Tarxien Social Club Victoria

The Tarxien Social Club was formed in 1976, when Joe Farrugia migrated to Australia and together a few members of his family and friends from Tarxien, Malta, they decided to start getting together to celebrate the feast day that they dearly loved and missed once a year. For the first time that year they organized the feast of Our Lady of the Annunciation in Queenscliff. A large framed picture of the Annunciation was used in the feast celebrations, as a mass for the occasion was held and some poems that been sent for the occasion from Tarxien were played on tape. Since this first celebration, the feast of the Annunciation kept growing every year. After 3 years in 1979 the statue of the Annunciation was commissioned and produced. This original statue was recently replaced with a new one created in Malta by Renzo Gauci and painted and gilded by John Orlando. In 1980 the Tarxien Social Club organised its first ‘Xalata ta’ San Girgor’ (St Gregory’s Picnic) at Portarlington on the Australia Day weekend in January.

Location

Altona North VIC 3025, Australia,  Altona North 3025  View Map