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FESTIVAL OF SAILS 21 TO 26 JANUARY 2017 Eastern Beach Road between Bellerine and Yarra Streets Geelong will be closed from approximately 6.00am on Friday 20 January until approximately 10.00am on Monday 23 January 2017.
FIREWORKS ADVICE – THURSDAY 26 JANUARY 2017 On Thursday 26 January, at approximately 9.30pm a fireworks display will be staged on Corio Bay. The City recommends that pet owners ensure that their animals are safe and secure prior to this time.
Ritchie Blvd east end will be closed from 4.00am Wednesday 25 and will re-open approximately 11.00pm Thursday 26 January 2017.
If you have any difficulties during the event, please contact the City of Greater Geelong after hours number on 5272 5272. Listen to the prompt for Festival and Events; this will enable an officer to assist you with your enquiry.
Emergency access will be available at all times during the road closure.
For further information on the event program please visit www.festivalofsails.com.au
PUBLIC NOTICES
GEELONG LITTLE ATHLETICS “TWILIGHT MEET” FIREWORKS DISPLAY JOHN LANDY FIELD, SOUTH GEELONG WEDNESDAY 25 JANUARY 2017 The Geelong Little Athletics Centre proudly present a fireworks display as part of their Twilight Athletics Program on Wednesday 25 January at approximately 9.30pm. The City recommends that pet owners ensure their animals are safe and secure prior to this time. If possible pets should be kept indoors or in a secure outbuilding during the fireworks display. For more information please contact the Geelong Little Athletics Association Events Coordinator Judy Wilmshurst on 0432 871 243.
BLUE-GREEN ALGAE In the interest of public health the City advises that high levels of blue-green algae have been detected in: • Lake Lorne, Drysdale
• Zillah Crawcour Waterhole, Newtown The City advises people should avoid contact with the water and should not eat fish caught from the contaminated water. Please avoid pets making contact with the water in these reserves. If skin contact should accidentally occur, wash immediately in fresh water. Contact with blue-green algae can cause skin rashes, eye and ear infections, vomiting and diarrhoea, mouth ulcers, sore throats and asthma symptoms. Anyone experiencing a reaction should seek medical help. Warning signs have been erected at the affected waterways. For more information call us on 5272 5272.
PASSION: Pam and Richard Jarvis have shared their love of tango for 27 years. 163996
WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2016 UNTIL 14 MAY 2017 NATIONAL WOOL MUSEUM The exhibition premiered at the Natural History Museum in October 2016 before embarking on an international tour across six continents, giving millions of people the opportunity to see some of the world’s most incredible wildlife photography.
Auden Rikardsen / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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FOOD TRUCK FRIDAY IS BACK 3 FEBRUARY Make your way to Little Malop Central (Little Malop Street, between Moorabool and Yarra streets) to enjoy some yummy lunch between 11.30am and 2.30pm.
The line up of gourmet food trucks changes each month, meaning new and exciting options and flavours are available every Food Truck Friday (first Friday of each month). You'll also enjoy live entertainment and outdoor seating.
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They’re deep in love with tango By Luke Voogt Pam and Richard Jarvis’s passionate love affair with tango has seen the couple dance the steamy milongas of downtown Buenos Aires for almost three decades. “Once you dive in you just want to keep going deeper and deeper,” Pam said. The Newtown couple fell in love with the dance in 1989 thanks Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla, who revolutionised the tango movement in the late ’80s. “It was his music that brought a whole generation of young people back to tango,” Pam said. “It was gritty, amazing music - full of jazz and street noise.” The music inspired them to travel to raucous upstairs dance halls, known as milongas, in the poorer suburbs of the Argentine capital with just a Spanish phrasebook to guide them. “As you climb up the music gets louder,” Pam said. “You walk into this room and there are 100 people dancing, it’s quite amazing.” Eye contact and a simple nod across the room would see her in the arms of a local. “That will tell the guy yes I’m interested in dancing,” the 66-year-old said. “Then we go into the embrace - up until that point we haven’t spoken a word. At the first break you have a chance to have a chat with someone you’ve danced quite intimately with.” “It’s like a physical dialogue but very respectful.” She and her 72-year-old husband return regularly to Argentina to mix it with the locals. Pam’s favourite milonga, which bordered a local swimming pool, has since shut down. “The locals tore up the floorboards and took
them home as souvenirs,” Pam said. When the couple moved to Geelong in 2009, they decided “it was time to get something started”. “I was involved in serving the meals at Christ Church,” Pam said. At the time Australia’s tango scene was mostly competitive, she added. “We had an opportunity to reinvent the wheel a bit and establish a lovely community based group.” The couple have been running weekly classes at the church since. “Something happens to people when they tango - they go into a different state,” she said. “People take it and each time they create something different.” Pam survived cancer in 2008 after six weeks of chemotherapy and two surgeries but it’s done little to stop her dancing. And law consultant Richard is still light on his feet despite rupturing three disks in his spine eight years ago. “If you can walk you can dance,” Pam said. “All you need is a wooden floor, a hall and a chance to play music.” The couple ran a trial project with Alzheimer’s Australia (Geelong) last year and plan a similar trial next year. “Every time people dance they remember something beautiful in their past,” Pam said. “We were extremely pleased with how much people remembered and what they were able to do physically.” Pam said most in her group were older than 60. “In Buenos Aires they have teenagers and 80-year-olds who dance at the same place. Here it’s a bit more difficult to get younger people involved.” 9 GEELONG INDY Friday, 20 January, 2017