In times of change and uncertainty, we need to connect with like-minded souls to strengthen our connection with each other, the Earth and the Universe.
Music, art, dance, stories and workshops are powerful channels for communicating significance and building partnerships for mutual benefit and understanding.
The festival’s goals are to:
· Encourage people to recognise their spiritual link to Mother Earth
· Provide a venue for the dissemination of information from the Bundjalung Elders to the broader community
· Promote, honour and support the teachings of traditional indigenous values in assisting the creation of a new perspective for the guidance of future generations.
· Promote an awareness of the natural environment by emphasising conservation issues and sustainable technologies.
· Promote personal healing, healing between diverse groups of people and healing between humans and the natural environment
· Promote the awareness of Wollumbin as a mountain of Sacred significance and to stop the logging of Wollumbin State Forest.
We’re all supported by the living planet and connected to every other living thing but are so close to destroying the very thing we depend upon.
The festival is a platform with a range of objectives focussing on indigenous, natural environment, human relationship, and sacred issues. Tyalgum is one of the traditional meeting places for the tribes of the Bundjalung Nation, who sometimes hosted tribes from adjacent Nations at gatherings in the caldera of Wollumbin. The festival is helping to bring together the Bundjalung Nation with fellow humans to respect the Sacred mountain Wollumbin. These meetings facilitate a sharing of culture and meaningful values for humanity in the recognition that we are all connected, to each other, the environment and mother earth. To find out more about this event go to http://www.savewollumbin.com/festival.html
Imagine
There’s No Ballet
13 year-old Giselle Poncet from Murwillumbah is
one of the young dancers performing in the Queensland Youth Ballet’s
production, Imaginaire, at the City Hall next Saturday.
She is one of two local girls starring in Imaginaire, the Queensland Youth
Ballet’s new production coming to Lismore for one special show next
Saturday, July 7 at the Lismore City Hall from 7.30pm.
Giselle and 11 year-old Lennox Head resident Grace Owen were selected
from more than 80 hopefuls, who took part in auditions throughout NSW
and Queensland to become part of the prestigious young troupe.
The artistic director, Harold Collins MBE - former artistic director for
Queensland Ballet - will showcase four spectacular dance pieces with lavish
sets and elaborate costumes on loan from the Australian Ballet.
The first piece is Noir Classique - a classical ballet
of quiet beauty and restraint set in the Russian tradition of Johann Strauss’
most elegant music and choreographed by Sweden’s former Malmo Ballet
soloist Fiona Munroe.
This will be followed by the more contemporary piece Rip Tide, which features
popular surfing and beach culture images. The piece was created by former
member of the Australian Ballet and Queensland Ballet, Jamie Redfern,
who is currently a dancer and choreographer with Expressions Dance Company.
The third piece, Pas de Quatre, choreographed by Harold Collins, will
be performed by four guest artists. The piece is a short ballet and probably
the most famous in the history of classical ballet, being originally presented
in London in 1845.
To complete the show will be La Boutique Fantasque, which translates to
The Fantastic Toyshop. Featuring Harold Collins as one of the performers,
this ballet is based on the charm of the mechanical doll and, as you may
have guessed, is set in a toyshop in southern France.
The show promises to be colourful, exciting and a lot of fun, but above
all it’s a great chance to get out and see young people showing
off their talent.
Tickets are $27.20/$17.20 with kids under 16 $14.70 and groups
of eight or more $22.20 each.
To book phone 6621 5600.
Source Northern Echo 12th Oct 2003
