The annual Lunar New Year Festival has been held for 18 years and has proven to be quite popular, with 13,335 people turning out to enjoy the fire-breathing acrobats, lion dancers, traditional food and flower stalls, the God and Goddess of Fortune and, of course, the watermelon-eating competition.
Mayor Bilal El-Hayek said Lunar New Year was an important event on the City’s calendar to recognise Bankstown’s large Vietnamese and Chinese communities and “we are lucky to have such a large Asian community here and it is fitting that we acknowledge the Year of the Dragon”.
Lunar New Year celebrations
THOUSANDS converged on Bankstown on Saturday to celebrate the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Dragon with a range of exciting cultural delights and there’s loads more fun to come at the Campsie Lantern Festival, including the Campsie Catwalk on February.
