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Council News CITY OF WAGGA WAGGA
FIRST PRINTED SATURDAY 17 APRIL 2021
Issue No: 341
Weekly information from us to you Week 4: 26 April - 2 May Program Highlights
Birramal By Night Sustainable Wagga Wagga The Birramal Conservation Area offers spectacular views of our city. Learn the importance of this area as we spy nocturnal inhabitants emerging for their evening rituals. Alice Skye With local support Khairi Darweesh Alice Skye is a Wergaia/Wemba person living and writing music in Naarm (Melbourne), signed with Bad Apples Music, the Indigenous-driven label founded by Briggs. 2021 Live and Local Sydney Writers’ Festival One of Australia’s best-loved forums for literature, ideas and storytelling, Sydney Writers’ Festival will stream its headline events from Carriageworks in Sydney direct to the Wagga Wagga City Library via digital live-streaming project, Live & Local. Beginners Kintsugi Workshop Presented by Kintsugi Australia Learn about the wonderful art of Kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of mending broken pottery using lacquer with gold, platinum or silver, which dates back to the 15th Century.
V is for veggies!
An award-winning bunch of roots musicians delighted their audience of youngsters and adults as they spread their ‘Get Fresh’ message at the Wagga Wagga City Library this week.
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City to host Sports Academy Games Council and the Southern Sports Academy will enter into a partnership agreement to host the Academy Games in Wagga Wagga for three years, starting in 2022. The Academy Games is an annual event involving participants from across the New South Wales Regional Sports Academies. The Games are held over a three-day period during the April school holidays each year. Council’s Strategic Recreation Officer Peter Cook said the event is a coup for the city. “It’s a great economic benefit to Wagga. These events are expected to draw more than 4,000 people to the city over three days across the next three years,” Mr Cook said. “It’s expected it will bring in excess of $2 million in terms of the direct economic benefits to the city as well as flow-on impacts in terms of employment and social benefits.
“We’re also really excited about the opportunity to showcase what we’ve got and also give local athletes the opportunity to have the home-ground advantage as well.” The event is awarded on a triennial basis. In the past 17 years host academies have included the Hunter, Central Coast, Northern Inland and Illawarra academies. Southern Sports Academy CEO Mark Calverley said it will be the first time the Academy Games will be held west of the Dividing Range. “For us to get the rights to host the Games here in Wagga Wagga for the next three years is massive,” Mr Calverley said. “We had to put together a compelling argument that Wagga was the best place to host this type of event. “The advantage we have in Wagga is that we can have all of our sports within 15 minutes of each other and the facilities are really starting to get to that top end in terms of quality.” The nine sports to be contested at various venues across the city as part of the Games SPORTING COUP: Southern Sports Academy CEO Mark Calverley (left) and are netball, hockey, Rugby, Australian football, Council’s Strategic Recreation Officer Peter Cook announce the agreement to host basketball, softball, tennis, triathlon and golf. the Academy Games in the city.
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