Urban Seed runs thought provoking , interactive walks around Melbourne's CBD to diverse groups of people. These walks have been hugely populur over the past years , and have been highlighted in the Education Age.

Urban Issues City Walk

This walk challenges students to see and think about the city in a new way.It focuses on Urban Seed's work in the CBD (particularly its activities with marginalised people) and discusses a range of urban social , homelessness and substance abuse.Starting on the front steps of the Collins Street Baptist Church , wemove to our '' backdoor '' (off Baptist Place), one of the main drug injecting areas in the CBD and then to Bourke Street and surrounding laneways where we discuss '' in situ '' many of the ssues our organisation is working on before heading back to Credo Cafe. (1 1/2 hours).

 

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Bible City Walk

For Christian School groups , the walk uses Mark's Gospel as a '' map '' for the participants as they are taken on a tour of Collins Street Baptist Church and the surrounding city. The aim of this walk is to help participants link the message of Mark's Gospel to issues we face in modern,urban context and provide an encounter with the city that provokes discussion about how we should respond to issues such as homelessness and urban poverty.(2 1/2 hours)

 

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Civics & Social History Seminars and Walks

Urban Seed provides creative and alternative approaches to teaching Melbourne’s social history in the CBD

Our location and experience of life in the CBD and our hands on experience in debates of local and national importance offers a unique contemporary connection to historic walks and in finding accessible ways for young people to consider their contribution to civic life.

 

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