Multicultural Festivals and Events 2020-21 Digital Round One Successful Grants Approved Amount (ex Organisation Name Digital Event/Activity GST) "The Southern Cross" Club of Bards? Song Digital capability $3,000 ABRISA - Brazilian Association for Social Development in Australia Latin Virtual Carnaval $3,000 African Music and Cultural Festival African Music And Cultural Virtual Festival $37,500 African Women's and Families Network African Communities Virtual Cultural Mosaic Festival - Online 2021 $3,000 Albanian Moslem Society Shepparton Inc. FLAMUR 2020 $3,000 Alevi Community Council of Australia Taking the Anatolian Alevi Festival Online $6,250 Anglo-Indian Australasian Association of Vic. Inc. Annual 49th Anglo-Indian Association Carol Singing Virtual Celebration in 2020 $2,000 Asha Global Foundation Hail the colours concert, 2020-21 $4,995 Asian Australian Volunteers Inc. Volunteering Day and New Year 2021 Celebration $2,000 Association of Former Inmates of Nazi Concentration Camps & Ghettos from the Former Soviet Union Jewish Purim Festival $2,000 Association of Greek Elderly Citizen Clubs of Melbourne & Vic Inc. 28th October 2020-National Day Celebration $2,000 Association of Haryanvis in Australia INC National Haryana Day Celebrations, Nov 2020 $3,000 Australia Chinese Dancers Association 2020 Australia Chinese Youth Dance DigitalFestival $2,000 Australia-China Veterans Club, Inc. Chinese New Year Celebration $2,000 Australian Chaldean Family Welfare Chaldean Cultural Festival $2,000 Australian Indian Seniors Association Multicultural Digital Event $2,000 Australian Karen Organisation Digital capability $3,000 Australian Multicultural Association Incorporation South Asian Rhythms Concert Series $2,000 Australian Multicultural Community Services Inc The Whole Village into One Digital Stage $6,000 Australian Society of Graduate Tamils Inc The Tamil Forum and Competition $3,000 Australian Theatre of Poetry Inc LifeOnline 2021 $2,000 AVA Boroondara Senior Citizens Group Let's Celebrate Lunar New Year of the Ox 2021 $1,700 Ballarat Hindu Temple & Cultural Centre Inc BHTCC Sankranti 2021 $3,000 Bangla Sahitya Sansad Bengali Literary Society Inc International Mother Language Day 2021 $1,200 Bastille Day French Festival Inc. Digital capability $3,000 Belgium Avenue Neighbourhood House BANH Inc. 2020 Virtual Exhibition $3,000 Bendigo Filipino Foundation Inc Luto: Food and Facts about the Philippines $2,000 Bendigo Malayalee Association Inc. Bendigo Malayalee Association Christmas 2020 $2,000 Bengali Society of Melbourne Inc. Digital capability $3,000 BJSM-VIC INC. Chhath Puja (Sun Festival) 2020 $2,000 Botswana Australia Victoria Association Botswana Independence Day and Culture 2020 $2,000 Brunswick Russian School KNowledge Day $2,000 Casey Friendship Association INC Chinese New Year Celebration $2,000 Casey Tamil Manram Inc. The Tamil Festival - Victoria 2021 $14,700 Celebrate Messiah Channukah with a difference $3,000 Chabad on Carlisle-Jewish Russian Centre Chabad on Carlisle chanukah function $2,000 Chinese Arts Association of Melbourne Digital Chinese New Year Celebration for the Seniors 2021 $2,000 Chinese Association of Monash Inc 2021 Chinese New Year Digital Celebration $1,880 Chinese Association of Victoria Incorporated 2020 CAV Mid-Autumn (Mooncake) Festival Virtual Celebration $2,000 Chiquitines Cultural Workshop Inc. Sabores LatiNos 4x4 @ Ventana 2021 $15,000 Circle of Sisters-St.Basil Ostrog Church Langwarrin Digital capability $3,000 City Language Learning Centre Inc Chinese New Year Student Writing Showcase 2021 $2,000 Cyprus Community of Melbourne & Victoria Halloumi Festival 2020 $3,000 Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australasia Inc Czech and Slovak Film Festival Online $3,000 Eritrean Families in Hume and the North Inc. Efhn Digital Multicultural Festival $4,990 Ethiopian Women's Alliance in Victoria Inc. Digital capability $2,878 Evolve Church Christmas lights in hearts and homes $2,000 Far Western Nepalese Society of Victoria Far West Dashain and Deepawali Festival $2,000 FBGC Point Cook Inc FBGC Point Cook Christmas Carols Festival 2020 $2,000 Fijian Community Association Victoria Incorporation 2020 Fiji Day Multicultural Festival $9,900 Filipino Elderly Get Together Association FEGTA Annual Fiesta 2021 $2,000 Friends of Community Tributaries Digital capability $3,000 Friends of the Children Foundation Digital capability $3,000 Gamaka Incorporated Gamaka Digital Festival $2,000 Gamelan Dananda Australia Inc. Digital capability $3,000 Generation 1 Migrant Association Digital capability $2,932 Gippsland Australian Muslim Community Inc Prophets Seerah Celebration $2,000 Golden Flower Chinese Friendship Association Incorporated Digital Golden Flower Chinese New Year Celebration 2021 $1,800 Greek Community of