Sunshine Lunar New Year Festival 2026
Sunshine Lunar New Year Festival 2026
The Sunshine Lunar New Year Festival is a free multicultural community event taking place in the busy Sunshine shopping precinct along Hampshire Road, Sunshine on Sunday 8th February 2026, 12pm to 10pm, staged by the SUNSHINE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION.
Celebrating the lunar calendar, a time of renewal and for friends and family to come together to celebrate the start of a new year. The Sunshine Lunar New Year Festival or Tét Festival will bring our culturally diverse community together in a safe and fun environment.
A huge day of free family fun, live entertainment, children’s rides, street performers, music, dancing, street food, face-painting, magical Lion and Dragon dancing, red-pockets and a fabulous array of firecracker long strings.
Hampshire Road, between Devonshire and Hertford Roads will be closed to traffic and will come alive with multicultural entertainment for children and all family members. A large performance stage with seating will burst with exciting musical acts, live multicultural bands and dance groups entertaining the community and showcasing their cultural heritage. The fabulous and funny Diana Nguyen will feature on the stage giving away red-pockets with $ from the stage Blossom Trees across the day’s event, plus MC'ing the Fastest Pho and Fastest Burger eating challenge giving away $500 prizes.
A fabulous array of street food stalls of many nations, super fun small and large children’s rides, face-painting, street-performers, lawn games and a Cultural Kid’s Zone of kids craft sponsored by DK Estate Agency, will take over the Civic Green community area in front of all the restaurants. Sunshine’s favourite local sporting groups will also attend and present fun kid’s activities.
A vibrant Lion and Dragon dance complete with extra special effects and a huge display of long string firecrackers will take place 6.30pm at the stage.
The Sunshine Lunar New Year Festival is a free cultural community event staged and presented by the Sunshine Business Association, supported by Brimbank City Council, AVWA- Australian Vietnamese Women's Association, VMA - Vietnamese Museum Australia, Aussie Home Loans, Sunshine Marketplace and Sunshine Businesses.
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Looking to be a Stall Holder?
Looking to be a Stall Holder? The Sunshine Lunar New Year Festival Committee invites Corporate, Food and Goods Stallholders to participate by filling in the above Stallholder Goggle Form in September/October.
If you are a community group, stage or street performer wanting to participate please contact us.