay Pimenta Photographer, Max Black, Meg Mack Ebelt, Michelle Ring and Laura McConnell, Nicky Bryson, Nora Andreas, Older Women’s Network, Omafiets Dutch Bicycles Redfern, Penny Gulliver, Polite Pooches, breast health a lifelong habit. COMMUNITY MARKET STALLS tracks with the addition of feisty body and Lesbian Choir 24 Yarn Hollow Mile, ACON Community Stall, Alex Fox Facepainting, Amazon percussion and their inherent baditude. A powerful symbol of diversity, Portia & Tenille, Pride History Group, Prof Kerryn Phelps & Jackie Stricker-Phelps, Queer Screen, Rainbow @thebbchoir inclusion and harmony, the Dance (Brendon Midson), Rainbow Families, RedAmbrosia, Rosie Rivette, Sand Hall with Amazon Acres, #Test by getting a free mammogram (via BreastScreen NSW or Acres bookstall, Bentstix Hockey Club, Creative Womyn Down Under, Crochet by Selina Steele, SheShe Studios, Stella Topaz Delight, Swing Out Sydney, SX and Cec Busby, Sydney Mia, Dykes on Bikes, Fresh Tea Towels, Gildaly’s Cheeky Craft, Kelpie Courage Sydney Gay & Lesbian choir through your GP) - if you are between 50-74 years of age, get a Swing Out Sydney has maintained a vital and Femme Guild, Sydney Leather Pride, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir, Sydney mammogram every two years. Coldpress Coffee, Long Breast Press, MAKER Kitchen, Older Women’s Network, A special showcase of same visible presence in the history of Sydney’s Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Outfielders, Sydney Roller Derby League, Penny Gulliver, Polite Pooches, Pride History Group, Rainbow Families, Sydney sex couple dancers from LGBTQI community. Recently celebrating Sydney Star Observer, Sydney Women’s Baseball League, Tamika Wilson, Ten Forty Matrix, Teresa and Rae from 55Uppity, That Redhead, The Catering Specialists, The Essential Oil Enthusiast, The Flying Bats Outfielders, Sydney Roller Derby League, Ten Forty Matrix, The Essential Oil Swing Out Sydney, who will be it’s 25th anniversary, the SGLC was born Women’s Football Club, The Sydney Frontrunners, Twenty10, Vrisha Ker , Wiradjuri Wave, Wolfgang Enthusiast, The Flying Bats Football Club, The Sydney Frontrunners, Twenty10 dazzling us with dance styles in 1991 and in that time has provided and Rose, Your Little Secret Catering….and all the ACON Board, Staff and Volunteers. www.acon.org.au/women (BBQ & Cake Stall), The Wiradjuri Wave. from the 1940s and 1950s. the soundtrack to countless community Why not watch a woman who can move events and celebrations and has her hips like Fred Astaire? What’s not to represented Sydney on the national and love about that! swingoutsydney.com international stage. sglc.org @ACONWomen /ACONWomensHealth @ACONWomen