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Brian Procopis
Brian Procopis is currently the Coordinator of Community Development Programs for UnitingCare Community (Lifeline). Involvement in such music based esteem-building programmes as the Zillmere School ‘Aim High/From Little Things Big Things Grow’ initiative, ‘Kidz2Kidz’ with Brisbane-based Iraqi children affected by the ongoing conflict in their homeland, ‘My Life My Voice’ celebrating the lives and contribution to broader society of children with Down syndrome, the Urandangi Aboriginal community who sing that whenever they go away ‘Urandangi Calls Me Home’, the Transformers (Brisbane version of the ‘choir of hard knocks’) and Scattered People where music is taken to the ‘boat people’ in the Pinkenba Detention Centre to provide a safe place where ‘our humanity can intermingle with theirs and where traumas can be softened’ brought Brian and his vision for Sweet Freedom as a record label founded on the principles of social justice, social inclusion and community development into the enthusiastic perimeter and kindred-spirited passions of Steve Dillon