The January program will include the winning ASEAN entries from the Australia now sponsored ASEAN FLiCKERFEST 2020 Competition.

The three selected ASEAN finalists will win a trip to their screening at FLiCKERFEST 2020, including: airfares, accommodation, travel expenses, development and networking opportunities with industry professionals while in Australia.

2020 is promising to be a bumper program with FLiCKERFEST celebrating its 29th year of screening the best short films from Australia and around the world.  The Academy® Accredited and BAFTA-recognised festival program spans 10 days & nights of special showcases and competitions – so join us on the red carpet in Bondi this January!

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The presentations will cover international leadership, as well as innovations, career discussions and workshops in digital literacy, science and other STEM subjects focused on achieving a sustainable ‘Future Earth’. Stakeholders include Questacon, ANU, Curtin Singapore and the Singapore Science Centre.

The Conference is open to selected senior high school students and teachers from across Australia, India, Singapore and Mauritius – and will cover a broad range of key innovations in science as well as other STEM subjects specifically focused on the Science Exploration theme of achieving a sustainable ‘Future Earth’.

Book your tickets now     Contact@planfortheplanet.org.au

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Luke George is an award winning choreographer and performer who creates new performance work borne out of experimental creative processes and collaborations. Based in Melbourne, George is engaged in international residencies, collaborations and performances and his works have been presented extensively throughout Australia, Japan, U.S.A. and Europe. Daniel Kok is an acclaimed dancer and performer based in Singapore. In recent years Daniel has received an MA (Distinction) in Solo-Dance-Authorship (SODA) at the Inter-University Centre for Dance in Berlin, and in 2008 won the laureate of the Young Artist Award from National Arts Council in Singapore.

Join us in the conversation with Luke and George about collaboration, international exchange and the upcoming artistic project ‘Hundreds +Thousands’.  The conversation will be hosted by Grey Yeogh, an International Development consultant for South & Southeast Asia for the Australia Council for the Arts and Vanessa Lloyd, General Manager of Performance Space.

The after talk reception includes drinks, nibbles and networking opportunities.

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The Youth Entrepreneurs & Leaders Speaker Series is designed to showcase, inspire, celebrate and connect young entrepreneurs and leaders that are making a difference to their societies across Australia and Southeast Asia.

Curated by the Social Good Outpost, the Brunei leg of the Youth Entrepreneurs & Leaders Speaker Series will feature Brittanie Dreghorn, founder of The Content Division marketing agency & Britt’s List– an online fashion publication dedicated to telling the stories behind Australian fashion brands that lead their industry in environmental sustainability and ethical treatment of people and animals.

Brittanie’s interest and knowledge in fashion, sustainability and marketing forms her expertise around ethical business and communications. Since launching Britt’s List in 2017, Britt has made it her mission to raise awareness of the issues in the fashion industry and help promote and profile fashion brands that are making genuine efforts in sustainability. Off the back of Britt’s List, Britt runs monthly sustainable fashion walking tours in Brisbane and speaks regularly at events for businesses, fashion industry people and individuals who want to learn more about sustainability. She’s a thought leader in the industry and a passionate ambassador for truly ethical brands everywhere.

Image: Social Good Outpost’s founders, Lara and Elise Stephenson.

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The Youth Entrepreneurs & Leaders Speaker Series is designed to showcase, inspire, celebrate and connect young entrepreneurs and leaders that are making a difference to their societies across Australia and Southeast Asia.

Curated by the Social Good Outpost, this program brings award-winning youth entrepreneurs and leaders from Australia to collaborate and engage across ASEAN around topics of social entrepreneurship, startups, gender equality, environmental issues and sustainability, and social issues and human rights. Mikhara Ramsing, multi-award-winning social entrepreneur and LGBTI+ advocate, will be presenting at a series of events around culture and LGBTI+ empowerment.

Learn more

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The Asia Education Foundation is now inviting Year 9-11 students in teams of six, wishing to participate in the Australia-ASEAN Youth Forum to submit a two minute video responding to ‘digital connectivity’ from the perspective of one of the ASEAN member states or Australia.

Bringing students together from across Australia, this engaging learning experience will explore opportunities and challenges presented by digital trade, digital infrastructure, and digital innovation for ASEAN member countries and Australia.  Students will develop their general capabilities, including their intercultural understanding, personal and social capability, and creative and critical thinking skills.

Only 11 Australian school teams can attend this program, one for each member of ASEAN, including Australia. If selected, your school team along with one staff member will be brought to Sydney for the final program on November 20th, with flights and accommodation covered as part of your ASEAN experience. Your team will take part in an interactive youth forum at the beautiful Sydney Opera House, with delegates from around Australia, linked via video with peers in Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore.

The Forum will provide young people with intercultural learning experience, providing skills to navigate global diversity and negotiate their agency in communities within Australia and the ASEAN region.

Registrations close 19 September – read more about how to apply.

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AAED 2019 will be held from 18-20 November 2019 in the UNESCO World Heritage listed city of Georgetown in Penang, Malaysia. This year’s dialogue theme is ‘Building Quality Assurance and Sustainability in International Education.’

AAED 2019 will provide unique opportunities for thought leaders, Government, business representatives and education providers from ASEAN and Australia, to come together to share their ideas, build connections, and identify new regional opportunities. The Dialogue will strengthen current links between Australia and ASEAN across key education sectors to build a broader ASEAN-Australia regional and global engagement.

This year’s AAED will feature seven workshops with education themes linking Australia and ASEAN. Workshops will feature themes such as ‘Strengthening Alumni Networks and Enhancing Graduate Employability’, and ‘Building Student Mobility Networks between ASEAN and Australia and within ASEAN’.

For more information, contact Michael Fay at (for Australia) and Thomson Ch’ng at (for ASEAN).

Register now

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The literary festival is the first of its kind to be organized in Thailand and offers the public an opportunity to engage in, and hear first-hand from, well known local and international authors in panel discussions, writing workshops and literary and poetry readings.

The festival will be held over two days on November 16-17, with events scheduled from 10am to 8pm. The event will be split over two venues: The Neilson Hays Library and the British Club Bangkok.

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