Iftar Ramadan Multi-Faith Dinner
August 18th, 2010 § 2 Comments
On Monday night the Muslim Women’s Leadership group I’m a part of hosted an Iftar Ramadan Multi-Faith dinner. Zeina and Manal were the driving forces between organising the event and it was a big success. We had a great turn out, beautiful food and everyone had a great time. I had the privilege of MCing the night with Zeina and it was challenging, but great fun. We made some wonderful connections to build on the future and to develop future community projects.
On Monday I finally submitted two community strengthening grant applications. These were bloody hard yakka because I had to get auspiced, which was an ordeal in itself, write the bugger and send them in. Just when i was breathing in a sigh of relief that it was all done, I received a message from council that the documents weren’t readable. So I had to print them off and toddle off to my milkbar to fax them. Finally the ordeal was over.
Even though searching for an organisation to auspice our application was hard yakka, auspice means to sponsor our project and handle the money, I ended up creating a lot of networks and making people aware of the project we’re working on ‘What a Muslim Woman Looks Like’ profiling the women from the leadership group.
At the moment I’m receiving work from the students I’m doing workshops with during my Artists in Schools residency. There is such a breadth of ideas and I’m enjoying reading the stories. I’ve asked them to submit them electronically so I can write comments electronically and then I’ll have individual sessions to discuss my comments.
Today I went to the city and met with Robyn Bavati, author of Dancing in the Dark, and Ruby Murray who is our facilitator during the Melbourne Writer’s Festival on the 31 August. I’m looking forward to the panel. Both our books share a breadth of themes and it should be an interesting discussion. Feeling exhausted right now and would really love to have a nap. It’s all up to the bub. Hopefully she might want to have a nap together. I can only dream.
It was great meeting you too. Love the sound of that multi-faith dinner – would love to know more details about the fab food. And the ‘What a Muslim Woman Looks Like’ project sounds really interesting. Looking forward to the MWF. Cheers!
There was lamb and rice, chicken and rice, and stuffed capsicum. I was so bummed because I had to MC and didn’t get a chance to dig in the way I wanted. Oh well, I had fun at least. I’m really looking forward to our panel, especially after our chat today. See you soon.