Nanaimo’s Mid-Autumn Festival bigger and better than ever

The Mid-Autumn Festival is fast approaching, a day of celebration with family, friends and eating delectable moon cakes.
This year’s festival falls on Sept. 25, but in Nanaimo festivities will take place over Friday Sept. 18 to Saturday Sept. 19 at Maffeo Sutton Park, organized by the Nanaimo Chinese Cultural Society.
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Cake Festival, was started more than 3,000 years ago during the post-harvest moon on the 15th day of the eighth month of the l