STRETCH FESTIVAL PROMISES TO LIVE UP TO ITS NAME
City of Mandurah Mayor Paddi Creevey said the festival offered a program which promised to engage and entertain the whole family.
“We’ve got a huge range of entertainment, from free live performances on the Eastern Foreshore and Mandjar Square to a series of exhibitions at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre which will present the new, the exciting and the unusual,” Mayor Creevey said.
Some 25 Stretch projects have been growing in the community for the past four months and are due to be launched into the public arena on the festival weekend.
“You’ll be spoilt for choice – just sit back and enjoy free entertainment right through to activities in which you can join in,” Mayor Creevey said.
Bring the kids, bring the picnic blanket and fold-up chairs and head to Mandurah’s eastern foreshore and Mandjar Square (adjacent to the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre) and soak up the sound, colour and vibe of live music and entertainment over the Stretch Festival weekend on May 2-4.
There will be free activities for the whole family, including bubble fun, jewellery making, life drawing, origami, puppet making and chalk drawing.
Be there for the Kattidj Celebration with Aboriginal Cultural Tourism students from Winjan Community Centre who will hold art workshops, an exhibition, traditional dance, bush food, sand mandalas, chalk drawings, paintings and horticulture from 11am to 4pm over the weekend.
Enjoy the Community First Puppet Performance in Mandjar Square on May 4 at 1.45pm and other performances over the weekend by Dance Zone, Pulse Performance Company, Absolute Entertainment and Urban Measures.
Visit the Mandurah Art Gallery to see the Guy Grey-Smith Art Exhibition or the Fish Trap Theatre for the “Rising High” performance at 3pm on the Sunday.
Head to the eastern foreshore for the outdoor art exhibition “Reflection” of works by some of WA’s finest artists, but “Do Not Feed the Birds”, which is all part of a roving street performance by Troy Williams.
Feel the beat of the “Moving Art Parade” featuring the high voltage energy and frenzied percussion of the Beleza Samba Group or join the free percussion workshop on May 4 at 11am.
Over the weekend, take a stroll under the old bridge to check out Tish Oldham’s artwork “Stories Under the Bridge”, check out “The Art of Archaeology” at the Mandurah Community Museum from 11am to 3pm or witness an intriguing search to find the remains of the 1854 Police Barracks in Dalrymple Park from 10am to 4pm.
The two-day festival line-up includes free bands, workshops, installations, theatre, film, exhibitions, photography, dance, circus, voice, performance stories, sculptures, parade, puppets and much more suitable for all ages.
Download the full Stretch Festival Program at the City of Mandurah’s website www.mandurah.wa.gov.au/tourism/stretch.
RELEASE ENDS
21 April 2008