Community language students to show off their culture in the Sydney Town Hall Spectacular

27.05.24  Scores of young students of community languages will present their culture on the stage of Sydney Town Hall this weekend.

The Spectacular is organised by the NSW Federation of Community Language Schools.

The Federation President, Lucia Johns, said today: “This a wonderful opportunity for the children of many cultural backgrounds to showcase the songs, dances and music of their parents’ homelands.

” Obviously to know and learn a language fully, the children at our schools also have to learn the culture that supports that language.

“Twelve months ago, we trialled this concept in the Lower Town Hall to great success with the children demonstrating in a spectacular way that what they are doing is much more than maintaining community languages for the next generation”,

” We saw performances on stage throughout the day ranging from a mind-boggling display of unique gymnastic traditions by students from the Sydney Mongolian Language School to a classical violin and cello performance by students from the Japanese Language School and lively folk dances from children of Russian and Ukrainian language schools. We also saw traditional choral works by Chinese and Tamil Language schools and performances by Sri Lankan, Brazilian, Laotian, Greek, Thai, Vietnamese, Polish and Punjabi language groups
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“So, we a now confident to present a full programme of cultural performances in the grand setting of Sydney Town Hall on June 2nd from 10.00 am to 4.00pm”, Ms Johns concluded.

The Spectacular is free of charge and open to all.

The NSW Federation of Community language Schools supports the 3500 teachers and volunteers who run classes in 461 locations around the state for over 32,000 children studying over 69 different languages.

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