Local sports clubs play a huge role in connecting neighbours and communities. Coronavirus restrictions have hit sporting clubs and codes hard, as well as the families and members for which they are an important source of physical activity and friendship.
Welcome Sports, our not-for-profit sporting hub in partnership with the El Salvador Soccer Club, is working hard to help its members stay connected during Coronavirus, posting online training videos until play can resume once more on the field. Channel 10 stopped by the club to share their story.
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Culture of Connection invites communities and organisations across Australia to record and share with us your unique experiences, your stories, your creativity and your messages of hope and resilience through these extraordinary circumstances.
In turn, we’ll share them with our community of 40,000 people across social media and e-news. Your story might just be the one that gets someone else through this time.
Read our guide for ideas to share and how to submit your story.
Lal Nun Tluang is a member of Brisbane’s Chin community. Here she shares how Coronavirus has impacted her, particularly her study and her ability to hang out with friends.
Hear how she’s adapting and her rallying cry, to get through this together.
Culture of Connection invites communities and organisations across Australia to record and share with us your unique experiences, your stories, your creativity and your messages of hope and resilience through these extraordinary circumstances.
In turn, we’ll share them with our community of 40,000 people across social media and e-news. Your story might just be the one that gets someone else through this time.
Read our guide for ideas to share and how to submit your story.
For Jean Marie, Coronavirus restrictions have impacted his work and his children’s schooling.
In this short, incredibly poignant doco-style piece made by Jean Marie and his family, he shares their experience.
Culture of Connection invites communities and organisations across Australia to record and share with us your unique experiences, your stories, your creativity and your messages of hope and resilience through these extraordinary circumstances.
In turn, we’ll share them with our community of 40,000 people across social media and e-news. Your story might just be the one that gets someone else through this time.
Read our guide for ideas to share and how to submit your story.
There may be limitations on how we engage in sport and active recreation at the moment, but our Welcome Sports community have found creative ways to connect – check out these skills!
Follow Welcome Sports on Facebook for regular sports drills and other sport and rec ideas to keep you fit through Coronavirus.
Culture of Connection invites communities and organisations across Australia to record and share with us your unique experiences, your stories, your creativity and your messages of hope and resilience through these extraordinary circumstances.
In turn, we’ll share them with our community of 40,000 people across social media and e-news. Your story might just be the one that gets someone else through this time.
Read our guide for ideas to share and how to submit your story.
Taiko drumming is a form of music and physical exercise for discipline of both body and mind.
The Byron Taiko Project is working to connect and practice together online during Coronavirus, broadcasting tutorials and inviting digital collaboration. They’re sharing a sample with us as part of the Culture of Connection!
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Follow Byron Taiko Project on Facebook for more information for ongoing lessons and digital collaboration tuition videos. https://www.facebook.com/byrontaiko/
Culture of Connection invites communities and organisations across Australia to record and share with us your unique experiences, your stories, your creativity and your messages of hope and resilience through these extraordinary circumstances.
In turn, we’ll share them with our community of 40,000 people across social media and e-news. Your story might just be the one that gets someone else through this time.
Read our guide for ideas to share and how to submit your story.
Need some help creating video content from home to share your story with the Culture of Connection?
In this video, we’ll give you the basics to create quality videos from home
To create good video content you only need a mobile phone.
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We can’t wait to see your videos!
Culture of Connection invites communities and organisations across Australia to record and share with us your unique experiences, your stories, your creativity and your messages of hope and resilience through these extraordinary circumstances.
In turn, we’ll share them with our community of 40,000 people across social media and e-news. Your story might just be the one that gets someone else through this time.
Read our guide for ideas to share and how to submit your story.
The COVID-19 Community Information Sessions is a series of online information, training and Q&A sessions, providing communities with clear information about Coronavirus and how to access financial and wellbeing support.
These sessions are facilitated by Multicultural Australia in partnership with various specialist organisations including QPASTT, Refugee Health Network, PHN Metro South, Advivo Accountants and Advisors for questions and answers.
We offer a ‘technology walk through’ session on 22 April 2020 and 28 April 2020 to explain how to setup and access ZOOM on your smartphone or other device.
A summary of key points discussed will be published on this page following each session.
