Pakington Street , 153 Pakington Street, Geelong West, Victoria 3218
Phone: 03 5221 6044
http://www.pakofesta.com.au
About
Pako Festa, now in its thirty-second year, is Geelong's much loved, award-winning, free annual community cultural festival - the biggest of its kind in Australia. Managed by Diversitat and held on the last weekend of February in Pakington Street, Geelong West, "the multicultural heart of Geelong", it 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 and arts and crafts, and nine separate stages in the precinct offer performances of music and dance as well as interactive workshops and exhibitions. Pako Festa has become one of Victoria's premier multicultural event, attended by well over 100,000 people in each of the last three yearsVisit the website for full program and to download the Pako Festa event application. Content: Geelong Ethnic Communities Council Inc This is a free event. Pakington Street and streets adjoining it are closed to all traffic from and including Anglesea and Collins Streets at the northern end and Autumn Street at the southern end. Please refer to website for full program details.
