Georges River Council hosts Sydney Metro’s biggest Council-led Lunar New Year celebration, marking 2025 the 22nd year of the festival being celebrated in the area. Address: Forest Road, Hurstville & Hurstville Plaza. Date: Saturday 1 February 2025. Forest Road Street Markets: 12.00pm - 9.00pm. Hurstville Plaza Stage Performances: from 2.00pm Georges River Council hosts Sydney Metro’s biggest Council-led Lunar New Year celebration, marking 2025, Year of the Snake, the 22nd year of the festival being celebrated in the area. The Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, is the beginning of the year in the lunar calendar traditionally observed in many East Georges River Council 2025 Lunar New Year Festival will include Dragon and Lion dancing, official eye-dotting ceremony, live performances, cooking demonstrations, and Forest Rd Street Market with food stalls. Saturday, 1 February, 12pm-9pm Hurstville Plaza & Forest Rd, Hurstville This year’s celebration will be transforming the area into a hub of festivities to celebrate the Year of the Snake with a vibrant day of culture, food, and entertainment in Hurstville! Enjoy the Forest Road Street Markets, offering delicious Asian cuisine, artisan crafts, and traditional goods. Get ready for Sydney's biggest Council-led Lunar New Year celebration! Join us on Saturday 1 February 2025 in Hurstville as we ring in the Year of the Snake and celebrate 22 years of Lunar New Year festivities in the Georges River area 🐍 This event is proudly funded by the NSW Government. This year marks the 22nd year of the celebration being held in the area, with a crowd of 50,000 expected to attend. Georges River Council Mayor Elise Borg said, “Lunar New Year is one of our most celebrated and cherished events for locals and visitors to Hurstville alike. This year’s celebration will be transforming the area into a hub of festivities to celebrate the Year of the Snake with a vibrant day of culture, food, and entertainment in Hurstville! Enjoy the Forest Road Street Markets, offering delicious Asian cuisine, artisan crafts, and traditional goods. Georges River's diversity and spirit, serving as a vibrant centrepiece for Lunar New Year celebrations. Artist Zhuzhu (Guiyong Zhu) from Taopic is a South Australian artist specializing in large-scale murals and site-specific public art. Aleth new year Snake. Hurstville Plaza, on display all day. See Aleth, the new year Snake. Hurstville's Forest Road will host 50,000 visitors in the celebrations and festivities on Saturday, February 3. It will be the largest Sydney Metro, council-led Lunar New Year 2024 celebration. Join Georges River Council in welcoming the Year of the Dragon at Hurstville. Experience lion dancing, red envelope giveaways, and diverse cuisines with 50,000 visitors expected. Discover the public art mural and other highlights. Free event. 50,000 locals and visitors welcomed the Year of The Dragon at Georges River Council’s Lunar New Year 2024 celebrations in Hurstville on Saturday 3 February. Georges River Council hosted Sydney Metro’s biggest Council-led Lunar New Year celebration, marking the 21st year of the festival being celebrated in the area. Georges River Council’s popular Lunar New Year Festival will return on Saturday 2 February 2019 for the 16th year, in a celebration of the Georges River area’s cultural diversity. The free annual event will offer a colourful mix of entertainment, cultural activities and delicious food, to ring in the Year of the Pig. Find tickets & information for Lunar New Year Festival 2025. happening at Forest Rd, Hurstville NSW 2220, Australia, Hurstville, NS on Sat, 01 Feb, 2025 at 12:00 pm AEDT. Georges River Council's annual Lunar New Year Festival will return to Hurstville on Saturday 28 January 2023. dancing with auspicious imagery to celebrate Lunar New Year. The mural will be on This year marks the 20 th year the Lunar New Year Festival is celebrated in the area, with 30,000 visitors expected to welcome the Year of Rabbit in Sydney's South. Georges River Council Mayor, Nick Katris said, "Lunar New Year is one of Council's largest community celebrations for locals and visitors to Hurstville." One of the biggest Lunar New Year celebrations will take place in Hurstville, in Sydney's south, which is home to a thriving Chinese community, on Saturday, January 28, from noon-9pm. Chinese New Year typically lasts for 15 days each year, but most of the performances and celebrations around Sydney run up until February 9. From now until then, you can expect more than 50 vibrant lion dance performances as well as dragon boats, light installations, cultural performances, live entertainment and street parties. Sydney Metro services are high-frequency, driverless trains running between Sydney’s north-west and south-west via the city.. The M1 Line operates turn up-and-go Metro services in both directions between Tallawong, Chatswood and Sydenham. Lion dance performance in Westfield Shopping Centre, Hurstville Sydney Australia.Chinese New Year / Lunar New Year 2021 Celebration.Lion dance performance by 2025 Lunar New Year Festival. Multicultural NSW wishes everyone a Happy Lunar New Year, as we move into the Year of the Snake on Wednesday 29 January. The Year of the Snake is about wisdom, transformation, and personal growth. According to tradition, snakes are also associated with good fortune, abundance, fertility, and good health.
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