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Lights show to brighten up festival AN underground lights show is one of the highlights of the South Side Festival calendar. The South Side Festival begins in Frankston this week. As part of the festival the “Frankston Generator” experience has been set up at the underground car park at Frankston Arts Centre. The lights show features more than a thousand lighting fixtures, as well as music, a wind tunnel, and interactive screens.
Frankston mayor Nathan Conroy said that the festival would bring “a wide array of contemporary multi arts ranging from theatre, live music, visual arts exhibitions, immersive experiences, installations, workshops, markets, and everything in between.” “South Side Festival has partnered with many wonderful local venues, community groups, and artists from across the state and nationally to bring you an artistic program of sensory experiences unlike any you have found in
Frankston before,” he said. South Side Festival runs across Frankston between 6 May and 15 May. To see the full program or buy tickets visit southsidefestival.com.au/Home
A LIGHTS display set up under the Frankston Arts Centre for the South Side Festival. Picture: Supplied
SHIRLEY with kids at Frankston Library. Picture: Supplied
Kids read to dog at library A DOG is helping kids at Frankston Library improve their reading abilities. The canine companion is at the library as part of the Reading Tails program, designed for kids aged 7 to 13. Shirley the dog accompanies children while they read. Frankston City Libraries Manager Laura Antoniak said that the free program is designed to be “a way to help and support their literacy goals, and achievement is an incredible feeling.”
“Not only are the results seen in the children’s abilities across the term, but each week their eagerness to participate and interact with our Reading Tails furry friend, Shirley, and each other is a credit to the program,” she said. Reading Tails runs over seven weeks at Frankston Library, starting 4pm on 4 May. To find a sessions and book for the free program visit library. frankston.vic.gov.au/FrankstonLibraries/Events/Reading-tails
WHAT’S NEW...
Fish Creek Tea Cosy Festival 14 - 22 May
• Tea Cosy Exhibition • Biggest Tea Cosy World Record attempt • Bendigo Bank Market Day • Cabaret, theatre performances & music • Craft workshops • Tea tastings & talks • High Tea & more
See website for full program:
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Frankston Times
3 May 2022
The biggest tea cosy ever AT approximately five metres high and 20 metres in circumference, it will be very difficult to miss the World Record attempt for the Biggest Tea Cosy ever at the Fish Creek Tea Cosy Festival, Saturday 14 May at 1.30pm. The Tea Cosy Festival Committee is thrilled to be hosting Knit-a-Row-and-Go’s attempt for the World’s Biggest Tea Cosy. Knit-a-Row-and-Go (KARAG) is a charity group from Melbourne’s bayside suburbs of Frankston and Chelsea; it was established several years ago with the purpose of knitting scarves and rugs for the homeless. KARAG convenor Di MacDonald is a teacher. Di and two of the students in her kids knitting group decided they needed a challenge and thought they’d attempt a Guinness World Record. Di and her mum attended the 2018 Tea Cosy Festival, with knitting needles and wool in hand. As they wandered around the Tea Cosy Exhibition they were knitting rows towards the giant tea cosy. Support for the Record attempt snowballed
and knitters of all ages throughout the Frankston community, regional Victoria, other states and even New Zealand have been knitting furiously to create this tea cosy on steroids. Friends and Frankston businesses have assisted in the design and construction of a tea pot that will be transported to Fish Creek for the official measuring to take place on Saturday 14 May from 1.30pm. After the World Record has been confirmed, KARAG members will deconstruct the giant cosy into rugs to be distributed by charitable groups to the vulnerable in bayside communities. The Tea Cosy Festival runs for nine days from 14 to 22 May and features the Tea Cosy Competition and Exhibition, Cabaret, High Tea, Devonshire Teas, craft workshops and the ever-popular Bendigo Bank Market Day with craft stalls, food, music and a magician for kids of all ages. Full details available at www.teacosyfestival. com.au More info – KARAG Facebook Group