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26th
August 2005 |
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Requests
Be part of the action at the SomerVille Spring Festival!
Sat 17th Sept to Sun
18th Sept
How can I contribute? There are five things you can do to help make the festival
a huge success.
1) Sell
tickets
Set yourself the goal of selling 10 tickets. If we all do this we will reach our
1000 ticket goal! Tickets can be purchased over the web at
http://www.somervilleecovillage.com.au/festival
and early bird rates apply until 31st August. (We will be advising you soon as
to other ways of selling tickets!)
2)
Spread the word
Either download and printout the poster at
http://www.somervilleecovillage.com.au/festival or ring Paul (9572 1339) or
Gina (9384 8972) to get hold of some printed posters. Pin them up at work, your
favourite hangouts, your local shops or take them to any club meetings you may
attend. (Fliers will also become available soon!)
3) Nominate
Nominate some stallholders or a favourite speaker who you would like to see at
the festival. Just email to
festival@sev.net.au names and a contact and we will follow it through.
4) Volunteer
Join the volunteer brigade by contacting Chris. Volunteers are entitled to a free ticket after
putting in 4 hours of sweat. Help is needed during the following times:
1st/2nd/3rd Sept for mailing out tickets
15th/16th Sept for setting up the venue
17th/18th Sept for running the festival
18th/19th Sept for cleaning up.
Also let us know if you are willing to introduce an act or two as part of the MC
line-up.
5) Order a
SomerVille
T-shirt
Order a SomerVille T-shirt and make yourself identifiable as a Somervillian, and
available to share your story with newcomers. Regardless of how big, or small,
or long, or short, your involvement may be, hearing real stories from actual
community members speaks mountains. Email Sarah at________ for details.
Safe food for everyone
Frank Ash
I am inviting
expressions of interest from anyone wishing to provide a combined effort of
consumers wanting safe food and growers who produce safe food. My wife and I
created and operated the Safe Food Consumers Association which had hundreds of
members but when we took on running a SAFA Food Shop in Inglewood as well as our
farm near Chidlow we could not organise regular meetings so have just kept the
SAFA newsletter going.
With the
increasing concern and demand for organic and other safe food there lies a
challenge and a hope for more to participate.
While unable to
do much more ourselves we believe it would be beneficial to have a combined
effort to support consumers and growers by assisting the Safe Food Consumers
Association and SAFA - Safer Australian Food Accreditation and other facilities
that already exist and did operate successfully however now only need some
effort to be reactivated.
We belong to or
have links with Organic Growers and have started a combined Safe Food Consumers
Association in Mundaring which still operates and provides links to Organic
Growers, Permaculture, Biodynamic Growers, and the City Farm Organic Growers
Market (on each Saturday) as well as other worthy causes including our own
CARESAFE, CARE spelling out Community Action Revitalising Everything for a SAFE
- Safer Australia For Everyone.
Of course our
emphasis is on being safe through care of each other - a worth while effort for
others to help revitalise.
If you are
interested in finding out more please contact
Frank Ash
 Coming
Events
SomerVille Spring Festival
Sat 17th Sept to Sun
18th Sept
The SomerVille Spring Festival is an annual event where we celebrate our
achievements, enjoy our community, share our passion, educate and inspire, and
have heaps of fun.
This year’s festival has grown so big it has become a two day event to be held
over the weekend of 17th and 18th September.
Saturday is the main festival day, starting at
10am
and continuing well into the night. Sunday will have ongoing workshops, tours
and an abundance of family activities. There are campsites available for
those wishing to stay for the whole festival. Sunday breakfast will be available
but please note that at present showers are not provided.
The 2005 program will be a feast for your senses. A diverse range of music will
play throughout the day and into the night. The circus will not only entertain
but also encourage you to join in through workshops. You will fill your eyes
with colour from the kites painting the sky, and fill your tummies from all the
scrumptious food on offer.
The Spirit of the weekend will be established by the opening indigenous
performance and you will have the wonderful opportunity to (re)connect with the
land with aboriginal guided bush tours and campfire dreaming. You can continue
your education from the talks, tours and many eco-related stalls or just indulge
yourself in the health and healing sanctuary.
 And
for all the children, whether by age or inclination, the festival will present a
smorgasbord of activities and fun-filled events. This is a family-orientated
event, and for people of all ages the festival will really be an extraordinary
experience.
