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Making space odyssey

Isha Molloy helps Victoria into a space costume.Isha Molloy helps Victoria into a space costume.

ALIENS and astronauts have given Burrinja’s multi-purpose room a crazy and colourful farewell.
The space will make way for the cultural centre’s new 400-seat theatre, set to open the year after next.
Project captain, artist Emma Johnson, invited local primary school students and the hills community to create an out-of-this world wonderland as a send-off.
The three-day project celebrated the forces of creation and destruction, ending in a six-minute demolition frenzy.
St Thomas More Primary School students were among those to board “Starship Burrinja” for Demolition 2009 AD: A Space Odyssey.
They created their own alien-themed movie, paper planets and spacecraft, clay alien creatures, paintings, UFO sounds and instruments.
The event also featured space games, music and a movie night.

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