Celebrating Welcoming Week 2025
Join us for a Multicultural Women’s Health Expo, a vibrant celebration of culture, wellbeing and belonging on 3 September 2025 from 10am-1pm at Atwell Community Centre, 9 Lombe Gardens, Atwell. This event, hosted by the City of Cockburn in collaboration with Multicultural Futures and the Cities of Melville and Fremantle will explore community forms part […]
Delight vs “de-light”
Nelson Mandela once wrote: “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” If you are reading this newsletter, my assumption is that you are someone who wants to […]
Connect with culture through great food and music
World Music Café is bringing you a world of great music and food with its Kalamunda Slide Summit on Friday, 8 August 2025 from 6.45-10pm at the Agricultural Hall, Kalamunda Performing Arts Centre, 48 Canning Road in Kalamunda. The Dinner and Show event features some of Perth’s highest quality global musicians including Slide Summit with […]
Citizenship classes for the Burundi community
In a Multicultural Futures first, we will be providing free Citizenship Classes accommodating the Burundi community during Term 3. These classes, running from Wednesday, 30 July until 24 September will be facilitated by a Kirundi speaking facilitator, at Hillview Intercultural Community Centre, 1-3 Hillview Place, Bentley. The citizenship classes prepare participants for Australian citizenship, gives […]
Celebrating five years of See Me See You
June 2025 marks five years since the launch of See Me See You, Multicultural Futures’ cultural responsiveness training program, funded by the Office of Multicultural Interests. Since the first session in August 2020, See Me See You has trained nearly 3,500 participants and worked with around 70 organisations this year alone. Despite the early challenges […]
Living Legacies
Each year, we remember the ANZACs at the end of April and a few weeks later, we look at the mothers in our lives. Both the veterans and for most people, their mothers, live sacrificial lives that lead to a legacy that their family can be proud of, building a brighter future for the next […]
See Me See You Opportunities
The See Me See You Cultural Responsiveness Training Program has been so popular since its inception in July 2020, and continues to go from strength to strength. Over the last four years, around 2800 people have benefited from the intercultural communications tools provided by this program. METRO: In fact, See Me See You is seen […]
Intentionality, Virtues and Harmony
This year, we had the privilege of seeing International Women’s Day and state voting fall on the same day. While waiting in line at the polling station, and hearing complaints about the long lines and not enough ballot papers, I reminded myself that the right to vote didn’t come easily for so many people before […]
See Me See You is going places
Four and half years since the first See Me See You workshop took place in early August 2020; this cultural responsiveness training program is still going strong with new frontiers on the horizon. This year alone, the See Me See You team of Erika von Kaschke and Rika Asaoka has delivered 44 workshops to around […]
Working together for reconciliation
Australian Diggers are known for their bravery, fighting for their country with all that’s inside them. When it comes to reconciliation, it might take the same kind of bravery, not shying away from putting our hands in the soil of this land, especially to see that no one is left behind. According to Reconciliation Australia, […]