Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Krishna Birthday Festival In Brisbane

Krishna Birthday Festival In Brisbane
Musicians administration the cool at Krishna Wedding anniversary f?te (Depiction by GWP Accommodation - used with agree to from Taraka Sticha).

The celebration neighborhood at Brisbane's Roma Way Parklands was transformed dressed in a insubordination of colour and honest on Sunday as thousands gathered to stain Krishna's bicentennial f?te.

The f?te is the prime of its gentle in the Southern Hemisphere and celebrates India's low cultural admit to Australia.

The spectator area for the maximum stage was the place to be on an unseasonal boiling hot winter's day.

Give to the crowd was treated to a mix of music, dancing and dramatic piece period masses others were tempted by the free yoga classes and the low aromas from the spacious burlesque of nutrition stalls contemporary.

The f?te was organised by the drinking hole Hare Krishna signal.

Education co-ordinator Taracha Sticha said Krishna's bicentennial has been notorious for approaching 40 existence in Brisbane dating back to 1971.

"We've regularly notorious it at our Graceville temple but this is the imaginative time we've motivated it to the centre of Brisbane", she said.

Ms Sticha said submit were 40,000 Indian-born population in Queensland, 85 per cent of whom lived in the south-east.

Councillor David Hinchliffe attended on behalf of Brisbane city board and Ms Sticha said he was imprinted by what he saw.

"Mr Hinchliffe advised us to slap for grants and we did a lot of fundraising ourselves," Ms Sticha said.

The f?te celebrates the bicentennial of Krishna Janmashtami which is an avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu.

In India, Krishna's bicentennial is a collective holiday which is regularly thought amid mid Admired and mid September.

Ms Sticha said she was comforted with the turn-out at Brisbane's celebration and hopes to repeat it at Roma Way Parklands once more next go out with.

"I correctly ambition it's not too hot!" she said.

Broaden photos I took on the day:



Source: modern-wiccan.blogspot.com