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Community Welcome Dinner at Eastlakes, NSW Friday 2nd June
In association with Multicultural NSW, Bayside Council, South Eastern Community Connect and Sydney Multicultural Community Services, joiningthedots will be hosting a special Community Welcome Dinner at Eastlakes Community Centre on Friday 2nd June from 6:00pm until...
Community events in Melbourne in March/April
March and April in Melbourne are packed with multicultural festivals and events. We've got a number of exciting Community Welcome Lunches, Dinners and events coming up and would love for you and your friends/family to join us! Moonee Valley Community Welcome Dinner...
Smashing stereotypes: Sharing Welcome Dinner Project stories
Since 2014, hundreds of newly arrived and established Victorians have shared their homes, their food and their stories as part of the Welcome Dinner Project. On Sunday 12 February we ran a story sharing event where guests who had attended one or more Welcome...
Home Dinners and other activities in Brisbane
In the second half of 2016 we held three home Welcome Dinners and attended numerous festivals and workshops to raise awareness about the project. In the process we made some incredible connections: 10 June - Our work with Digital Storytellers began in June at the...
Farewell Libby
2017 brings with it many changes, including the resignation of our wonderful Queensland Welcome Dinner State Coordinator, Libby Blom, who has decided to step back a bit to spend more time with her growing family. Due to Libby's leadership over the past 18 months, we...
Our 2016 Facilitator Trainings
All Welcome Dinners are lead by two trained facilitators to ensure the evening runs smoothly and that dinners are always in a safe and welcoming environment for all. We couldn't host dinners without these special volunteers! This year we had new facilitators join us...
Welcome finds a home in Toowoomba!
The Toowoomba chapter of the Welcome Dinner Project hit the ground running with the first home dinner on 19th March 2016. Toowoomba’s WDP Coordinators Emily and Darren worked tirelessly to ensure the inaugural Welcome Dinner was a huge success and a wonderful...
Founder’s New Year Message
In these turbulent times it is easy to feel overwhelmed by all the suffering in our world and the human bias toward aggression and destruction. In response to this the world needs movements dedicated to loving kindness and care of the earth for the generations to...
A special Brisbane Welcome Dinner – filmed by Australian Government Social Services
Our last Welcome Dinner of the year in Brisbane was held at Queensland Coordinator Libby Blom’s home. This was a very special day as Libby’s family could be a part of the celebrations and see for themselves what their mum, wife, and daughter has been doing all the...
Welcome Fest 2016
On the 2nd of October, the Welcome Dinner Project Queensland held a stall at the Welcome Fest in Brisbane. The Welcome Fest was a great opportunity to share our vision and recruit new people to our project. We were perfectly positioned across from the World Music...
