ACYF Schedule

(current 25 Nov ’19)

Please note:

Presenters, performers, workshops and times are subject to change from this version (current 25 Nov ’19).
The ACYF schedule is subject to change. The final version of the ACYF schedule is available in the ACYF Event App. The ACYF App is now available for download. Search ‘ACYF 2019’ in App Store or Google Play.

SUNDAY 8th DECEMBER – DAY 1

8:30 AM	Doors Open	L1 – Pavilion 4/5
9:30 AM	Opening Plenary	L1 – Pavilion 4/5
11:00AM	Live Music: Gus & Iggy	L2 – Central Foyer
11:15AM	Live Music: Subih Brothers	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
11:30AM	Go Make a Difference! – Mr Steve Angrisano	L2 – Riverside Theatre
11:30AM	How to hack your brain for greater happiness – Mr Derek Boylen	L1 – Pavilion 3
11:30AM	Creating Sustainable Youth Ministry – Mr Mario Borg	L2 – Riverview Room 4
11:30AM	Hospitality & God – Welcoming the Stranger – Deacon Gregory Lowe	L2 – Meeting Room 6
11:30AM	Mary, did you know? – Br Sheldon Burke	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
11:45AM	Activity: Providing Hope to Aboriginal People in Hospitals – Aboriginal Catholic Ministry Perth	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Activity Zone)
11:45AM	Live Music: Joey Alexander	L2 – Central Foyer
12:00PM	You’ve been to the climate protests. Now what? – Dr Nathan Leber & Clare Vernon	L2 – Meeting Room 1
12:00PM	What is Prayer? – Why is it so difficult to pray? – Fr Renald Anthony	L2 – Riverview Room 5
12:00PM	Bishops X-Change: A Church that is a Joyful, Hope-Filled, Servant Community	L2 – Meeting Room 7
12:00PM	Intentional Creativity – Deanna Gibson	L3 – Bellevue Room 2
12:15PM	Live Music: Instrumenta Dei	L2 – Summer Garden
12:30PM	MASS – Bishop Gerard Holohan	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
12:30PM	Live Music: Mrs Anita Finneran	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
12:45PM	Live Music: Joe Melendrez	L2 – Summer Garden
1:00PM	You Gotta Have Faith – Katie Prejean McGrady	L2 – Riverside Theatre
1:00PM	Pornography: Fact, fiction, formation? – Paul Ninnes	L1 – Pavilion 3
1:00PM	Voluntary Assisted Dying, Euthanasia, and the Good Samaritan – The Church’s position on end-of-life choices, and the road ahead – Bishop Donald Sproxton	L2 – Riverview Room 4
1:00PM	We are the carers of our future – an experience centred in Aboriginal spirituality – Kylie Agale & Donella Brown	L2 – Meeting Room 6
1:00PM	Bishops X-Change: A Church that is Humble, Healing and Merciful?	L2 – Meeting Room 8
1:00PM	Activity: Unfair Art Show – Caritas	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Activity Zone)
1:15PM	Live Music: Emma Fradd	L2 – Central Foyer
1:30PM	Leading yourself before leading others – Karl Brown	L2 – Meeting Room 1
1:30PM	Making God Part of Your Life – Bishop Gregory Homeming	L2 – Riverview Room 5
1:30PM	Bishops X-Change: A Church that is Inclusive, Participatory and Synodal	L2 – Meeting Room 7
1:30PM	Praying with Icons – Fr Richard Charlwood	L3 – Bellevue Room 2
1:45PM	Live Music: Gen Bryant	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
