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Val’s Rainbow Spectacular: Victorian Seniors Festival 2024

Val’s Rainbow Spectacular: Victorian Seniors Festival 2024

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Free! Just register your attendance through this booking page.

Location

Melbourne Town Hall
90-130 Swanston St
Melbourne

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Whether non-binary finery or a colourful ensemble, you are encouraged to express yourself authentically.

Event Details

City of Melbourne and Val's LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care are teaming up to host Val's Rainbow Spectacular: Victorian Seniors Festival 2024

Join us at this 2024 Victorian Seniors Festival event for a delightful afternoon of socialising and entertainment, as we celebrate the role older members of the LGBTIQA+ community have played in shaping our diverse and inclusive city. We gather in tribute to the ongoing legacy of Val Eastwood, a beloved figure in Melbourne's LGBTIQA+ history.

Registration for the event is free, however spaces are limited so book in quick! 

BONUS EVENT:

You are also invited to join Val's LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care team at 1pm for a rainbow stroll to 123 Swanston Street to visit the plaque installed at the former site of Val's Coffee Lounge, acknowledging the legacy of Val Eastwood. For more information and to register your interest, please click here. 

Val's LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care (part of Rainbow Health Australia at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University) has for over a decade worked to empower older lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans/gender diverse and intersex people and improve their visibility and ageing experience. The program's name was inspired by the pioneering work of Val Eastwood who ran Val's Coffee Lounge in Swanston Street, Melbourne in the 1950s. Val provided a safe, hospitable refuge, a place where people could come and be welcomed and at ease, a place unlike any other in early 1950s Melbourne. As Val herself described: 'People used to get dressed up just to come to the coffee lounge. They could be themselves and feel as if they were at home'. Val's LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care aims to build a network of welcoming and inclusive aged and health care services for LGBTI people of Val's generation and into the future, where they feel valued, safe, and can be their authentic selves. Val's LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care and many of the services we work with are trailblazers, much like Val Eastwood in 1950's Melbourne. Val Eastwood was a strong and determined woman, not scared to be different, to want to change the way things were. Similarly Val's LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care hopes to inspire change across the ageing and aged care sector, with the development and growth of LGBTIQA+ safe and inclusive services.

Read more about the amazing work Val's LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care are championing at their website www.latrobe.edu.au/lgbti-ageing-and-aged-care.

 

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COLLECTION NOTICE

The City of Melbourne is committed to protecting your privacy. The personal information requested during the booking process is being collected by City of Melbourne’s Healthy Ageing team and Val's LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care for the purpose of registering you for the advertised event, monitoring event attendance, evaluation and reporting, or any other directly related purpose. Personal Information collected above will not be disclosed to any other external party without your consent, unless required or authorised by law. If you wish to alter any of the personal information you have supplied to City of Melbourne, please contact Council via telephone on 9658 9190 or email healthyageing@melbourne.vic.gov.au

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