Filipino-born, Brisbane-based artists Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan touchdown in Melbourne to create Another Country - a series of interactive projects taking place until January 2012. Come along to the Immigration Museum and join the artists to be part of inspiring art installations. Get creative and build your own sculptures, including aeroplanes and dream homes. The aim of this unusal artistic endeavour is to explore the ideas of journeys, migration and memory.

Be part of Melbourne Museum's newest exhibition, The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia, by telling the museum how you identify with or can trace your family back to a world 3,000 years ago. Presented in collaboration with The British Museum, the exhibition opens in 2012 but tickets are on sale now. This major new exhibition showcases stunning artefacts from one of the world's great ancient civilisations. Does your family story date back to ancient Mesopotamia? What does Mesopotamia mean to today's Australians of Middle Eastern ancestry? If ancient connections resonate with you, Melbourne Museum wants to hear from you. For more details contact Georgie Meyer on 03 8341 7150 or gmeyer@museum.vic.gov.au  (Photo Credit: By permission of the Trustees of The British Museum).

Join the University of Melbourne on 9 February 2012 for a free public forum: Whose Country is it Anyway? Opportunities and Challenges for Migrants and Refugees in Rural and Regional Australia. The forum will bring together a diverse panel of speakers to discuss issues of regional migration, settlement and multicultural affairs in Australia. Plus on 10 February there is an international conference called A Long Way from Home? The Rural and Regional Resettlement Experiences of Visible Migrants and Refugees featuring a range of guest speakers . Click here to register for these events. 

The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC) is offering a range of workshops in the first half of 2012 to help you understand your equal opportunity and human rights obligations and move towards best practice. The Commission can meet all your training needs, with free and cost-effective workshops scheduled in Carlton, metropolitan areas and regional Victoria. We offer targeted workshops for employers, union delegates, government employees and advocates, and we can customise training to deliver at your workplace.

The Australian Turkish Cultural Platform (ATCP) is seeking volunteers to submit ‘A Game from my Country’ for a new multicultural children’s game book.  Award-winning and experienced miniature artist from Sydney, Gulay Pelin, will be illustrating the book, bringing your words to life through her art. Click on 'more' below to see how you can submit a game for the book. 

We love to hear what you have planned. You can submit your events and details of any new resources with a multicultural focus via the form on our website. These get added to our online Community Noticeboard and Events Calendar. Selected listings will be included in the VMC Update each fortnight. Click on the link below to find out what's going on around multicultural Victoria.