Ang Kalatas Volume V June 2015 Independence Day Special Edition | Page 26

Filipinos come alive

BLACKTOWN
STREET PARADE

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inoys came out to join the multicultural community of Blacktown City in the colourful ‘Streets Alive and Parade Day’ on
May 30 culminating the annual city festival. With the theme “Celebrating Our City and Our History”, the event featured
six performance stages, 300 stalls, free amusement rides and other attractions throughout the whole day. FilipinoAustralians from different groups and organisations came in their Filipiniana costumes and native attires. The Pinoy
contingent was among the big Asian-Australian delegations in the parade.

lacktown City is home
to more than 332,400
people making it
the largest city by
population in New
es 48
South Wales. The city compris
st to a
residential suburbs and is ho
ian
big number of Filipino-Austral
residents. The city has such a
least
diverse make-up and host at
pinos
184 nationalities with the Fili
st
counted as among the bigge
estimates peg
ethnic groups. Latest
idents
the number of Blacktown res
und
with Filipino ancestry at aro
20,000

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JUNE 2015

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