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Game plan for Darley By Esther Lauaki
Black is back in Ballan Ballan’s Black Nite Black Lite festival began with a few women toiling away in a broom closet. Now thousands of visitors are expected to flock to this year’s edition of the winter solstice celebration, in which artists, schools and community groups transform 30 shop windows with colourful, fluorescent paint lit up with black UV lights. The week-long free and town-wide celebration, which will run from June 17, will include light shows, food and entertainment along Inglis Street, musical art installations and an interactive show on opening night. Organiser Sarah Peckham said workshops, run by Wombat Regional Arts Network, started last week to help get the town dressed up for the festivities. She said the festival’s genesis came from a workshop that experimented with an old can of glow-in-the-dark paint in a broom closet. “I bought a black lite and we took it into a store room, along with some high-visibility fluro paint that I’d bought, we shut the door and everything just looked spectacular under black light,” she said. “Tennis balls in the store room and our white paper – everything was jumping out at us.” She said organisers expected about 200 visitors last year – and drew more than 1000. Ms Peckham said the festival involved the whole town – from its youngest to its oldest members. “A whole lot of people have put together a lot of unbelievably wonderful things for visitors to enjoy,” she said. “It’s just one of those amazing, magic things.” Details: wombatarts.org/black-nite.html Esther Lauaki
Sarah Peckham and Carmel Hunter are ready for Black Nite Black Lite. (Marco De Luca)
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Burgeoning membership at Darley sports clubs has prompted calls for bigger and better facilities. A Darley Park Recreation Reserve user group is lobbying the state and federal governments to fund upgrades to the ageing and inadequate facilities. An online petition by the group has already picked up more than 500 signatures. An AFL Goldfields report in 2016 stated that the park needed upgraded change rooms, umpire change rooms, netball facilities, lighting and courts, as well as a multipurpose pavilion. Darley Football Netball Club president Ray Newton said the club had outgrown its home grounds – expanding from three junior teams three years ago, to 21 this season. “The grounds and the netball courts are in fine condition but we want to ensure that, as our membership grows, we can do that comfortably,” Mr Newton said. “To do that, we need to upgrade facilities. “They’re just outdated for what we want to do in the future. “We need more than what we can do on our own through fundraising.” Mr Newton applauded Moorabool council’s efforts in rolling out upgrade programs around the shire and said the club wanted to collaborate with the council on a plan for Darley Park. He said a business case was being prepared for a proposed hub which would include unisex change rooms, public amenities and a venue that would have meeting rooms and accommodate about 300 people for large-scale events. Lead petitioner Robyn Bewley said she believed that local, state and federal investment was “desperately needed”. “We are a proud community and to support our ever-growing and changing community we need … support to create a facility in Darley that will ensure community members have access to safe and flexible spaces,” Ms Bewley wrote. She said the group wanted to create a facility where people were “welcomed and feel connected” and would remove barriers to participation. “We seek to build a modern community centre in the heart of the Darley community, whilst replacing aged facilities at Darley Park to cater for unisex participation levels that are exploding across all user groups.” View the petition: bit.ly/2smQJGG