Vesak Friendship Dinner 2017

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Vesak Friendship Dinner 2017
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Vesak Friendship Dinner 2017

Dear Venerable Sangha,
Committees, Members and Communities
Friends in the Buddha Dhamma
We warmly invite you to be part of the Vesak Friendship Dinner at Quang Minh Temple on Saturday 22nd April.

Below for you is the Vesak Friendship Dinner flyer.  Please print out, display and circulate among your community for everyone to come along... 
 
Book Your Tickets and Tables Today 
The Vesak Friendship Dinner brings our diverse and growing VictorianBuddhist community together for a social evening, vegetarian cuisine  and traditional and cultural performances by groups from across Melbourne.

Vesak Friendship Dinner 2017

Our Friendship Dinner is also the main fundraising event for the 10th annual Victorian United Nations Day of Vesak.

To held in the City of Melbourne on Saturday 27 May.  

It is a unique event providing a rare opportunity for our VictorianBuddhist community to come together as one to Commemorate the Birth, Enlightenment and Passing of the Lord Buddha.

We will be honored to have your Buddhist community join with us for this unique and rare event.
 

In coming weeks we will send you more information on the 2017 UN Day of Vesak program; as well as updating our website and Facebook pages.

Our Victorian Vesak commemoration begins on the morning of 27th of May with:
  • Offering of lunch to the Venerable Monks and Nuns at St Peters Church Hall in East Melbourne.
  • Vesak Procession at 1pm from Parliament Gardens to Collins Street; and at 1.30pm the...
  • UN Day of Vesak Commemoration and Celebration in the Melbourne Town Hall.
Thank you for your kind support, with the wish that we share these unique Vesak celebrations together.


Yours warmly

Julian Bamford
President 
Victorian United Nations Day of Vesak Inc.
M 0400 267 330
E secretary@unvesakvictoria.org.au / julianb.mcsc@gmail.com

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