Community News SEPTEMBER 2011 1 Community News www.glenelg.vic.gov.au September 2011 Justice Crew at Upwelling FReeZA INSIDE Better Win Dinner Environment, Better Glenelg with Justice Crew pages 8 & 9 Find out how on page 11 Arts Calendar - Page 2 Senior’s Great Day Out - Page 3 Roads... who is responsible - Page 4 All about the Shire’s Economic Development - Page 5 Explaining your rates - Page 6 National Hip-Hop dance and pop stars, and winners of Australia’s Got Talent, Look after your Justice Crew, are performing at a FReeZA Event on the 28th of October, the [ eve of the Upwelling Festival. See page 11 for more details... - Page 6 Upwelling Festival 2011 New Tourism Coordinator starts - Page 11 Council is pleased to welcome Liz McNeill as the new Inclusive Tourism Coordinator for the Shire. Business Awards In her new position Liz will experience in the tourism industry - Page 14 be responsible for the day-to- including working for private day operation of the Shire’s three tourism operators, educational Nominations accredited Visitor Information tourism and cultural tourism in open for Centres, their staff, volunteers both Australia and New Zealand. Australia Day and business functions. She says it is an exciting time Awards Her other responsibilities to be coming to the Shire which - Pages 16 include developing effective [ working relationships with local “The potential for increasing New way of tourism businesses as well tourism and the Shire’s reputation contacting as regional and state tourism [ Council organisations, and to assist the “I am very much looking forward Economic Development and to being involved in Portland 1300GLENELG Tourism Manager to market and becoming Victoria’s newest cruise promote the Shire. ship port and working to increase or 1300 453 635 Liz has had extensive Shire tourism,” Liz concluded. Read up to date Glenelg Shire Council advertisements in the Portland Observer and Casterton News. Listen to MIXX FM 93.7 every Friday after the midday news for ‘Mayor on the Air’ and ABC South West Victoria 96.9FM with Jeremy Lee on Wednesday mornings around 7.10am. 2 SEPTEMBERSEPTEMBER 2011 2011 Community Community News News ARTS CALENDAR Ticket Prices & Bookings: Portland Arts Centre, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, OR Phone (03) 5522 2263 September to December 2011 Website: www.glenelg.vic.gov.au www.arts.glenelg.vic.gov.au DOWNPOUR THE FOUR SEASONS – Melbourne Chamber [ Orchestra down your house, you can never tell. Love, lost love and everything The vitality of spring, lazy heat of summer, wistfulness of autumn in between. In ‘Downpour’, four extraordinary performers juggle, and chill of winter are brilliantly evoked by Vivaldi in ‘The Four balance, contort and hula their way through the quicksand of life Seasons’, a timeless classic which itself celebrates the passage and love. Based on a Dostoevsky short story, ‘Downpour’ has of time and the cycle of life. Music from still further back in Italy’s just returned from a season at the Montreal Circus Festival and golden past is reworked by Respighi in his exquisite ‘Ancient Airs the Melbourne Fringe. and Dances - Suite No.3’, while Graeme Koehne shakes this up Thursday, 22 September, 7.30pm, Portland Arts Centre with his lively ‘Shaker Dances’. A delightful program presented Full price $25 Concession $20 Student $10 Family $60 by the highly regarded and very talented members of the MCO. RED RIDING HOOD Wednesday, 19 October, 7.30pm, Portland Arts Centre Starring all your favourite characters including Red Riding Hood, Full price $40 Concession $35 Student $10 Family $80 Grandma, Jack the Woodsman, Tina Lasagne and the Footy VOYAGES FLAMENCO SHOW Fairy! While keeping true to the original story, there are a whole Matthew Fagan, performing on a 10 string Spanish guitar and lot of new ingredients in this adapted Australian production. the Voyages Flamenco Group, take you on a musical journey Presented in a traditional pantomime format suitable for children into the historical origins of traditional and contemporary Spanish of all ages, don’t miss the songs and comedy of ‘Red Riding \ # $ % & Hood’. Matthew Fagan and Flamenco dancer Cherie Morgan and other Thursday, 29 September, 11.00am & 1.30pm guests create an intimate connection with the audience through Portland Arts Centre [ Full price $15 Child $10 Thursday, 27 October, 7.30pm, Portland Arts Centre THE MERGER Full price $30 Concession $25 Student $10 Family $66 In the sequel to his multi-award winning ‘Sportsman’s Night’, DREAMS & ASPIRATIONS Damian revisits the dysfunctional Bodgy Creek Roosters Football This exhibition provides an opportunity for local emerging and [ established artists with a disability to showcase their works. The have to fold or merge with their arch rivals, the Hudson’s Flat exhibition