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Grants on offer
THE Australian Government has invited organi-
sations to apply for grants under its Fostering
Integration Grants program.
The Government promised an extra $5 million
in funding for initiatives supporting culturally and
linguistically diverse (CALD) Australians.
To be eligible for a grant, the applicant must be
a not-for-profit organisation legally registered in
Australia. Closing date for grant applications is 9
November 9,.2018.
'PASKO'
OFF THE
BLOCKS
CHRISTMAS has always come early for Filipinos. So it
does today with Filipino-Australians.
The community is kicking off this Christmas season
with a Philippine Christmas Festival at Tumbalong Park
in Sydney’s Darling Harbour on the Saturday-Sunday of
November 10-11, from 10am to 9pm.
There will be food and trade stalls as well as
entertainment to usher in the Christmas season spirit.
As festival chairwoman Elsa Collado says, the
celebration “aims to promote Philippine art, culture,
trade and tourism as well as Filipino heritage and
identity; and to enhance the visibility and stature pf the
Filipino community in NSW”.
The Festival is organised by the Philippine Community
Council of NSW with the support of the Philippine
Department of Foreign Affairs, Philippine Tourism, and
Philippine Department of Trade and Industry.
Bangs & Garp
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OCTOBER 2018 | AK NewsMagazine, Vol 9 No 1
VIOLI
CALVERT
heads the
outside
broadcast at
the Fiesta
Kultura.
You heard it first
Auburn Small Communities Network (ASCON)
chairwoman Cen Amores, pictured at left, receives a
certioficate representing a ClubGRANT of $62,948
from Dooleys Lidcombe Catholic Club director Terry
Kerry, centre. At right is ASCON project officer Jamal
Fayyaz. The grant was for ASCON's Connect To Work
project.
Book launch
Filipino friends and family in Sydney are
invited to attend the book launch of FourW
29: the Journal of New Writing where
Filipino-Australian author and short story
writer Erwin Cabucos will be featured.
The launching will take place on
Saturday, November 24, 2018 in
Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe,
starting from 3:30pm..
A LITTLE bit of history at the Fiesta Kultura was the
two-hour live outside broadcast of Radio Tagumpay
for community radio station Triple H-100.1FM
based at Sydney’s North Shore.
It was the first Filipino-Australian radio program to
to do the outside broadcast live.
Over two hours, the program conducted
interviews and featured entertainment such as as
visting tenor Miguel Castro.
Producer Violi Calvert was joined by presenters
Charles Chan and Criz Guce on the broadcast
panel located in a corner of the Fiesta’s exhibition
hall.
Andrew Russell was sound engineer, with support
from station manager Rick Dunlop and presenter
Neil Ashworth. Fiesta organiser Josie Musa was
the broadcast’s facilitator.
Helping Tacloban
RISE UP, a fund-raising concert to continue helping
rebuild lives in Tacloban after the devastation
caused by super-typhoon Haiyan in 2013 will also
be a thanksgiving gesture to donors at Workers
Blacktown on Sunday, November 4, 2018.
Featured will be Lillian de los Reyes, Marcus
Rivera, Brian Lorenz, June Young, Jersay Delaney,
Trinity Young, Robyn Russell, One Voice Kids
Fasika Ayallew. Hosts will be Melanie Balagtas,
Rica Sey and Kymberlee Street.
by MIGUEL CASTRO
www.kalatas.com.au