Community Festivals

Sunshine Lunar New Year Festival 2025

Sunshine Lunar New Year Dancing

The Sunshine Lunar New Year Festival is a free multicultural community event taking place in the busy Sunshine shopping precinct presented 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 more.

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 will entertain the community and showcase their cultural heritage and talented musicians.

A fabulous array of street food stalls of many nations, super fun small and large children’s rides including the massive Ferris Wheel, face-painting, showbags, street-performers cultural kid’s activity zone will take over Hampshire Road. Sunshine’s favourite local sporting groups will also attend and present fun kid’s activities. If you want to apply to be a stallholder apply below.

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, Victorian State Government, SBS, TAC, ANZ, Major Transport Infrastructure Authority, Harvey Norman Sunshine and Sunshine Businesses.

Date and time
Sunday 26 January 2025 at 12:00pm - 10:00pm
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Location

Hampshire Road, Sunshine, 3020, VIC, VIC, Australia

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Entry cost

Free of charge

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