Epsom Community Centre Moon Festival
Celebrate the Moon Festival at Epsom Community Centre! 🌙✨
Join us for a fun-filled day for the whole family featuring mooncake making, food and craft markets, kids' activities, traditional songs and stories, cultural performances, and more!
• FREE
• Saturday 4 October
• 10.30am-2.30pm
• Epsom Community Centre, 202 Gillies Ave, Epsom
• epsom-community-centre.org.nz/moonfestival
📍 OUTDOOR MARKET
• Food Trucks + Vendors
• Craft Stands
• Community & Information Stands
• Traditional Korean outdoor games
📍 EPSOM HALL
• Mooncake making workshops
• Chinese calligraphy, making mooncakes with playdough, and lantern making.
📍 RANFURLY ROOM: TSUKIMI - JAPANESE MOON-VIEWING FESTIVAL
• Tsukimi (Japanese Moon-Viewing Festival) celebration
• Origami, Japanese Games, Tsukimi Crafts
• Traditional Story Time
📍 KIMBERLY ROOM: CHINESE CULTURAL EXPERIENCE
• Chinese Cultural Experience
• Traditional Musical Instrument (Guzhen) performances
• Hangu Performances: The Legend of Chang’e & Hou yi
This event is proudly brought to you by The Village Square's Epsom Community Centre and Albert-Eden Local Board, in collaboration with the following organisations:
• Welcoming Communities: www.immigration.govt.nz...
• Moore Art and Design Studio: www.mooreartdesign.co.nz...
• Japan Kauri Education Trust
• Epsom Chinese Association
• Asian Safety Education & Promotion Charitable Trust
• Albert-Eden Climate Action Network
• Eco Neighbourhoods: livelightly.nz...
• Auckland Emergency Management
• Neighbourhood Support - Albert Eden & Puketāpapa
Some Choice News!
Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.
Thanks to people like Alan Baldick, who’s made it his mission to protect the monarch, his neighbours still get to enjoy these beautiful butterflies in their own backyards.
Thinking about planting something to invite more butterflies, bees, and birds into your garden?
Thanks for your mahi, Alan! We hope this brings a smile!
Brain Teaser of the Day 🧠✨ Can You Solve It? 🤔💬
How many balls of string does it take to reach the moon?
(Peter from Carterton kindly provided this head-scratcher ... thanks, Peter!)
Do you think you know the answer? Simply 'Like' this post and we'll post the answer in the comments below at 2pm on the day!
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Poll: Are our Kiwi summer holidays helping us recharge, or holding the economy back? ☀️🥝
There’s growing debate about whether New Zealand’s extended Christmas break (and the slowdown that comes with it) affects productivity.
Tracy Watkins has weighed in ... now it’s your turn. What’s your take? 🤔
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72.3% We work hard, we deserve a break!
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16.1% Hmm, maybe?
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11.6% Yes!
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