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Tweed Shire Echo THE TWEED SHIRE Volume 1 #32 Thursday, April 16, 2009 $>O Advertising and news enquiries: Phone: (02) 6672 2280 Fax: (02) 6672 4933 =;N [email protected] J;A?M [email protected] www.tweedecho.com.au CIH LOCAL & INDEPENDENT Residents Printmakers etch their way along upset over park use Luis Feliu The planned takeover of a public park at Kingscliff as the pits-stop area for a month during the proposed world rally has sparked Kingscliff residents into action with a protest rally planned for this Saturday. The residents say they are outraged at plans to use Jack Baylis Park in Ma- rine Parade as the pits area and will hold a rally in the park at 11am to brief other residents about the park takeover. One of the organisers, resident Max Hopper, a former chief commissioner at Bass Coast Shire Council, said it was ‘inappropriate and totally unac- ceptable to take a popular foreshore park as the service centre for rally cars’. ‘If that is allowed, Kingscliff resi- dents can expect that our beachfront park will be the centre for wild par- ties with many revelers sleeping in the park and the dunes,’ the Order of Australia (OAM) recipient said. ‘There is no way that Council will be able to enforce its rules on alcohol consumption, open fires and protec- CPM founding member Michael Baartz at the printmakers workshop in Bray Park. Since moving there around 10 years ago, the printmakers have under- tion of vegetation on the dunes.’ gone their most productive period with state-of-the-art equipment and national awards. Photo Jeff ’D’Pressed’ Dawson. Rally organisers plan to use a large part of the park on the foreshore to Roxanne Millar re they ‘drank more coffee than they said the group had maintained its in- because we are regional and regional service the rally cars with sections made art’. formal air but had thankfully moved artists need somewhere to connect fenced off and the grass removed to Twenty years ago as the firstBatman Fast-forward 20 years and the on from the days when it only had a with each other. allow installation of a ‘temporary’ film debuted, as a fatwa was declared group now has 40 members, its own screw down press and a mangle wash- ‘We’ve never tried to be too big and gravel surface. Some trees may have on Salman Rushdie for classic novel workshop and gallery in Bray Park ing machine. important.’ to be removed to allow access by the The Satanic Verses and when the first and national printmaking awards ‘Since we moved to our premises in CPM president Bill Cleasey said the rally cars. The Simpsonsepisode screened, Mur- that attract high calibre entries from Bray Park about 10 years ago, this has group originally formed to share ideas No Rally Groups spokesman Scott willumbah was giving birth to its own across the country. been our most productive period. We and pool resources to afford some of Sledge, of Kingscliff, said the rally in long lasting creative enterprise. It is a place for printmakers of all have equipment, members and our the expensive equipment required by Australia was one round of the World In 1989 a group of artists formed different levels to come and use the national awards,’ he said. printmakers. Rally Championships held each the nationally-recognised Commu- equipment they need, share ideas and ‘So many other groups contact us to ‘Sometimes the only way you can year and it was planned to hold the nity Printmakers Murwillumbah exhibit work. figure out how we have survived and do printmaking is to have a group continued on page 2 (CPM) in a local disused pigsty whe- Original member Michael Baartz how they can do it. I think it is just continued on page 2 ALL ALL AUTOQLDN02362 ALL NUMBER 1 FOR PENRITE RHINO % % % DDASHMATS OFF! OIL OFF! RACK OFF! YOUR CAR 15REGULAR TICKETED PRICES 15REGULAR TICKETED PRICES 15REGULAR TICKETED PRICES SOUTH TWEED HEADS Harvey Norman Centre, Greenway Drive Phone: 5523 2055 On sale until 19/04/09 or until sold out. *% off regular ticketed price. Personal shoppers only. Local News Arthouse cinema to open in Kingscliff Residents’ park protest From front page than Kingscliff residents. Roxanne Millar Ausralian leg each alternate ‘In Cyprus, for example, year for 10 years with an op- trees were felled across the rally A boutique cinema serving tion to extend it for a further route and an official was kid- champagne and oysters and 10 years. In the alternate years napped by protesters. In other screening the finest arthouse it is planned to run the event in parts of Europe hay bales have films plans to open in King- New Zealand. been placed across the roads to scliff next month. Mr Sledge said Kingscliff block the rally cars,’ he said. The independently-owned Residents and Ratepayers As- ‘The event was run in West- Cinemax Kingscliff will open sociation want the car main- ern Australia until 2006 when in the township’s Azura deve- tenance area to be somewhere the government there refused lopment on Marine Parade and else, preferably not in a resi- to pay rally expenses, because seat 51 people in a specially de- dential area. the economic benefits prom- signed cinema featuring tables The association has writ- ised by rally promoters failed for gourmet nibbles. ten to Tweed Shire Council to happen.’ Owner Stephen Bugé (pic- formally objecting to plans to Mr Hopper said big events tured) has moved the cinema close most of the town’s beach- often drove off usual custom- from its original home in Sur- front park for four weeks dur- ers from local businesses and fers Paradise where it screened ing the world rally event in then mobile vans and cater- alternative flicks for more than September. ers creamed off spending by three years before closing at It says the part-closure to visitors. Christmas. accommodate competitors’ He said elderly residents also The building where it was cars would cause far too much would be placed at risk because located was slated for demoli- disruption to social and com- of the traffic restrictions that tion so Bugé decided to move remain competitive with the can order a champagne, oy- nings to benefit local charities mercial activities. were planned for the duration it further south where he saw a The association has sug- of the rally and locals were also major gap in the arthouse film prices charged by larger ci- sters, a pizza and have it deli- and not-for-profit groups in nema chains in South Tweed vered to your table,’ he said. the future. gested that rally organisers ex- worried about the impact on market. plore an alternative site on land local wildlife. ‘People want something dif- and Coolangatta, but Cinemax It could also offer fundrai- The cinema will have several would offer more personalised sing opportunities for the movie sessions each day and is owned by Stephen Segal about Mr Hopper invited all local ferent now when they go to the four kilometres west of Salt residents to attend the protest movies,’ he said. service. wider community, with Bugé expected to open by mid-May. ‘In a boutique cinema you planning on holding scree- Photo Jeff Dawson. where drivers will be staying. meeting at the park, unless wet ‘And this type of cinema is ‘In other parts of the world weather persists when it will be becoming very popular in the locals are not more impressed moved to the community hall. United States where they are Printmakers etch their way along desperate for a more intimate cinema experience. From front page sense of other people – us ar- of the Tweed River Regional ‘Kingscliff is a natural fit collectively buy stuff. Also back tists need other artists to con- Art Gallery. As for the next 20 for us because of the imme- when it started, printmaking nect with.’ years, Mr Baartz said the group diate area, including Salt, and wasn’t quite as much a part of CPM will celebrate its 20th had no aspirations to take over the fact that here are type of the arts scene as it is now,’ he anniversary with a full year of the world of printmaking or to people who go to arthouse said. exhibitions and its 13th CPM expand. movies.’ ‘And being a regional area National Print Awards held la- ‘We’ve never really been am- Bugé said tickets would the artists probably wanted a ter this year with the support bitious. We’ve just done our thing. People come here and do their art and that is how we like it,’ he said. ‘We just want to keep going, NT FREE which can be an effort in it- RE ? self sometimes. I think if we nd get your 1st Wanna get...h item a month evolved bigger it might kill us,’ t ment REN n uip T F added Mr Cleasey. eq R o ess EE* CPM is located at 33-35 fitn m any 7UHDGPLOOV Kyogle Road, Bray Park and is nt 1 Re open Fridays to Sundays from %LF\FOHV 11am to 3pm. For more infor- &URVV7UDLQHUV mation on the group and its Kingscliff residents (l-r) John Smithwick, Gaida Macs, Max Hop- awards go to www.cpmprint- per, Daniele Voinot and Scott Sledge with a message for Repco 1HZ 5RZHUV studio.com. Rally organisers. Fitness Range Rowers Treadmills Cross Trainer Bicycles puters Fitness Furniture *Conditions apply. TVs Com + Hea shers ps Mo s Wa re Fridge 0U5HQWDO7ZHHG 5524 1500 Unit 1b, 11-13 Greenway Dr, Sth Tweed, 2486 2 April 16, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo www.tweedecho.com.au Local News Agricultural trade centre set to thrive Ken Sapwell ‘The program is a good fit for emerging industries in the Experts are predicting bright area,’ said Regional Develop- job prospects for graduates of a ment Minister, Phil Costa.
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