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After 2 years of interval, Celebrate India’s Victorian Festival of Diwali is returning in person to Fed Square, its iconic home, on Saturday 29th October with full grandeur and splendor.
Let us take you on a magical journey of India through the traditional and contemporary cultural feast &#8211; yoga and meditation; beats of drums; drama; breath-taking classical, folk and contemporary dance performances; workshops of Indian dancing for all and craft for children; games, henna painting, a bustling bazaar and authentic Indian street food. The festivities will culminate with spectacular fireworks on the Yarra River.
In support of National Breast Cancer Foundation, it will be a pink Diwali this year and the entire Fed Square precinct will be immersed in the colour pink.
A special photographic exhibition INDIA THROUGH THE LENS in the Atrium at Fed Square will be open for all to visit from 25-29 October.
A screening of GURU (2007, 154 minutes, PG) will be on the Big Screen from 5.30pm on 28 October.
Do come and join the festivities!
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CelebrateIndia/photos/a.511357908952676/5634919279929821/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here for the full program</a>.

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First Peoples

A Blak queer futurism art exhibition.
A Rainbow of Tomorrows invites queer creative mob to carve out a space for respite from the heteropatriarchal settler-colony and explore individual and collective visions of utopia. A multidisciplinary exhibition of queer First Nations artists’ work, along with multiple activating events, A Rainbow of Tomorrows is a guest-curated project led by Stone Motherless Cold.
The exhibition will feature film, sculpture, digital painting, drawings, textiles and photography, each in conversation with one another and with performance that will unfold in the space throughout the show’s duration. This includes opening and closing night events showcasing drag and cabaret performances, the Hazy Lounge (16 October) sharing spoken word and musical acts, a life-drawing session (21 October) with models from the Motherless Haus, and a panel discussion (19 October) exploring Blak queer futurist perspectives.
Each multidisciplinary in their practice, featured artists include: Rémy Cohen, Yorta Yorta, Boon Wurrung; Stone Motherless Cold, Eastern Arrernte; Peter Waples-Crowe, Ngarigo; Kira Djnalie, Yorta Yorta, Wergaia; Bromley Isombard; Darcy McConnel, Dja Dja, Wurrung, Yorta Yorta; Elijah Money, Wiradjuri; Pierra Van Sparkes, Pibbulman Noongar; Arika Waulu, Gunnai, Gunditjmara, Djapwurrung; and Aunty Annette Xiberras, Wurundjeri.
Curator’s statement
“The apocalypse has come. Already living in a dystopian world, you are invited into A Rainbow of Tomorrows, to gather and celebrate in sanctum. Though, what does a Blak queer utopia look like right now? Tomorrow? Or many yesterdays ago? As our apocalypse was the beginning of a colonial ‘utopia’. First Nations peoples have been busy and are tired of resisting and surviving against a colonial dream, one that makes no space for queer Blak folks. A Rainbow of Tomorrows envisages a Blak queer utopia, one that keeps building the blocks of the Blak queer renaissance, reclaiming and decolonising utopian and dystopian fantasies.” – Stone Motherless Cold.
About the curator
Stone Motherless Cold is an Arrernte drag gem, currently based in Naarm. Smooth and sensual, bold and graphic, this crystalline trophy posing as humanoid. She is a drag artist, producer, writer and visual artist, celebrating spaces of Blak queer futurism. Ms Cold is head of the Motherless Collective. 1st Runner Miss First Nations 2021 (Queens -The Ultimate Drag Crown) and title winner of the Victorian NAIDOC LGBTQIA+ 2019 event.
The Koorie Heritage Trust, in partnership with Melbourne Fringe is proud to acknowledge exhibition partners Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne, ANZ and the Indigenous Visual Arts and Industry Support Program.
Image: PETER WAPLES-CROWE (Ngarigu), Fractured Power 2022, collage and synthetic polymer paint on canvas 3 parts, Collection of the artist, photographed by Christian Capurro

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A Rainbow of Tomorrows at KHT

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It’s our birthday! Come celebrate with a month of activity – featuring world-first commissions, exhibitions and giveaways – celebrating the history, architecture and stories of Melbourne’s gathering place. 
Fed Square opened to the public on 26 October, 2002 – with a grand aspiration to create a central, public square in Melbourne, on the banks of our beloved Birrarung.
Since that date, our distinct design has courted controversy and global attention, we’ve been voted among the top 10 public squares in the world, and seen more than 100 million visitors gather, dine, protest and party on our sandstone cobblestones.
The significance of the site on which Fed Square is built is much longer than 20 years, so as we celebrate our ‘building birthday’, and our very recent recognition as one of the world’s youngest heritage-listed buildings, we look back and reflect upon the Indigenous history of the site as a gathering place for the people of the Kulin Nations – the oldest continuing culture in the world.
Come join with us to celebrate the past, present and future of Fed Square – with events, digital content to explore and opportunities to share your own Fed Square stories.
It’ll be a big party, we promise!

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Despite the challenging times Celebrate India Inc. remained committed to organise Diwali celebrations if not the normal at Fed Square then virtually.

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