$35,000 for the "My Sister's Kitchen" project has been awarded to Darwin Community Arts. The money comes from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship's Living in Harmony Community Relations Funding program. The project will promote interaction and understanding between Indigenous, broader community and refugee women through exchange of cultural information contained in cooking and storytelling. Participants will develop skills in food handling and cultural enterprise, skills exchanges and opportunities to perform and cater at events at local festivals and cultural development community events hosted by Darwin Community Arts. Activities will include at least 35 three hour group meetings at which women will exchange stories and gain skills around food handling, cooking and diet in the Australian context. The participants in the workshops will cater for three community dinners open to the public. There will also be storytelling events to coincide with major community festivals, as well as promotion of positive messages about cultural diversity through radio documentary broadcasts and creation of a project website with photos, recipes and stories. The project will commence in early 2009.