The Canterbury Eid Festival is a new project aimed at providing large scale events on the advent of the two Eids. Let’s review the need for such a project in this blog post. Canterbury’s Eid History Our community has experienced a whole range of Eid
Dhul-Hijjah Moonsighting 1436 (2015) Be part of a beautiful sunnah and come join us to sight the new moon for Eid ul-Adha 2015 / 1436H Moonsighting is a huge part of Islam as we follow the lunar calendar. The Prophet s.a.w. has encouraged us to sight
Assalaamu’alaykum Everyone, The Canterbury Eid Festival will be coming soon, inshaaAllah. It will not be as BIG as the Auckland EID Festival. But we hope to achieve similarly in a smaller scale , inshaaAllah. One of the reasons why we started this project is
Salaam everyone, This Eid festival there will be a photo booth! This photobooth is there for you all to have fun with your family and friends and also to capture those special memories. My task this week is to think of cool prop ideas that
Sad. Angry. Disappointed. Many emotions raged through the world as we viewed the recent photos of drowned children that is but the tip of the iceberg. The large and complex tragedy ties in to geopolitics, sectarianism, resource grabs, religious manipulation and even global warming, which few realise was
The Deenquest being run at the Eid Festival can be quite tough….even for full grown adults! But don’t worry, if you are between 6-11 years old, there is a special KIDS version of the DeenQuest designed just for your children! The kids will learn more about Islam through
Over the past few weeks, a group of us along with our team leader, Asayal, have been busy designing and planning the cultural lounge for the upcoming Eid Festival. We are super psyched to announce that the cultural lounge will be a major feature of
So over the past 2-3 weeks we have all been extremely busy working on multiple things to prepare for this huge event. For me, one of my big tasks has been sponsorships and donations. It is a lot of pressure because, without the money we
Long time fans of Nawawi Center will know what the DeenQuest is all about. After all, a retreat without the DeenQuest is no retreat at all. Well, now this popular challenge race is part of the upcoming Eid Festival too! But whether you are a long
When I first heard that we were going to be organising an Eid event, my first thought was, “Ugh, not another boring event..”. I didn’t want to organise a mediocre event for the sake of it, I wanted it to be GREAT. Well its a good