One more sleep!

In a matter of 24 hours, an opening ceremony of gigantic proportions will kick off Maccabi Junior Carnival for another year. After hours and hours of meetings, phone calls, Whatsapps and countless other forms of communication, the organising committee, under the guidance of Justin Lipson, can safely say that the carnival which they have nurtured as their own for a matter of months is ready to be birthed.

Having been privy to the calendar of events, I can safely say that this is primed to be one of the best carnivals ever run and Justin and his team can be commended for their hours of volunteer work.

Emulating the iconic Olympic Games, Carnival 2015 will too begin with a grand opening ceremony, featuring each and every one of its participants and officials. In addition to this, Carnival shares core values with the Olympic movement, in having its participants practice: respect, excellence (giving ones all) and friendship.

Our opening ceremony, whilst featuring slightly less nationalities, will feature a similar level of unbelievable talent! We have recruited the best our community has to offer, with a star-studded line-up featuring Paralympic gold medallist and Big Brother contestant Sam Bramham, Future Music Festival DJ Jay Levy as well as the amazingly unique talents of the LED Brothers.

DJ Jay Levy was recently announced to play Future Music Festival as well as #Carni2015!

#CARNI2015…?

Another exciting edition to the opening ceremony festivities will be Club Mac – a social hub which provides the opportunity for participants' posts tagged using #carni2015 on social media to be displayed on a big screen for all to see. Ensure that this hashtag is affixed to all of your posts throughout the event if you want to make an appearance at the most exclusive club this summer – Club Mac!

Hot off the Plane!

Today saw the first arrivals of visiting teams for Carnival! The trailblazers were the team from W.A, whose initial members touched down at around 2:30pm  this afternoon. But they were not alone for long, as the rest of their team quickly joined them - arriving at the same time as our International visitors, the Kiwi team, later that afternoon. Not to be left out, the teams from New South Wales and Queensland will join them tomorrow, no doubt to be welcomed by the sporadic weather conditions that only Melbourne can offer.

Welcome one and all

Finally, the team at Carni, as well as myself would like to welcome those arriving upon our shores to participate and hope that all enjoy their time at what is sure to be one of the best carnivals of all time!