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Catch ICE on SBS!

» If you’re a watcher of SBS One TV please keep your eyes peeled for ICE advertisements from this month. Thanks to the sponsorship of the newly established SBS Foundation, ICE will be able to reach a national audience by broadcasting short advertisements about what we do and our programs. More »

Digital Stories on the Big Screen

» A selection of ICE’s digital stories have been selected to screen at the upcoming Parramatta Park Movie Marathon event. The digital stories will be screened in between a number of blockbuster feature films at this free outdoor event. More »

2010 Community Cultural Development Grants

» ICE and Fairfield City Council have teamed up to provide free information sessions and a grant writing workshop/mentoring program for those interested in applying for a 2010 Community Cultural Development Grant. More »

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Train the Trainer - Project Round-up

ICE has recently wrapped up the Train the Trainer project – the first of six different digital storytelling workshops being held as part of the Digi Diaries project. Eleven creative and cultural leaders from Western Sydney were trained in digital storytelling production and facilitation. Read on to see their stories. More »

Job vacancy at ICE

Are you a creative and entrepreneurial leader? Do you want to work in a dynamic environment with artists, young people and communities? Are you passionate about developing employment and professional development opportunities for artists and communities? ICE is seeking an innovative and entrepreneurial manager to lead our new Creative Enterprise team. More »

Joint Project launch a smashing success

On December 10 we held a joint launch for the Yallah! What’s Your Story? and Pacific Specific projects. The event, held at Auburn Community Development Network, was attended by more than 100 music lovers, film buffs, young people and family members. More »

Create Media: celebrating a stunning debut year

In 2009 Create Media debuted as a project that brought together talented, young refugees and migrants, and gave them the opportunity to develop their digital media craft as well as their future employment and business possibilities. So far, the project has been a stunning success! More »

Cybermohalla: new international connections between Delhi and Sydney

Earlier this month ICE and the Listening Project jointly hosted international guests from the acclaimed Cybermohalla project in India. Over 30 media practitioners, artists, cultural planners, community workers and researchers gathered to hear our guests talk about, screen and share some of the outcomes and practices of Cybermohalla and its locality labs in some of Delhi’s rapidly changing and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. More »

ARTFILES

IN FOCUS

‘The texture of bark, the vein pattern in a leaf, the colour of a flower or the shape of a cloud’ Each of these is inspiration for Elena Parashko. More at the Artfiles website »

COOL PROJECTS

Digi Diaries

»»  ICE’s latest digital storytelling project engages young people from Muslim communities throughout Western Sydney. Digi Diaries aims to empower young people (aged 12 – 25) with skills to make and tell their own stories and share them with broader Australian communities through public screenings, forums and on the internet.More »

The Story Exchange 2009

»»  In June 2009 ICE and Penrith City Council partnered to run a series of workshops for young people from the suburbs of Londonderry, Cranebrook and Oxley Park. Participants created photographic and digital stories that explore themes of neighbourhood strength, pride in place, local identity and passion for the environment.More »

CREATE Media!

»»  Create Media! is an exciting new project managed by ICE and supported by the Westpac Foundation. The project offers free targeted training and mentorship for young people from a refugee background. The training provides participipants with in depth knowledge of the A-Z of digital arts and business.More »

Parenting Stories

»»  Sudanese and Central African families are invited to share their parenting stories in an exciting community media project which will open a discussion around parenting in Australia. It will look at the issues faced by recently arrived migrants as they deal with settlement, cross-cultural issues and the new legal context, as well as the resources available to assist them.More »

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