Stories
Fairfield Public School Community Welcome Dinner
For our last Community Welcome Dinner in March we held a truly fantastic Community Welcome Dinner at Fairlfield Primary School in partnership with St Vincent De Paul Society’s SPARK Program, and Fairfield Public School. The entire group of families, children,...
Ultimo Community Welcome Dinner
In late March the Welcome Dinner Project team hosted a fantastic Community Welcome Dinner at the Ultimo Community Center on a cold and windy Thursday evening. Despite the wet weather, over 70 City of Sydney residents were warmly welcomed by our facilitators for a...
Liverpool Community Welcome Dinner at Casula Powerhouse
In March we had a huge Community Welcome Dinner at the Casula Powerhouse Museum. Despite some minor setbacks with the trains not running to Casula Station right before the Dinner, the evening kicked off to a great start, with around 130 attendees, including heaps of...
The Welcome Dinner Project launch on the NSW Central Coast!
What a fantastic start to The Welcome Dinner Project on the NSW Central Coast. Upon arrival, the guests were carefully directed to the back of the second floor of the library where the event was due to start within the next few minutes. Aunty Bronwyn, a representative...
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...
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...
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...
