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Media Kit 2016Dumbo Feather

dumbofeather.com

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Dumbo Feather is a multi-platform publishing house with a mission to tell stories that inspire change. Based in Melbourne, we publish a print magazine, run a popular event series and have a growing online presence. Most of all, we are a community that come together around the big ideas of our time.

“Inspiring, warm, thought-provoking, the kind of magazine that never make you feel like less for reading about others who have achieved more—just part of an incredible community.”

What is Dumbo Feather?

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Fast Facts

National distribution

RRP $15 116 pages Quarterly publication

Printed using environmental and responsible business practices

Distributed through digital and print subscription, newsagencies and over 60 specialty retailers throughout Australia

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More and more people are seeking meaningful content that educates, inspires and nourishes.

At Dumbo Feather we believe that the stories we tell ourselves create the world we live in. That’s why we publish a magazine that features long form interviews with people from all over the world who are living with passion and purpose and making change in their communities. It’s also why we have a digital platform and podcast that contains nourishing content, educational features and innovative and inspirational ideas. Lastly, it’s why we have events to create a space for the conversations that matter.

We look forward to working with you to tell more stories of the world we want to live in.

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Image: Lucy Spartalis

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Our community looks to Dumbo Feather for inspiring content and new ideas for living a meaningful life.

They are savvy, urban, affluent, creative and professional who describe themselves as life-long learners with a passion for social change.

Our community

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25-34 years

Female

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A growing market segment**Dumbo Feather readers are part of an emerging and exciting new consumer group LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability). The LOHAS market segment is focused on eco-luxury, health and fitness, the environment, personal development, sustainable living and social justice.

FactsNearly 4 million adult Australians (26% of adult population) are LOHAS aligned.Australian consumers currently spend $12 billion dollars on goods and services in the LOGAS market segments, with an overall growth rate of 20% expected to continue.Over 60% of Australians believe that their individual consumption choices are able to contribute to the greater good of the environment.

Source: * 2015 Dumbo Feather reader survey ** Living LOHAS, Consumer Trends report August 2007

Our readers work in the following industries

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Ethical Business

Social enterprise

Justice and politics

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Arts and culture

Community

Health and wellbeing

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Source: 2015 Dumbo Feather reader survey

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Over 55% of Dumbo Feather read each issue cover to cover.

“Dumbo Feather is such a beautiful magazine and I find that it resonates so much with me personally. The reason that I have pursued photography after so many years working in the environmental sector for government is due to my desire to help tell peoples stories. It is fantastic to see that Dumbo Feather is doing exactly that.” —Paul

Our Content

Image: Jennifer JonesSource: 2015 Dumbo Feather reader survey

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Our Content

ConversationsIn each issue, Dumbo Feather features five long form interviews with people who are challenging paradigms, speaking out again injustice, thinking deep and contributing to their communities in meaningful ways.

ShortsIn the first third of the publication, Dumbo Feather presents short pieces of writing that compliment the feature interviews.

Historical ProfileEach issue covers a profile of a historical figure and their extraordinary impact. Captured in a brief biographical form, this profile reminds us to appreciate the past as a way to make positive changes to our future.

Business with PurposeDrawing on Dumbo feather’s conversational style, long term partners are interviewed and asked questions as to why their business matters in this world.

CATHERINE CROCK HEALS WITH MUSIC

SUBJECT

Catherine Crock

OCCUPATION

Paediatrician

INTERVIEWER Nathan Scolaro

PHOTOGRAPHER Lucy Spartalis

LOCATION

Melbourne, Australia

DATE February 2016

ANTIDOTE TO

Powerlessness

UNEXPECTED Shy

thriving on the flora. As the camels regarded me halfheartedly, my mother told me my grandma Xenia had died back in Belgrade. She was 93.

I remembered my grandma as I’d last seen her: In Belgrade on her 90th birthday, weighing almost nothing, her spine curved with age. She was an immaculately dressed, joyful prawn. She was smoking of course, cigarettes having been her great love for almost a century.

