This Sunday Scalabrini Austral will be the place to be when it throws open its doors for Live Easy Community Market Day.
The first time this event has been held, it will offer a free, family-friendly celebration of the cultures, stories and people of Liverpool.
From 10am to 3pm, come for the food, the music and the market stalls. Stay for the feeling of belonging to something bigger.
The day will honour the spirit of the much-loved Italian Festival once held in Austral, paying tribute to the migrant families who helped shape this area while embracing the diversity that defines Liverpool today, a region where residents from more than 140 countries call home and more than half the population speaks a language other than English.
The food alone is worth the trip. Fish and chips, traditional Italian pasta, a coffee cart, gelato, gingerbread treats and Turkish gözleme will be on the menu.
The market will come alive with stallholders offering Filipino handcrafts and jewellery, pre-loved treasures, fair trade goods, plants and soaps.
Scalabrini Austral’s own religious sisters and residents will run their own stalls, a reminder that this is a true community affair from the ground up.
For younger visitors, there will be free rainbow face and henna hand painting, balloons and a kindy petting zoo.
Families are also encouraged to bring a picnic blanket, settle into the open green grounds.
A talent show that puts Liverpool’s cultural diversity front and centre, and open to performers of all ages and backgrounds will bring the whole thing together.
Audiences can expect martial arts, dance from a women’s health organisation, poetry, performances from a local Indian dance school and vibrant Filipino cultural dancing.
EVENT SNAPSHOT:
WHAT: LIVE Easy Community Market Day
WHEN: Sunday 13 September, 10am to 3pm
WHERE: Scalabrini Austral, 65 Edmondson Avenue, Austral
COST: Free entry
Register: liveeasy.com.au/live-easy-market-day/
Getting there: On-site and street parking available, plus free shuttle buses running to and from Leppington Station throughout the day.
