Our Impact

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Aspiration

We support [220 ] volunteers to [FLICKER: acquire English on the job/ contribute their skills to the community/ become work ready/ gain Australian work experience/ translate for community audiences/ access peer support/ gain new skills/ share their talents / make connections / do meaningful work].

Every $1300 of sales supports another week of that program.

We hire local women who speak languages other than English in our work. To date we have hired 45 paid staff; at least 24 of whom identify as being from a refugee or migrant background. 

Our Community

Language Literacy + Development

It makes sense: the better you can read or write in your first language, the greater your ability to become literate in another language. 

If I can’t read and write in [FLICKER: Arabic/Vietnamese/Chinese/Hindi/Assyrian/ Tagalog], how can I learn to read and write in English?

We offer programs to help recently arrived children and adults attain and keep literacy in their own languages and to become literate in English through creative programming in music, storytelling and literature.

Every $300 of sales supports a weekly workshop.

Social Connectedness + Belonging

We are a community living room - a public “third” space that is community-directed.

Here, we say [FLICKER: welcome, other languages] and [FLICKER: let’s solve that, we can do it, how do we change that, we all matter], together.

Every $500 keeps our physical space open.

Events

Creativity + Imagination

If your language is the map then our creative programs are the compass. Together we craft imaginative worlds built by stories and inspired by imagination. We advocate for culturally and linguistically diverse artists and we generate and fund opportunity; develop new work; and celebrate the uniting powers of creativity.  

Here, we [FLICKER: create, connect, flourish, share our stories, belong].

Every $300 of sales provides a cohort of recently settled young people with free access to our creative studios each week.