1:45PM	Live Music: FIRE Band Jesus Youth Music Ministry	L2 – Summer Garden
2:00PM	Getting to know the Mass – Bishop Patrick O’Regan	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
2:15PM	Activity: Protecting Children from Trafficking & Slavery – ACRATH	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Activity Zone)
2:15PM	Live Music: The Saga	L2 – Summer Garden
2:30PM	Feel the Power: Experience God in Music – Joe Melendrez	L2 – Riverside Theatre
2:30PM	The Ripple Effect – Thérèse Nichols	L1 – Pavilion 3
2:30PM	Online with Saints: Is there social media in heaven? – Fr Michel Remery	L2 – Riverview Room 4
2:30PM	Why Social Justice should be like driving a car – Kathy Kinnane (Caritas)	L2 – Meeting Room 6
2:30PM	Bishops X-Change: Courageous Missionaries (CV 178)	L2 – Meeting Room 8
2:30PM	MASS – Bishop Patrick O’Regan	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
2:45PM	Live Music: Tina Lynn	L2 – Central Foyer
3:00PM	Panel: She Influences – The world needs what women are	L2 – Meeting Room 1
3:00PM	Being a Catholic Man – Knights of the Southern Cross Leadership Academy	L2 – Riverview Room 5
3:00PM	Bishops X-Change: A Church that is Missionary & Evangelising	L2 – Meeting Room 7
3:00PM	Interview: Caritas and Project Compassion – Dcn Paul Reid & Fr George Sigamony	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
3:15PM	Live Music: Knock of Faith – Vietnamese Youth	L2 – Summer Garden
3:30PM	Praying the Examen – Fr Robin Koning SJ	L3 – Bellevue Room 2
3:30PM	Interview: culture2faith – Ms Sabrina-Ann Stevens	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
3:45PM	Live Music: Youth Mission Team Australia (YMT)	L2 – Summer Garden
4:00PM	One Small Voice – Gen Bryant (and band)	L2 – Riverside Theatre
4:00PM	Religion and Mental Health – Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP	L1 – Pavilion 3
4:00PM	Ready Player One: Let the Real Battle Begin – Jordan Foster	L2 – Riverview Room 4
4:00PM	What’s so good about Sunday Mass anyway? – Angela Gorman	L2 – Meeting Room 6
4:00PM	Bishops X-Change: Discerning Your Vocation (CV 286)	L2 – Meeting Room 8
4:00PM	MASS Syro Malabar – Bishop Bosco Puthur	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
4:00PM	Activity: Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Myths, Mission and Mercy – Catholic Mission	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Activity Zone)
4:15PM	Live Music: Barzley Paculanang	L2 – Central Foyer
4:30PM	Searching for My Self … and for Someone Else – Fr Chris Ryan MGL	L2 – Meeting Room 1
4:30PM	Rise to the Challenge! – Karl Brown	L2 – Riverview Room 5
4:30PM	Bishops X-Change: Yarning with bishops and indigenous young people, all welcome	L2 – Meeting Room 7
4:45PM	Live Music: Fr Mark Baumgarten	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
4:45PM	Live Music: Youth Mission Team Australia (YMT)	L2 – Summer Garden
5:15PM	Interview: Catholic Mission – Marilyn Bellett	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
5:15PM	Live Music: Josh Angrisano	L2 – Summer Garden
5:30 PM	Doors Open	L1 – Pavilion 4/5
6:30 PM	Evening Plenary	L1 – Pavilion 4/5
8:30 PM	FINISH

