Mission Beach Community Cassowary Festival
  • 2021
    • Djiru Country
    • Festival Purpose
    • Cassowary People Workshop
    • School Kids artwork
    • Drumming of Cassowaries parade
    • Dress, Black, Red and Blue
    • Stripey's tent
    • Queenie the cassowary
    • Entertainment
    • Messages
    • Displays/Stalls
    • Our supporters
    • Stall registration >
      • Environment Displays
      • Market Stalls
      • Food Stalls
      • Join the fun
    • 2019 >
      • 2019 PROGRAM
      • Photo Gallery 2019
      • About the 2019 festival >
        • Mapping Fundraiser
        • Wasted art rubbish fish
        • Messages
        • FORUM
        • IN THE MEDIA 2019 >
          • media releases 2019
        • Sponsors 2019
      • 2018 >
        • PROGRAM 2018 >
          • Displays and Stalls 2018
          • Music
          • IN THE MEDIA 2018 >
            • Media Releases
            • Art Projects >
              • Gunduy Midja
              • Juergen and Stella Freund
              • The Cassowary Dress
              • Festival sculptures 2018
              • Mission Beach School choir
              • Bunting
          • 2017 >
            • Program 2017
            • Cassowary Sculpture Workshops
            • Media 2017
            • Thank you Ceremony
            • Kids Care
            • Trevor Proud Prints
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The Queen's Baton Relay event
​17 March 2018 


Featuring the Cassowary Coast Creatures sculptures 
&
The Mission Beach School Choir

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The Mission Beach Community loves to celebrate and they have a lot to celebrate!  

The song Mission Beach Naturally - A Magic Place' was written by the Mission Beach School kids and developed to welcome the Baton runners at the Mission Beach Queen's Baton Relay event on 17th March. The day has been hailed as a great success. Congratulations and thanks to all those who helped to make it such a great community event.

The Mission Beach Community uses  every opportunity to promote their special place where two world heritage areas, the Wet Tropics and the Great Barrier Reef, meet. The song and another project creating colourful large sculptures of Cassowary Coast 'creatures' to line the path of the Queen's Baton runners, were made possible with a Cassowary Coast Regional Council RADF grant in partnership with  Mission Beach Cassowaries and Friends of Ninney Rise.


The artworks and song were developed in a series of workshops held at Ninney Rise and rehearsals at the Mission Beach school under the tutelage of well known art and drama teacher Jan Davies.  Children and adults were encouraged to work together on their projects with help from local artists  Sally Moroney, Nina Dawson, Penny Bell and Liz Gallie and teachers Kym Hall and Carmen Pedroni. ​

The sculptures and the song will be a spectacular and exciting addition to the Drumming of Cassowaries parade and stage performances at the Mission Beach Community Cassowary Festival held from 29th June to 1st July 2018.


Keep up to date on the festival facebook page and for more details on the event.
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Enough talking!  The photos and video below tell it all!!


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  How they were made

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Cassowary Coast creatures sculptures workshops
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'Mission Beach Naturally - A Magic Place' song production
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Promoting Mission Beach - naturally



​Check out how much fun we had at the 2017 event

2017 Mission Beach Community Cassowary Festival was proudly supported by


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Contact 
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0414 402 315


  • 2021
    • Djiru Country
    • Festival Purpose
    • Cassowary People Workshop
    • School Kids artwork
    • Drumming of Cassowaries parade
    • Dress, Black, Red and Blue
    • Stripey's tent
    • Queenie the cassowary
    • Entertainment
    • Messages
    • Displays/Stalls
    • Our supporters
    • Stall registration >
      • Environment Displays
      • Market Stalls
      • Food Stalls
      • Join the fun
    • 2019 >
      • 2019 PROGRAM
      • Photo Gallery 2019
      • About the 2019 festival >
        • Mapping Fundraiser
        • Wasted art rubbish fish
        • Messages
        • FORUM
        • IN THE MEDIA 2019 >
          • media releases 2019
        • Sponsors 2019
      • 2018 >
        • PROGRAM 2018 >
          • Displays and Stalls 2018
          • Music
          • IN THE MEDIA 2018 >
            • Media Releases
            • Art Projects >
              • Gunduy Midja
              • Juergen and Stella Freund
              • The Cassowary Dress
              • Festival sculptures 2018
              • Mission Beach School choir
              • Bunting
          • 2017 >
            • Program 2017
            • Cassowary Sculpture Workshops
            • Media 2017
            • Thank you Ceremony
            • Kids Care
            • Trevor Proud Prints
  • Contact