Our Multicultural Festival

Please join us at Our Multicultural Festival to celebrate diversity, inclusion and respect for everyone who calls the Mornington Peninsula home - from the traditional owners of this land to those who have come from overseas, generations ago or in more recent times, and put down roots on the Peninsula.

The Bunurong Land Council providing Welcome to Country and featuring the Bollydazzers - Bollywood dancers, Ravanica Serbian Dance Group, Sri Lankan Traditional Dancers, a Drum Beats workshop, Manaaki and Maori Hakka, Flamenco dancing and more!

There will also be workshops including a youth run mural workshop, arts and craft for children, a pop-up library zone with Story Time in Spanish and a Chinese dumpling making class. Community Stalls including Living Culture - Aboriginal Artefacts, Bush medicine and Yarns, Mornington Peninsula Family History Society with access to family history databases and Raduga Russian, Serbian and Sri Lankan Community Groups.

As well as food trucks including Meshousheh Gourmet Hummus, Greek street food, patisseries and free gelati!

This colourful family-friendly festival is open to residents and visitors of all ages, backgrounds and faiths.

Stage

• 11:00 Welcome to Country & Didgeridoo
• 11:30 Bollydazzlers
• 12:10 Ravanica Serbian Dance Group
• 12:40 Sri Lankan Seniors Dance Group
• 12:50: DRUMBEATS workshop*
• 1:45 Manaaki & Maori Group
• 2:15 Senes Flamenco
• 3:00 Event close

Ongoing

• Food trucks
• Coffee
• Gelato
• Community mural
• Giant games
• Multicultural pop-up library
• Gods eye craft and Sandart
• Cultural displays & conversations
• Ancestry & family history

Workshops

• 12:20 Chinese dumpling making – Class 1*
• 12:20 Spanish story time – Session 1
• 12:50 DRUMBEATS workshop (stage)*
• 1:20 Chinese dumpling making – Class 2*
• 1:45 Spanish story time – Session 2

*Limited space – sign up at info table (entry) 

When

Location

Mornington Park Pavilion, 9 Flinders Drive, Mornington, 3931, View Map