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Rebel Black
What if you could REALLY make a difference - for this generation and for several following?
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What would YOU do to make it happen, if you knew you could?
Me, I am donating a YEAR, yep, count 365 days, to do what I can.
I am taking a year in my life to raise $30 million to CHANGE the course of history for not only the small outback town I live in, but for our entire NATION!
The project I am part of is seriously THAT big!
My name is Rebel Black and I am the President of the Australian Opal Centre based in Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia.
I believe that if you can dream it, you can do it!
Do you?
Australian Opal Centre - DREAMING BIG!!!
For the past 14 years this community - and people from all over the world have believed in the vision of the Australian Opal Centre.
An extraordinary national monument, a 21st Centry Icon - a world class, energy- efficient, two-storey underground
building filled with glittering treasures from the earth and the stories of the people who found them.
I became involed in this project because for me, it optimises the power of people - to create, build and nurture a project of this magnitude AND build an incredible team of inspiring and brilliant people AND look to fund it through social power....WOW!
AND - it's an extraordinary building...just look at it...it's beatiful!
Rare Opalised Fossils
Not to mention that we are saving national treasures, our unique and very rare opalised fossils (100 million + years old) from being sold overseas or cut into stones AND building an environmental icon to house them AND providing an extraordinary cultural and educational facility for people living in rural and remote NSW...and everyone else...WOW!
The 'POOLROOM' for Australia's Crown Jewels
You know the movie The Castle? It shows that the hard working Aussie battler has a voice...has a sense of place and has pride, dignity and deserves a fair go...well that is us!
We believe that things that are precious should go "straight to the pool room", that it is "what you do with it" that makes it special and that everyman should be entitled to dream....so dream with me, dream with us, dream with all Australians and make this happen! Let's build the 'pool room' for Australia's national treasures and show them that we can!
Our community is up for it, in fact did you know that we already have an international standard olympic pool, and indoor diving tower and heated pool complex all funded and built by the community?
Click DONATE to SHARE the dream!
What is in it for you?
(Donations over $2 are tax deductible in Australia. Make your donation and watch the total grow.)
Donate $30 or more
ALL donations over $30 will receive a collectors momento for their gift - a precious hand made dinosaur opal clay medallion individually hand made and numbered.
These incredible little items are made from the 100 million year old clay that the dinosaurs we find opalised here at Lightning Ridge tramped on...in a sense, you are securing a fabulous piece of our natural history!
Donate $100 or more
You will receive your opal clay medallion + I will send you a handwritten postcard from Lightning Ridge - with LOVE!
Donate $500 or more
You will receive your opal clay medallion + I will send you a handwritten postcard from Lightning Ridge - with LOVE AND I will give you a PERSONALISED Tour of Lighting Ridge for 1 hour, which means you need to visit us!
Donate $5000 or more
You will receive your opal clay medallion + I will send you a handwritten postcard from Lightning Ridge - with LOVE AND I will give you a PERSONALISED Tour of Lighting Ridge for 1 hour, cook you dinner and get you underground into a REAL mine!
Donate $10,000 or more
You will receive your opal clay medallion + I will send you a handwritten postcard from Lightning Ridge - with LOVE AND I will give you a PERSONALISED Tour of Lighting Ridge for 1 hour, cook you dinner and get you underground into a REAL mine! I will also organise personally for a stunning piece of opal to be set into a pendant or a ring by a local jeweller and you will dine with the miner too.
Donate $25,000 or more
Firstly, let me say that YOU ARE AMAZING and we haven't worked it out yet, but your contribution will be recognised somewehre incredible in the building...so generations of people will be able to marvel at you...and how awesome you are/were!
PLUS!
Donate $50,000 or more
Firstly, let me say that YOU ARE AMAZING and we haven't worked it out yet, but your contribution will be recognised somewehre incredible in the building...so generations of people will be able to marvel at you...and how awesome you are/were!
PLUS!
