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Students ‘belong’ on stage
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THE trials and tribulations of being a teenager and the many pressures to be part of a group or a community are being acted out by a group of Rosebud Secondary College students. The production sets out to “unpack the complexity of belonging” under the direction of Gerard Van Dyck, of the Melbourne-based dance theatre company KAGE. The partnership between Van Dyck and the college sees To Belong or Not To Belong incorporate dance, music and storytelling investigate the act of participation. “Together they [the students and Van Dyck] have examined notions of belonging to their community, of retaining individuality, the strengths and misgivings that belonging to a group may imply, the absurdities of everyday life as a 14-year-old, and basic elemental forces inspired by living on the Mornington Peninsula,” project coordinator and drama teacher, Anthea Mackenzie said. The students are members of the college’s performing arts stream class, a specialist program. “We all have a need to be seen, heard, understood and appreciated,” Ms Mackenzie said. “And adolescence is a challenging time where belonging is paramount. How teenagers navigate the tricky terrain of remaining true to who they are as individuals while gaining membership into a desired group is a particularly relevant and timely idea to explore. Tickets to To Belong or Not To Belong, Southern Peninsula Arts Centre, 7pm Tuesday 19 September are available at the door on the night. Proceeds go to the Crisis Centre Rosebud.
Hot springs ‘no’ in green wedge Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au A PLANNING application for a multi-million dollar hot springs and restaurant complex near Rye has been refused by Mornington Peninsula Shire because the proposal was “contrary to the purpose of the green wedge zone”.
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A failure by the applicant to “adequately address unknown environmental issues regarding groundwater contamination”, was one of eight reasons the shire gave for not permitting the complex planned on a 15-hectare site in Browns Rd, Fingal. In a report to the shire’s planning services committee on Monday 4 September planning services team leader Rosa
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Zouzoulas said the proposal “satisfactorily responds” to relevant planning policies “in particular, the objectives of the green wedge zone”. The hot springs development is planned on the Hilltonia Homestead bed and breakfast property, which lies between the northern part of the Moonah Links Resort and the shire’s Rye landfill. Peninsula Hot Springs is about
one kilometre south. Cr David Gill later predicted an appeal against the failure to secure a permit would be made to the Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal (VCAT). “This was a very important vote on what we [councillors] consider as being appropriate for the green wedge. It’s the type of development that usually ends up in VCAT,” he told The News
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