WITH the Riverwood Community Choir featuring incredible performances from China, Lebanon, Sudan, Bangladesh, Vietnamese and more, the Harmony Day Celebration was held at Riverwood Community Centre today and hosted by the Canterbury Bankstown Harmony Group.

Harmony Group president Karl Saleh said: “It is my pleasure to welcome our local community to the 2021 Harmony Celebration. This year marks the 15th anniversary of Canterbury Bankstown Harmony group and Harmony Care, a community initiative supporting and supported by Riverwood Community Centre since 2004.

“Harmony Day is an important celebration of our local community and it is wonderful to be able to come together again after the significant Covid 19 challenges to celebrate unity, peace and respect.”

Also attended by State MP for Canterbury, Sophie Cotsis, Federal MP for Watson Tony Burke said in a message read out at the event: “We are a vibrant nation of cultures, faiths and communities bound together with threads of unity and there are over 18 diverse communities which make up the fabric of the Harmony Group.

“Our multicultural society is a patchwork of diverse backgrounds. And like a quilted patchwork blanket, each culture, while retaining its own unique traditions, is attached to another with threads that are strongest when we all unite on one front – with respect for all people.”

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