MELBOURNE, 10 March 2022: Sri Lankan Batik is colorful and beautiful. This stuff got highlighted on International Women’s Day on 8 March 2022, with a photoshoot of Sri Lankan Batiks. The Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Melbourne in collaboration with the Committee for Sri Lanka (CFSL), the South Asian Australia Alliance and the Australia Sri Lanka Business Council organized the photoshoot.
This photoshoot featured winners of Miss & Mrs. South Asia Australia and Miss & Mrs. Sri Lanka Australia pageants 2019 & 2020, who were dressed up with Sri Lankan Batik sarees. Fabulous modern Sri Lankan Batik outfits done by the young entrepreneur “Mrs. South Asia Australia runner up 2020” Thara Dias were also featured in the photoshoot.
Thara joined the photoshoot with her own creations, and later met Consul General Kapila Fonseka to discuss the promotion of Sri Lankan Batiks in the Australian market.
The photographs were widely circulated in social media by the Consulate General and the other organizers as well as the models who have a large following in the new media. They were also circulated through the Sri Lankan and South Asian community media in Australia.
Melbourne being a multicultural city is one of the best places to showcase Sri Lanka’s cultural identity and its unique products such as Sri Lankan Batiks.
Home to large Sri Lankan and South Asian communities, Melbourne has the potential to become an important market for Sri Lankan Batiks.
Consul of the Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Melbourne Diana Perera, President CFSL Mimi Leonard, pageant director & the President of the Australia Sri Lanka Business Council Dilkie Perera and executive member of the CFSL Savindhi Perera Jainudeen coordinated the event.
