Canberra Multicultural Service
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Serving Canberra with local & national international news, music & programs in thirty languages.
Canberra Multicultural Service (CMS) has been serving the Canberra community with local, national and international news, music and programs in over thirty languages other than English since 1977. We are the only dedicated multicultural radio station in the ACT and surrounds. Canberra is a vibrant and successful multicultural and multilingual city. The 2011 Census identified that one in four ACT residents were born overseas and over 79,000 Canberrans speak a language other than English when at home. CMS is a non profit organisation and all of our Broadcasters and Board Members are volunteers. We strongly believe in supporting and empowering Canberra’s multicultural and multilingual community, in particular those at risk of social isolation. Through language CMS particularly supports new and emerging communities become connected to what is happening in the ACT and surrounds. All language groups to go to air no less than one hour per week and CMS’ priorities include youth, women, new and emerging, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. CMS wants to continue to grow and expand the languages we offer to the Canberra community and ensure that there is a strong and vibrant multicultural radio station in the nation’s capital into the future.
Thank you all for joining us at the 2026 Broadcasters’ Night!
See you next year!!! ❤️❤️❤️
02/10/2026
🎙️✨ WHAT. A. NIGHT. ✨🎙️
On Friday, 25 September, 220+ broadcasters, volunteers, community leaders, sponsors and guests came together at the Ainslie Football & Social Club for the 2026 CMS Broadcasters' Night, and wow, did our multicultural community show up! 🌏💙
Thank you for joining us 🙏🙏🙏
Michael Pettersson MLA
Chiaka Barry MLA
Laura Nuttall MLA
UnionsACT Rudo ❤️
Multicultural Hub Canberra Zakia ❤️
🪘 Cultural performances from across our community~
Baila Chile, Chinese heritage and legacy dances, the Urdu Radio Children's Performance Group, Pidgin West Africa and Bonny Kingdom's Ngelenge, the Acuarelatina Singing Trio, Maha Khan, an Afghan solo dance and an Indonesian dance
🍽️ A fusion buffet dinner that kept everyone happy in the belly
🏆 The CMS Awards, celebrating our incredible volunteers
🎁 Lucky draws, dancing, and plenty of laughs
Thank you to everyone who spoke, performed, volunteered and celebrated with us. Thank you to Bradley Bell for the Welcome to Country, and to our guest speakers for their support of multicultural media in the ACT.
A huge thank you to our proud sponsors , Migrant Workers Service Canberra and We couldn't have done it without you! 🙌
Every language. Every culture. Every story. One station. 📻💫
👉 Tag yourself, tag a friend, and share your favourite moment in the comments!
🎧 Tune in to CMS FM 91.1 or listen online and hear the voices that made this night happen.
2026 Immersia: Change the Date? | Project Launch - Live on CMS FM 91.1
22/09/2026
CHANGE THE DATE? | Project Launch
How can Australians talk more openly and respectfully about Australia Day, reconciliation, history and national belonging?
Join the launch of an important four-year research project exploring our national conversations—not to tell people what to think, but to understand how we can listen, question and disagree more constructively.
📅 Wednesday 23 September
🕔 5:00–7:00 pm
📍 RSSS Auditorium & Foyer, 146 Ellery Crescent, ANU
🎟️ Free event
Presented as part of ANU Immersia and broadcasting partnership with CMS Radio.
Register: https://events.humanitix.com/2026-immersia-change-the-date-or-project-launch
Watch the session live on our own CMS page tomorrow
The Canberra Times The Canberra Page The Australian National University University of Canberra Swinburne University of Technology Charles Sturt University
IMMERSIA 2026 - Growing up in Australia with more than one language
14/09/2026
What does it mean to grow up in Australia speaking more than one language?
Join young multicultural voices from across Canberra for an honest conversation about language, identity, belonging and living between cultures.
📅 Tonight — Monday 14 September
⏰ 5:30–6:30 pm
📍 Hedley Bull 2, ANU, Acton
🎟️ FREE EVENT
Everyone is welcome!
Register: https://events.humanitix.com/2026-immersia-growing-up-in-australia-with-more-than-one-language
ACT Government Migrant Workers Service -Canberra University of Canberra Canberra Multicultural Community Forum (CMCF) Inc Multicultural Hub Canberra Community Services ACTCOSS - ACT Council of Social Service Inc. ACT Human Rights Commission The Australian National University ACT Bilingual Education Alliance
06/09/2026
🎙️💙 Happy Father’s Day from CMS FM 91.1!
To all the dads, stepdads, grandads, father figures and the amazing men who show up, listen, support and cheer us on — today is your day! 👏
Whether you’re the family DJ, the weekend BBQ master, the ultimate problem-solver or the one who always says “back in my day…” 😄 — we’re celebrating YOU!
From all of us at CMS FM 91.1, thank you for the love, wisdom, laughter and countless little things that make such a big difference. ❤️
🎧 Turn up the radio, give Dad a big hug, and make some memories!
Happy Father’s Day! 🥳💙
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