is a celebration of ability, dreams and aspirations, that Redbacks. But prodigal son coach Troy Carrington has other encourage people with a disability to express themselves through ideas; to save the club and serve his socially aware agenda, he art, whilst promoting a wider acceptance and participation in the embarks on a program to recruit players from the Asylum Seekers arts community for people with a disability. Refuge Centre. A provocative but thoroughly entertaining show. 7 November to 2 December, Portland Arts Centre Friday, 7 October, 7.30pm, Portland Arts Centre Free admission Full price $25 Concession $20 Student $10 Family $60 THE ADVENTURES OF ALVIN SPUTNIK: DEEP SEA VCE Visual Art Exhibition EXPLORER An annual exhibition featuring the talents of VCE Visual Arts Seas have risen, billions have died. Alvin Sputnik is our only students from secondary colleges in the Glenelg Shire. The '[ work is always of high quality, and provides a wide diversity in wife’s lost soul and save humanity. Direct from sell-out seasons terms of both media and subject matter. in New York, Sydney, and Auckland this multi award-winning 10 October to 4 November, Portland Arts Centre piece of heart-warming “theatrical magic” (Sunday Mail) is a one- Free admission man micro-epic about enduring love and the end of the world. “… THE WEATHER AND YOUR HEALTH akin to a theatrical Wall-E” (New York Times). Gilgandra. Flat as a tack, dry as a bone, hot as an oven. Life can Winner **Outstanding Solo Show** New York International Fringe be tough on the banks of the Castlereagh. But there is beauty Festival in everything, if you know where to look. This charming play Wednesday, 16 November, 1.30pm & 6.30pm, Portland Arts paints a touching portrait of country life through one woman’s Centre stories of young love, war-times, local dances and home-made Full price $20 Concession $15 Student $10 Family $52 sausage rolls. Written and performed by Bethany Simons with OUR WATER by Questacon Andrew Dodds, and nominated for two Green Room Awards, Proudly sponsored by the National Water Commission, this ‘The Weather and Your Health’ is a trip down memory lane. Put inter-active and hands-on exhibition focuses on one of our most the kettle on, it’s time for some sponge cake! precious commodities: Water. Friday, 14 October, 7.30pm, Heywood Community Hall If you were in control of Australia’s water, how would you use it? Saturday, 15 October, 7.30pm, Casterton Town Hall An exhibition that will inform, engage and inspire people of all Full price $25 Concession $20 Student $10 Family $60 ages. 5 December to 3 January 2012, Portland Arts Centre Free admission Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the details provided in this \ to withdraw, substitute or vary the details of events listed, and to rectify any errors at a later date. Community News SEPTEMBER 2011 3 Glenelg Shire Council Victorian Seniors Festival 2011 Portland Civic Hall, Bentinck Street. PORTLAND Wednesday 5 October 2011 Seniors Great Day Out Commencing at 10am Program The Dean & Jerry Show 10.00 - 10.25 Tea/Coffee on Arrival 10.25 - 10.30 Mayor to Welcome 10.30 - 10.35 Welcome to Country 10.35 - 12.00 The Ragtime Rollers 12.00 - 12.45 LUNCH Sing-a-long with Rosie 12.45 - 1.00 Tracey Stafford - Chair Exercise / Yoga 1.00 - 1.30 Rosie – Sing-a-long 1.30 - 2.40 Dean & Jerry Show (Main Act) 2.40 - 2.45 Afternoon Tea 2.45 - 3.00 Buses Depart The Ragtime Rollers Cost: $8.00 Bookings for the event and registration for buses are Glenelg Shire Council is a proud participant essential, please RSVP to Sandra Robertson in the 2011 Victorian Seniors Festival ph: 5522 2254 or Glenelg Shire Council, Cliff Street, Portland Phone: Sandra Robertson (03) 5522 2254 email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] before 4pm on Wednesday 21 September 2011 Community Safety month During Community Safety Month in October this year Glenelg Shire Council will be reminding residents to keep an eye out for their neighbours during the coming summer season. It’s worth remembering that during the tragic summer of 2009 +/[ of those less publicised deaths were of elderly people who died because they had no way of staying cool and nobody to help them keep their hydration levels up. 8$<R\ encouraging residents to do what they can for their neighbours this summer, especially those who live alone, have disabilities, are elderly, or for any reason might need an extra helping hand during \ %[ \ their neighbours’ telephone numbers so they can check in on each other during emergencies. Neighbours Merv Kirkwood and Heather Buckley watch out for Let’s stay safe this summer, and throughout the years ahead. each other. 4 SEPTEMBER 2011 Community News Roads – who is responsible? The Glenelg Shire Council does not manage all the roads within the shire.