February 2009

ICE at Harmony Day in Blacktown

ICE at Harmony Day in Blacktown

ICE will be featured at Blacktown Migrant Resource Centre’s Harmony Day event on Friday 20 March at 12.30pm. As part of the program we will launch Refugee Allstars, a music and filmmaking project for young people from refugee backgrounds that commences in the April school holidays. More »

ShortCuts'09 - Reeling in those short films

ShortCuts, Western Sydney’s only short film festival for young people will take place this April as part of the NSW Youth Week celebrations in Western Sydney. Submit your short films by Friday 20 March for a chance to get it screened at the event and to win great prizes. More »

Hot Topics: Simple photo editing on the go

ICE’s Community IT Program Manager, Liliana Ruti, often works with people who are new to the world of computers and digital media. In this article she shares her latest discovery – a free website that makes photo editing a breeze, even for those who aren’t tech savvy. More »

African parents to broadcast their 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 »

Switch Academy Industry Skills Courses

Since launching in September, Switch Academy has run a wide range of well received industry skills courses. The Academy recently partnered with Vinegar Hill Memorial Library to run a filmmaking program as part of their school holiday program in January and have been asked to run the program again on an ongoing basis. More »