Northcote City of Darebin and Districts Annual Festival $2,000 Greek-Australian Cultural League Digital capability $3,000 Hindi Niketan Inc. Diwali - Indian Festival of Lights $2,000 Hmong Australia Festival Inc. HAF Online 2020 $2,000 Hum Tum Task Force Inc. HUM TUM DIWALI 2020 ? Connecting Community with Lights $2,000 Humans in Geelong Humans in Geelong Online Expo 2020. $31,500 Igbo Association of Victoria Digital Iri-Ji Festival 2020 $7,125 Indian Seniors Association-West Inc. Digital capability $1,300 Indochinese Elderly Refugees Association Digital capability $3,000 International Youth Fellowship Incorporated Online Korean Culture Camp $2,000 Islamic Museum of Australia Multicultural Festival & Gala - Celebrating our Indigenous Connections $50,000 Islamic Society of Victoria Ramadan Festivities 2021 $10,000 Japanese Society of Melbourne Virtual Melbourne Japanese Summer Festival 2021 $3,250 Jewish Holocaust Centre Inc International Holocaust Remembrance Day Melbourne event 2021 $3,000 Karen Organisation of Bendigo Karen New Year 2756 $2,000 Kerala Hindu Society Inc Navratri Festival $2,000 Khalsa Education Society Inc Digital Bandi Chhor Divas 2020 $2,000 Khalsa Shaouni Inc. Khalsa Shaouni celebrating 551st Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Ji $3,000 Know Your Roots Virtual - Voyage our Pasifika with Us $15,500 Kobitayon Inc Bengali Poetry Recitation Festival 2021 $2,000 Leadership Great South Coast Inc. Rural Cultural Diversity Podcast $2,000 Leo Baeck Centre for Progressive Judaism Digital capability $2,552 Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services Digital capability $3,000 Macedonian Australian Cultural Orthodox Associations Macedonian Cultural Festival Williamstown On Line $2,000 Maltese Community Council of Victoria Inc. Maltese Museum Showcase & Christmas Carols $3,000 Marco Polo Project Translation Club: default settings $1,627 #OFFICIAL Mata Chintapurni Arts/Culture and Education Trust Digital capability $3,000 Melbourne Bangladeshi Community Foundation (MBCF) Digital capability $3,000 Melbourne Bengali Association Multicultural Spring Festival on a digital platform 2020 $2,000 Melbourne Comhaltas Inc Comhaltas Halloween online 2020 $2,000 Migrant Information Centre (Eastern Melbourne) Digital capability $3,000 Mission Smile Inc Vivid Diwali 2020 $25,000 Multicultural Arts Victoria Common Ground Online 2021 $40,000 Multicultural Festival Group Incorporated Virtual Karvachauth Mela-2020 $2,000 Multicultural Resources Hub Inc Sunbury Diwali Festival 2020 $2,000 Multicultural Women's Sewing Group Celebrate 25 years of Multicultural Women's Sewing Group $2,000 Nepalese Association of Victoria Innovative approach to conserve our festival (Dashain-Tihar-MahaPooja-Chhath) $3,000 Noor Cultural & Education Centre Inc Eid Milad un Nabi Festival $2,000 Northern Language Learnang Centre Inc. First Annual Northern Language Learning Centre End of Year Celebration $2,000 Pancretan Association of Melbourne Australia Ltd 2020 Arkadi Festival $12,500 Pilipino Elderly Association of South East Region (PEASER) Filipino Parol (Christmas lantern) workshops / showcase $2,000 Pilipino Unified Support Organiaation Inc. Rizal Day 2020 Philippine National Hero $3,000 Polish Cinema in Australia Polish Film Festival $7,500 Port Phillip EcoCentre Culture & Nature Festival 2021 $34,006 Prahran Chinese Elderly Citizen's Association Digital capability $3,000 Rajasthani Kutumb of Victoria Inc. Digital capability $3,000 Ringwood Highland Games Inc. Ringwood Highland Virtual Games $3,000 Russian Australian Senior Citizen Club in Prahran Multicultural Festivals & Bazar $2,000 RusTalk Incorporated Russian Friendship Festival $3,888 SalamFest Incorporated (Muslim Peace Initiatives) SalamFest Digital Edition $50,000 Sangam Kala Group Australia (SKGA Inc) 2020 SCAFF Multicultural Digital Festival $9,675 Sankalp- Ek Nishchay Incorporated Diwali Vividhgunadarshan 2020 $2,000 Shree Swaminarayan Temple Melbourne Inc SSTM Diwali & Ankoot Festival 2020 $4,950 Sindhi Association of Victoria Dyaari 2020 Online $2,000 South Eastern Melbourne Vietnamese Associations Council Inc (SEMVAC) Digital capability $3,000 Sri Sai Siva Vishnu Temple Arts, Educational and Cultural Association Inc. Digital capability $3,000 St Albans Business Group Association Inc St Albans Lunar Festival 2021 $26,130 Sunshine Business Association Sunshine Lantern Festival 2020 - digital $2,000 Sunshine Youth Space African Fusion Dance Christmas Special $1,500 Tamil Senior Citizens Fellowship (Vic) Inc Tamil New Year and Harvest (Thanks Giving) Festival January 2021 $2,000 Temple Beth Israel Share the Light $26,137 The Ballarat Indian Association Inc. Digital capability $3,000 THE BOITE (VIC) INC Music in Lockdown, an End of Year celebration $10,000 The Buddhist Association