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Mt Eden Normal School
Top Courts & Hall
12pm - 3pm, Saturday 8 June, 2024

Sponsors Team Ian Yu, Harcourts Metro, Wise Mortgage & ESL Legal Limited, with our PTA & families from our Chinese community are proud to hold the 2024 Chinese Dragon Boat Festival Celebration on Saturday June 8th.
 
This wonderful event brings communities and families together, with traditional Chinese performances, activities and food. We will provide tasty traditional Chinese food, such as dumplings and fried noodles - come and try dragon's Beard candy or sugar art.
 
There will be a range of activities you and your children can participate in and enjoy, such as lion dancing, face painting, paper cutting, calligraphy, prize draws and a Chinese children traditional show. 
 
Other food stalls will be on offer such as samosas, sausage sizzle, candy floss, ice blocks and drinks are also sold on the site.
 
Come and join us to keep winter alive and experience Chinese culture in a fun and meaningful way!
 
For more information, please email menpspta@gmail.com.

Performances

Times to be announced Lion Dancing
Face-changing or BianLian
Van Roon Martial Arts Kung fu performance
Children's performances

Activities

Paper cutting
Calligraphy
Kick shuttlecock challenge
Face Painting
Prize draw
Bouncy castle
Handcrafts & drawing
Zongzi & tea demonstration

Refreshments

Dumplings
Noodles
Spring rolls
Drinks
Ice-Blocks
Candy Floss
Popcorn
Dragons beard candy
Samosas
Sausage Sizzle
Zongzi 

Help on our festival stalls needed!

We are excited to be running a few favourite fair stalls at this event and some new stalls celebrating Chinese culture. Please sign up today to help with a stall at our festival while your kids have fun with all of the activities.

To sign up please review the roles and times by following this link:

Roles that we need help with 

  1. samosa or sausage sizzle stall
  2. face painting or kick shuttlecock
  3. festival set up or pack down 
  4. first aid
  5. stage manager

Roles that require cultural knowledge or Mandarin language skills

  1. Noodles extraordinaire to coordinator the noodle stall
  2. zongzi demo
  3. translate for calligraphy or dragon beard candy experts
  4. assist the paper cutting expert
  5. help prepare the dumplings & noodles on the morning of the event
  6. Handicrafts - this stall will be cancelled if we can’t find some enthusiastic crafters

 

Any questions please email menpspta@gmail.com.

Coordinators:

Food stalls

Dumplings - Anna
Noodles - Stall coordinator needed 
Drinks & Ice-Blocks - Hayley Caldwell
Candy Floss & pop corn - Stall coordinator needed 
Dragon Candy - Stall coordinator needed*
Sugar painting - Yanni Wang
Samosas - Khim Nah
Sausage sizzle - Vanessa Matthews
Zongzi Rice dumplings (pre ordered via Kindo) - Lynn

* these items have specialty experts coming to create the food item - we just need help to box up the treats and take payment

Entertainment

Lion Dancing - Echo
Kung fu / martial art performances - Van Roon Martial Arts
Childrens performances - Amy
Face-changing or BianLian - Riana

Activities

Zongzi demonstration - Stall coordinator needed
Face Painting - Svantje, Chelsea Chen
Paper cutting - Krystal
Calligraphy - Uncle Yuan + Auntie Pan
Kick shuttlecock - Stall coordinator needed
Prize draw & raffle - Tina & Bob Zhang
Handcrafts & drawing - Stall coordinator needed
Bouncy castle - Jess Nolan
Tea ordering in the Song Dynasty - Tiffany 

A MASSIVE thank you to the Chinese families of MENPS and some experienced fair stall holders for being stall coordinators for this event.

Token Cards - cashless event

All food and paid activity stalls at our event accept token cards for payments.

Token cards are available for purchase via Eftpos at our ‘Bank’ located in the staff room near the Hall - on the day of the event.

  • Each $10 card provides 5 $2 tokens that will be clipped at any of the food or activity stalls

Please note some activities and the performances are free and do not require payment.

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Pre-order Zongzi rice dumplings

Zongzi rice dumplings are available for pre-order on Kindo
  • $6 for 1, $10 for 2 savoury Zongzi (pork)
  • $4 for 1, $10 for 3 sweet dates Zongzi
  • $4 for 1, $10 for 3 red bean paste Zongzi
Dumplings were available for pre-order via the kindo website between May 16 and May 31.

They will only be available for collection at the Dragon Boat Festival between 12pm and 3pm on June 8.
 
See here for reheat instructions.

 

Many thanks to our sponsors

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Team Ian Harcourts Mt Eden

Proudly serving the local and wider community's real estate needs - specialising in residential homes and new developments.

 

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