February 22, 2024
Renew With Us!
Hello friends! Another month, another New Year! This month’s calendar spotlight is on Nowruz or Persian New Year, which falls on 20 March and celebrates the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere. New years and the change of season remind us to renew and we invite you to renew with us.
Free World-Class Resources When You Book With Us!
Last month, we announced a huge deal for people booking our programs. Here’s a reminder!
With any Cultural Infusion booking, you now receive three months’ free access to a suite of constantly updated intercultural education resources, comprising internationally award-winning apps, games and activities that integrate the arts, music, geography, history and Indigenous perspectives that will put your students at the forefront in intercultural competency. There is no better way to prepare students for our globalised and ever-changing world.
Coming Soon: Online Intercultural Communications for Educators
We are expanding our range of professional development programs for teachers to include online training. Intercultural Communications for Educators offers practical strategies for communicating across cultures, both with students and colleagues. Combining video, text and activities, this unit takes approximately three hours to complete.
Further announcements with more details to come!
Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives in the Classroom
Stolen Generations Elder Aunty Gabby led a session this month on Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives in the Classroom, which was greatly appreciated by students and staff.
Book for your school today!
Reminder to Book for Harmony Week 2024
Our Education and Experiences team are busy taking bookings for our phenomenal Harmony Week programs. We delivered more than 100 cultural incursions over Harmony Week 2023, reaching more than 90 early learning centres, schools and community organisations across Australia.
We remember the history of this week. Harmony Week promotes respect, inclusivity and a sense of belonging for everyone and will be celebrated from the 20 to 26 March 2024, but harmony isn’t the full story of how this event came about. The United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination commemorates the 21 March 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa where 69 people peacefully protesting apartheid laws were killed by South African police and more than 200 were wounded. This was a turning point in South Africa’s history, galvanising international sympathy for the anti-apartheid cause. In 1994, South Africa became the last country in Africa to gain liberation from colonisation and apartheid.
Check out our ideas for Harmony Week activities in the classroom.
Do also check out the phenomenal dancers and musicians who performed for Harmony Week at Dandenong Plaza last year.
Calendar Spotlight: Nowruz, 20 March
Nowruz marks the beginning of a new year in Persian culture and is widely celebrated under a variety of names, including Novruz, Navruz, Nooruz, Nevruz, Nauryz and Navrooz. ‘Now’, meaning new, and ‘ruz’, meaning day, together symbolise a new chapter. Nowruz celebrates the end of winter and beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere. With celebratory traditions including jumping over bonfires and lighting firecrackers, the whole community come together to enjoy the festivities. Visiting family and friends and enjoying Persian sweets, it is a day filled with laughter, excitement and joy.
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