The Significance

The events and celebrations are a way to bring forth the lesser-known facts, customs and stories from the Hindu scriptures to a larger community. These festivities are a reminder of how Indian festivals in itself embodies and nurtures various human qualities that are so relevant to even today’s world, that we live in. Every festival you name from Holi, Ugadhi, Gudi Padwa, Navaratri, Diwali and more; each carries a meaning behind the way its celebrated and why it is celebrated.

Engage, enjoy and dive into the historical roots of Hindu Dharma as we plan, design and organize community events that enhances community bonding, cultural engagements and awareness, furthermore work towards a collective wellbeing.

Diwali@WEST – A Virtual Event – Nov 13th, 2021

A month long community engagement through virtual sharing celebrates the ‘The Hindu Heritage Month’ and is concluded with ‘Diwali@WEST’, a virtual and visually engaging event with a day-long cultural programs, competitions for children and community exchange to cheer, connect and rejoice the joy of the Heritage month and the auspicious day of Diwali.

Activities that Diwali festival shared hundreds of years ago in India becomes relevant even today in multicultural society of Australia. This event is planned to become a catalyst in bringing together people from various ethnicities at one common platform.

Indian New Year – Different names but marks new beginnings.

The start of the Hindu lunar calendar is celebrated during this period, especially in the southern states of Telangana, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. . Ugadhi derived from the Sanskrit words yuga (“age”) and adi (“beginning”), marks for new beginnings. The Indian calendar is significant not just culturally but scientifically as it connects you with the movements of the planet.
Ugadhi celebrates the spring season before the colours of Holi fades away. This festival with its popular traditional recipe called ‘Ugadi pachadi ’ reflects the very nature of life and the joy of experiencing its beauty in its varied flavours.
Vaisakhi and Gudi Padwa are two more events that mark this occasion, however differ in the customs and how they are celebrated.

The Event – April 02nd, 2022

At President Park Wyndham Vale
AHMSI celebrated a community event on April 02, 2022 with ‘The Indian New Year’ as a theme. The event was organized teaming up with local community and businesses to bring the spirit of celebration. Diverse stalls, live music, cultural performances, games, kite flying were some of the activities organized. Collectiveness, community, goodwill and the joy of sharing underlined the spirit of this event.
A public event after the cities opened up, we also had COVID19 specific activities included, to make it a sharing experience for the community.