Advance notice of November seminar
The impacts of hearing loss on children under school age
A hidden issue of vital importance
Tuesday 25 November 2014, 9.30am–12.30pm
Community Migrant Resource Centre
Level 4, 1 Horwood Place, Parramatta
Paint the Town REaD
3rd Annual Early Literacy Conference
12–14 September 2012
Download the Advance Notice (PDF, 127 KB) and Call for Conference Papers (Word document, 370 KB).
Download the Registration Form here. (PDF, 885KB) Note: Print it out form and fill it in by hand, then post it to us — or scan and email it.
Paint the Town REaD wins ZEST Awards
Two of our Paint the Town REaD teams, in Auburn and Penrith, took out two of the 2012 ZEST awards. These are service awards for the greater Western Sydney community sector.
The Auburn group, led by Himali Wettasinghe, won the Outstanding Project in a CALD Group/Organisation award.
The Penrith group, led by Julie Jasprizza-Laus, won the Exceptional Partnership Project award.
We were particularly pleased that that these were the only awards recognising community work benefitting young children.
To see pictures of the event, and more information, go to the ZEST website.
Partners with the National Year of Reading
Barbie Bates and Rhonda Brain attended the National Launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 in Canberra on 14 February.
Paint the Town REaD is a partner in this initiative, which aims to encourage reading and literacy in Australia — at all ages.
Paint the Town REaD on Radio National
On Australia Day 2012, Life Matters on ABC Australia’s Radio National covered the National Year of Reading.
Himali Wettasinghe, from Auburn Paint the Town REaD, fielded questions from Natasha Mitchell.
To hear Himali, go to the Life Matters website, start at 36:40 in the audio’s timeline and listen through to 45:05.
Himali is the Family Services Manager at Auburn Diversity Services.