'ROCKS is reborn' Media Release

From ANU Food Co-op Wiki

29th August 2007: ROCKS is reborn, and everyone is invited to the party.

ROCKS, once Residents Of Childers and Kingsley Streets, then Renewal Of Childers and Kingsley Streets, has a new home on the corner of Barry Drive and Kingsley Street.

This umbrella group for the community organisations until recently housed in the motley collection of antiquated buildings between Childers and Kingsley Streets on the edge of the ANU in City West, will welcome the public to its housewarming party on Sunday September 9th from 2pm until 5.30pm.

The temporary building will house the remaining ROCKS members, the Co-operative Food Shop, the Canberra Dance Theatre and the Art Therapy Group (AWAKE), for between two and five years while permanent accommodation is built for them elsewhere in ANU Exchange.

This honours commitments made by all three ANU Exchange partners: the ACT Government’s commitment to community groups, the ANU’s commitment to a university icon, and Baulderstone Hornibrook’s commitment to corporate and environmental responsibility.

The old buildings are already being demolished to make way for new student accommodation.

Departing members have new homes too, if not quite brand new ones. The Conservation Council of the South-East Region and Canberra (CCSERAC) is now in the former Baulderstone Hornibrook site office at 3 Childers Street and the Canberra Environment and Sustainability Resource Centre is now in the former Mt Stromlo demountable at the junction of Lawson Crescent and Lennox Crossing, just up from the National Museum.

The Art Therapy Group comprises Renald Navilly (Creative Art Therapist) and Holly Edworthy (Art Therapist) and their group of connectedness AWAKE (Arts Wellness and Creative Expression).