Mid-Autumn Festival

Dates: Term 3: 6 Sept - 17 Sept & Term 4: 4 Oct – 29 Oct 2021

Duration: 2 hours

Cost: $17.50 per student (minimum 15 students)

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a 3000-year-old tradition when the full moon appears largest in the sky. Celebrating family re-union, this festival program explores moon legends and traditional practices such as lantern making, riddle guessing, moon cake making and Chinese tea ceremony.

Two-hour tour includes: Moon cake demonstration, Lantern making, Moon legend stories and Museum tour.

Victorian Curriculum: Visual Arts Levels 3-10; History Levels 3-10; Intercultural Capability Levels 3-10; Languages (Chinese) Levels 3-10; Specifically: History / Levels 3 and 4 / Historical Knowledge / Community, remembrance and celebrations.

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