[SESSION 1] A Taste of Persia - A Nowruz Family Celebration

📅 Date: Sunday, 8 March

🕑 Time: 12 to 1.30pm

📍 Location: Bawlyn Park Centre Community Room

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Age group: Families with children aged 3 to 10

🌿 A Taste of Persia – A Nowruz Family Celebration 🌸

Whether you already celebrate Nowruz or are discovering it for the first time, you’re warmly invited to join Joyful Plates for a joyful Persian New Year family celebration.

Nowruz marks the arrival of spring and is a beautiful tradition centred around renewal, family, and togetherness. This hands-on Cook • Play • Learn experience brings families together to honour Persian culture while welcoming the wider community to learn through play.

We’ll begin with a short, child-friendly introduction to Nowruz and meet Amoo Nowruz, a special character who helps children explore the meaning behind the traditions. Families will then move through activity stations where children build their own mini Haft-Seen (a traditional Persian display) while engaging in creative, sensory experiences.

✨ What’s Included

• Meet Amoo Nowruz (storytelling character)

• Build your own Haft-Seen

• Sabzeh planting (take home your own sprouts)

• Creative craft stations (decorate apples, eggs & mirror art)

• Make Toopak-e Khormaei (Persian date dessert balls)

• Taste traditional samanu

• Photo keepsake corner

• Persian music & simple group dance

• Light snacks and drinks provided

For Iranian families, this is a chance to celebrate Nowruz with your children in a community setting. For everyone else, it’s a warm introduction to Persian culture through food, play, and shared traditions.

🎟 Free entry – first come, first served (limited spots)

This event is supported by the Victorian Government through the Multicultural Festivals and Events Grant.