Since 2011, The Big Issue has brought you a calendar featuring the wonderful vendors who are at the heart of what we do. This year, we wanted to capture something of what it means to be a vendor out on the pitch while the world rushes by.
Inside our 2027 calendar you’ll find James in front of Melbourne’sFlinders Street Stationthat’slit up like a lollipop. There’sRon looking straight down the barrel of the lens out the front of Perth’s busy Her Majesty’s Theatre. Atcharais a visionin spring yellow at Brisbane’s active Queens Plaza. Business types and buses whirl past Chantelle, who’s rugged up against the cold outside of Sydney Town Hall; and Andrew looks sartorial in a bright green shirt as pedestrians whizz past him at Canberra’s Garema Place.
Steve (and Mr March!)– who gives us a thumbs up in front of Adelaide’s shiny Malls Balls– sums up the annual experience: “It made me feel very proud to be in the calendar, it felt great to be in the photo shoot – just my cheekbones were hurting! But I loved it.”
As he has every year since the calendar’s inception, cartoonist Andrew Weldon joins us again, sharing his verve and whimsy. In addition to having something that look s so darn great hanging on your walls, there’s also a bonus digital calendar you can download on your phones. It means you'll always be up to date with Big Issue news and magazine release dates.
Proceeds from The Big Issue online store go directly back into funding our programs including The Big Issue magazine, the Women’s Workforce and The Big Issue Classroom.
The Big Issue 30th Anniversary Edition 763 is choc full of
very interesting and informative articles.
I particularly liked vendor Marion's pictorial of Melbourne's
Queen Victoria Market and the CBD.
The next time you see a vendor do them
and yourself a favour. Buy a Big Issue magazine.
I particularly wanted to read the Rose Byrne piece who was featured on the front cover of The Big Issue, Edition 758.
But, more importantly I enjoyed many of the other features in this magazine, in particular, the archive piece on Heath Ledger, the inspiring piece from Deborah Lawrie with her letter to her younger self and Shaun Micallef personal discussion on AI. Thank you for serving up such an interesting magazine.
I must admit I purchased this edition as my son had an article printed in it. When I was looking for this edition I spoke to one of the lovely sellers in the city and he was so helpful looking to see if the article was in that edition.
Since then I have found out a lot more about the Big Issue and how they help disadvantaged Australians to become more independent and I think they are awesome.
Overall the magazine is very professionally set out and of course has some great articles. Love reading about the sellers
I love The Big Issue calendars and have been buying the every year I can since they started. I missed out locally this time so was very happy to be able to buy it online, thereby avoiding a whole year of FOMO
CALENDAR: I love the alternating pages, where month A is a cartoon by Andrew Weldon, and month B is a profile of a Big Issue seller.
FICTION EDITION: 12 short stories, including one by Trent Dalton (Boy Swallows Universe)
I've been buying the Big Issue for many years (though not 30). I live in Wollongong, I don't remember seeing a vendor here, but I have often bought a copy when I have to go to Sydney for work. I always enjoy reading it on the train on my way home, as well as feeling good that I have done something to help somebody to help themselves. Love your work, all the best for the next 30 years!
TBH…
As a ‘there at the start’ contributor, think it would’ve been good to show some of the ‘early’ editions and people who helped make TBI what it has become…
Behind the ‘sellers’ is a lot of pre-production content…