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PAVE Festival
Tuesday 17th April 2012 - Sunday 22nd April 2012
Bigger and better every year!
The Performing And Visual arts in Emerald Festival, better known as PAVE, just keeps growing. After sell out events for the past few years, enthusiasts know to book early for events.
Each year, new events are added while tried and true events keep getting stronger. This year the program is bursting with activities, so much so that there is a preview event on Tuesday 17th at Emerald Library where Suzie Wharton will take you on a delightful journey of chocolate with a fabulous Chocoholic Talk.
The Women in Song event features Rebecca Barnard, Lisa Miller, Kerri Simpson and Blin, four diverse women who will surprise and delight the audience on official opening night, Wednesday 18th April. This year a special screening of Dance Films will be a bonus at interval.
Thursday night brings the ultra popular Burlesque spectacular, featuring Lilikoi Kaos, Miss Strawberry Siren, Foxtrot India and others, for an over 18s night of entertaining skill with local duo Lily and King as musical support.
Or you may prefer to go “Into the Mystic” and immerse yourself in the music of Van Morrison performed by Dublin born Joe Creighton (Black Sorrows) and band. Local favourite Riley Jordan will play in support.
On Friday night, the entertainment continues with Circus Trick Tease, a three person circus performance for the whole family. Trick Tease Circus is a raucous & entertaining collection of misfits including a maladjusted strongman, his neurotic female compatriot & their international star. Together, they play out their chaotic roles in dazzling displays of acrobatics, precarious balances & gratuitous headstands. They have performed at the Edinburgh comedy festival and provide a great family night out.
If you’d like something more relaxing to finish the working week, International guitarist Matthew Fagan presents a riveting Spanish guitar concert featuring his 10 string guitar and a Flamenco dancer.
There are stacks of tempting events on Saturday including free music and reptile displays at Emerald Lake Park, Open Gardens, black-light puppet show, cartooning workshop with Children’s Author and Illustrator Adam Wallace, Voice Concert led by Barb McFarlane, photography workshop with photojournalist Julie Bowyer and a Grimm Fairytales tribute.
Legends of Australian Music will ensure that no one sits still on Saturday night. See the Models Super Orchestra in full swing, featuring an all star line up. Sean Kelly (Models), Andrew Duffield (Models), Mark Ferrie (Models/Rockwiz), Billy Miller (Ferrets), Jack Howard (Hunters & Collectors), Eve von Bibra (Chantoozies), Calum McAlpine (Large no.12s)………….. add to that other legends such as Wendy Stapleton, Spectrum and Neale Johns and the Moments (a combo made up of former Madder Lake and Blackfeather members) and this will be a night to remember.
On Sunday 22nd the Emerald FunFest takes over the streets for the day. Street performers, Rides, Displays, Competitions, Music, Dance, Food and Wine, Harley rides, laser challenge, hot rod display, abseiling, reptiles, a pet parade, stunt displays, face painting, jumping castles, candle making and craft activities as well as the presence of the ever popular Tubby the Robot. Plus circus and dance workshops, FutureSparks Pedal Power, the Great Wall of Art public exhibition and a huge market. There is heaps of free stuff and FUN for all. The FunFest is a great day out for all ages.
Other events include the Photography Exhibition, Art Exhibitions, free music in cafés, Unity in Community Concert, Poet’s Breakfast, Yarn Event, Monkey Business, Dance Workshops, book readings and signings, classical concert and much more. The festival finishes on Sunday night with the ever popular Golden Cow Literary Dinner. No Bull, this will show you how the udder side live!!
The PAVE Festival and Emerald FunFest combine for a week of events you won’t want to miss.
Click on events for more information or download a full program. Enquiries 5968 3881, 0419 345 750, info@pave.org.au And get updates and latest news on Facebook
About the PAVE Festival
PAVE stands for Performing And Visual arts in Emerald. It is an umbrella event designed to allow various community groups and local performers to showcase programs and talents to the broader Emerald community and surrounding areas. Emerald is a lovely village, nestled in the Dandenong Ranges. The community is often threatened by bushfire and floods and is semi rural, presenting access issues for people within the community who don't drive.
