Introducing ICE
Award-winning organisation Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) works at the intersection of arts, media, technology, and community.
ICE works across Greater Western Sydney which, as home to the largest migrant, refugee and urban Indigenous populations in the country, is Australia’s most culturally diverse region. We work on a wide range of innovative programs and projects that engage and support the region’s diverse communities and artists to express, create and collaborate on a range of screen, music, radio, sound, online and new media projects.
ICE nurtures new voices, amplifies existing urban cultures and contributes to an arts and cultural sector that can be truly representative of Australia’s diversity. Our projects creatively engage communities and artists to generate new forms of cultural expression, build cultural and community capacity and infrastructures, encourage intercultural dialogue and tell the stories of this extraordinary place.
ICE manages Switch, Western Sydney’s state of the art multimedia and digital arts
access centre, a partnership with Parramatta Council. We manage Artfiles, a program of support for creative practitioners. ICE has expertise and success in developing digital media, cultural development and arts programs that engage thousands of individuals, artists and communities annually and is known and respected for undertaking projects with newly arrived migrant and refugee communities and young people.