Parkes Community Arts committee members Helen Standen, Deb Jones and Kelly McGirr helped to decorate the town with more than 1,000 handmade flowers and colourful signs for the Spring Fling Festival.
The Community Arts Spring Fling Festival is well underway in Parkes and has been a rousing success so far.
If you have been in the Parkes CDB recently the Spring Fling vibe is hard to miss with over 1,000 handmade flowers adorning the main street and Cooke Park, and colourful signs and banners.
“We have been thrilled with the community response,” said Parkes Community Arts secretary Kerryn Jones. Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ movie last Friday was sold out, while the creative workshops in art, drumming and flower arrangement were also sold out. The upcoming Lindsay Morehouse memorial concert on Sunday at 2pm in the Starlight Lounge of Parkes Services Club is filling up fast.
The main event, the Cooke Park Community Fun Day, has fallen victim to La Niña and will be postponed to the new date of Saturday, 19th November from 10am to 2pm. “Though disappointed, we are grateful that most vendors and performers are able to be flexible in this uncertain weather, though some clashes have been inevitable”, said Kerryn.
Community members need not worry, the 19th is looking to be sunny and warmer for the free event with lots of activities, food and music performances.
Quentin Park Alpacas will be ready to meet and greet people from 10am. There will also be artisan market stalls inside the Cooke Park Pavilion by local artists and creatives.
The Best in Show art exhibition in the Coventry Room of Parkes Shire Library and Cultural Centre, funded by the CMOC Northparkes Community Investment Program, will be extended to 19th November. “This exhibition has been particularly special,” said curators Deb Jones and Helen Standen “with the most artworks ever submitted to a single exhibition here. We had over 400 artworks entered and there are a huge range of ages and mediums on display.”
Visit www.facebook.com/PCAFestival for updates and infomation.
By Roxanne Gallacher