PAVE reaches across all social demographics to provide affordable access to arts based projects and performances in Emerald, whilst offering another reason for people outside the community to visit the town.
The Performing And Visual arts in Emerald (PAVE) Festival committee is a sub committee of The Emerald Community House (ECH) and made up of representatives of 6-8 community groups and several independent artists.
The goals of PAVE are to:
- Build community stamina, creating strong working relationships that strengthen the community's reflexes to respond to natural disaster adversities and challenges
- Promote the arts as an entertainment or involvement option for all ages
- Provide an outlet for local artists, (visual and performing) to display their talents
- Provide opportunities for people of all demographics to access The Arts at low or no cost and particularly involve youth "at risk" due to the lack of local facilities and public transport
- Bring arts into the lives of those not normally attracted to them
- Create an inclusive community event that can be built on annually
- Place particular emphasis on youth, the elderly and families who find access to arts activities difficult due to poor public transport facilities
- Promote Emerald as a town of cultural significance and support local business through tourism
- Promote partnerships and cooperation between small community organisations in a semi-rural community
- Celebrate Emerald venues and spaces
Thanks to all the volunteers, performers and artists who helped make the PAVE Festival a huge success again in 2011.
The purpose of the PAVE festival is primarily to bring the streets of Emerald alive and build community strength through the arts.
Music is a big part of the festival. The stellar event, 3MDR's Women and Song night opened the festival at the performing arts complex "The GEM" on Wednesday 6th April. This year's event welcomed back Monique Brumby, as well as newcomers to the event but certainly not the Australian music scene, Cyndi Boste, Lisa Miller and Tiffany Eckhardt.
GrooveFest
The Uniting Concert continues to delight song-lovers with Saturday performances from local performers helped by the beautiful acoustics and surroundings of the Uniting Church. The audience will not be left behind at this performance!
Classical music lovers were treated to the beautiful sounds of the Dandenong Ranges Orchestra returning to PAVE this year at the Gem Theatre.
The Art Society exhibition was held for the duration of the festival from Wednesday to Sunday at the Emerald Lake Environment Centre and the popular photographic exhibition returns in a new location at the art society studios (Church Street) with a theme of the Forces of Nature and the Human Dimension. Two photography workshops included Cyanotype workshop taken by Ellie Young, custodian and practitioner of historic photographic processes.
Local Comedian Michael Connell brought his band of mates from the Comedy Festival on Friday 9th at Emerald Junior Football Club. The Comedy Night is always a great way to relax and exercise the smile muscles at the end of a stressful week.
Two new features of PAVE in 2011 were the Burlesque & Gangster night on Thursday 7th and Stories Plus on Saturday 9th April. Burlesque dancing was popular in the Victorian Era and is back in a big way. This is a great way to sample this adult-only art form at the beautiful Gem Theatre.
Stories plus is a new concept that combines storytelling with dance, music, origami and cartooning to intrigue and delight children and adults alike.
Readers and Writers were delighed at the Poet's breakfast, the "Yarn Event" and the Golden Cow Poetry event the on Sunday 10th April.
The ever popular historic bus tour of Emerald was hosted by Local Councillor and prominent historian, Graeme Legge on the Saturday.
In 2011 the much loved Emerald Winterfest returned in a new guise - as the Emerald Funfest. It was held on Sunday 10th April and brought the PAVE festival to a close with a bang. The 2011 FunFest had a Steam Age theme, featuring historic displays, period costumes, street performers and special activities at Puffing Billy Station.
Rides and activities for preschoolers through to adults, free face painting, Tubby the Robot, Play Buses, Magic and Circus Performers, Penny Farthing displays, Laser Challenge, story readings and workshops are just a taste of the activities. A jazz tent provided more refined entertainment with wine and cheese on offer.
PAVE and the Funfest is a great way to end the school holidays for all the family.
For more information on PAVE and the Emerald Funfest please contact Non Blair on 0419 345 750, or email info@pave.org.au
p: 03 5968 3881
f: 03 5968 6152