As I quietly cried on the phone, the camels stood watching me, scruffy and relaxed. Observing them languidly munch the native vegetation, batting their long eyelashes, I felt an affinity. I realised they were just like me: immigrants going about their business in Australia. Thinking back to the grey place I was born, which is so different to the desert in which I found myself that day, I thought, I wonder if the camels think about where they came from?

But these camels were born here. And there are no old camels to sit the baby camels down and explain: “You come from a place far away,

called India. Relatives, who look just like you still live there. Let me tell you their stories.”

That day, our crew drove to Uluru, and approaching that big rock, I imagined my grandma here. She’d be looking at everything up close, tearing bits off of plants to smell them, letting the red sand run through her fingers. When I got out of the car the faint smell of cigarettes reached me, and rather than suspecting the living people around me, I thought: That’s her. I looked up, like a child might, hoping to see a friendly ghost in a Chanel suit, flying overhead with a cigarette in hand. And then, with my face tilted to the sun, it occurred to me that next to this big rock, I’d look as tiny as an insect to someone flying above.

Sofija Stefanovic is a Serbian-Australian writer whose work has led her to participate in exorcisms and compete in the Miss ex-Yugoslavia beauty pageant. Her first book is You’re Just Too Good To Be True.

hen we left Yugoslavia to emigrate to Australia, I was five years old. At Belgrade airport, after smoking a cigarette with my

mother, my grandma Xenia squatted down to my level. She put her hands on my upper arms so I was looking at her familiar face. “You will never see grandma again,” she said, “Because I am old, and I’ll probably die soon.” We all cried.

But I did see her again. She visited us in Australia half a dozen times, and each time she gave the same morbid warning. And then, there she’d be again, rolling her suitcase through the arrivals gate of Tullamarine airport, in heels and her Chanel suit.

She had the suit from when she was a businesswoman. She wore it each time she flew. She thought you should always arrive from the aeroplane looking your best, even if it meant having to sit very still and upright during the flight so you don’t crease anything.

In the 50s, when she was young, my grandma travelled everywhere. She was an agricultural

engineer, and she went to conferences around the world. Yugoslavia was socialist then, promoting gender equality, and often she’d be the only woman in a stuffy conference room somewhere in the world, everyone puffing on cigarettes and discussing cross-pollination of flowers.

When I was young, she took me to the park and explained the parts that make up a flower. We held insects in our hands and marvelled at how tiny they were, yet how perfectly they worked. She told me stories about living through both World Wars and all the Yugoslavian wars too. She chain smoked, and talked about her life as a little girl like me, how she dreamt of being a gymnast.

A few years ago, I was on a work trip in the Northern Territory. My mother called and I pulled up next to some camels to answer. The dromedaries you see in the Australian outback aren’t native: their ancestors were brought in 1860 from India, as part of the Bourke and Wills expedition. With the advent of rail technology, camels became useless and ended up feral: running through the desert unmanned,

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HISTORICAL PROFILE

Eddie Koiki MaboWORDS: OSCAR SCHWARTZ

IMAGE: JIM MCEWAN

After a long journey through the Coral Sea, a god who went by the name of Bomai arrived at Mer, an island inhabited by the Meriam people. There, in the shallow reefs, Bomai took the form of an octopus. A local fisherwoman caught Bomai in her basket and brought him to shore. Bomai’s nephew, Malo, came to look for his uncle. Once reunited on the island, Bomai and Malo became a single deity, and taught the Meriam people how to make music with drums, and how to dance the dances of their ancestors. Bomai and Malo brought a new way of life to Mer. They decreed that all should swim with their own kind, sow their lands, and conserve their seas.

From that time onwards, the eight clans of the Meriam people cultivated banana trees, sweet potatos and yams, built stone-walled fish traps in their reefs, danced the dances of Bomai and Malo, and passed their land and traditions down from generation to generation on the Island of Mer.

In 1936 a young boy called Koiki was born of the Piadram clan in the south of the island of Mer. Much had changed since the time of the ancestors. White people had arrived and brought with them a new language, and a new god. They also brought large boats from which divers trawled the bottom of the ocean to pull up precious shells, which they traded for money.

