Mission Beach Community Cassowary Festival
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    • Drumming of Cassowaries parade
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    • Queenie the cassowary
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 Dress inspired by love of cassowaries and nature​

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Media Release 19 June 2018

A spectacular Cassowary Dress has been loaned to the community for display during the upcoming  Mission Beach Community Cassowary Festival.  Chani Pierce, contacted the  festival committee with  the offer to use the dress  made by her late mother Patricia Pierce - Drake. 
 
Chani, an Innisfail local,  said  "We love Cassowaries & everything in nature". "It would be lovely to showcase something my mother created with a lot of time and effort". "The dress was even modeled at a Tafe event" Chani added  proudly. "She spent a lot of hours also making baby chick cassowaries out of paper mache".

Although Patricia, known as Trish, had been a dressmaker most of her life, it was in her later years that she completed several dressmaking courses at Innisfail Tafe.  ​"Patricia was always very passionate about wildlife and the land" . "She adored cassowaries so much she created this cassowary dress. Chani said. She would go to great lengths to add  detail" You can see  it in the bead work". 

"We are very excited  to have been contacted by Chani. " said festival committee member Penny Bell who collected  the artwork this week. "I was even more excited when I got to see Trish's awesome creation".

Chani has  kindly  donated her mother's  treasured artwork to be displayed for the duration of the festival.  "We are so fortunate to have been  given the  perfect mannequin for the dress by Sandra Cuming of Kaotica, Cairns" said Penny. The  'Cassowary Dress' has a fitting temporary home taking pride of place  at the entrance to the Helen Wiltshire Gallery in the Mission Beach Village Green.

Owner of the gallery, Hilary Watson, has nicknamed her new gallery 'companion' 'Cassidy' and  invites  people to visit the gallery to see Trish's wearable art creation "We hope it will inspire  others to make their own costume for the Festival". 

The Mission Beach Community Cassowary Festival will run over four days from the 29th June to the 1st July with the main festival  event held on Saturday 30th June from 9am - 4pm

​For more information
contact the festival committee 
0414 402315
[email protected]
The full program of events can be  found on 
www.cassowaryfestival.com.
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Contact 
[email protected]
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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