PETITION UPDATE
Congratulations to all of us!
NOV 9, 2018 —
According to this article, the Sydney City Council has decided to change the name of the event to Lunar New Year from 2019, Year of the Pig.
Thank you for all of your support dear friends. We're looking forward to celebrating this event in a uniting manner instead of devising. Congratulations to all of us!
Link to the article:
Sydney's Chinese New Year Festival has been changed into Lunar Festival despite a call for protecting heritage significance.
The Sydney Chinese New Year Festival has been changed into the Sydney Lunar Festival - a change emphasised on the City of Sydney council's information page previewing the event slated for February.
In a statement to SBS Mandarin, the council said the renaming was part of its agenda to "expand" the event.
"The Sydney Lunar Festival will embrace all communities and cultures, whether or not they use the lunar calendar, and create new opportunities for the event’s further development," the statement read.
"Chinese New Year will always be a core element of the Sydney Lunar Festival, with many events, including the much-loved red packet walk and late night feasts, taking place in Chinatown."
"The city is consulting with multiple Consulate Generals in Sydney, and a wide range of cultural and community representatives from Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, and Malaysian communities."
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