About ThaiFest@Marysville  19/20 March 2010

Marysville and Triangle district was devestated by the Black Saturday bush fires on 7 February 2009.  34 townsfolk lost their lives that day and Marysville township was virtually destroyed, with only 14 of 400 buildings remaining after the fires.

One year on and the area is beginning to rebuild; over 30 buildings are at foundation stage or beyond;  Marysville Central - in the old Motor Museum. opened for business on 5 December 2009 (coincidentally the birthday of His Majesty the King of Thailand) and the bush is turning green again thanks to natures amazing resiliance.

Last year in the immediate aftermath of the fires, the Thai Culture and Food Festival arranged to support Daylesford and district area, wihich was hit by a major fire on 23 February 2009 - and the local CFA including a tanker and volunteers came to the festival - over $3,000 was raised for CFA that day and many tourism vouchers were handed out to patrons during the festival.

In 2010 we are pleased to support Marysville and district with our ThaiFest@Marysville event on the evening of Friday 19 March 2010 and all day Saturday 20 March 2010.

It's the Thai community's way of helping another community - much as the generosity of Victorians helped Thailand after the ravages of the 2004 Tsunami.

In bringing our Festival to Marysville we hope to not only provide a taste of Thai culture for the locals and a great day out but very importantly to encourage visitors back to Marysville and district to help revitalise local business.

We are providing the infrastructure free to local businesses so that they can sell their products; all net proceeds from ThaiFest@Marysville will be donated to the local bushfire recovery Committee for a designated project to help in the rebuilding of the township and community.

For more information on Marysville and the rebuilding efforts visit the Marysville Community website at http://marysville.vic.au