Best wishes from ICE
» Best wishes for the festive season and the year ahead from the board and team at ICE. We thank you for your support in 2008 and look forward to a continuing creative collaboration in the year to come. More »
Sydney Arab Film Festival wins National Multicultural Marketing Award
» ICE’s Mouna Zaylah and Fadia Abboud were recently presented with the prestigious Integral Energy Community Award for promoting the 2008 Sydney Arab Film Festival. Stepan Kerkyasharian, Chair of the Community Relations Commission, said: “This is a true marketing success story which demonstrates that the smart use of every available marketing channel can pay off for a community organisation…” More »
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Creative Commons: All Rights or Some Rights?
Confused about copyright? Are you unsure if you need permission to use someone else’s work? Or are you concerned about protecting your own work from being exploited? Come along to this free seminar on Tuesday 9 December at Casula Powerhouse and hear from representatives from the Arts Law Centre of Australia and Creative Commons Australia. More »
Making Links 2008
Over the past five years, ICE has been active in setting an agenda for Making Links – the conference where social action and technology converge. This year the conference was held at the University of Melbourne from November 11 – 14 and attracted 180 participants from all around Australia and New Zealand. More »
Pop Series - Making Shorts that Speak Out
ICE is training a group of young Western Sydney-based filmmakers to develop their film projects and present them on screen. With guidance from award-winning Directors Amin Palangi and Craig Anderson, the 19 participants are learning how to bring their stories to life on screen. More »
Winner of TropWest Scholarship Announced
On October 18 more than 140 people attended ICE’s TropWest forum at Riverside Theatres in Parramatta. The event was opened by The Hon. David Borger, MP (Minister for Housing and Minister for Western Sydney) who also announced the winner of the ICE and Switch TropWest Scholarship. More »
SAFF Directors at Ayam Beirut Al Cinemai'iya Arab Film Festival
ICE’s Sydney Arab Film Festival (SAFF) Directors Mouna Zaylah and Fadia Abboud recently travelled to Lebanon where they attended the Ayam Beirut Al Cinemai’iya Arab Film Festival. The visit provided a great opportunity to build the international profile of SAFF, and to make contacts and source content for future programs. More »
IN FOCUS
Bankstown artist Wendy Agzarian draws and paints in intricate detail, inspired by the people and wildlife around her. More at the Artfiles website »
Changing Lives
»» Changing Lives is a project engaging Arabic speaking young people with digital arts and community cultural development. The project empowers young people with skills to make and tell their own stories and share them on the internet.More »
Ali Kadhim: Parkroar
»» In 2007, new media artist and parkour practitioner, Ali Kadhim, received an Emerging Producers in Community (EPIC) grant from the Australia Council to work at ICE for a year.More »
DigiTales
»» ICE is the first Australian partner in the global digital storytelling project – DigiTales. This collection of unique local tales made by Sydney’s emerging media talent is now online.More »
Youth Digital Cultures
»» A three-year youth digital arts and skills development project driven by creative and diverse young people from all corners of Western Sydney. More »