Photos from the Perth Friendship games 2015

The Friendship games held in Perth for 2015 is a fantastic event helping build and strengthen  communities from all over the world. Visiting teams from China and Indonesia were thrilled to be welcomed by our Indigenous dancers and former Australian Boomer and Perth Wildcats start Andrew Vlahov. Equally as impressive were the Chinese Kung Fu and Lion dancers

The History of the games was conceived as an event to provide a collaborative framework for sports diplomacy with our Asian neighbours, commencing with Shanghai, China. Successful pilot events were held in January 2012 in Perth and October 2013 in Shanghai. These pilots provided significant life experiences via sporting and cultural exchanges for Western Australian local and regional youth and their Chinese counterparts. The games also provided a pathway and key learnings for building an event owned and operated by Western Australians.

The youth attending the event included visitor’s from Indonesia, China, Regional Western Australia and inner city Perth. Venues around Perth area hosted the multiple events including Basketball, Badminton, Athletics, Table Tennis and Soccer. Designed to accommodate youth aged 12-17, day campers could attend daily events while those on a live in scholarship stayed in the Leeuwin Barracks in East Fremantle.

With the opening ceremony now complete, we shall let the games begin.