Thursday, August 24, 2023

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Mackay and Whitsunday Life

Celebrate The ‘Great Eight’ These School Holidays!

Encourage your children to get creative over the school holidays by making a masterpiece for the upcoming Cruise Whitsundays Great Barrier Reef Festival.

Held from August 4-7, the 22nd annual festival will bring colour, fun and fiesta to Airlie Beach with a range of exciting events, many of which you can contribute towards yourself.

Here are some ideas:

•Construct an inflatable raft for the recyclable regatta – all rafts must be made from recycled items aside from the ores.

•Design a piece of wearable art out of recycled items

•Build a lantern for the lantern parade

•Get your workmates together and create a costume or float for the street parade

Anyone in the community is invited to get creative and contribute their unique piece of art – this year the theme is the ‘Great Eight’ - clownfish, giant clams, manta rays, maori wrasse, potato cod, sharks, turtles, and whales.

Festival Chairwoman and ‘Immerse’ concept designer, Margie Murphy, said your artwork can be inspired by any of these incredible marine creatures.

“Just as an African safari has its ‘Big Five’, our Great Barrier Reef’s ‘Great Eight’ are a checklist of the reef’s most mesmerising marine creatures and should provide ample inspiration for costumes and floats for this year’s Rotary Street Parade,” she said.  

“We’re also looking forward to seeing reef conservation innovatively expressed through our Wilmar Wearable Art and Anything Environmental Recyclable Regatta entries, so the time to get creating is now!”

WHAT: Great Barrier Reef Festival

WHEN: August 4-7

WHERE: Airlie Beach

Create some wearable art over the holidays!

Construct an inflatable raft out of recycled items

What are you going to create for the street parade?

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