information about some 2007-8 events (now completed)
to raise funds for projects in East Timor
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the events
who?
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when?
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where?
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how much?
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The Song Company
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7.30pm Sat June 16 2007
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Kangaroo Valley Hall
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$30, $20 (concession)
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Simone Young
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2.30pm Sun August 12 2007
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Villa Music venue
427 Tourist Road
Bellawongarah
(no mail to this
address, please)
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$72 (no concession)
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3.
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Buster Keaton
Silent Film Festival
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7.30pm Sat October 27 2007
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Upper River Hall
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$20, $15 (concession)
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SHE
(The Kioloa Harp Ensemble)
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7.30pm Sun January 27 2008
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Kangaroo Valley Hall
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$30, $20 (concession)
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there are two ways to purchase tickets for the remaining event - SHE - in this series; either:
1. go to Kangaroo Valley Supermarket (opposite, more-or-less, the post office) and buy them direct, or
2. print the booking form (click here), fill it out and post it, with a cheque for the right amount made out to "KV-RP", to Concert Bookings, PO Box 6159 Kangaroo Valley NSW 2577 - your tickets will arrive in the post
concession prices available to full-time students, Seniors Card-holders (except wealthy ones), and Australian Social Security and Veterans Affairs pensioners (proof of concession status may be requested at the door)
enquiries: email or call (02 44 651 299) Martin or Peter Wesley-Smith
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1. The Song Company, June 16 2007
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COMPLETED!
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Having given two previous concerts in Kangaroo Valley, the internationally-acclaimed Roland Peelman and The Song Company are great favourites of local music-lovers. This year they will be bringing with them an all-Australian program called Songs of Oz, which will include Australian folk songs such as Botany Bay, Click Go the Shears and The Lime Juice Tub, old parlour songs such as I've Got a Possie in Dear Old Aussie and We're Going Back Again to Yarrawonga, both from 1919, and more recent songs such as Love Is In the Air, True Blue and excerpts from Martin and Peter Wesley-Smith's Boojum!.
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SHE |
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2. Simone Young, August 12 2007
COMPLETED!
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Simone Young is one of the world's leading conductors. Once the Musical Director of Opera Australia, she is now Musical Director of Hamburg Opera in Germany. She was the first woman ever to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in Austria and, in Berlin, the first female conductor of the entire Ring Cycle of Richard Wagner. A recipient of the German Government's Goethe medal, she is quoted in the October 2005 of the Goethe Institut's magazine Kultur: "I'm surrounded by philosophers, authors and writers who put profound thoughts down on paper. That isn't my profession. My language is music. If you want to hear my deep thoughts, you will have to come to Hamburg and listen to one of my concerts." Fortunately we don't have to do that - we can hear Ms Young's deepest thoughts at Tony Strachan's house up on the Tourist Road, Bellawongarah! In between conducting performances in Sydney of French composer Olivier Messiaen's massive symphonic work Turangalila, she will come here to play, with her Hamburg assistant, a piano (four hands) arrangement by Engelbert Humperdinck of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal! What a treat!
Simone has visited Kangaroo Valley many times, loves it here, and volunteered to do this recital as a fundraiser for the Kangaroo Valley-Remexio Partnership.
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The Song Company |
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SHE |
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3. The Fifth Annual Kangaroo Valley Buster Keaton Silent Movie Festival
with Robert Constable, 7.30pm 27 October 2007, Upper River Hall
COMPLETED!
Robert Constable
check out last year's
festival here
Buster Keaton
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Those who have been to any of the previous four of these shows knows what a delight they are and how brilliantly Robert Constable's piano matches the brilliance on screen. Audience reactions have included the following:
"It really was quite amazing. The creativity was striking ... the night was a tour de force of cooperative creativity - incredible when one reflects that the whole night emerged from the human mind ... ideas and energy ... it was brilliant to assimilate the KV community into Keaton's slapstick. I loved the written quips between scenes and the masterstroke of fusing film and reality ... plus the plus of live music. Terrific to make it an annual event."
