Featuring storytelling and events that celebrate our rich cultures.
Cultural Connections Cinema presents short films showcasing the stories and talents of inspiring Aussies who just happen to be from a refugee or migrant background.
Grab a free spot in our live seminar Introduction to Anti-Racism by Erfan Daliri, exploring racism in society and how we can all build racism resilience.
Watch our In My Country panel discussion with the creators and guests of the In My Country Podcast exploring stories of people who came to Australia as refugees or people seeking asylum, and the many places we call home.
New events are being added! Check back soon and RSVP to the events to receive event information and notifications.
A collection of documentaries and programs that highlight and challenge racial inequality and injustice, as well as enlighten, inform and educate – now streaming on SBS On Demand.
Charismatic presenter Ernie Dingo takes us on the trip of a lifetime, as he explores some of Australia’s most stunning landscapes. Seasons 1-3 now streaming on SBS On Demand.
From modern Kung fu masterpieces to acclaimed dramas, enjoy this eclectic range of Chinese movies now streaming on SBS On Demand.
Enjoy SBS favourites available with Arabic subtitles, as well as news and Arabic movies now streaming on SBS On Demand.
Grab a good coffee or a vino and enjoy these contemporary Italian films now streaming on SBS On Demand. Viva il cinema!
The SBS Radio teams talk about funny aspects of Australian culture that caught them off guard when they were new to the country.
Multicultural Australia exists to create a welcoming, inclusive and economically stronger community. This is an agenda shared with many others. Our part is to ensure that new Queenslanders are included, skilled and thriving. We are passionate about promoting positive conversations about inclusion. Multicultural Australia delivers settlement services to refugees, migrants, international students and people seeking asylum in Queensland, while advancing a diverse, inclusive and multicultural community.
The Major Events team exists to promote a positive conversation about multiculturalism and inclusion and build a community of interest that will influence and advance multiculturalism in Australia through their interaction with our major events and celebrations. We lead Multicultural Australia’s annual program of events designed to build a welcoming, inclusive and multicultural Queensland where everyone belongs and is celebrated for their rich social, cultural and economic contribution.
Please peruse the position description for full details about the role.
Please peruse the position description on our website for full details about the role.
Email your application to the Recruitment Officer at recruitment@multiculturalaustralia.org.au no later than 9.00 am, Tuesday 31 August 2021. Interviews may commence prior to the closing date. Your application must contain:
If you have any further enquiries or for a confidential discussion, please contact Vanessa Fabre, Executive Manager on 0401 060 039.
At Multicultural Australia, we recognise that we are strengthened by diversity and are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.
My Goal Saver offers financial literacy training for community organisations and small business owners.
My Goal Saver teaches small businesses how to read and understand their financial statements, Business Activity Statements and the difference between cashflow and profit.
Founder of My Goal Saver, Sallymatu Kuyateh was born in Sierra Leone and migrated to Brisbane in 2005.
“My mission is to educate and empower community organisations and small business owners to have more confidence to make decisions around their finances. Our Social Goal is to help community organisations and small business owners to grow their businesses.” – Sallymatu Kuyateh
Contact My Goal Saver at admin@mygoalsaver.com.au, visit their website, or follow them on Facebook.
Zeitoon Restaurant will be hosting a cooking demonstration on Sunday 8 November to make Mirza Qasemi – an Afghan appetiser with grilled eggplant.
RSVP to watch the premiere.
Zeitoon Restaurant serves authentic Afghan and Persian cuisine in the heart of Brisbane’s culturally diverse Moorooka.
Hear from owner Ali Mohammadi
“I came to Australia 8 years ago with my wife and my 2 kids. Multicultural Australia helped us with our first initial settlement. We opened Zeitoon Restaurant two-years ago.
Cooking has always been my passion. Zeitoon is a family business. We love to showcase our culture through our food and our hospitality.
It is also very important to us to give back to the community and country that has welcomed us.
Our menu has much in common with Middle Eastern cooking, where wheat is a staple, and lamb, poultry and yoghurt are all popular. A distinctly sour flavour is evident in most dishes, and may be achieved through the addition of lemon, pomegranate or sour oranges.”
Location
4/204 Beaudesert Rd, Moorooka QLD 4105
Contact Zeitoon
P: 07 3848 0271
E: zeitoonrestaurantqld@gmail.com
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Photo credit – Queensland Mental Health Week 2020
Watch Brisbane’s iconic landmarks light up for LUMINOUS in the Neighbourhood from sunset on Saturday 14 November.
Brisbane’s Story Bridge, Victoria Bridge, Reddacliff Place sculptures as well as the breathtaking Tropical Display Dome at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha will be illuminated as we say a very big Welcome to Queensland.
Sunset on Saturday 14, November is at 6:16pm, so pack a picnic, grab your lantern and head out to enjoy our beautiful city. Remember to share your photos with us on our LUMINOUS photo wall!
See full details at the Brisbane City Council Light Up Brisbane Calendar.
Nana Cake is the brainchild of local Brisbane culinary artist Nashwah Maleko, who creates amazing celebration cakes, cup cakes and other baked delights.
I am Nashwah from Iraq.
I left my country after ISIS took control.
I came to Australia less than four years ago.
I came with my family to this beautiful country.
I am pursuing my dream to run my own business.
I love art and I own two pages on Facebook for drawing on glass and decorating cakes.
