Sunshine Lunar New Year Festival 2025
Sunshine Lunar New Year Festival 2025
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 26th January 2025, 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 special effects and multiple firecracker long strings.
Hampshire Road, between Devonshire and Foundry 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 area 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 (sponsored by ANZ and O'Brien Real Estate) across the day’s event, plus MC'ing the Fastest Pho (Pho Hien Restaurant) eating competition and then Fastest Burger (DaLat Hill Café & Steakhouse) eating competition giving away cash prizes.
Starting on stage with dancing by WestEnd Performing Arts and then later for kids on Australia Day - The Animals of the Magical Mountains, a singing, dancing and adventure with Wozza from Australia and his eight Australian animal friends. There’s Stewie Koala, Locky Cocky, Spikey Echidna, Ellie Emu, Pippy The Mountain Pygmy Possum, Willy Wombat, Suzie Roo, Radical Rat and along with Breanna The Gum Tree, they help address important topics and issues such as bullying, making new friends, helping others when in need, building a healthy self esteem and encouraging respect and empathy for all.....with lots of fun.
Exciting headlining acts such Emily Williams with her 5 piece band - discovered on Australian Idol 2005 and then a member of the Australian girl group Young Divas. Tanya George who rose to fame on The Voice in 2021 and sings Soul, R&B and pop with passion and flare astounding audiences with her 4 octave vocal range. Halo Choir or HALO Vocal Ensemble, directed by powerhouse Liona Tatafu, is a diverse lineup of artists from different communities across Melbourne who perform collaboratively and simultaneously ensuring a captivating and awe-inspiring vocal experience. Multicultural performances by the Sounds of Polynesia, Kario African Band a New Zealand Haka Performance.
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 6pm 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, Victorian Multicultural Commission, ANZ, O'Brien Real Estate, DK Estate Agency, ADV Accountants, AVWA- Australian Vietnamese Womens Association, VITA-Victorian Infrastructure Delivery Authority, VMA - Vietnamese Museum Australia and Sunshine Businesses.
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 Contact Us form.
If you are a community group wanting a stall, or a stage or street performer wanting to participate please contact us.