I will personally arrange for you to be flown to Lighting Ridge, with 3 friends and you will ALL receive the special treatment! 2 days, 1 night.
You will give you a PERSONALISED Tour of Lighting Ridge for 1 hour, dinner and get you underground into a REAL mine! I will also organise personally or a stunning piece of opal to be set into a pendant or a ring by a local jeweller and you will dine with the miner too.
PLUS we will accommodate you and show you the behind the scenes story of the town, opal mining and processing - and will find you a place to find FOSSILS of your own!
Want to know about me?
Well, I am an ordinary person, just like you!
I love my town. I am passionate about community revival and development and I think this project is the BOMB!
I am a partner in an opal mining business and I am also a successful health and business coach with a national practice.
I am an outstanding cook - we used to own and operate an award winning restaurant on the opalfields (Dig In) and I love to host dinner parties and I know how to create ambience!
I am an excellent tour guide and I LOVE to show people around Lightning Ridge.
I enjoy designing jewellery, taking photographs and renovating, although these are just hobbies and creative outlets for an otherwise frustrated artist!
I am an excellent networker, facilitator, organiser and ideas woman...
Most of all, I am a doer. I like to make AWESOME stuff happen!
Want to know more?
At the Australian Opal Centre you will marvel at precious opal gemstones and the world’s greatest collection of fossils made of opal – rare relics from the Age of Dinosaurs. And you’ll share in stories of resilience, ingenuity, mateship and humour for which the opal fields are famous.
All in a groundbreaking building that is the masterwork of two of Australia’s greatest living architects, Glenn Murcutt and Wendy Lewin – an energy-efficient building set to become a 21st century architectural icon.
The Australian Opal Centre needs your support. This is such a great project we’re aiming to set a World Record for online crowdfunding – give what you can, ask everyone you know to give, and become a world record holder!
The Australian Opal Centre is long overdue and much needed for research and promotion of Australia’s National Gemstone. It will stimulate economic and cultural development in outback NSW, Queensland and South Australia and beyond.
The AOC is managed by a not-for-profit group with supporters across Australia and eight other countries. People of the opal fields have donated treasures worth more than $2.5 million, over $1,000,000 in cash and countlesss hours of work. With support from local, state and Australian governments they have developed a magnificent national collection, acquired a site on the famous Three Mile opal field and commissioned plans from Australia’s greatest architects.
This brilliant project is a gift to the world from the people of the opal fields. Now, they need our help to achieve their vision – a priceless treasure for us and generations to come.
We can set a world record for the biggest crowdfunded project ever. $28.5 million is required to construct the Australian Opal Centre. All we need is a million people to give $30 each, or 300,000 people to give $100 each. There are more than 22 million people in Australia alone….we can do it!
PLEASE GIVE now
Click DONATE NOW! Donations over $2 are tax deductible in Australia. Make your donation and watch the total grow.
Tell your friends, help set a world record and help build the Australian Opal Centre. Thank you!
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Lightning Ridge Opal And Fossil Centre Inc
The Australian Opal Centre is an extraordinary national project being developed at Lightning Ridge in outback NSW, to showcase a world class collection of Australian opal, opalised fossils and vibrant opal field heritage. It will foster education, training, scientific research, tourism, industry and community cultural development, and revitalise regional economies across three states of Australia. The Australian Opal Centre is managed by Lightning Ridge Opal and Fossil Centre Inc, a not-for-profit organisation.
Isolated and disadvantaged communities have contributed over $850,000 in cash and donated items worth more than $2 million to the Centre’s magnificent national collection, acquired a breathtaking site and commissioned Glenn Murcutt and Wendy Lewin – two of Australia’s greatest architects – to design an energy-efficient building set to become a 21st century architectural icon.
This brilliant project is a gift to the world from the people of Australia’s opal fields. Now, they need your help to realise their vision. Give what you can, and we’ll create a priceless treasure for this and future generations.
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