BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.8//EN TZID:Australia/Sydney X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20795@dev.rydedistrictmums.com.au DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20190914T110000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20190914T180000 DTSTAMP:20190909T100504Z URL:https://dev.rydedistrictmums.com.au/events/matsuri-japan-festival-in-c hatswood/ SUMMARY:Matsuri Japan Festival in Chatswood DESCRIPTION:Matsuri Japan Festival in Chatswood returns again this year!\n\ n===== EVENT INFO ======\nDate: Saturday\, 14th September 2019\nTime: 11:0 0 AM to 6:00 PM\nAdmission: FREE\nLocation: Victoria Avenue Chatswood Mall \, Chatswood\n===============================\n\nSpring is almost there an d the Matsuri Japan Festival in Chatswood 2019 is back to celebrate Japane se culture and cross-cultural friendship within a great multicultural soci ety. This event is for everyone who loves Japan and the unique culture as much as we do.\n\nYou will find Japanese food stalls\, traditional arts/cr afts workshops\, and exciting stage performances.\n\nYou will find many Ja panese festival attractions at Matsuri\, including Japanese food stalls\, beer garden\, and gorgeous Japanese items. At our exhibition booths\, you will find traditional arts and cultural experience of Japanese Calligraphy \, Flower Arrangement\, Tea Ceremony or Origami and more. Also over on the stage\, you will enjoy the entertainment from the traditional Wadaiko dru m or Karate demonstration to J-POP or Cosplay show through the day!\n\n&nb sp\;\n\nThis event was founded back in 2006\, to celebrate the 30th annive rsary of Japan and Australia’s friendship. Since then\, Sydney’s Japan ese community have been working hard to host a traditional style Matsuri\, making this event a Summer staple for Sydney community.\n\nThe Matsuri Fe stival Sydney held back in December\, 2012 was a warm up event for Austral ia-Japan Tourism Exchange Year in 2013\, and saw 16\,000 people at the eve nt. The event in 2013 then saw over 20\,000 people and Tokyo City joined M atsuri to publicise the incredible wonders of Tokyo. The 2017 event held a t fantastic Tumbalong Park\, we had over 55\,000 people joined to experien ce and enjoy the cultural exchange with big smiles. \; It surely made the biggest Matsuri event in our history and a Japanese festival in Sydney ! ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dev.rydedistrictmums.com.au/wp-content/u ploads/2019/09/image-11.png CATEGORIES:What's On LOCATION:Chatswood\, Victoria Avenue\, Chatswood\, Australia GEO:-33.7938867;151.19080600000007 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Victoria Avenue\, Chatswood \, Australia;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Chatswood:geo:-33.7938867,151.1908 0600000007 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Sydney X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20190407T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR