Progressive Laneway Dinner

For almost 20 years Urban Seed has been gathering around food, recreation and creative art to foster a sense of home – especially for those of us experiencing homelessness, addiction, mental illness and isolation. This gathering is the foundation of our unique community development approach, where we seek to draw out the gifts, skills and potential of all involved.Urban Seed was birthed in the early 1990s, when church-goers atCollins Street Baptist Churchwere literally stepping over people sleeping rough. Three young people moved into the church and met people living on the streets, creating belonging by sharing meals. Today, this commitment to creating home for those who have none is the basis of our community development work. People are not seen as ‘problems’ but rather gifted individuals who, like everyone, need support to reach their potential.We believe that good community development is possible when people from all economic and cultural backgrounds get together and support one another. Whether it’s by cooking together, eating together, singing together or playing cricket together, we foster spaces for people to develop transformative relationships with each other.Urban Seed’s work is incarnational – meaning that small groups ofUrban Seed Residentseat, sleep and play within the contexts that they work. We combine this non-professionalised missional approach with the work of specialist community development practitioners.Urban Seed prioritises dynamic projects run for and by locals in theMelbourne CBD,Norlane(Geelong),FlemingtonandBendigo. Through our Schools, Faith and Corporate engagement programs, we engage with others in the community to respond to the needs and strengths in their own contexts.Urban Seed’s ultimate vision is for communities of healing, hope and justice. Through our Reconciliation Action Plan, we are committed to working towards healing, hope and justice for our Indigenous sisters and brothers as well.

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Come attend a unique gathering around the dinner table in different laneways of Melbourne to celebrate Good Neighbour Month!
Dinner will be served by teams from <A HREF="https://www.streat.com.au" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">STREAT</A>, <A HREF="http://kinfolk.org.au" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">KINFOLK</A> and <A HREF="http://www.urbanseed.org" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CREDO</A>. Each course will be held in one of three laneways around Melbourne, starting at STREAT (5 McKillop Street, Melbourne), and concluding in Credo (End of Baptist Pl. Melbourne).
Four seatings will be held with each seating taking up to 30 guests each. Each group will be hosted by team members from the Urban Seed crew, ensuring a night with not just great food and conversations, but one accompanied with experiential walks. Hear stories that arise out of Good Neighbour Month, and share your experience of it around the dinner table. 
What is Good Neighbour Month?
I'm glad you asked!
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Good Neighbour Month is a call to our cities and neighbourhoods to take seriously the need to be good neighbours, with a special emphasis on marginalized people.
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July is the coldest month in Melbourne and the hardest month to be homeless, making it a good month to be reminded how important neighbourliness is.
Within our neighbourhoods we have a special responsibility to those amongst us who feel they don’t belong, who feel excluded, such as people experiencing:
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<LI>Homelessness (including asylum seekers)</LI>
<LI>Mental health issues</LI>
<LI>Addiction problems</LI>
<LI>Disability</LI>
<LI>Post prison rejection</LI>
<LI>Unemployment</LI>
</UL>
Urban Seed and Life Expedition are in partnership, calling our neighbourhoods to good neighbourliness over the month of July, with the hope of it catching on and becoming fixed in people’s minds, thus transforming our neighbourhoods. That’s the grand vision and it’s enough to get us up in the morning!

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