MONDAY 9th DECEMBER – DAY 2

8:30 AM	Doors Open	L1 – Pavilion 4/5
9:30 AM	Opening Plenary	L1 – Pavilion 4/5
11:00AM	Live Music: Mrs Anita Finneran	L2 – Central Foyer
11:15AM	Activity: Caring for the Forgotten – Newman College	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Activity Zone)
11:30AM	Conscious consumerism; simple tips helping consumers demand change – Grace Forrest & Walk Free	L2 – Riverside Theatre
11:30AM	Go Make a Difference! – Mr Steve Angrisano	L1 – Pavilion 3
11:30AM	Bring your mates: how to help our friends come to Christ – Archbishop Julian Porteous	L2 – Riverview Room 4
11:30AM	Open Up Your Heart – Laura Frogley and team	L2 – Meeting Room 6
11:30AM	Making a Good Confession – Mrs Anita Parker	L3 – Bellevue Room 2
11:30AM	Live Music: Instrumenta Dei	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
11:45AM	Live Music: Seth Harsh and Fiesita Mataele	L2 – Central Foyer
12:00PM	Chosen: Discovering and Responding to God’s Call – Joe Melendrez	L2 – Meeting Room 1
12:00PM	Walking in the footsteps of Australian saints – Anna Krohn UNDA	L2 – Riverview Room 5
12:00PM	Bishops X-Change: A Church that is Inclusive, Participatory and Synodal	L2 – Meeting Room 7
12:00PM	Preparing Music for Mass – how to be inclusive and engaging – Simon Hyland	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
12:00PM	Interview: Br Sheldon Burke	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
12:15PM	Live Music: Fr Chris Eaton MGL	L2 – Summer Garden
12:30PM	MASS – Bishop Donald Sproxton	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
12:30PM	Live Music: FIRE Band	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
1:00PM	Porn Kills Love: Can Real Love Win? – Melinda Tankard Reist	L2 – Riverside Theatre
1:00PM	Mary, Queen of Heaven – Katie Prejean McGrady	L1 – Pavilion 3
1:00PM	Why you’re a better leader than the Pope… – Sebastian Duhau	L2 – Riverview Room 4
1:00PM	Where faith and culture are leading – Sabrina-Ann Stevens	L2 – Meeting Room 6
1:00PM	Bishops X-Change: A Church that is Open to Conversion, Renewal and Reform	L2 – Meeting Room 8
1:00PM	Activity: Laudato Si’ – the Domino Effect – Caritas	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Activity Zone)
1:15PM	Live Music: Barzley Paculanang	L2 – Central Foyer
1:30PM	Panel: Fighting Modern Slavery – Grace Forrest, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, Elizabeth Payne (ACRATH)	L2 – Meeting Room 1
1:30PM	The Word of God as a Tool for Discernment for Life – Peter Christofides UNDA	L2 – Riverview Room 5
1:30PM	Bishops X-Change: A Church that is Prayerful & Eucharistic	L2 – Meeting Room 7
1:30PM	Speak Lord – Laura Frogley and team	L3 – Bellevue Room 2
1:45PM	Interview: Joe Melendrez	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
1:45PM	Live Music: Tiwi Performers	L2 – Summer Garden
2:00PM	Introduction to Missa Terra Sancti Spiritu (Mass of the Land of the Holy Spirit) – Mary O’Reeri	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
2:15PM	Interview: Knights of the Southern Cross Leadership Academy	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
2:15PM	Live Music: Green Pasteur	L2 – Summer Garden
2:30PM	We Will Sing! – Music Ministry for Schools and Parishes – Gen Bryant (and band)	L2 – Riverside Theatre
2:30PM	Listening to God: how do we know what God is saying? – Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB	L1 – Pavilion 3
2:30PM	To go where no one else wants to – Catholic ethics and the call to a courageous, creative and compassionate life – Dr Dan Fleming	L2 – Riverview Room 4
2:30PM	Jesus and the Justice System – Joe O’Brien (Australian Catholic Prisoners’ Pastoral Care Council)	L2 – Meeting Room 6
2:30PM	Bishops X-Change: The Digital Environment (CV 86)	L2 – Meeting Room 8
2:30PM	MASS – Missa Terra Sancti Spiritu (Mass of the Land of the Holy Spirit) – Bishop Christopher Saunders	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
2:45PM	Activity: Protecting Children from Trafficking and Slavery – ACRATH	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Activity Zone)
2:45PM	Live Music: Joey Alexander	L2 – Central Foyer
3:00PM	Panel: Synod 2018 Young People & Leadership – Bishop Mark Edwards OMI, Katie Prejean McGrady, Sebastian Duhau, Holly Roberts	L2 – Meeting Room 1
3:00PM	Workshop with Archbishop Peter Comensoli	L2 – Riverview Room 5
3:00PM	Bishops X-Change: A Church that is Missionary & Evangelising	L2 – Meeting Room 7
3:15PM	Interview: Fr Michel Remery	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
3:15PM	Live Music: Singles for Christ (SFC) Australia	L2 – Summer Garden
3:30PM	Making and Praying the Mission Rosary – Catholic Mission	L3 – Bellevue Room 2
3:45PM	Live Music: Emma Oorschot	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
3:45PM	Live Music: Youth for Christ (YFC) / Singles for Christ (SFC) Global	L2 – Summer Garden
4:00PM	Live Music & Testimony: The Holy Spirit and Me! – Mario Borg & 24:7 Band	L2 – Riverside Theatre
4:00PM	Navigating a sexed-up world: the sexualisation of children and what we can do about it – Melinda Tankard Reist	L1 – Pavilion 3
4:00PM	Our Call to Holiness: being, becoming and belonging – Dr Debra Sayce	L2 – Riverview Room 4
4:00PM	Mission Spirituality – Marilyn Bellett (Catholic Mission)	L2 – Meeting Room 6
4:00PM	Bishops X-Change: A Church that is a Joyful, Hope-Filled, Servant Community	L2 – Meeting Room 8
4:00PM	MASS – Bishop Michael Morrissey	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
4:15PM	Interview: Grace Forrest	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
4:15PM	Live Music: Rachel Hicks	L2 – Central Foyer
4:30PM	Tweeting with GOD: How to be a Christian online and offline? – Fr Michel Remery	L2 – Meeting Room 1
4:30PM	Duc in Altum’ – Evangelising with Mother Mary – Sojin Sebastian	L2 – Riverview Room 5
4:45PM	Interview: Thérèse Nichols	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
4:45PM	Live Music: Emma Fradd	L2 – Summer Garden
5:15PM	Live Music: Neocathecumenal Way	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
5:15PM	Live Music: Gen Bryant	L2 – Summer Garden
5:30 PM	Doors Open	L1 – Pavilion 4/5
6:30 PM	Evening Plenary	L1 – Pavilion 4/5
8:30 PM	FINISH

