Community & Business
8 May, 2022
Fun, fashion and food focus of new Italian extravaganza
AN Italian extravaganza featuring the best Italian culinary delights, cooking demonstrations, live music, dancing, a fashion parade and kids activities will take over Fogarty Park in Cairns at the end of July as part of the inaugural Cairns Italian Festival.
AN Italian extravaganza featuring the best Italian culinary delights, cooking demonstrations, live music, dancing, a fashion parade and kids activities will take over Fogarty Park in Cairns at the end of July as part of the inaugural Cairns Italian Festival.
La Festa promises to be a day of family fun and will celebrate all things Italian with delicious food from different regions of Italy, wine, coffee and worldclass entertainment, ending with a spectacular fireworks display. MC for the event is James Liotta who is an award winning performer with over 25 years of experience and has toured constantly around Australia as a standup comedian alongside ethnic comedy icons such as Joe Avati, George Kapiniaris and Tahir. Pippo and Pasquale (performed by Piero Viavattene and James Liotta) are sure to get patrons laughing with their unique brand of comedy.
The pair have gained an enormous popularity online, have sold out shows right across Australia and performed live for various Italian festivals across the nation. Well known for their appearance on My Kitchen Rules, Daniela and Stefania are two crazy cousins who love to cook and will spread their passion for food at the festival, which comes from their Italian background and cooking with their mums.
The fashion parade will feature garments from Milva Carucci, a Mareebabased fashion designer born to Italian migrants who were pioneer tobacco farmers at Dimbulah. With over 40 years of dressmaking expertise, Milva’s business started several years ago in very humble beginnings. What started as dabbling in bringing her lifelong passion to life by helping people with alterations and small dressmaking jobs has now grown significantly to create both custom-made and ready to wear outfits worn all over Australia and New Zealand.
Live music will be a highlight of the event, with Siesta Cartel and other artists set to entertain audiences. Siesta Cartel is a unifying musical movement led by a group of young Italians from Melbourne whose hearts beat to the music they play from a time long ago, where their beloved traditions was born. They are on a mission to unite all Italians in Australia with the music that helped raise them and they still love today.
La Festa will be held at Fogarty Park in Cairns on 30 July. Tickets for adults are $17.90, children $5.50 and family passes $40.68.
Go to www.cairnsitalianfestival. com.au/events/la-festa/ to book.