Music
Junkadelic
is an open access community arts group who involve people in high energy funk
music and culture. Using recycled and found materials, the Funk Junkies
percussion group will definitely get your attention.
(Sat 11:15am)
Ernie Bridge
and The Kimberley Country Band
are widely acclaimed for their passionate support of
rural
Australia and will thrill you with their unique renditions of Australian bush
ballads. One listen will demonstrate why they have had such an illustrious
career.
(Sat 1:30 pm)
Richie Pavledis
is a folk blues singer/songwriter just returned from a successful tour of
Switzerland. Come and hear why this WAMI award winner is so popular around the
blues clubs of Perth.
(Sat
4:00 pm)
Coffee Jar
Slide
has a musical style all their own that has emerged from many varied influences
and a willingness to experiment. While their music might defy definition, it
certainly has their audience demanding more.
(Sat
5:00 pm)
Joel Smoker
is a singer/songwriter who has travelled the back roads of regional Australia
and from those experiences has come from a wealth of songs about the stories and
people of this big land. These songs have been recorded on four albums Out on
Highway One, Outback, The Flesh and the Spirit and The Road to Nullagine. Joel
will be assisted in his performance by multi-instrumentalist, Vincent Donnelly.
(Sat 6:00 pm)
The Sensitive
New Age Cowpersons
are
Australia’s premier comedy bluegrass band. Their humorous style mixed with
outstanding musical talent makes them a real crowd favourite.
(Sat 7:30 pm)
The Southern
Cross Bush Band
has a great reputation for encouraging audience participation and fun
entertainment. Les and Barbara will have you up and dancing no matter what
experience you may have.
(Sat 9:00 pm)
Indigenous Arts
Wadumbah Dance
Group
will perform a thirty minute dance program, “Noongar Welcome to the Land “ on
the main stage to open the program festival. The Wadumbah Dance Group has been
showcasing Aboriginal dance, music and tales from the Dreaming for over ten
years. The group is known both locally and overseas for professionalism, zest
and passion in their performances.
(Sat 10:15 am)
 Graham
Ellis-Smith
and Theo Michael will be providing talks, bush walks, cultural discussions,
healing and sharing bush knowledge. The informative and experiential program
will explore the relationship between Humanity and Nature and will continue all
day and into the night. For those who would like to reconnect to the land or
simply find out more about indigenous culture, this will be a fascinating event
that should not be missed.
(Sat 1:30 pm)
Circus
Circus acts
were a feature of the 2004 Spring Fair and these will take on more prominence
during the 2005 Spring Festival.
Reg Bolton's
Suitcase Circus
draws on 30 years of circus experience to delight and captivate people with his
special style of entertainment. Reg encourages high audience participation and
children will love to join his Saturday show and Sunday workshop.
(Sat 2:45 pm &
Sun)
Captain Nick
is SomerVille ’s home grown clown and he has a wonderful rapport with people of
all ages. In addition to his Saturday shows, Nick will join with Reg Bolton in
providing workshops in clowning, stilt making, juggling, dice stacking and
balloon modelling.
(Sat & Sun)
Sanjiva
(Giovanni Margio) has been delighting audiences for over 25 years. With his
experiences in many countries and abilities in various art forms and performance
disciplines, Sanjiva’s clowning workshop on Sunday will be a real opportunity
for people to learn from a rare talent.
(Sun)
SomerVille calendar of events
Please Note
that where possible, workshops and meetings will coincide with the SomerVille
viewing days on the first Sunday of each month, which are now called SomerVille
Sundays.
We will still
email you in advance of events if we have your email address, or you can check
the calendar on
http://www.greenedge.org/calendar_of_events.htm.
a few days before each event.
Sunday
4th September.
SomerVille Sunday.
From 10
am.
Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th September 2005:
SomerVille
Spring Festival
Sunday 2nd
October.
SomerVille Sunday.
From 10
am.
Saturday 29th
October 2005:
AGM and Bush
Dance Celebration
Note: Chidlow
Markets occur on the last Saturday of every month, the next two being on 24th
September and 29th October.
Note: The
Chidlow Show will be on
Sunday November
13th 2005.
For the latest
list of all the coming events please visit
http://www.greenedge.org/calendar_of_events.htm.
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