By REBECCA BILLS
THE AWARD winning Performing and Visual Arts in Emerald (PAVE) Festival will showcase over 200 local performers and artists.
The week-long festival, running from 6 to 13 April, attracts around 12,000 people each year.
Running since 2004, the event involves numerous community groups working together with one purpose – to bring the streets of Emerald alive and build community strength through the arts.
Kicking of the PAVE Festival will be FunFEST, a family fun street party with a stack of free entertainment and activities.
Event volunteer and organiser Non Blair said FunFEST was always a great day and it would be a wonderful way to whet your appetite for the week of activities to follow.
“Every day is jam packed with events – being school holidays there are heaps of day time activities for the kids as well as night time activities for the adult kids,” she said.
“Learn a new skill at a workshop, have some with shaving cream art, see an exhibition or come along to one of the evening events.”
Featuring graphic art, photography, dance, theatre, film, music, Indigenous and multicultural events throughout the week, the PAVE Festival is a chance for all social demographics to have access to arts- based projects and performances.
The PAVE Festival is a grassroots community engagement project conceived by Emerald Community House that initiated the Performing and Visual Arts in Emerald (PAVE) project in 2003.
This project was implemented as a community development exercise to increase community capacity and synergy.
For full program of events, visit www.pave.org.au.
For more information on the events, email info@pave.org.au or call 5968 3881.
