The Australian of the Year Awards includes a category of Local Hero drawn from each state and territory. In 2024, Betul Tuna was Victorian Local Hero for 2024.
Point of Difference Studio
PALM Community Information Event
Know Your Roots Inc. – Point of Difference Studio invite our local Pacific community and local services to attend this opportunity and hear from the professionals including PALM Scheme workers on the actual program and how you can get involved!
Successful night for POD — addressing seasonal worker health
On the night of Wednesday, March 8, Point of Difference Studio, now in Shepparton, held an information session for over 200 Pacific Island seasonal workers living in the Goulburn Valley.
Spilling in from Shepparton, Mooroopna, Ardmona, Tatura, Cobram and towns all over the region, seasonal workers gathered to hear Jodie New and Cherie Holland from Goulburn Valley Health talk about the importance of protecting themselves from Japanese encephalitis.
Shepparton Culture Kitchen Experience on 13 and 14 May
Drawing on their own stories, cultures, traditions and contemporary influences, the women including Ane Fotu, Ree Peric, Shakilla Naveed, Eman Alabbassi, Yusniza Yusoff, Leaisa Pele and Agoness Kuol, have collaborated with artist Jamie Lewis, to explore and exchange food cultures and to develop this special program of participatory cooking, eating, storytelling and food culture experiences at St Paul’s African House on 13 and 14 May.
Shepparton Culture Kitchen | Watch Party
Health promotion, community, local government and settlement service workers in Greater Shepparton – you are invited to gather with colleagues, bring a healthy lunch and take a deep dive into the Shepparton Culture Kitchen project! You are invited to participate. This will be livestreamed on Thursday 12 May, from 12:00pm
Creative Voices in time of Coronavirus: Muticultural Arts Victoria
Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) has received a grant of $1 million to conduct new programs, one of which will be in Shepparton.
The two new programs, Duniya Behter and Ahead of the Curve, made possible with $1 million in funds from the Victorian Government’s recent Priority Response to Multicultural Communities During Coronavirus (COVID-19) Program, focus on building digital content skills, generating new community specific forms of transmission, and developing creative enterprise models.
These programs will create significant employment opportunities and position young people, women and creatives from culturally diverse backgrounds living in Melbourne, Bendigo and Shepparton.
Anti-racism message in art
Using traditional Indigenous arts to break down cultural barriers and tackle racism in schools is the aim behind a new program due to start in Shepparton later this year. The new project Be Woke-Be Anti-Racist has been developed by the Mooroopna-based Point of Difference Studio using the skills and connections of newly appointed Indigenous community engagement co-ordinator and Yorta Yorta artist Tammy-Lee Atkinson.
Roundtable to tackle racism and social inclusion issues in Shepparton
A new roundtable is set to meet to tackle the broader trends of racism and lack of social inclusion across Shepparton. Representatives from various cultural and Aboriginal communities, the Victorian Multicultural Commission, government departments and agencies, Greater Shepparton City Council and Greater Shepparton Secondary College will form a roundtable to meet later this month.
Cultural roundtable formed to ‘strengthen the community and the various faiths and cultures’
Representatives from various cultural and Aboriginal communities, the Victorian Multicultural Commission, government departments and agencies, Greater Shepparton City Council, and the Greater Shepparton Secondary College will form a roundtable to meet later this month.