Thousands fill Civic for sun-kissed Multicultural Festival

Totally wrong venue for this festival. Thousands crowded into hot paved areas with little shade and almost nowhere to sit and enjoy the entertainment let alone eat. This should be in commonwealth park whre you can enjoy the food and entertainment while having a nice picnic from the available food.
Secondly something needs to be done about the quality and price of the food if it to continue attracting people. I found most of the stalls way overpriced and the quality questionable, how long ago was it made, was it stored properly in the heat, there needs to be food inspectors. I ended up eating in the Canberra centre food court, where we could sit and eat for half the price.
Thirdly, alcohol should be banned from sale. There was no responsible service of alcohol with numerous underage intoxicated people everywhere. My wife was almost knocked to the ground by a group and glebe park was left like a rubbish tip from where the underage congregated.
Also not so sure how successful the festival was on both night there were at least 40 -50 unused marquees?
Do we really need this festival?.Bring back the Canberra festival and food and wine frolick in the park.

It certainly was everything you have mentioned and I had an enjoyable time there for a few hours yesterday. There was no trouble getting (free) parking nearby either.
Some of the live performers had a hard time competing with the general noise a lot of which was created by large, diesel powered electricity generators. Where is all that renewable power we are constantly reminded we have in the ACT?

Something that disturbed me was the number of elderly homeless men that were obviously displaced by the festival’s activities. It really brought home the extent of the homelessness problem in Canberra.