Upcoming Events
The Interfaith Network offers a series of events throughout the year.
The events are open to Faith and Spiritual communities, our supporters and partners including local government, businesses and the local community within the City of Greater Dandenong who share and support the IFN’s vision of ‘Many Faiths, One People’, and wish to learn more about the Network, our members, as well as the opportunities to collaborate together. Our events are also open to people and groups outside of the City of Greater Dandenong including other Interfaith Networks.
As our events space is continuously evolving, please ensure that you visit on a regular basis to view our Upcoming Events!
For further information about our upcoming events, please email our Executive Officer, Livia Carusi, via executive@interfaithnetwork.org.au
Harmony Week Event 2025
Date: Thursday, 20 March 2025
Time: 9:20am-12:00pm
Venue: The Chamber Room, 1/39 Clow Street Dandenong, Victoria
Cost: IFN Members and Concession: $25 | General Admission: $35
Ticket Registration and Purchase Close: Thursday, 13 March 2025
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS
Join us for an inspiring conversation over morning tea. Our event will be officially opened by Mayor Jim Memeti, City of Greater Dandenong.
Our keynote speaker, Jana Favero, Deputy CEO of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, will lead the conversation, followed by a dynamic Community Panel.
The Community Panel features Jana Favero, Peter Johnstone Coordinator of Community Advocacy at the City of Greater Dandenong Council, and Anisa Sharif, Community Liaison Team Member of the Australian Federal Police. Don’t miss this opportunity for connection and inspiring conversation!
For further information about this event or other IFN events, please contact Livia Carusi, IFN Executive Officer, via Executive@interfaithnetork.org.au
Volunteer Tour Guide Information Session
Date: Wednesday, 7 May 2025
Time: 10:00am-11:15am
Venue: IFN Office Level 1, 36 Clow Street, Dandenong
RSVP: Click the link below to RSVP by Wednesday 30 April 2025
Cost: Free Event and Morning Tea provided
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE
For more information please email Paris Sard, Community Education Officer, via education@interfaithnetwork.org.au.
Tours to Places of Worship are structured in such a way as to encourage and promote inclusion, understanding and respect of diverse faiths and cultures. Through participation in the Tours, the awareness raised, and the educational outcomes experienced will positively work towards developing a socially cohesive community and one that recognises and values the diversity of living, working, or visiting in the City of Greater Dandenong.
What to know more about being a Volunteer Tour Guide?
Consider attending our next Volunteer Tour Guide Information Session, meet and hear from our Volunteer Tour Guides firsthand!
Following the Information Session you will be invited to attend a Places of Worship Tour to deepen your insights and understanding of being a Volunteer Tour Guide.
IFN Members Meeting
Date: Wednesday, 7 May 2025
Arrival Time: 12:00pm for a 12:15pm start
Close: 3:30pm
Venue: TBC
Cost: Free and Light Refreshments will be provided: (Tea, Coffee, Orange Juice, Biscuits and Fruit)
RSVP: Thursday, 1 May 2025
Training: South-East Monash Legal Service. ‘Healthy Relationships, Our Rights and Responsibilities– Family Violence and the Law’
Guest Speaker: Palliative Care Southeast Ltd –‘What is Palliative Care and Who is Palliative Care Southeast?’
Further details will be posted in due course.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE
Save the Dates
National Volunteer Week 2025
Date: May 19th, 2025 – May 25th, 2025
National Volunteer Week (NVW) is Australia’s largest annual celebration of volunteers and their important contribution to our communities. The Interfaith Network will be hosting an event to mark National Volunteer Week 2025 and further details will be posted in due course.
Annual Interfaith School Gathering 2025
Following the highly successful Annual Interfaith School Gathering 2024, this event will return in 2025, bigger and better! Further details will be posted in due course.
IFN Annual General Meeting
Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Time: 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Venue: TBC
Further details will be posted in due course.
37th Annual Gathering, ‘Signing of the Common Statement’
Date: Wednesday, 20 August, 2025
Venue: Civic, Dandenong Civic Centre, Level 2, Council Chambers and Formal Meeting Room
Time: 9.00am – 11.30am
Further details will be posted in due course.
IFN Members Meeting
Date: Wednesday, 24 September, 2025
Venue: TBC
Time: 10:00am – 11:45am
Further details will be posted in due course.
Talking Faith Forum – Returns in 2025!
This event will return in 2025, bigger and better! Further details will be posted in due course.
Past Events
Combined Schools’ Interfaith Annual Gathering
The Greater Dandenong Combined Schools' Interfaith Annual Gathering was well attended on 21 October in the Springvale Town Hall with some 900 students...