Please register for each separate session you wish to attend, by clicking on the relevant session title in the table below.
Disclaimer: information provided within these sessions is based on the best efforts of presenters. While all care is taken to ensure accuracy, attendees should rely on official Government and Health organisation websites for decision-making.
Session Date/Session Title
The COVID-19 Community Information Sessions is a series of online information, training and Q&A sessions, providing communities, especially our multicultural communities, with clear information about Coronavirus and how to access financial and wellbeing support.
These sessions are facilitated by Multicultural Australia in partnership with various specialist organisations including QPASTT, Refugee Health Network, World Wellness Group, Services Australia and Transcultural Mental Health.
Sessions are delivered through ZOOM and will run for approximately one hour, which includes time for questions and answers.
We offer a ‘technology walk through’ session on 22 April 2020 and 28 April 2020 to explain how to setup and access Zoom on your smartphone or other device.
A summary of key points discussed will be published on this page following each session.
Find out more including session topics, guest presenters and how to register HERE.
Culture of Connection invites communities and organisations across Australia to record and share with us your unique experiences, your stories, your creativity and your messages of hope and resilience through these extraordinary circumstances.
In turn, we’ll share them with our community of 40,000 people across social media and e-news.
Your story might just be the one that gets someone else through this time. Read our guide for ideas to share and how to submit your story.
Local Brisbane author Indrani Ganguly composed the piece ‘Unity in Adversity – A Citizen’s View of the Coronavirus Pandemic’. We’re thrilled she’s sharing it with us as part of the Culture of Connection.
“Rock bottom became the solid bottom in which I rebuilt my life” – J.K.Rowling
A young woman in a supermarket spots an elderly man who is looking very stressed. He tells her he arrived too late to get any rice. She reaches into her trolley, puts the packet she’s just picked up into his basket and hurries away without taking any money.
While panic and pandemonium dominate the news, every so often I hear of the little ways in which people are banding together to help not just other people but animals as well.
To me coronavirus spells many things.
C is for calm, buying just what we need.
O is for optimism, we will learn new ways to survive.
R is for responsibility, we each have to do our bit.
O is for the openhearted helping others to live.
N is for nurturing mind, body and soul in a 100 little ways.
A is for the awesome frontline folks, undaunted by fears.
V is for versatile, Bundaberg Rum now becomes Bundaberg sanitisers.
I is for innovative ways to exercise, much better than tears.
R is for resilience which is a good half of the art of living.
U is for uplifting, we rise by lifting others.
S is for social solidarity without breaching social distancing.
And remember, humour can often be the best medicine! Have you heard this one: Twitter invents Hindi word for social distancing, Tan-Doori. Tan means body and doori means distance.
– Indrani Ganguly
Culture of Connection invites communities and organisations across Australia to record and share with us your unique experiences, your stories, your creativity and your messages of hope and resilience through these extraordinary circumstances.
In turn, we’ll share them with our community of 40,000 people across social media and e-news. Your story might just be the one that gets someone else through this time.
Read our guide for ideas to share and how to submit your story.
Masoud was a chef in Iran before arriving as a refugee in Australia.
With his family, he continues to practice his culinary art, serving fresh, delicious Persian cuisine to Brisbane through his catering business Persian Kitchen Catering.
Masoud is just one example of how refugees and migrants bring valuable skills and enterprise to Australia’s business and cultural landscape.
Even though we’re all staying close to home, we can taste the world with the help of chefs like Masoud! Watch as Masoud shows you how to cook Iranian chicken and lamb kebabs using simple ingredients. Have a go at home and share with us how you went!
Culture of Connection invites communities and organisations across Australia to record and share with us your unique experiences, your stories, your creativity and your messages of hope and resilience through these extraordinary circumstances.
In turn, we’ll share them with our community of 40,000 people across social media and e-news. Your story might just be the one that gets someone else through this time.
Read our guide for ideas to share and how to submit your story.
Multicultural Australia acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet today.
As the world’s oldest living cultures, we recognise that Australia always has been and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.
We who come from many places pay our respects to Elders throughout all time and commit to learning from the knowledge, traditions, stories, spirituality, and experiences of Aboriginal people as we learn to live on their land.
We walk together in solidarity of the pain of the past, and in shared hope for the future.
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