TUESDAY 10th DECEMBER – DAY 3

9:00 AM	Doors Open
9:15AM	Live Music: Gus & Iggy	L2 – Summer Garden
9:30AM	Chosen: Discovering and Responding to God’s Call – Joe Melendrez	L2 – Riverside Theatre
9:30AM	Claiming Amazing Grace when your life feels like the Amazing Race – Judy Bowe MGL & Therese Mills MGL (Amazing Race Australia Competitors)	L1 – Pavilion 3
9:30AM	Workshop with Bishop Columba Macbeth-Green	L2 – Riverview Room 4
9:30AM	Forced Marriage is a form of slavery. It happens in Australia too! – ACRATH	L2 – Meeting Room 6
9:30AM	Lectio Divina: how to read the bible prayerfully – Eliza Matthys	L3 – Bellevue Room 2
9:45AM	Activity: Something Simple (Christmas Gifts for Youth in Detention) – Australian Catholic Prisoners’ Pastoral Care Council	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Activity Zone)
9:45AM	Live Music: Neocatechumenal Way	L2 – Summer Garden
10:00AM	The Ripple Effect – Thérèse Nichols	L2 – Meeting Room 1
10:00AM	Position Open – The Next Generation of Australian Saints! – Mario Borg	L2 – Riverview Room 5
10:00AM	Bishops X-Change: A Church that is Prayerful & Eucharistic	L2 – Meeting Room 7
10:00AM	A way to pray: Listening with the ear of the heart – Gabrielle Sinclair & Loretta Brinkman	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
10:00AM	Live Music: The Saga	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
10:15AM	Live Music: Emma Oorschot	L2 – Central Foyer
10:30AM	Interview: Bernadette Toohey MGL	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
10:45AM	Labyrinth: Heart journey – looking back, looking in and looking forward – Kylie Agale & Donella Brown	L3 – Bellevue Room 2
10:45AM	Live Music: Josh Angrisano	L2 – Summer Garden
11:00AM	Rising up: A life of activism and how we can all make a difference – Melinda Tankard Reist	L2 – Riverside Theatre
11:00AM	What kind of person are you going to be? – Foundations of Catholic ethics – Dr Dan Fleming	L1 – Pavilion 3
11:00AM	Panel: Faith in a Secular Age: Different Faiths, Common Experiences – Olivia Bettane, Ashley Carvalho, Ayat Ibrahim	L2 – Riverview Room 4
11:00AM	Animating for change: Living Laudato Si’ – Dr Nathan Leber & Clare Vernon	L2 – Meeting Room 6
11:00AM	Bishops X-Change: Taking Risks Together (CV 199)	L2 – Meeting Room 8
11:00AM	Live Music: Singles for Christ (SFC) Australia	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
11:15AM	Taizé Prayer – Living with a Contemplative Heart – Sr Maree Riddler RSJ & Sr Maura O’Connell PBVM	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
11:15AM	Live Music: Rachel Hicks	L2 – Central Foyer
11:30AM	Panel: MAKING IT REAL: Genuine human encounter in our digital world – Andrea Bernardino, Jamie Brook, Josh Low	L2 – Meeting Room 1
11:30AM	Letters to a Young Atheist – Fr Chris Ryan MGL	L2 – Riverview Room 5
11:30AM	Bishops X-Change: A Church that is Humble, Healing and Merciful?	L2 – Meeting Room 7
11:30AM	Activity: Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Myths, Mission and Mercy – Catholic Mission	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Activity Zone)
11:45AM	Live Music: Treasure Road (St. Norbet College)	L2 – Summer Garden
12:00PM	The Angelus – an ancient prayer for modern people – John Kinder	L3 – Bellevue Room 2
12:15PM	Live Music: Josh Angrisano	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
12:30PM	Archdiocese of Perth Gathering	L2 – Riverside Theatre
12:30PM	Christ is Alive – Katie Prejean McGrady	L1 – Pavilion 3
12:30PM	Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) – Paul Searle	L2 – Riverview Room 4
12:30PM	Rejoice and be Glad: The ‘Cliff Notes’ to holiness – Dr Nathan Leber (Caritas)	L2 – Meeting Room 6
