74 days ago

Epsom Community Centre Moon Festival

Danielle Muller from Epsom Community Centre

Celebrate the Moon Festival at Epsom Community Centre! 🌙✨

Join us for a fun-filled day for the whole family featuring mooncake making, food and craft markets, kids' activities, traditional songs and stories, cultural performances, and more!

• FREE
• Saturday 4 October
• 10.30am-2.30pm
• Epsom Community Centre, 202 Gillies Ave, Epsom
• epsom-community-centre.org.nz/moonfestival

📍 OUTDOOR MARKET
• Food Trucks + Vendors
• Craft Stands
• Community & Information Stands
• Traditional Korean outdoor games

📍 EPSOM HALL
• Mooncake making workshops
• Chinese calligraphy, making mooncakes with playdough, and lantern making.

📍 RANFURLY ROOM: TSUKIMI - JAPANESE MOON-VIEWING FESTIVAL
• Tsukimi (Japanese Moon-Viewing Festival) celebration
• Origami, Japanese Games, Tsukimi Crafts
• Traditional Story Time

📍 KIMBERLY ROOM: CHINESE CULTURAL EXPERIENCE
• Chinese Cultural Experience
• Traditional Musical Instrument (Guzhen) performances
• Hangu Performances: The Legend of Chang’e & Hou yi

This event is proudly brought to you by The Village Square's Epsom Community Centre and Albert-Eden Local Board, in collaboration with the following organisations:
• Welcoming Communities: www.immigration.govt.nz...
• Moore Art and Design Studio: www.mooreartdesign.co.nz...
• Japan Kauri Education Trust
• Epsom Chinese Association
• Asian Safety Education & Promotion Charitable Trust
• Albert-Eden Climate Action Network
• Eco Neighbourhoods: livelightly.nz...
• Auckland Emergency Management
• Neighbourhood Support - Albert Eden & Puketāpapa

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