Istanbul Cultural Art Centre
in collaboration with
Melbourne Young Businessmen
Association invites
Melbournians to a
magnificent day of Anatolian
culture.
The event aims to present
the best of
of Turkish
Culture and Art to the
people of Melbourne. The
event consists of music,
folk dance, art exhibitions,
cultural food, whirling
dervishes, traditional
Ottoman arts and music and
Turkish wrestling
exhibitions. All
Melbournians are welcome.
In 2010 the Australian
Intercultural Society will
once again organize its annual
Intercultural study tour of
Turkey .
The Intercultural Study Tour to Turkey
is a part of AIS's international Dialogue Project that has been
continuing for the past five
years. The Anzac Tour is
scheduled for the 20th April
2010. Comprehensive details,
information kit and travel
requirements will soon be
available on the link
provided below. For further
info please contact the Australian
Intercultural Society
through the link provided
below.
In June 2010 the Australian
Intercultural Society Women's
network will organize the ever
popular multicultural women's
only dinner for the third time.
The intercultural women's only
dinners have been a great
success in the previous years
bringing together over four
hundred women from different
cultures and faiths. The dinners
aim to enhance social harmony
and cohesion through
interaction. The programs are
quite colourful with traditional
performances in arts, music and
folklore.
The great Sufi master, Mevlana
Jalaladdin Rumi's wedding with
eternity is celebrated each year
on December the 17th by Mevlevi
orders all over the world. The
Mevlevi Australia, in
collaboration with the AIS, have
organized a night of
celebration with Sufi music,
Sema ceremony and the ever
popular Whirling Dervishes of
Rumi. The night provided
spiritual ecstasy and
musical tranquillity to over
four hundred guests who
attended the event. Mevlevi Australia Website >>
December 2009 is the Neighbourhood Day marked by the sharing of Noah's Pudding. Sharing
Noah’s pudding is a symbolic representation of the unity and
essential relationship of humans to one another and to their
Creator. Preparing the Noah’s pudding is a common practice among
Muslim and Christian peoples around the Mediterranean. During this
significant period the AIS
visited various
organizations to share Noah's
Pudding.
As part of the ongoing
Muslim-Christian Dialogue
project, the AIS once
again organised Church
visits during the Christmas
period. Muslims from various
regions of Melbourne visited the Anglican
and
Catholic Cathedrals and
Churches. The project
aims to allow the Muslim
community to get a better
understanding of the
Christian tradition through
close interaction.
This project has been in
effect since the year 2000 and it has
yielded many positive results.
Date: 17 December 2009
Date:17-23
December
Date: 25 December 2009
Time: 7.45pm
Time: Event Completed
Time:
10:00am and 11am
Venue: Serenity Cultural
Centre, Melbourne, Australia
This
year Australian
Intercultural Society will
organize its annual
Intercultural study tour of
Turkey in series of three
trips.
The Intercultural Study Tour to Turkey
is a part of AIS's international Dialogue Project that has been
continuing for the past five
years. AIS would like to invite
those who are interested in the
project to join the fourth
Annual Intercultural Study Tour
to Turkey during one of the
following periods listed below.
More info...>
On the 29th of
July 2007 a memorandum of
understanding was signed between
the Australian Intercultural
Society and the Ecumenical and
Interfaith Commission of the
Catholic Archdiocese of
Melbourne. The formal
understanding covers a term of
three years in which both
parties will set up a working
group to undertake many
projects.
The
Australian Intercultural
Society (AIS) in conjunction
with the Australian Catholic
University (ACU) held the
official launch of the
Fethullah Gulen Chair in the
Study of Islam and
Muslim-Catholic relations
last Friday 23 November at
the Central Hall, ACU. The
launch marks the important
step the AIS has taken to
establish an important
academic professorial Chair
that will assist second and
third generation...more>>>
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