Chinese New Year Heritage Morning Tea "Honouring early Chinese enterprise intehCairns District" Thursday 8 Feb 2024 Venue: Cairns Museum ( Level one ) Guest Speaker: Julia Volkmar Cost : $20 N.B. Bookings are essential . To make a reservation please email  your name and phone number : heritage@cadcai.org.au   

Judy Cho is hosting a Meet 'n Greet Pot Luck Dinner for CADCAI members and friends at her home at 4 Alberta Drive Worree. All welcome. Please bring a yummy dish of cooked food to share, and your own chairs. Thank you   When:  Saturday 30 December 2023 Time : 6.00pm - 8 30pm Placd: 4 Alberta Close, Woree To RSVP,  please click on the Ticket link below  If you require more information please email info@cadcai.org  or call Judy on Mob; 0429 543 114  

  CADCAI's 37th Annual General Meeting  on Saturday 25th Novemeber at the Salvation Army Church Hall, Haore St , Manunds on Saturday 25th November 2023 at 2.00pm. Members and friends of CADCAI or members of the public interested in furthering Chinese langauge, culture and heritage in Cairns are encouraged to attend. This is an opportunity to learn more about your community organisation, the work it does and how it operates. It is also a great time to consider contributing and giving back to the community as volunteer. Please nominate as a committee member, or join one of our sub-committies.

CADCAI will celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with a community get-together at the FIG Tree Playground, the Esplanade, on Saturday 24th June 2023 from 12.30- 300pm All welcome. Please bring a plate of food to share and some zongzi - sticky rice (if you can!)  For more information: Call James on 0488 288 843  Please register your attendance by following the link: 

Visit the Innisfail Cemetery to pay our respects to the early Chinese migrants who settled in the area,  Innisfail Museum and the Innisfail Lit Sing Gung Chinese Temple. https://www.innisfailtemple.com/community.html Program  9.30 - 10.30am:   Meet at Innisfail Cemetery - (8 Scullen Ave, Innisfail ) Welcome and orientation Set up altar and offerings for Bai San (paying respects) Own time to ponder and wander through through the cemetery      10. 45 -1145am:   Innisfail Museum - (9/13 Edith St https://www.innisfailhistory.com.au/ Discover Chinese migration history of Innisfail and District See Poy Family Display  Meet Innisfail Historical Society volunteers  12.00 - 12.30 pm:    Innisfail Lit Sing Gung Temple - 6 Owen St)  Meet and greet Innisfail temple community elders  /volunteers      Bai San (paying respects) at the temple 12.30 - 2.00 Shared Picnic Lunch under the pergola in the temple garden. Please bring some food food to share BYO drinks For more information please Mary on 0406342703 or email heritage@cadcai.org.au  To RSVP please register online for your free ticket before 20 April 2023.

The  Chinese Moon Festival  aka  Mid - Autmn Festival is coming   (八月十五  - 15th day of the 8th month)  It's traditonally a time for family outings to enjoy a picnic and watch and appreciate the beautiful new moon at this time of year. Moon cakes, and lanterns carried by children are asssociated with this festival. The celebrate, CADCAI is organising a family picnic and gathering at the Fig Tree Play Ground, Cairns Esplanade on Saturday, 10th September starting from 4.30pm to 7.30pm.  It's time to get lanterns ready for  you or your children to bring on the day. CADCAI will provide mooncakes and drinks will be available for purchase,  WHAT ELSE TO BRING A plate of food to  share Something to sit on e.g  a large mat, cushion, or chair N.B. Dont forget your lanterns! PLEASE RSVP by registering for your FREE TICKETS        

CADCAI's Dragon Boat Festival (Danwu Jie) CADCAI will celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with a community get-together at the FIG Tree Playground, the Esplanade, on Sunday 5th June 2022 from 12.30- 300pm Please bring a plate of food to share. [Traditional Zongzi aka sticky rice in bamboo leaves will be on sale.]  All welcome. For more information: Call James on 0488 288 843  Please register your attendance by getting free tickets on-line or calling James on 0488 288 943.      

Qing Ming Festival Outing to Cairns Pioneer & Martyn St Cemeteries When:  Sunday 10 April, 2022    TIME:  9.00am- 11.00am             9.00 am to 10.00am  -  Mc Leod St Pioneer Cemetery Visit the heritage-listed Cairns Pioneer Cemetery to honour over 200 Chinese who were buried here in mostly in ummarked graves. In the Chinese tradition we will bring offerings of food and wine and burn incense. 10 am -11.00am -   Martyn St Cemetery Visit several known sites to honour the early Cairns community starting at Andrew Leon and Mary Leon Piggot's grave and memorial headstone which was installed by Julia Volkmar and the Hap Wah Research Project in June 2020 . Other sites will include key Chinese early settlers and  families. Please wear comfortable walking shoes, bring water and a hat. You may also like to bring cut flowers if you have any growing in your garden to leave beside the graves. Please register for this event by  getting your free tickets.  12.00pm   LUNCH at YUM SING RESTAURANT  (Optional)                         COST: $30 (TBC)  If you wish to attend the luncheon please book before 5th April, 2022. Phone Mary :0406342703 or email: heritage@cadcai.org.au                  

Reviving Qing Ming Join us for a short historical presentation by NQ Chinese historian Dr Sandi Robb and CADCAI's own Heritage Manager Mary Low, to learn about Qing Ming and how it was celebrated in Cairns. Also known as the Pure Brightness Festival, this calendar event honours the ancestors of Chinese families and pays respects to those buried in Cairns Cemeteries.  This talk at the CADCAI centre wil be folllowed by a short walking tour and small honouring ceremony at the Pioneer and McLeod Street Cemeteries on Sunday 10 April at 9.00am. Bookings are essential. Purchase your free ticket by clicking the link below.  

Yum Cha, literally "drink tea" in Cantonese, involves sipping small cups of hot jasmine or oolong tea whist catching up with friends and eating  a variety of deligthful savory or sweet dimsum. Join the Chinese community in this post-Chinese New Year event to celebrate in the Year of the Ox. Seating is limited so bookings are essential.  (Unfortunately due to fixed portion sizes, there is no provison for child pricing)   Ticke

The Lantern Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the Chinese Lunar New Year and marks the end of the traditional Chinese New Year festivities. Write your new year hopes, dreams and wishes on floating lanterns which will be lit and released from the Western edge of the Lagoon to create  sea of lights for an unforgettable spectacle.  Lanterns may be purchased on-site from the CADCAI mercvhandise stall. Performances by CADCAI dragon and lion teams, Taichi and Mugendai drumming. For convenience of COVID contract tracing, booking your free tickets here you can avoid having to supply them on site.

The Chinese New Year Gala Dinner celebrates the reunion of family and friends with a Chinese-style buffet at the Trinity Room, Shangri-la. The menu includes mouth-watering dishes such as steamed Barramundi, crispy beef fillet, braised tong poh pork belly. (Full menu is below)     The evening is an opportunity to network and catch up with friends and family, with entertainment being provided by the Chinese lion team, Molihua dancers, and Chinese instrumental music. Seating is limited due to Covid restrictions and bookings are essential. Bookings need to be closed by the 6th February. Be quick to avoid disappointment.