Entries due by Friday 1st October 2010, Send Entries to Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne 3000, Victoria. Multicultural Arts Victoria and AMES are collaborating to launch the inaugural New Heartlands Refugee Fine Art Prize 2010. The Prize will celebrate the creative talent and social contribution of visual artists from a refugee background.
Artists living in [...]

Friday, 12 November 2010, 12 November 2010 – 29 May 2011,  Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Victoria
From spiritual beliefs to daily life, masks to music, cloth to carving, West Africa: Rhythm and Spirit explores the array of vibrant and dynamic cultures of West Africa.
Bordered by the Sahara Desert to the north, and by the [...]

Somali author Nadifa Mohamed (pictured) is one of a few African authors who will talk at Melbourne Writers Festival, 27 Aug – 5 Sept 2010.  Somali author Nadfia Mohamed’s book Black Mamba Boy is long-listed for the Orange Prize 2010, and covers her father’s epic journey from Somalia 80 years ago, travelling across war-torn Africa [...]

Those power-packed, glamourous hip-hop sensations, the Killa Queenz, featuring Kween G and Belizean Bombshell (originally from Uganda and Belize, now from Sydney) are touring around Australia in August, with DJ K-Note.
They’re  launching the new mix CD “Billion Dollar House Party” two discs said to be full of “the biggest and baddest basslines, previously unreleased exclusive [...]

14th August 2010, 7:30pm-9:30pm, Sand Down Park Hotel, Cnr Corrigan and Princess Hwy, Noble Park, VIC    Ok peeps so the time has nearly come for an epic night of celebration and inspiration. Many of you have heard that i’ve written a book, well come 14 August i plan to unveil this project that i felt impressed [...]

Saturday 20 November 2010, 7.00 – Late, The Manningham Hotel, 1 Thompsons Road, Bulleen, Victoria. Join us, for an evening of dining, mesmerizing entertainment and an explosion of mind-blowing contemporary African culture at it’s finest.
The evening will include raffles and funds raised from the raffle will go to charity. This is a black tie event and [...]

Artist Sutueal Bekele exhibition at Melbourne Australian Stock Exchange
Opening Tuesday 27th of July. Exhibition runs 28 July to 12 August. Opening ceremony at 5.30pm. Exhibition runs 8am to 6pm M-F at the Australia Stock Exchange building, 530 Collins Street, Melbourne.
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Sutueal Bekele Althe, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is influenced by traditional Ethiopian mosaic [...]

‘Take me as I am’ Mixed media on wood board by Edem Badu

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 6:30pm Esco Art Gallery,
386-388 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
Ghanaian born Artist residing in Melbourne. Debut solo art exhibition. An eclectic collection imbued by moments, lessons and epiphanies; Edem Badu recreates and freezes time as she signs off ‘msbadu’ against a [...]

The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) 22 July – 8 August has announced some of its film line-up – including a film about Somali supermodel Waris Dirie, Desert Flower (Germany/Austria/UK (120 mins, dir. Sherry Hormann)). Based on the best-selling autobiography of Waris Dirie, Desert Flower is the inspirational true story of a Somali girl who [...]

A great range of music and cultural events celebrating emerging communities in Melbourne. DON’T MISS the Main Event 20 June Fantastic African acts!!   The magnificent Fitzroy Town Hall opens its doors and closes off the street for 3 non stop stages of world music, a vibrant cultural marketplace, the aromas of an Ethiopian coffee ceremony, [...]