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The essential value of language takes centre stage at Sydney Town Hall   04.06.2024 A senior member of the New South Wales Government has warned that without diversity of language, Australia would become a weaker nation. Mark Buttigieg MLC, Parliamentary Secretary for Multiculturalism as well as responsibilities for Industrial Relations and Work Health and Safety was speaking at the Community Language Schools Spectacular in Sydney Town Hall. Mr Buttigieg, the son of Maltese Immigrants to Australia, told the audience of 1000 parents and six hundred community language-school students:“ Language Diversity  makes us better human beings and makes us a stronger society. Language is  the intrinsic link to different cultures which allows us to understand a person’s cultural inheritance.” The State Member for Liverpool, Charisma Kaliyanda spoke of the importance of language in the future for Australia as an international destination: “The new international airport in western Sydney, for example, will ...

Jun 5, 2024 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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NSW FEDERATION OF COMMUNITY LANGUAGE SCHOOLS INC. P.O Box 525, DULWICH HILL NSW 2203, Phone: 02 9558 6134 E-mail: nswfcls@bigpond.com  Website: www.nswfcls.org.au Media Release Community language students to show off their culture in the Sydney Town Hall  Spectacular   27.05.24 Scores of young students of community languages will present their culture on the stage of  Sydney Town Hall this weekend. The Spectacular is organised by the NSW Federation of Community Language Schools. The Federation President, Lucia Johns, said today: “This a wonderful opportunity for the children of many cultural backgrounds to showcase the songs, dances and music of their parents’ homelands. “ Obviously to know and learn a language fully, the children at our schools also have to learn the culture that supports that language. “Twelve months ago, we trialled this concept in the Lower Town Hall to great success with the children demonstrating in a spectacular way that what ...

May 29, 2024 Posted by In Articles Tagged , ,
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Community Language Schools Spectacular Success – 06.06.23 Community Language Schools in NSW have demonstrated in a spectacular way that they are doing much more than maintaining community languages for the next generation. Sydney Town Hall has hosted the Inaugural NSW Federation of Community Language Schools Performance Spectacular on June 4th with the songs and dances of dozens of cultural backgrounds on show. Welcoming the large Sunday audience to the Town Hall, the President of the Federation, Lucia Johns, told them how it came about: “We talked about organising a big event where our community language schools could showcase their cultures and the richness of their traditions. It would be an opportunity for us to show the beauty of the work done by the many community language schools every week”. She also thanked the Shadow Minister for Multiculturalism, Mark Coure, whom. she said: “had the vision to support the idea and ...

Jun 6, 2023 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , ,
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