Otago Polytechnic, School of Occupational Therapy, Forth Street, Dunedin.
Here is a record of Occfest from the beginning, middle and end.
Ready and Waiting
Gathering and Eating
The First Half
The Second Half
Final Celebration
Ready and Waiting
All the signs are up to guide people into Occfest...
Outside the lift on G Block level 3
The Min corridor on level 3
Potential film offerings...
.. and the room all ready and waiting.
The area for stone carving...
...silk painting...
.. and book readings.
Guest book and refreshments in G323
Getting the nibbles ready
.. and fire balloons ready for the end of the evening.
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Gathering and Eating
Starting to gather..
..with some wearing very creative outfits!
Food's ready...
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The First Half
Trish talks potential silk painters through the process..
.. while others get right into stone carving.
People relaxing, reading and listening to stories.
Silk painting in full swing...
...while the sculptures start to take shape.
The first batch of silk paintings nearing completion...
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The Second Half
After watching "Cosi", another group gather to view "Forgotten Silver".
Some of the scuptures have reached completion...
... while silk painting continues with another group.
(A larger scupture going home to get worked on!)
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Final Celebration
The 10 year cake ready to make its entrance.
Rayna cooks up some ollie bollen...
..until we realise how much food there is for a smaller number of people!
Bringing in the cake
10 candles ablaze...
Rayna makes a small speech...
Andrew gets to cut the cake...
Doesn't capture the excitement (!), but the vague blob in the middle of the photo is one of the fire balloons going off!
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