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New Multikulcha Festival is a free family event being launched this year to celebrate Byron’s growing cultural diversity with fantastic multicultural music, dance, crafts and food from many cultures such as headliners Poly Varghese (India) Natty D (Solomons), Greg Sheehan, Lucy Gallant, Nigel Stewart, gorgeous Veil of Dreams Belly dancers, Bollywood dancers, Hawaiian Dances, African…

It’s been an exciting start to the year with AIAA cultural events and networks growing across Australia and overseas. On 1 January, myself and some AIAA friends attended an event of stunning traditional Indian cultural performances presented by Culture Cafe, Craigieburn Melbourne. The leaders of the Culture Cafe Mrinal and Makarand are doing wonderful work…

Natty Dolaiasi – Cultural Warrior Natty Dolaiasi is a warrior of traditional tribal songs of the Solomon Islands, the bearer of deep cultural knowledge and rare mystic chants. Since 1995 Natty has represented the Solomon Islands at International Festivals, Film documentaries, recordings and performances. He has represented the Solomon Islands at peak international festivals in…

This year for the very first time the Byron Harmony Festival was coordinated and presented by the multicultural presenter’s group of BayFM community radio. This wonderful multicultural event has now been held for 15 years and closed down during COVID. Early this year the Multicultural presenters decided to revive this beautiful community day and held…

Australia is a Multicultural Nation and the Multicultural Nation show is a BayFm radio program that provides a voice for people of diverse cultural backgrounds, reflecting the beauty of multicultural Australia. The show features music, culture, interviews, community news and information, including for new migrants, refugees and emerging communities. The aim of this program is…

Byron Harmony Festival team and AIAA are proud to present Byron Harmony Day 2020 for the 14th year running! –  on Saturday 21st March at Mullumbimby Civic Hall. Back to Home Our beautiful multicultural artists, locals and their families will once again perform spectacularly on the main stage including performances from the Middle East, Japan,…

Natty Dolaiasi Cultural Exchange Project in Australia and New Zealand 2018-2019 Natty Dolaiasi – Cultural Warrior Natty Dolaiasi is a warrior of traditional tribal songs of the Solomon Islands, the bearer of deep cultural knowledge and rare mystic chants. Natty has travelled the length and breadth of the magical Solomon Islands and is deeply passionate…

During 2018 Indonesian-French singer Tikal Sermet joined the AIAA team and Radio Suara Indonesia – within weeks she was launching her own Musician in Residence Project by inviting Agustian Supriatna to visit Australia from Bali to collaborate with her band DMTFM. AIAA supported this project by providing sponsorship and Judy Shelley and Tikal assisted Agus…

Following on from the highly successful AIAA presentation of Kalimantan Dayak culture as part of the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Conference in Singaraja Bali in October 2017 which included the involvement of Dayak activist Emmanuela Shinta (along with Kalimantan activist David Metcalf), Emmanuela Shinta was again invited to participate in the APWT for 2018…

AIAA is currently auspicing the following project: Regular weekly meetings at the Byron YAC resulted in the establishment of a group called Byron Multicultural which is working towards greater access and resources for the local ethnic communities. During 2018-19 the group has regularly held Multicultural Lunches once a month with between 15-40 people of many…