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Hearing Awareness Week And, if our gorgeous cover star Delta Goodrem enticed you to pick up the 40. magazine head to our profile to read up on what the talented songstress is Home & Garden up to now (12-15). 42. Food & Wine We hope you enjoy the issue! 44. Travel Sabrina 46. What’s On 47. Noticeboard 48. Clairvoyant 12 AUGUST 2016 - FREE PUBLISHED BY: Kamdha Pty. Ltd. SYDNEYOBSERVER.COM.AU Sydney Observer EDITOR: Sabrina Muysken ([email protected]) Weddings 24 Special For Brides, JOURNALIST: Alex Dalland Grooms & Guests ([email protected]) HEARING AWARENESS Contributors: Emily-Jean McDonagh, WEEK Danielle Armour, Juliana Kichkin, Kerrie travel poland Erwin, Ian Sweeney, Ian Stephens and Sia Henry DESIGNER: Gavin Iremonger DELTA BOOKING DEADLINE: 15 th of the month GOODREM PHONE: (02) 9884 8699 Spreads Her Wings WIN! 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The ban means smoking Ku-ring-gai Art Centre in Roseville and will showcase artworks by will be outlawed at Ku-ring-gai’s outdoor spaces such as sports HITCHCOCK FILM FESTIVAL tutors teaching at The Centre. fields, ovals, bush land areas and local playgrounds. Danielle Armour The exhibition will showcase artworks that use a wide range of Ku-Ring-Gai Mayor Cheryl Szatow commented on the growing is well known for The list of classics that will be played include Psycho, body of scientific evidence showing passive smoke links to CrEMOrNE’S OrPhEuM CiNEMa media taught at The Centre including traditional and contemporary Rear Window, North by Northwest and Dial M for Murder, paintings, watercolours, pottery, sculpture respiratory disease and higher rates of asthma in children. hosting successful film festivals, continuing this trend with the Alfred Hitchcock Retro Film Festival. encompassing all of the intrigue and thrill that Hitchcock is and prints. known for. The line-up of films also includes Hitchcock’s personal Solar Panels Installed The festival, which runs until August 10, will showcase 15 of favourite, Shadow of a Doubt. The exhibition is curated by artist Michael Kempson, Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Printmaking Studies at The University the popular director’s best films from the first 20 years of his New solar panels have been recently installed on the roof of Hollywood career. The festival also complements the release of the documentary of New South Wales School of Art and Design in Sydney. Gallery Gordon Library and additional panels at Council’s depot at Hitchcock/Truffaut, which explores the series of interviews hours are Monday to Friday, 11am-4:30pm. Pymble will be up and running in a strategic energy savings plan “There are two things that have long staggered me about Alfred conducted between the two iconic directors. for Council buildings. Hitchcock. One is that he never received a Best Director Oscar, and the other is the fact that there has not been a public festival “So many of these films haven’t been seen on a cinema screen New solar panels added to Council buildings will help Council of his films ever in Australia,” says, Paul Dravet, Orpheum for more than 20 years. I wanted to assemble a selection of his meet its target of reducing corporate greenhouse gas emissions Cinemas’ General Manager and Programming Director, who films that covers the obvious classics, which never get tired,” by 20 per cent by 2020, while delivering ongoing energy cost curated the festival. says Dravet. savings for the council. Bruce Was More Than Bannockburn! Calling all fans of Scots History! Wildflowera rt and garden Festival History professor John McDermott will discuss King Robert the Bruce at the Plantagenet History Society on Saturday This year’s Wildflower Art and Garden Festival is looking for 17 September at 2pm in Hornsby Library artists and sculptors to compete for a prize pool of $5000. Meeting Room. Artists are being asked to provide works that use recycled Working as a journalist for thirty years materials to adhere to the theme of ‘Environmental Sustainability’. at the ABC, John has been Chair of the Plantagenet Operations for over ten years Artists will also be encouraged to paint ‘en plein air’ during and will deliver an engaging speech that the festival.