Radio Brisvaani
Brisbane, August 31(MCCQ Newsdesk)
The 2025 WAMCI Multicultural Festival, hosted by World Arts & Multi-Culture Inc. (WAMCI), was celebrated across two weekends in August, showcasing creativity, diversity, and cultural exchange in Queensland.
Coinciding with Queensland’s Multicultural Month, this year’s festival featured two standout events that highlighted both local and international cultural traditions.
The first event, “Lighting Up Culture” Lantern Painting Competition, was held on August 16 at Sunnybank Plaza. More than 230 students from five schools, two language schools, and one arts studio took part, creating lanterns that blended Taiwanese cultural themes with multicultural designs. The colourful artworks were later exhibited at the front entry of Hoyts Cinema in Sunnybank Plaza, attracting over 500 visitors during the two-week extended display.
On August 23, the focus shifted to the Queensland Taiwan Centre for the “Multicultural Feast.” Around 80 guests, including dignitaries and volunteers, joined community members, youth, and cultural performers for a day of exchange and celebration. The program featured presentations from the FASCA Brisbane Youth Cultural Ambassadors, cultural displays from Brazil, Italy, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, and Fiji, as well as musical and artistic highlights such as Taiko drumming by the Calamvale Community College team and artworks by Franco Verdarmini and Yoshi Huges.
The festival not only fostered dialogue and mutual understanding among diverse communities but also provided a platform for youth to develop leadership skills and share their cultural heritage.
WAMCI expressed gratitude to its partners and supporters, including the Lord Mayor’s Community Fund and Councillor Steven Huang, the Overseas Community Affairs Council of Taiwan, business sponsors, local State Members, and Experience Sunnybank, whose contributions made the festival possible.
For details on upcoming activities, the community can follow WAMCI on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wamcifb.