Koiki’s mother died not long after he was born, and his father left to look for work. Koiki went to live with his aunt and uncle, Benny and Maiga Mabo. Benny taught young Koiki the way of life passed down from his ancestors, before white man arrived. He taught Koiki the rhythm of the seasons, and when to plant yams and bananas. He taught Koiki how to fish, that if a neighbour helped you build a fish trap, you would reward them with fish, not money. At night, by the fire, Benny would tell Koiki about his ancestors. “You are the 17th generation of this family,” Benny would say. “This land will be yours. You will be head of the Mabos and will teach your children our way of life.”

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B U S I N E S S W I T H P U R P O S E — P R O F I L I N G O U R P A R T N E R S

I grew up in a small beachside town in Auckland in the ’70s—my parents

were a bit alternative. I’d get sent to the IGA store to fetch the Colombian coffee and the grocer would grind it, bag it up and I’d run it home. When I got a bit older, a friend of my mother was running this kitchen called the Bronze Goat. It was very authentic Middle Eastern serving Turkish coffee and I learned a lot about food and coffee there too. I later opened a late-night-espresso bar in the red-light district of Auckland and pumped out coffee all night long.

Then I was about 29, 30, travelling through Seattle and saw this mobile

espresso cart that a Boeing engineer built. I thought, That’s a good idea. I moved back to New Zealand, got a government grant, borrowed money off my dad and was in business. I was always obsessed with flavour and started researching not only coffee, but coffee-roasting equipment too. I bought a roaster out of Sydney, dragged it home and rebuilt it. That’s where I learned my craft. It wasn’t long before I started approaching a few restaurants and had created a little wholesale distributing business. I was looking to upgrade the original roaster that I’d rebuilt. I went to Vienna and knew hot-air roasting was the way to go, but I couldn’t bring myself to buy one ’cause it was so ugly!

We call it the

Beyoncé. When I couldn’t find the exact hot-air roaster, I decided to build one myself. I teamed up with technical

engineer Mike Scobie and we designed and built our own—the ART Roaster for Allpress.

I think what people love about coffee is that usually

when you’re having one you’re with people you like and you’re sharing ideas and conversations. What makes a special coffee is flavour and consistency.

There’s a level of sincerity I strive to achieve. It’s how we’re able to clearly and honestly communicate with one another in the

team. There’s a bit of a trust deficit out there in the world of business, and I think the relationships we have with our customers and with each other internally helps shift that.

I want to continue

providing an environment that allows people to grow and adds value to their world. I also want a business that makes a significant contribution to the environment. Simple things like what we do with our burlap coffee sacks and asking for gold coin donations which in turn is given to local primary schools. I want more of that.

S U B J E C T : M I C H A E L A L L P R E S S I N T E R V I E W E R : D I A N N E C O T T E R

Allpress

Have you ever met someone who totally embodies the business they run? Michael Allpress is that man. A love of coffee brewed early on in life, and saw him go on to design and build his own coffee roaster and ultimately start Allpress, a business that at its core is all about great flavour, simple design, consistent values and good-old-fashioned customer service.

Why coffee?

That’s awesome.

Now you’ve got a sexy looking coffee roaster.

I’d love to hear more about your philosophy in

business, ’cause Allpress’ approach is quite special.

Describe the world you want to live in.

That is totally the Beyonce of coffee roasting equipment! What do you think makes coffee so special?

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Other content channels

iPad app Podcast Website and social media

Events

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Dumbo Feather offers a range of partnership opportunites providing our community with multiple touchpoints to your brand.

Partnership platforms Touch points with our community

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advertising• Flysheet• Inserts and editorial

sponsorship

Web• 27,000 UV on

dumbofeather.com• 40,000+ social

media followers• Vimeo channel

iPad app• 5,600+ downloads

eNews• 15,000+ enews

subscribers

Podcast channel• 7,000+ listens for

Dumbo Feather live podcast series

• Music with my Mum

Events• Conversation series

held each month held at the White House

• Partnered/bespoke events

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2017 themes Spirituality and inner world Business and the New EconomyNature and the PlanetCommunity and Service

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Dianne CotterAdvertising & Partnerships Manager0425 751 476dianne@dumbofeather.com

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