12:30PM	Bishops X-Change: Yarning with bishops and indigenous young people, all welcome	L2 – Meeting Room 8
12:30PM	Acoustic Worship – PJ Almendras	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
12:45PM	Live Music: Steve Angrisano	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
12:45PM	Live Music: Seth Harsh & Fiesita Mataele	L2 – Central Foyer
1:00PM	Sex, Love and Life – Paul Ninnes	L2 – Meeting Room 1
1:00PM	Panel: The Great Debate: Christianity in the Public Square – Tom Meagher & Senator Matt O’Sullivan	L2 – Riverview Room 5
1:00PM	Bish0ps X-Change: Courageous Missionaries (CV 178)	L2 – Meeting Room 7
1:15PM	Godly Play – Jess Fic	L3 – Bellevue Room 2
1:15PM	Activity: Write for Others Rights – 24:7 Serve	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Activity Zone)
1:15PM	Live Music: 24:7 Band	L2 – Summer Garden
1:45PM	Conversations at the Well: Making Scripture Come Alive – Leadership for Mission: Rebecca Hall	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
1:45PM	Live Music:Youth for Christ (YFC) / Singles for Christ (SFC) Global	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
1:45PM	Live Music: Songs of Seraphim – Syro Malabar Youth Band	L2 – Summer Garden
2:00PM	Archdiocese of Melbourne Gathering	L2 – Riverside Theatre
2:00PM	Be Courageous! – Steve Angrisano	L1 – Pavilion 3
2:00PM	Youth and Mass? – Do they go together? – Fr Renald Anthony	L2 – Riverview Room 4
2:00PM	Talking about the Hard Stuff with Friends – Derek Boylen	L2 – Meeting Room 6
2:00PM	Bishops X-Change: A Church that is Open to Conversion, Renewal and Reform	L2 – Meeting Room 8
2:15PM	Interview: Katie Prejean McGrady	L1 – Pavilion 1 (Expo Stage)
2:15PM	Live Music: Regina Ndossi & Patrick Osias (St. Norbet College)	L2 – Central Foyer
2:30PM	Swipe Away the Tears – Luke & Montana Bogoni	L2 – Meeting Room 1
2:30PM	You Are What You Love: How to live as Christians in a Secular Age – Tom Gourlay UNDA	L2 – Riverview Room 5
2:30PM	Prayer for Discernment: What does God intend for my life? – Fr Mark Payton	L3 – Bellevue Room 1
2:45PM	Live Music: Subih Brothers	L2 – Summer Garden
3:15PM	Live Music: Joe Melendrez	L2 – Summer Garden
3-4PM	Pilgrimage Walk (Scheduled Departures)	Various – as Allocated
4:00PM	ACYF Closing Mass Site Opens	Trinity College
4:30 PM	Concert Performances	Trinity College
6:30 PM	Closing Mass	Trinity College
8:30 PM	FINISH	Trinity College

Presenters & Performers

The ACYF highlights top Australian Catholic presenters and performers supported by international speakers and artists. Announcement of the 2019 presenters and performers will be made in early 2019.

Previous presenters and performers have included many of the Australian Bishops, Fr Rob Galea, Sr Hilda Scott, Genevieve Bryant, Steve Angrisano, Emily Wilson, Matt Maher, Emmanuel Worship Band, Orange Sky, Gary & Natasha Pinto and many more.

Expo

The ACYF hosts a diverse and engaging Expo area.

The Expo aims to provide an interactive space for participants to encounter the breadth of the Catholic Church of Australia in new and unexpected ways. It will be a hive of activity which young people will return to again and again, from stalls to music and activities.

The Expo aims to offer young people a variety of the churches missions. Consequently, It lays down a challenge to creatively re-imagine how stallholders engage with participants, beyond flyers on a table. The Expo will be characterized by engagement, connection, relationship and fun.

The Expo is joined with the ACYF Food Hall presenting an unique opportunity to connect with young people.

The Expo prospectus will be released in early 2019.

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