Yes, it did become an annual event, a very popular one. There's a chance, just a chance, that the program will include the final episode of the much-admired Dirty Dan series. Scriptwriters are huddled together, the main stars have been seen practising complex acrobatic routines, and a cameraperson was recently seen in Nowra buying a new mini DV tape. Something is afoot ....
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Dirty Dan absconds with Kangaroo Valley's last-remaining virgin, Fluff. Pursued by angry townsfolk, the lovers escape by leaping from Hampden Bridge into the icy torrent of the mighty Kangaroo River! Later, Dan saves the Valley from flood, thus earning the love of the local inhabitants who elect him Mayor. But his corrupt ways see him pursued again. He gives up being Mayor and has, with Fluff, a baby boy - Sod - instead. Fifi, a waitress, has a baby girl called Puff, who looks like Fluff, and Sod'n'Puff grow up as friends. They both become accomplished actors, starring in many local productions, including innovative outdoor versions of Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet, and a movie - It Takes Three - in which Sod plays Paul Turnock and Puff plays Helen George. Puff dramatically re-interprets the Marilyn Monroe role in The Seven Year Itch. At the end it appears - or does it? - that this movie-within-the-movie is in fact a movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie being watched (created?) by the aptly-named Froth, who's Fluff's dad, and Fifi, raising troubling questions to do with regression, retrograde inversion, and the inter-relationship of art, love and life.
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see www.shoalhaven.net.au/~mwsmith/bk2007.html
The Song Company |
Simone Young |
SHE |
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4. SHE (formerly known as The Kioloa Harp Ensemble)
with Alice Giles, January 27 2008
COMPLETED!
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Seven beautiful instruments, each beautifully lit by a light made by The Kangaroo Valley Harp Light Company and expertly played by a beautiful woman - is this Heaven or what??
From a review in the Kangaroo Valley Voice, March 2006, after their concert in January last year (see here):
"All in all, it's difficult to imagine a more delightful musical evening."
This concert, on the Sunday night of the 2008 Australia Day long weekend (two days before schools start for the year), will sell out. Well, actually, all these concerts will. Get in early before the rush!
for more information, see www.wesley-smith.info/she.html
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The Song Company |
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The Kangaroo Valley-Remexio Partnership
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After the destruction and killing which swept East Timor in September 1999, a small group of KV residents felt a need to do something. A partnership was discussed with an East Timorese village and the Kangaroo Valley-Remexio Partnership was formed. Now, nearly eight years on, we have a mix of local and district people working with many East Timorese in Australia and East Timor.
Remexio is a small village in the hills about one hour's drive south of Dili.
The KV-RP is a "bottom up" or "grass roots" approach to helping the East Timorese help themselves. We hope to assist the East Timorese achieve dignified living through health, education, justice and ecologically sustainable industry. We selectively try to help in ways that are different from those of the UN and other NGOs.
Rather than large single projects, we pursue a multitude of small, personal and usually integrated activities. Being substantially self-funded, and consistent with our philosophy, our material contributions are small. Instead, we rely on sharing our existing skills in day to day situations.
We pursue long-term personal relationships with the East Timorese and actively encourage this approach in others. That part which is conducted in Australia is the provision of education and training to those who have appropriate interests and aptitudes for leadership and mentoring roles back in East Timor.
We now enjoy the beginnings of likely long-term relationships with numerous on-going activities. In addition, much of our involvement is outside of Remexio, in other parts of East Timor, as well as in active networking within Australia. Along the way we have tried to identify the best and worst of our respective Australian and East Timorese lifestyles, to better influence both our paths into the future.
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left: kids in Remexio, March 2002
Note:
KV-RP is largely self-funded but donations are always very helpful. If made to "AFAP KV-Remexio Partnership" they will be tax deductible (AFAP - Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific Ltd - is our umbrella group, which is recognised by the ATO for tax deductibility).
We cover all our own expenses such as air fares, accommodation etc as well as all administration overheads. 100% of funds raised from the public go directly towards helping the East Timorese and are fully accounted for. Donors may request that their funds be directed towards particular areas of their own special interest, such as health, education, etc.
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Paul Turnock (02 4465 1357); KV-RP website
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