The Buddha Birthday Festival is one of the most prestigious cultural event held annually in Queensland since 1997 and has been conducted successfully for continuous 22 year to showcase the diversity of Australia’s multicultural society.
Buddha’s birthday is the most significant day of the year for Buddhists, with celebrations for the birth, enlightenment and death of Sakyamuni Buddha, the Founder of Buddhism. For it his teachings that have given Buddhists the opportunity to truly understand the importance of happiness and peace within society. At the Buddha Birth Day Festival Queensland, Southbank Parklands is lit up with red happiness and peace lanterns to signify the importance of happiness and peace on Earth. This is a festival for everyone regardless of age, religion or cultural backgrounds. The festival includes a range of different events such as fun activities, cultural performance, meditation and spiritual programs, etc. 2018 Buddha Birthday Festival was held from 4th to 6th May, at South Bank Parklands.
Red Carpet Functions has been part of Buddha Festival for 4 years since its inception that has brought in the vigor to the event by hosting multicultural Fashion Show in multicultural country Australia. At 2018 Buddha Festival, Red Carpet Function presented the fashion show representing 24 countries in their traditional attire where the Ms Reena Augustin, Director and Mrs Prakruthi Mysore Gururaj, Multicultural Ambassador of Red Carpet Functions represented South Korea wearing exquisite traditional costume of Korea.
Red Carpet Functions is an organization based in Brisbane, which focus on eliminating cultural barriers through art. As Red Carpet mainly focuses on fashion, they have been able to assist a number of individuals with improving their artistic skills and connect them with many different cultures. From the time of initiation, Red Carpet Function has been able to get together many established and emerging artists from different cultures through their fashion shows.
Apart from above, should highlight that Red Carpet Functions is not only contributing multiculturalism in Australia, but also it contributes multiculturalism in internationally. In achieving their objectives internationally, multicultural ambassador of Red Carpet Functions, Ms. Prakruthi Mysore Gururaj represented Red Carpet Functions at World Peace Summit for International Women Peace Group (IWPG) held in Seoul, South Korea in 2017.
Ms. Prakruthi Mysore Gururaj and Ms. Reena Augustine, the president of Red Carpet Functions conveyed their gratitude towards South Korea for their friendly hospitality, by representing South Korea at their annual fashion show with the tradition dress Hanboks gifted by IWPG South Korea.