What's on

Visit the MQM events calendar to see what’s on in August.

If you are hosting an event during Multicultural Queensland Month we would like to promote your event on the MQM event calendar. Please register your event today.

Want to hold your own event?

Whether you are a community group, school, workplace, group of friends, sporting club library or an interested Queenslander, we have some meaningful event ideas for you.

• Host an intercultural dinner: enjoy a meal with people from culturally diverse backgrounds, not only to enable everyone to share food, but share different perspectives and stories, and learn about cultures different to their own. Here is a toolkit developed by Belong Aotearoa to help you organise an intercultural dinner.
• Human Library: organise a ‘human library’ to reach out and connect with individuals that you might not normally engage with. People can ‘borrow’ Human Books to engage in conversation with the books from culturally diverse backgrounds and/ or diverse lived experiences, for example, former refugees to hear about their culture, stories and background. Check out how this has been done in Mackay and Brisbane.
  Further information on how to plan a human library event can be found from the following libraries:
  • Ontario Library Association
  • The State Library of Queensland
  • Fairfield University's DiMenna-Nyselius Library.
• Guest speaker: organise a guest speaker with lived experience to talk to your workplace, school or community group about migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum. You could arrange a speaker through organisations such as the Refugee Council of Australia, Shout Out or the Asylum Seeker Centre.

You may like to arrange a speaker who can speak about anti-racism and how to make inclusion work. Organisations such as Diversity Council Australia can help you source a speaker for this purpose.

• Cooking class: arrange a cooking class where the 'head chef’ is not only demonstrating how to cook something from their culture but sharing insights into their culture and sharing their personal story. This is a great opportunity for participants to ask questions and connect with someone from a culture different to their own.
• Film screening: organise a film screening and facilitate a discussion afterwards about issues raised in the film. The Refugee Council of Australia has a list of films available for screenings. You could partner with a local multicultural organisation who might be able to help you find a guest speaker from a culturally diverse background.

Head to our Resources page for some great resources to help promote your event.

And don’t forget to tag #MQM24 if you post about your great event on socials!