Artists to display at cultural festival

Peninsula residents Ms Dawne Fahey and Ms Judy Hoste will be displaying some of their work at the Central Coast Community Cultural Diversity Festival at the Gosford Arts Centre regional gallery in March.

Ms Fahey will be displaying some of her photography work while Ms Hoste will be displaying some of her paintings.

The festival will include an art exhibition open to all Central Coast Artists, being held 9.30am to 5pm on March 18 and 10am to 4pm on March 19.

A forum will be held on Saturday, March 18, from 2pm to 5pm.

The Master of Ceremonies for the forum is lecturer and researcher in linguistics Dr Verna Rieschild,

The focus of the forum is "Past, present and future of multiculturalism on the Central Coast", with guest speakers and question time.

Speakers include local history librarian Mr Geoff Potter who will speak on the wave of migrations to the Central Coast and manager of the Central Coast Multicultural Project Ms Joan Jones who will speak on the history of the project.

Hunter Migrant Resource Centre director Ms Violetta Walsh will speak on the recent settlement of a Sudanese community in the Hunter region while Fair Media executive director Ms Kuranda Seyit will speak on multiculturalism and the media.

There will be a time for questions at the end of each speaker.

Also after the last speaker there will be a "focus and feedback" session from the audience.

Audience members will be invited to sit around tables of 10 to further focus on issues touched on during forum.

Sunday will also feature entertainment with a varied and exciting list of performers who are representative of the range of talented cultural performers and artists found on the Central Coast.

Food stalls will also offer a wide range of food.

The festival is presented on behalf of the Multi Arts Confederation (Central Coast) and Friends of Caroline Bay inc. and the Central Coast Multicutlural Project.

Newsletter, February 22 Multi Arts Confederation