Metta Festival: Celebrating 10 years of Metta

15 November | 10am to 5pm

Location: Burwood Park Pavillion

Cost: Free (donations welcome)

Please bring your own picnic mats, bowls, cutlery

This year’s Metta Festival will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Metta Centre, with Buddhist monastics from various traditions flying in from all around the world to attend this special event. We will start the morning with a Mahadana of alms offering of rice to monastics (pindapata), followed by a picnic lunch. The day will be filled with Buddhist performances, guided meditation, group reflections, opportunities to meet Buddhist monks, nuns and practitioners, and stalls. This is a rare opportunity for the Fourfold Sangha from all major Buddhist traditions to be in attendance together at the same event, and for us to meet with esteemed Buddhist monastics.

Program

10am - Opening

10.15 - Mahadana alms giving (pindapata) - you may bring cooked rice & a spoon to offer to the monastics (a small spoonful each for~20 monastics)

11am - Lunch at the pavilion for monastics and picnic lawn for everyone else. (After their meal, monastics are welcome to receive guests, observe the performances, or rest in the internal pavilion)

11.30 - Buddhist-related performances representing various traditions and temples

2pm - Program resumes

2.10 - Congratulatory Speeches

2.30 - Guided Metta Meditation

3.00 - Group sharing about their Buddhist practice, and reflections on 10 years of Metta Centre (monastics are welcome to join the groups)

4.30 – Closing

Accessibility: This event location at Burwood Park is in an open area with accessible pathways and grass areas. Sound will be amplified. We don't have resources for ASL interpretation, assistive listening devices or live captions. Please contact us if you have any questions or specific needs to access our events.

Get Involved in this meritorious event🎉 Be a part of this special event by joining our volunteer teams on WhatsApp🎉 Upload a 10-30sec video about what Metta Centre means to you (we love stories!) in landscape and high res so we can compile to create our anniversary video. Upload to here🎉 Write a message for our anniversary booklet (100 words or less) and email to [email protected] with your full name and city (bonus if you can send a photo of you at our events)🎉 Make a donation to help with the costs of the event🎉. Tell your friends and let's make this a joyous event together!