HARMONY WEEK 11
TORRES NEWS THURSDAY 30 MARCH 2023
Singing in style for Harmony Week celebrations Pics by Trish Lehmann of the Waybeni Buway Harmony Week concert at the Thursday Island Sports Centre and ‘Harmony in the Park’. Singer-songwriter Andrea Kirwin, who’s mum lived on Waiben for a while, performed at a number of events across Zenadth Kes for Harmony Week last week. Andrea also travelled to several outer islands, writing songs with students and performing mini-concerts for Ugar, Badu, Duaun, Ngurapay, Saibai and Warraber. Waybeni Buway Ngurpay Mudh put together a Harmony Week Concert, which featured their own choir as well as Warraber campus choir. Head of Campus Rick Cass said a song they wrote with Andrea received rapturous applause. “Tony Maen performed a dance
from Kirribati and May Passi did a Fijian Hula, honouring her lineage on her mother’s side as well as Andrea, who is of Fijian heritage,” he said. “On Saturday night, the Waiben community came out in droves to ANZAC Park to watch Gabe Bani, Tagai Children’s choir, Margarey Gabey, Lonnie and Connie Pedro, the Island Stars dance team, Tagai staff band First Break and, of course, Andrea Kirwin.” The Saturday night event was organised in partnership between Tagai College and TSIMA, with support from Regional Arts Services Network (RASN) and the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA).
Pic by Diat Alferink
