The Perspective
2022 was another busy and fruitful year for CIRCA. Across 26 projects this year we were able to speak with nearly 500 people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Syrian, Bhutanese, Samoan, Arabic-, Mandarin-, Cantonese-, Vietnamese-, Italian-, Dari-, Korean-, French-, Nepali-, and Tagalog/Filipino-speaking backgrounds.
2022 has been an exciting year for multicultural engagement. It was a year for reuniting with our friends, collaborators and partners with face-to-face community engagement, conferences, and events. Cultural Perspectives felt honoured to be in rooms buzzing with the excitement of passionate community leaders, advocates, and voices. Reflecting on this year brings to mind many achievements, both for with our Engagement team, and more broadly.
Cultural Perspective’s Engagement team were certainly engaged throughout 2022. Our team went travelling across states and territories to deliver community engagement initiatives for several Federal government campaigns, to supporting organisations in developing operational strategies and plans, to building client cultural competence capacities, and beyond. Our Engagement team predict that 2023 will be equally as rewarding with exciting projects on the horizon...
Just like Swiss cheese, any information dissemination medium has holes. But, if you use enough pieces of cheese, or mediums, all the holes will be covered. Within the context of community engagement, applying a multilayered strategy ensures that any audiences that fall within the gap of one medium, are captured in another
