Celebrate and reflect this Cultural Diversity Week
There are many ways your organisation, school, workplace, family and community can celebrate Cultural Diversity Week.
The 2025 Cultural Diversity theme is Embrace the Journey Shape our Future. The theme emphasises the unique and collective journeys that define our diverse communities and encourages individuals to embrace and honour their own cultural stories and those of others, fostering a sense of belonging and understanding.
Ideas - Embrace the Journey
- Organise a Taste of Harmony lunch in your workplace catered by a social enterprise
- Showcase the talents and traditions of culturally diverse people in your community by holding a festival in your local area
- Create opportunities for community members to actively participate through activities like cooking demonstrations, craft-making sessions, and storytelling circles
- Share images and stories of culturally significant places you have visited
- Collaborate with local library to program a Storytime for children with culturally diverse characters and lead with a Multicultural leader to host the Storytime
- Work with local businesses, schools, and community groups to co-create events and campaigns that resonate with their unique cultural identities and priorities
- Organise a movie night to celebrate multicultural films
- Offer language lessons, craft workshops, or cultural dance classes
- Celebrate multicultural fashion through a runway at an event
Ideas - Shape our Future
- Observe the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination by organising a virtual or in-person talk with a speaker or speakers with a background in anti-racism, diversity or inclusion work
- Promote cultural diversity and challenge racism in the workplace by completing the Australian Human Rights Commission Workplace Cultural Diversity Tool with your team
- Book a course on human rights and equality through the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
- Share your favourite publications (books, magazines or articles) that discuss issues of race, racism, belonging and identity
- Start a book club focused on anti-racism education
- Start a group playlist where participants can contribute music that represents their culture
- Discuss Victoria's Anti-Racism Strategy at your all staff meetings
- Run a Harmony Walk at your organisation
- Work with language professionals in a training session with LanguageLoop
- Lunchtime panels – Key prolific people debating on contentious topics
- Host a traditional dress day where participants wear attire representing their heritage
Register your event on VMConnect
VMConnect is an online noticeboard, where members can share information, services, initiatives, programs and events that are of interest to Victoria's multicultural communities.
If you are hosting a Cultural Diversity Week event, activity or a cultural celebration in March, we invite you to add the event to the VMConnect event calendar.
Joining VMConnect is easy and once registered you can start posting immediately and promote your event!
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