Wind Festival Programme 2001
Celebrating the Centenary of Federation.
Weaving Workshop for Women
Lake Jabiru Park
9 am to 12 noon
Family Cabaret Night (Federation Theme)
House opens at 7 pm
Jabiru Community Hall
Saturday 1st September
Lake Jabiru Park
1.30pm Life Be in It
2.00pm Mandinka Music
1st September to 8th September
Jabiru Sports and Social Club
12pm to 5pm late open to 9pm on Wednesday
Bush Toys Exhibition
Kakadu In Focus Exhibition
Craft Exhibition
Thursday 6th September
Jabiru Council Chambers
House opens at 6 pm
Musical Melting Pot; an Evening of Australian History in Song
Friday 7th September
Jabiru Sports and Social Club Shellie Morris Live Dream Tour
Saturday 8th September
Jabiru Sports and Social Club
Main Concert
3.00.pm Open
Sprockets
Mandinka Music & Jabiru Music Club
Crocodile Tears
Mandinka Music & Big Band Sound
Fireworks
Shellie Morris
Mental As Anything
Date: Saturday 14 July, Licenced 3-7pm.
Come along with family and friends for a great afternoon of music and refreshments.
Crocodile Tears will be playing live, as you sip on wine, light beer or softies. We will also be selling cheese plates and hotdogs.
This is a Wind Festival fundraiser run by Kakadu Camera Group and the Jabiru Lions Club, so we ask that there is no BYO food or beverages.
"Kakadu in Focus" was made possible with Festivals Australia, a Commonwealth program which supports cultural activity at regional and community festivals.
The Commonwealth Government is proud to be associated with the Jabiru Wind Festival. Through this program, festivals across Australia are able to present quality cultural events, providing greater access for more Australians to a wider range of cultural activity.
Community project "Kakadu in Focus" (commencing 1st July 2001).
Project Co-ordinators:
Caroline Camilleri Ph +61 8 89799720 Annette Ellen Ph +61 8 89792442
PO Box 234
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Entry: $5 per person in advance ($6.50 on the night).
Organise your team of eight people or take a punt and join the “Blind Brains Trust”.
Make your booking with the Jabiru Sports and Social Club on 08 979 2326.
Including door prize, team prizes and booby prizes for witty answers. Light supper provided.
This is a Jabiru Wind Festival Fundraiser organised by the Jabiru Lions Club and the Jabiru Sports and Social Club.
Venue: Jabiru Sports and Social Club (free entry).
Dates: Saturday 1st September to Saturday 8th September.
Open from 12:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Late night Wednesday to 9:00 p.m.).
The exhibition is a collection of innovative hand-made toys made from salvaged materials, stripped from car bodies and found at rubbish tips. The toys were produced by men and boys from three Arrente communities in Central Australia.
Works included in the exhibition range from a flamboyantly dressed wire stockmen, motorised helicopter to a simple horse and rider made of old horshhoe.
This exhibition is now owned by the National Museum of Australia and is toured by Artback.
Family Federation "Cabaret" night.
Venue: Community Hall, Jabiru Town Plaza
Date: Friday 31st August.
Open: 7:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.
Entry: $10:00 per person, $25:00 per family, group booking of 8 adults $70:00. Tickets available from Kakadu Creations, Westpac Bank.
The Jabiru Leos Club are putting together a Family Federation "Cabaret" night for Friday 31st. August on the eve of the Wind Festival. A family night in fancy dress of the federation era.
Licenced bar (no BYO). Cabaret performances, ballroom dancing; come in your best Federation attire (acubra hat, jeans, boots and flannel shirt). Top hats optional.
Free "two-up" prize competition. For two-up purposes only, you will be supplied with real, genuine federation pounds sterling; legal tenure in the Community Hall until midnight. Prizes will be awarded to the players with the most money remaining at the end of the night.
Sumptious Federation buffet provided.
Venue: Jabiru Lakeside
Date: Friday 31st August.
Open: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon
Entry: $10:00 per person, from Penny Whittaker (after hours 8 8979 2250).
As part of the Wind Festival Celebrations there is a wonderful cultural oppourtunity to experience the art of traditional Aboriginal basket weaving as taught by Goldie.
We will join Goldie as she collects, colours and teaches us how to weave baskets with locally grown products.
Numbers for the workshop are limited. Registrations close Wednesday 29th August.
Venues: Saturday 1st - Lake Jabiru Park (free entry) appearing with "LIfe Be In It" activities for the children from 1:30 p.m.Jabiru Sports and Social Club.
Dates: Drum making at Jabiru Area School September 6th and 7th, music workshop for Jabiru Music Club September 6th and 7th. Contact Julie Cope on 8979 2237.
Dance workshop at Jabiru Area School, combining drumming and dance for the kids on September 7th.
Also appearing on the 8th on the Jabiru Sports and Social Club with his big band and Jabiru Music Club community ensemble.
Mbackeh is a worldclass musician from The Gambia’s number one band “Roots Kunta Kinteh”. Well known for his wild dancing, pounding drumming and singing skills, he specialises in the vibrant rhythms of Afro-Manding, Wolof and Jola, traditional cultural sounds from the regions of The Gambia, Senegal, Mali and Guinea. He also makes drums, a tradition handed down for generations.
For the last five years Mbackeh has appeared at Festivals and been teaching all ages and abilities Australia wide, including successful school programs in the Northern Territory, Canberra and South Australia. The bands he trained for the Festival of Darwin in 1995 and 1996 proved extremely popular.
Mbackeh is joined by James Murray (djembe), who has trained in The Gambia, Rob Taylor (Dun Dun), who has trained in Ghana and Gambia, Ben Campbell (sax), Martin Campbell (keyboard), Roger Prowse (base guitar) & Marc Wohling (guitar).
E-mail:
Ph +61 8 8931 0496
or
Ph +61 8 8985 4101
3/13 Timpson Court
Mbackeh or Jenny (Arts Manager)
James Murray
GRAY
NT 0830
Musical Melting Pot: an Evening of Australian History in Song
Venue: Jabiru Council Chambers
Date: Thursday 6th September
Open: House opens at 6 pm, licenced bar.
Limited seats available for this leap into Australian history in song. Free concert by local diva Barbara Williams as she warbles her way through Australia's history in song.
Bar available for pre-concert drinks and nibbles and also during intermission and after final curtain.
Shellie Morris Live Dream Tour
Venue: Jabiru Sports and Social Club.
Dates: The evenings of Thursday 7th and Friday 8th September.
Date: Saturday 8th September.
Open:
Entry: $7:00 per adult (16 and over), children free. Tickets at the gate.
Venue: Jabiru Sports and Social Club
The "Mentals" will be appearing at the grand finale concert of this year's Jabiru Wind Festival 2001celebrating the Centenary of Federation in the only insane way that we know!