Diversity Festival 2025
A week of free events to ignite important conversations and celebrate the diversity of our community
Conversations that matter
Â鶹Éçmadou's annual Diversity Festival is shaped by our community. Each year, we invite Â鶹Éçmadou students and staff to contribute to the diverse program by hosting events and activities during the festival in September (Week 2, Term 3).
The festival program is shaping up to be bigger and better than ever with house names and prominant figures having conversations that matter, as well as film screenings, art markets and the usual Quad take over.
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The program will be released on Monday 18 August, so enter your email below to stay up to date with the amazing aray of free events we have to offer.
Organiser Hub and Toolkit
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If you are organising an event at this years festival, all the information you need can be found on this dedicated Hub.
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Get inspired
Check out the highlight reel from last year’s Diversity Festival.
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Diversity Festival is important because it's an opportunity to turn issues that often students experience as a problem into something a lot more productive, a lot more positive.
Diversity Festival is just about celebrating and embracing the natural differences of human diversity. It's about acknowledging that everyone is different. Everyone comes from different lived experiences and has a different perspective. And it's about embracing that and finding ways in which we can utilize that for the advantage of our Â鶹Éçmadou community.
The great thing about the Diversity Festival is it really is run by the community, for the community. So the way we organize it is we go out to the University, we offer grants, and people pitch up the ideas that they want to see.
We are celebrating pride in engineering, and the idea is to bring a panel of people from the industry who may be allies or part of the LGBTQ+ community. And the idea is to bring everyone together and tocelebrate diversity.
We've got a stall for Diversified, and we've done a collaboration with ELS and PASS from student support services.
So the stall today is called "My name is".. it really aims to find more inclusive ways of understanding student experience.
We've had an international student choir come together for the first time to sing.
Today we have been talking about sensory experiences.
I've loved seeing the stalls that are here today in the Quad. I've loved them because they're really about talking to students about the sorts of issues that matter to them.
The events where we actually have panels and conversations are often more about those sticky issues, those issues where we want experts to maybe talk about things, but again, in a way that embraces curiosity, respect and safety.
It really is about inclusion, bringing people in and having fun.
One thing we've really noticed in students that are coming to university, particularly after Covid, is that people are much more alive to issues like loneliness, about creating welcoming communities and making sure that everybody knows that, particularly at the university, however you present to the world, you are welcome.
It has been so great to see everyone show up and come out and be so interested and engaged and being really interested in engaging with conversations that matter that we should be having.
I know that I wouldn't be able to do what I do if I didn't have a strong community backing. And I just love that Â鶹Éçmadou creates these opportunities for people from all different areas of the University can come together and talk about things that are important to them and actually make a real social impact in the lives of our Â鶹Éçmadou community.
