Pako Festa – A Celebration of Cultural Diversity
Pako Festa – is on this weekend 25th of February don’t miss out!
Managed by Diversitat and held on the last weekend of February in Pakington Street, Geelong West, the multicultural heart of Geelong. Pako Festa incorporates an extravagant street parade featuring around ninety floats and hundreds of performers representing forty-five affiliated ethnic communities and around sixty other community groups and organisations.
The street is lined with stalls selling traditional foods, arts and crafts and nine separate stages in the precinct offering performances of music and dance as well as interactive workshops and exhibitions. Pako Festa has become one of Victoria’s premier multicultural events, attended by well over 100,000 people in each of the last three years.
2017 Program
The Pako Festa Parade commences at 11.00am and runs for just over an hour.
Stage entertainment commences after 12.00pm
Program subject to change
Family Entertainment Precinct – Town Hall
| 12.15 pm | Julie-Anne’s Dance Avenue | |
| 12.30 pm | The Animals of the Magical Mountain | |
| 1.00 pm | High Voltage Rock School Show Case | |
| 1.40 pm | High Voltage Rock School Show Case | |
| 2.15 pm | High Voltage Rock School Show Case | |
| 3.05 pm | DanceWorks Geelong | |
| 3.30 pm | Marimbataters |
Geelong Cats Stage
| 1.00pm | La Cumbiamba |
| 1.30pm | Sweet Monas Choir |
| 2.00pm | Geelong Maitri Community |
| 2.15pm | Su Hart |
| 2.40pm | Sauzal Folkloric Dance Group |
| 3.00pm | The Lewis Brothers |
| 3.30pm | Geelong Cats signing session |
West Park Stage
| 12.15 pm | Official Opening including the Deadly Dancers (Auslan Interpreted) | |
| 12.45 pm | Andalucia Spanish Dancing Group | |
| 1.10 pm | Geelong Scottish Dance Group | |
| 1.25 pm | Mezei Virag Hungarian Dance Group | |
| 1.40 pm | Te Arahina Geelong Maori Community | |
| 1.55 pm | Geelong Lithuanian Dance Group – Linas | |
| 2.25 pm | Croatian Community HKUD LADO Geelong | |
| 2.50 pm | Biser Macedonian Dance Group of Geelong | |
| 3.10 pm | Filipino Social Club of Geelong | |
| 3.25 pm | Greek Community School of Geelong | |
| 3.40 pm | The Greek Connection | |
| 3.55 pm | Serbian Youth Club Branko Radicevic | |
| 4.10 pm | Geelong Bollywood Dance Group | |
| 4.30 pm | Melbourne Burundian Drummers | |
Diversitat Stage
| 12.15 pm | Geelong Harmony Chorus | |
| 12.40 pm | Indonesian Association of Geelong | |
| 12.55 pm | Lehenda Ukrainian Dance Group | |
| 1.15 pm | Karenni Youth Dance and Song | |
| 1.30 pm | Geelong Nepalese Association | |
| 1.50 pm | Club Italia Geelong ‘Cantiamo Insieme’ | |
| 2.20 pm | Bosnian Lily Dance Group | |
| 2.40 pm | Polish Dance Group ‘Krakowiak’ | |
| 3.00 pm | Glory of God Choir Congelese Community | |
| 3.20 pm | Hazara Community of Geelong | |
| 3.35 pm | Rise and Shine Children’s Choir | |
| 3.50 pm | Tunjos y Cantaros Columbian Dance | |
| 4.10 pm | Geelong South Sudanese | |
| 4.25 pm | Heartsong | |
| 4.55 pm | Club La Vida Salsa Dance Workshop | |
| 5.30 pm – 6.30pm | The Black Sistaz |
Petrel Hotel Stage
| 1.00 pm | Andrea Robertson & Friends | |
| 2.00 pm | Izzy Losi and the Auracles | |
| 3.00 – 4.30 pm | Cor Ten |
