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Chand Raat Eid Festival 2016 – Sydney – 6th July
CREF 2016 will be celebrating it’s 18th Year! Fair, Fun, Food Amusements & Entertainment Open for Everyone Website: www.chandraat.com
Chand Raat means night of the moon; that makes it a unique evening event of its kind. The ‘Chand Raat Eid Festival’ is a traditional festivity marks the end of fasting month of Islamic Calendar (Ramadan) and the Islamic annual festivity (Eid ul Fitr). The aim of CREF is to celebrate Eid Festivity by promoting culture, friendship and harmony. The event engages multicultural communities and broad Australians across Victoria. The Festival presents exuberant cultural display of multicultural Australian diverse communities together.
The festival is an opportunity for families to get together, do Eid shopping and eat delicious foods from a variety of stalls. The community groups, individuals, and business community place variety of stalls containing promotions of business, services, handicrafts, art, painting, clothes, jewellery, henna, bangles, shoes, toys and large variety of ethnic food.
The festival also provides children amusements and rides and live multicultural performances. CREF encourages and provides an opportunity for individuals, families and small business owners to introduce, exhibit and sell their products & services to thousands of attendees. CREF, being a non-alcoholic family event, provides fantastic opportunity to families and youth to enjoy wonderful amusements, entertainment activities and delicious variety of foods.
The CREF was first held in 1998 in the Sydney Suburb of Lakemba. since then, it has been the fastest growing multicultural events in Australia. Last year, (2015) over 60,000 visitors and over 350 exhibitors participated in the 4 major events held in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
The festival is an opportunity:
For community organisations, groups, business operators, and professionals to place promotional & informative stalls
For Artists & Entertainers to perform and promote their art and fun as part of entertainment
For individuals and families to get together, celebrate their annual festivity with others and at the same time promote their culture, traditions and build relationship and friendship
The format, theme, and activities of the Festival foster:
Evolving Experience for Youth Cross Cultural bonding for Communities Builds harmony and breaks down barriers Creates marketing opportunities the for people of different Professions, Companies of different Products & Services, Community Organisations and Government Departments Provides a Platform to Government Officials, Parliamentarians, and Community Leaders to meet with thousands of diversified people Making of International Image of Australia as a Multicultural Society The CREF events are covered by local, national and international media. The organising team of CREF Incorporated are highly professional people who are international journalists, educationists, community leaders, social workers, event management experts, technical experts and diverse youth.
CREF Team:
Syed Atiq ul Hassan, Director Sarwat Hassan, Event & Media Manager Sabeh Hassan, Marketing Manager Omair Chodhry, Event Consultant (Perth) Suffan ul Hassan, Administrator Adil Hussain Khan, Marketing Manager Surraya Hassan, Founder