HORORATA GLOW FESTIVAL

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The balloonists enjoyed ﬂights together in the days leading up to the event. Chief pilot Michael Oakley said, “We want to keep evolving with the Night Glow and the experiences we give people at the Festival. Having Buster here was very cool, the night time walk through is nothing I have seen done at any other event and the light show accompanying the Glow was epic. We are already dreaming up what we can do next time.”

“The best thing about the Hororata Glow Festival is to see the joy it brings to numerous people. The volunteers get a real buzz out of being part of such a magical event. We love welcoming the visiting balloonists to our community, and they pulled out all the stops to put on a spectacular show in quite challenging wind conditions,” Cindy added.

“To everyone who was part of the Hororata Glow Festival, from volunteers, sponsors, funders, entertainers, stall holders, and of course Ballooning Canterbury and all the balloon crews, thank you for all you do. We have a very special community and can be so proud of everything we do together,” Cindy concluded.

The Glow enables the Hororata Community Trust to support the community to embark on their next project, developing the Hororata Community Hub. The event also saw ﬁfteen community groups involved with their own fundraising or promotion.

Twenty one students from TM Dance World had the privilege of performing a dance routine at the Hororata Night Glow. The performance took place on the ﬁeld in front of the balloons coming down, after the awesome light show.

The performance was made up of students from the Intermediate and Junior Performance Teams. The item started with ten girls wearing impressive LED wings to keep in tradition with the ‘Night Glow’.

“This year we have ten students from the Intermediate Performance Team travelling to compete at the Australian National Dance Championships,

Showcase Australia,” commented Director of TM Dance World, Tara McKeown

“The girls are working on qualifying their routines throughout the year and will travel to the Gold Coast in January to compete. The dancers will be fundraising to help with travel costs, and they were so excited to have the opportunity of performing at the Glow Festival to kick off their fundraising venture! Not only did the girls dance at night, they were also dressed as beautiful fairies during the day and provided free face painting, which was extremely popular, and the girls saw hundreds of children lining up. “All dancers involved had an absolute blast and loved performing in front of such a large crowd! A massive thank you to the Hororata Glow Festival for having us involved,” concluded Tara.

Hororata Primary School PTA said, “We love catering at the Glow Festival and Highland Games as we know the money is going to the children. Seeing the smiles on the Year 6’s when they receive their leavers hoodies, the Speech and Poetry competition winners get their trophy's and the juniors when they get their ‘Big Day In’ makes all the hard work worth while”.

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PEASANTS PENITENTS & PILGRIMS

Peasants, Penitents and Pilgrims is a programme of early music songs, both playful and prayerful. A performance that combines the beautiful harmonies of early religious music with the sometimes rustic humour of West European part songs (usually for soprano, alto, tenor and bass) will be presented in Darﬁeld on Saturday, May 27th, at St Joseph’s Catholic Church. Under the guidance of Musical Director Courtney Hickmott , Christchurch Choir Schola

Cantorum will sing a varied programme, including songs about peasants looking for love in the ﬁelds while pilgrims and penitents praise God and seek to live a truly religious life.

The Christchurch Recorder Ensemble, directed by Caitlin Godfrey , which has performed as guest artists at many festivals, will also contribute to the programme.

Much of the Choir’s programme dates from the sixteenth century, but an older religious song Congaudeant Catholici (Let all

Catholics rejoice together) from the twelfth century is possibly the ﬁrst composition to be written with three parts.

Schola Cantorum was founded in 1987 to preserve and perform the rich tradition of Mediaeval and Renaissance music, which includes plain chant, polyphony and madrigals. Enjoy the acoustics of St Joseph’s Church as the Choir sings unaccompanied sacred music such as Palestrina’s O Crux Ave and Hassler’s Dixit Maria.

See advertisement in this issue for further details.