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A Cassowary Theme
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Roadside signs designed by Mission Beach School kids
When Mission Beach puts on an event, the local school kids get to work. They design signs to place along the access roads to alert drivers they are travelling through cassowary country and to be extra aware of their speed and to watch out for cassowaries crossing the roads. 
Gunduy Midja
Art installation Artists Leonard Andy (Djiru Traditional owner) and Nina Dawson collaborate to create a traditional shelter (Midja) with a with a cassowary twist. The installation will be open for the public to 'walk inside the cassowary' and learn about the Djiru culture. Great Prizes!!
Best cassowary costumes
Mission Beach - naturally
"The Mission Beach Community is proud to share our unique place with you in celebration of the cassowary and nature. |
Thursday 19 September
6:30 - 8pm Drinks and nibbles C4 Theatrette visitor Centre Porters Promenade Mission Beach 6 : 30 pm
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'How to Kill a Cassowary' |
Friday 20 September
6 - 9pm
Drinks and nibbles
C4 Theatrette
visitor Centre
Porters Promenade Mission Beach
6 - 9pm
Drinks and nibbles
C4 Theatrette
visitor Centre
Porters Promenade Mission Beach
6 : 00 pm
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'Mission Beach naturally - a magic place' Internationally acclaimed wildlife photography duo Stella and Jeurgen Freund will launch their video created for the 'Mission Beach naturally - A Magic Place' song written by the Mission Beach school kids and performed at the Queens baton Relay in 2018. The video has been made possible with a Regional Arts Development Fund.
Listen to Mission Beach naturally - a magic place' sung by the Mission Beach school kids .
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Screening of National Geographic documentary 'Dino Bird' Natural history documentary makers Dan Hunter and Ed Saltau were in Far North Queensland to film the cassowary for this National Geographic documentary on the cassowary. Features footage showing behaviour never seen before of our region's endangered icon, the cassowary.
Watch trailer
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Saturday 21 September
Festival day in the park
From 9am - 4pm
Ulysses Park
Porters Promenade Mission Beach
6 : 00 - 8 : 00 am
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Stalls and marquees set up. Displays and information from groups and individuals working with the environment, particularly wildlife will be set up toward the beach. Market stallholders will be showcasing local homegrown and sustainable products and join the spirit of the festival by decorating themselves, their stalls or their produce with the 'celebrating cassowaries and nature' theme. Limited only by imagination!!! |
9 : .00 am
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Doc and JB John Brown is a local artisan, musician and songwriter whose strong connections to the environment and wildlife are reflected in his music and life.
Doc is described as Far North Queensland barefoot beach blues whose music is continuously influenced by the characteristics of our local landscape. Together they will be bringing some original, nature inspired tunes, amongst a mix of songs bearing a folk influence. |
10 : 00am
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Parade entrance introduced with school kids song Mission Beach Naturally - A Magic Place
The 'Drumming of Cassowaries' parade will start at the Mission Beach Village Green at 9.15 and reach the stage at 10am. The life size sculptures of cassowaries and other Cassowary Coast creatures sculptures will be on display in the park throughout the day. (If you would like to join the parade with your own creation please contact the Festival Committee cassowaryfestival@gmail.com Stripey's Tent Activities From 10am A large marquee will be set up with lots of activities all day for the little kids, big kids and even bigger kids!!
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10. : 15 am
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MC - About the festival Mel Bowman Finn will introduce the festival with all her inimitable enthusiasm
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10. : 20am
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Welcome to Country A Djiru Traditional Owner representative will deliver a Welcome to Country
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10 : 30 am
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Gypsy Hips We are the ‘Gypsy Hips’ tribal belly dancing group. We dance together at Mission Beach State School every Tuesday evening. My name is Carmen Pedroni and I started the Gypsy Hips bellydancing group six years ago. Our group is friendly and fun and we dance because it is great exercise and we enjoy the connection with the other women in our group. Occasionally we dance at festivals and events.
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10 : 45 am
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Choral Coast Collective Choral Coast Collective are a group of local Mission Beach musicians who have a passionate connection to the rainforest, mountains and the ocean of the Cassowary Coast. This passion is represented through original music and some borrowed tunes that celebrate the environment and its conservation. With a solid bass of guitar and drums and layered with upbeat rhythms, strong vocals, violin and saxophone, the music of the Choral Coast Collective traverses various soundscapes, reflecting the spirit of the local area.
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11 : 45 am
Paolo
12 : 15 pm
Hon Leeanne Enoch PhotoCourierMail
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Messages Some of our invited guests who are not able to attend the festival have sent us recorded messages.
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12 : 30 pm
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Special guest Jerry Coleby-Williams Jerry Coleby-Williams is an internationally experienced horticultural botanist, a conservationist, a writer and Director of the Seed Savers’ Network Inc. He is the Patron of the National Toxics Network Inc.
Initially trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK) and the Royal Horticultural Society (UK), Jerry has managed plant production nurseries, urban forests, heritage parks, one of London’s busiest garden centres, and he helped establish Mt Annan Native Botanic Garden (NSW). For twelve years, Jerry managed the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. His design of the Rare & Threatened Plants Garden (1998) launched a career in radio, magazine writing, public speaking and television. In 2003, Jerry created ‘Bellis’, a unique, affordable, award-winning sustainable house and garden in subtropical Brisbane by retrofitting a century old Queenslander house. Bellis is carbon positive, exporting solar electricity, sequestering carbon dioxide, recycling all waste water for food growing in a water sensitive landscape that mitigates localised flooding and sustains production during drought. Growing 400 kinds of plant, the food garden feeds the household while the ornamental front garden is designed to cope with predicted climate change. www.jerry-coleby-williams.net |
12 : 40pm
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Sustainability Forum Jerry Coleby Williams will be joined by Solar Whisper Daintree River tour Guide David White, local exotic fruit farmer and Wet Tropics Good Neghbour award winner Peter Salleras, with Wet Tropics Mangement Authority project officer Terry Carmichael
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1: 10pm
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Local singer and songwritter, Penny Bell, plays folk rock songs, using vocals and ukelele to express her love and support for the natural world.
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1 : 40 pm
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Best Costume Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes under the categories, adults, juveniles and stripeys
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1 : 55 pm
Police
2 : 00pm
JB & Trevor Proud
2 : 40pm
Drawing of raffles
2 : 50pm
Psycads Mission Beach locals Brent Cook and Ross Slight will be feature musos entertaining guests with their own blend of tunes in the name of Mission Beach Naturally.
Brent Cook has had a strong resonance with Mission Beach and its surrounds for over 3 decades. Whilst sharing his deep connection with this environment, Brent's open expression with old folk and alternative rock influence, accompanied by the solid beats of Ross Slight … will bring a set sure to entertain. |
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