THE EVENT DATE HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER 2023 AND 25 FEBRUARY, THEREFORE CANCELLED. THE REASON FOR RESCHEDULING IS THAT THE START OF LENT WAS BY MISTAKE MISCALCULATED AND THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE WISHES TO RESPECT OUR CROATIAN CULTURE FOR LENT IN WHICH DANCING IS TO BE AVOIDED. THANK YOU FOR RESPECTING OUR DECISION.

FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE PURCHASED TICKETS BY 12 JANUARY 2023 FOR 25 FEBRUARY WE WILL ACCEPT THOSE TICKETS FOR 7 OCTOBER. IF ANYONE WITH A TICKET PURCHASED FOR @% FEBRUARY WISHES A REIMBURSEMENT PLEASE EMAIL US at croatiangalaball@yahoo.com or rrisente@bigpond.net.au

YOUR TICKET COULD WIN A RETURN AIR TICKET TO CROATIA! Croatian Gala Ball - Fundraising for Children's Cancer Institute NSW - Dinner - Entertainment - Charity Auctions of valuable products - Charitable Purchase of Print Of Dedicated Charles Billich Sketch Especially Created For This Event!

As Australian Croatians, members of our community and our community associations have, over many decades, excelled at helping those in need both here in Australia and those living in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. One could say that our community serves two homelands – the one we live in and the one we left behind but never forgot.

2023 marks 30 years since the Australian Croatian community rallied together to help war-torn Croatia and establish its Diplomatic-Consular missions in Australia with donated funds and donations in kind. Indeed, the office space of the Consulate General of the Republic of Croatia in Sydney was purchased and equipped, so too the Embassy in Canberra, first leased then a palace built with our community's generosity and love. We are so very proud of our Croatian Community’s achievements and wish to use this Thirtieth Anniversary of its enormous generosity to benefit children suffering from cancer via donating to research into curing childhood cancer for which the Children’s Cancer Institute exists. Among these children are also children whose parents or grandparents originate in Croatia and with your help we wish to make their lives better and safer from such an illness. Please donate directly to Children's Cancer Institute on this Croatian Gala Ball Fundraising Page

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US IN THIS CELEBRATION OF CROATIAN COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA AND IN RAISING CHARITABLE FUNDS THAT WILL HELP RESEARCH INTO CHILDHOOD CANCER! THANK YOU!