Tanabata - Star Festival
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Please join me at The Forest to celebrate Tanabata-Star Festival July 6-10th.
There will be a festival launch on Monday 6th from 6pm (Tanabata eve?) - (the lolly bags will return!!)
Known as Chinese Valentine’s Day, Double Seven Festival, and the Star Festival, Tanabata 七夕 is observed across China and Korea, but it is in Japan where it became a major annual festival, heralding the start of the summer.
A time for wishes, poetry, love, and renewal, the Star Festival heroes two of the Languages taught at University of Tasmania – Japanese and Mandarin.
The bright paper streamers and decorations of Tanabata - Star Festival will serve to banish the dark days of a Tasmanian winter.
✪ Monday July 6, 6-6.30 pm Festival Launch
✪ July 6-10 Paper crafting and poem writing tables will be set up in the Winter Garden for everyone to contribute to bamboo ‘wishing trees.’ open from 9.30am-6.30pm July 6, and from 8am-5pm July 7-10
✪ Wednesday July 8, 1.30 pm on wards Poetry reading and celebration with academics from Humanities and Social Sciences. Students and staff are encouraged to join in and read their own work.
This event is part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Japan and Australia
https://events.utas.edu.au/Tanabata2026 #AUJP50 #日豪50周年
There will be a festival launch on Monday 6th from 6pm (Tanabata eve?) - (the lolly bags will return!!)
Known as Chinese Valentine’s Day, Double Seven Festival, and the Star Festival, Tanabata 七夕 is observed across China and Korea, but it is in Japan where it became a major annual festival, heralding the start of the summer.
A time for wishes, poetry, love, and renewal, the Star Festival heroes two of the Languages taught at University of Tasmania – Japanese and Mandarin.
The bright paper streamers and decorations of Tanabata - Star Festival will serve to banish the dark days of a Tasmanian winter.
✪ Monday July 6, 6-6.30 pm Festival Launch
✪ July 6-10 Paper crafting and poem writing tables will be set up in the Winter Garden for everyone to contribute to bamboo ‘wishing trees.’ open from 9.30am-6.30pm July 6, and from 8am-5pm July 7-10
✪ Wednesday July 8, 1.30 pm on wards Poetry reading and celebration with academics from Humanities and Social Sciences. Students and staff are encouraged to join in and read their own work.
This event is part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Japan and Australia
https://events.utas.edu.au/Tanabata2026 #AUJP50 #日豪50周年
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Where is it happening?
The Forest, University of Tasmania, 83 Melville St, Hobart TAS 7000, 79-83 Melville St, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia, Hobart
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Host or PublisherEmerald L King
