Cultural Development

MAV provides artistic and project management support to artists and organisations.

MAV plays an important role in ensuring the projects profile, success and professionalism from the initial funding proposal, project management and advice, marketing of the project to the final acquittal and reporting requirements.

Case Study

Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) Community Needs Analysis and Multicultural Arts in Victoria- The Way Forward - Multicultural Arts Victoria in partnership with the Victorian Multicultural Commission.

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Initiatives

Some innovative CCD initiatives have included: New Zealand Festival held at Federation Square and attended by 50,000 people 'What is a Warrior?' partnership with Warrior Spirit Art Collective, Koori Community performances at Playbox Theatre at the Malthouse, Pysanka Easter Egg project with the Ukrainian community, Chinese Children's Environmental Arts project with the Chinese community, Back to African cultural values with the Rawandan, Congolese and Burundi communities and many more.

Continued support of best practice CCD community arts projects in professional settings plus ongoing seminars with funding bodies is an integral part of the ongoing MAV program.

MAV also works with many communities in partnership auspicing community cultural development projects.

Selected cultural development events

Building a home in a new land 1948 - 2008 Explores the experience of the hundreds of Ukrainians who came to Australia from 1948 with iconic images from a lost world of full employment in Victoria's power industry in the Latrobe Valley - Ukrainian Photographic travelling exhibition curator Janina Green. ...more.

Pysanka - Traditional Ukrainian Easter Egg Painting: Workshops @ Federation Square Come along and learn about this age-old tradition in free workshops at Artplay. The symbolism of the pysanka has brought hope happiness and protection to the Ukrainians for many centuries. ...more.

Kumbuka Utamaduni: Back to our African cultural values (all ages event) IMPALA is an African community group that was set up in Melbourne by new arrival migrants from three African countries - D.R.Congo, Burundi and Rwanda. ...more.

Seniors Festival - Multicultural Concerts MC's Marcello D'Amico and Anthea Sidiropoulos join Italian and Greek forces to bring you these wonderful concerts with music and dance from variety of Australian performers from rich and diverse cultural backgrounds. ...more.

Festival New Zealand Participate in Festival New Zealand 2007 at Federation Square and see traditional Polynesian Outrigger Canoes, known as Waka Ama, raced on the Yarra. A cultural concert features Tongan, Samoan, Niuean and Maori performers ...more.

Celebrate Ukraine's National Day - Exhibitions, Workshops & Concert Experience a whirlwind of cossack dancing, a feast of Ukrainian song, intricate and beautiful Ukrainian folk art including pysanky (easter eggs) and embroidery demonstrations, workshops and exhibitions ...more.

Harmony & Diversity: Australian/Chinese Youth Arts Exhibition As part of Victoria's Diversity Week in March 2007, this Australian-Chinese youth arts exhibition with the theme Harmony & Diversity ...more.

Pysanka - Traditional Ukrainian Easter Egg Painting: Workshops & Exhibition Come along and learn about this age-old tradition in free workshops and an exhibition to display the work created. Julia Mazur, Hanya Kornitschuk and Tamara Moravski have been decorating pysanky since they were children. ...more.

Greek-Language Writers of Melbourne project This new innovative creative writer’s multimedia project will be Coordinated by Costas Athanassiou and launched by George Lekakis, Chairperson, Victorian Multicultural Commission. ...more.

Te Kotahitanga - Unity (Festival New Zealand) @ Federation Square Te Roopu Ataawhai & Te Kerangatahi in partnership with Multicultural Arts Victoria presented Festival New Zealand. A 40 foot long carved Maori Waka (war canoe) was rowed on the Yarra, and there were Polynesian and Maori cultural events throughout the day, plus live screening of the Bledisloe Cup ...more.

More Information

For further info contact office@multiculturalarts.com.au , Multicultural Arts Victoria.