I am ready to receive any order.
Nana Cake is based in Brendale in Queensland’s Moreton Bay region.
@NANA-CAKE-105335450952545
Multicultural Australia in partnership with QPAC is excited to be hosting Changing the Conversation: Creating Belonging Through Storytelling, the final event in a new series of thought-provoking discussions exploring key issues in our increasingly multicultural society.
Facilitated by Michelle Law, and featuring a panel of experts, this discussion will explore how we share and tell stories, and how our stories shape us as a nation, as a community and as individuals.
We recognise the power and importance of storytelling and is a particularly powerful tool for marginalised and stigmatised groups. Storytelling can be beneficial for the person sharing their experience, for their community and for society. Sharing personal stories is a powerful way of generating empathy, understanding and solidarity; challenging bias, assumptions, and prejudice, and driving commitment to and understanding of opportunities for human rights-based reform.
Join us in November for this thought-provoking finale for the Changing the Conversation series in 2023.
Event Details:
Thursday 16 November
6.30pm – 8pm
QPAC Concert Hall
South Brisbane
Click on ‘Book Now’ to be directed to QPAC ticket sales – it’s essential that tickets are pre-booked.
About Changing the Conversation
Bringing together thought leaders from academia, government, business, and the community to engage in robust discussions about multiculturalism in the Australian context, and facilitated by renowned writer and host Benjamin Law, this series explores issues of who and where we are as a nation and what we need to do to create a society that better reflects and cares for all its people. Changing the Conversation: Creating Belonging Through Storytelling is the final of four events in this series to be held in 2023.
We look forward to you engaging with this conversation.
Michelle Law is a writer and actor – working in print, screen and stage – currently based on Gadigal Land. Her works include the plays, Single Asian Female (La Boite Theatre Company), Top Coat (Sydney Theatre Company), and Miss Peony (Belvoir St Theatre); the television shows Homecoming Queens (SBS) and Safe Home (SBS); and the book Asian Girls are Going Places (Hardie Grant). Her awards include two Australian Writers Guild Awards, the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award, and the Arts & Culture 40 Under 40 Awards, which celebrates the country’s most influential Asian Australians. Michelle is also a widely published freelance author and a prolific speaker who regularly appears on panels and at festivals.
Dung is a lived experience anti-racism Story Telling mentor, educator and advocate, and Co-Founder of Our Race, a social enterprise made of story holders, practitioners and researchers who educate and advocate for ethical story telling. Growing up in Ipswich during the 80s and 90s where she witnessed and experienced racism regularly instilled in Dung a strong sense of social and racial justice. Dung has used her lived experience as one of her greatest strengths as both a driver to fight for justice and to encourage others to value lived experience as the highest form of expertise. She demonstrates this through her work at Our Race which she co-founded and serves as a director and Story Partner.
Papua New Guinean-Australian soprano, Heru Pinkasova, weaves her stories through reimagined Papuan folk songs, en route the classical canon to create soulful operatic cabaret. Following celebrated performances in Three Marys, an opera by Andree Greenwell, The Beginning of Nature (ADT), Hot Brown Honey, Showboat and Songs My Aunties Taught Me, Heru has lovingly curated a collection of melodies that are part opera, tradition and comedy, and one hundred percent remarkable. In addition to providing insights on the Changing the Conversation panel, Heru will deliver a special performance to conclude this year’s series.
Omid Tofighian is an award-winning lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in citizen media, popular culture, displacement and discrimination. His publications include Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues (Palgrave 2016); translation of Behrouz Boochani’s multi-award-winning autobiographical novel, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Picador 2018); co-editor of special issues for journals Literature and Aesthetics (2011), Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media (2019) and Southerly (2021); and co-translator/co-editor of Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani (Bloomsbury 2023).
See why previous attendees love the Changing the Conversation Series:
“An amazing night where I heard inspiring speakers and listened to a future that filled me with hope for a new direction.”
“…extremely worthwhile. Some extremely interesting speakers from across the age range. I am looking forward to the next event.”
“…the Multicultural Australia panelists were brilliant.”
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In this three-hour, interactive virtual workshop, delivered by Multicultural Australia staff with practice experience, you will have the chance to build awareness and empathy with women from refugee and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV).
This workshop aims to increase participants’ awareness of:
Survivor stories and perspectives are centred through videos and case studies.
For more information about the Cultural Training click here
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We hear a lot about refugees and asylum seekers, but we don’t often hear from the people themselves.
In My Country is a podcast sharing the stories of six Aussies who came to Australia as refugees or people seeking asylum. Stories of identity, religion, sexuality, the arts, parenting, culture, fashion, meaning, purpose, and the many places we call home.
Premiering at REIMAGINE is a special panel discussion with In My Country, featuring four of the guests from the podcast. Join host Pia Perversi-Burchall, and guests Alyas Taqawi, Liliana Maria, Marcela Cornejo and Tenzin Choegyal as they discuss changing the conversation about what it means to be a refugee. Stay to the end for a musical performance from the magical Tenzin Choegyal.
In My Country’s episode featuring Alyas has been shortlisted for Best Interview at the 2020 Australian Podcast Awards.
The In My Country panel premieres on YouTube and Facebook at 7pm on 11 November. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for notifications or set a watch reminder on the video below.
Find Season One of In My Country.
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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