The GIANTS are proud to celebrate the 2016 Toyota AFL Multicultural Round during their match against Collingwood at Spotless Stadium on Saturday, July 9.
Multicultural Round highlights the contribution multicultural communities have made to the game’s history and welcomes new communities to embrace Australian Football as fans, players, umpires or administrators.
Saturday’s celebrations will focus on the Indian community as well as a host of other diverse nationalities.
This year the AFL and GIANTS are also bringing the AFL Multicultural Festival presented by Australia Post to Sydney.
On Saturday, July 9 from 11am-7pm be prepared for the extraordinary as we celebrate the many cultures that make this great game special.
This free event in Cathy Freeman Park in Sydney Olympic Park offers rides, food stalls, AFL clinics, henna and face painters, Multicultural workshops, Arabic Drummers, Bollywood dancing PLUS Justice Crew LIVE performances.
Western Sydney is one of the most multicultural places on earth, home to a dozen of the top 20 most multicultural suburbs in Australia.
In the areas surrounding the club’s home training facility and stadium in Sydney Olympic Park, around three quarters of the residents were born overseas.
Sydney is home to 70 nationalities with local communities of more than 3,000 people with Parramatta a major multicultural hub, with 70 per cent of the population born overseas.
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The GIANTS will celebrate all nationalities and cultures at Spotless Stadium on Saturday with our Many Cultures, One Game match a major event on the GIANTS calendar.
Activities include:
• Multicultural Festival in Cathy Freeman Park outside Spotless Stadium
• Footballs with Sherrin spelt in Hindi, Mandarin and Arabic
• 50m line markings in Hindi
• Radio call in Hindi live streamed on the AFL App
• LED signage in different languages
• Chinese Lions performance pre-game
• Arabic drumming to welcome the teams out and sit in the GIANTS cheersquad
• New Zealand haka performance
• Bollywood dancers
• Cooking demonstrations
• Irish dancers
• Fireworks display
• United Nations of AFL representatives to form a guard of honour
• Multicultural flags around the boundary as the team runs out
• Scoreboard signage in different languages
• Auburn GIANTS playing in the curtain-closer at Spotless Stadium
• Henna tattoos on the concourse
• GIANTS match day social media translated into different languages
• 2016 My AFL Passport Ticketing campaign encouraging International passport holders to attend the game for free
• Like every home game this year, a Prayer room is located in the Council Stand at Spotless Stadium
It’s been more than 10 years since the AFL launched their Multicultural Program in 2005 to engage people of all ages from multicultural backgrounds in Australian Football.
Harvey Norman is the proud major match day partner of the GIANTS’ Multicultural Round match. Harvey Norman was announced as the major sponsor of the Auburn GIANTS last year, the first time the company has been involved in AFL.
The Auburn GIANTS will play a curtain closer at Spotless Stadium after the GIANTS’ Multicultural Round match.
The GIANTS take on Collingwood on Saturday, July 9 at 1.40pm at Spotless Stadium. Tickets start from $24 for an adult and $48 for a family of two adults and two kids with children under 15 free.
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