The free Chinese-inspired Bendigo Easter Festival returns for 2023
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16.03.2023

The free Chinese-inspired Bendigo Easter Festival returns for 2023

One of the largest Easter long weekend events in regional Victoria is back once again.

Commencing all the way back in 1871, the Bendigo Easter Festival is one of Australia’s longest-running community events.

Over the Easter long weekend this year, Bendigo’s beautiful Rosalind Park and surrounding streets will be transformed once again into a vibrant precinct bursting with family-friendly entertainment, stage shows, hands-on activities, live music, roving performers, an Easter egg hunt and more!

Stay up to date with what’s happening in and around the region here.

Experience the thrills of Carnival Central, watch the kid’s eyes light up in the Easter Hunt, and marvel at the extraordinary entertainers wandering through picturesque Rosalind Park.

Find your place along the road to cheer on the convoy of illuminated floats in the O’Brien Plumbing & HVAC Torchlight Procession, concluding with a spectacular fireworks display over the city on Saturday night.

Thousands of people will line the streets on Easter Sunday to watch the gorgeous display of colour in the Bendigo Advertiser Gala Parade.

At the heart of the festival is its rich Chinese history, a tradition that first began in 1879 with the first large-scale contribution from the Chinese community. Dance, drums, Lion teams and 100,000 crackers are all part it. The festival will also feature Bendigo’s proud tradition of Chinese processional dragons appearing at the Easter Festival will continue this year when Dai Gum Loong (the world’s longest Imperial Dragon!) makes his first solo parade on Easter Sunday 9th April 2023. You can be a part of this spectacular community event by registering your interest to be a dragon carrier, in case that’s ever been on your bucket list!

The Rotary Market is always a crowd favourite while the Golden Dragon Museum will be hosting a lantern making workshop in the beautiful Yi Yuan Gardens on Good Friday.

There’s also a chill out zone for all ages to enjoy sensory activities, arts and crafts; an animal farm; the CFA Kids Amusement Rides back in William Vahland Place, and the festival provides the perfect opportunity to visit Kaleidoscope, a mesmerising symphony of light, sound and joy, staged in a breathtaking mirror maze. But that’s not even the half of it.

The Bendigo Easter Festival is filled with fun and excitement the whole family will enjoy, and after visiting this annual event it is sure to become your family’s Easter tradition!

The Bendigo Easter Festival is a free event for all ages and is held from 7 – 10 April 2023. Find out more here