Up a river...we have a dream!
02 Mar 2012 - 04 Mar 2012
There are four great festival events being held on the weekend of Friday 2 to Sunday 4 March at the Upper River Hall, Upper Kangaroo River Rd (just 15 minutes from town).
Come to one or come to all…
Friday night opens the festival and the Up a river…ART exhibition and everyone (older than 15 years of age) is invited to join us to celebrate from 6pm.
The emphasis on Friday night is ART and party. Exhibiting artists of the valley and beyond are generously donating a specially commissioned “Kangaroo Valley inspired” work to be hung, exhibited and sold by silent auction during the festival weekend.
More than twenty visual artists have agreed to participate making this an extra special exhibition. Imagine almost every artist from the area under one roof! (Interested artists should contact Andy Gordon on 4465 1441). But that’s not all!
Anyone coming to Friday night’s event can bring a piece of home-made art to donate to the cause and get 50% off the cover charge.
Your art can be anything from sculpture to painting to photography to fantastical decorated cakes or jewellery – as long as you made it yourself.
These community artworks will then be for sale and ten of the best will be chosen to go to live auction on the night!
The cover entry includes sangria, tapas and musical entertainment including a special performance by the Thirsty Night Singers.
Add to that some great party playlists, a dance floor, drinks and food for sale … Dress boho arty, bring your art and get ready to party!
Saturday morning will find the Upper River Hall bathed in sunlight (hopefully) and surrounded by stalls of local produce.
Come along between 9am and 1pm to buy your weekend seasonal food supplies, have a ‘real’ coffee from our coffee cart, some cake, a bit of brunch…listen to some local musicians and buskers, hear poetry or recite some of your own in the poetry jam, curated by Allan Stone. If you have any produce, plants, flowers, jams, jellies, pickles, cakes, crafts (maybe excess from your KV show entries) that you would like to donate to the hall, we will have baskets and stalls to sell them from.
Drop stuff off on the day or day before or contact Katrina Endean to discuss having your own stall. (Katrina Ph: 4465 1441).
Saturday night is the very ‘jooshie’ 100 mile festival dinner.
Tickets are limited and pricey but worth every cent. From the moment you arrive you will be looked after…with drinks and canapés, followed by a dinner by local chef Katrina Endean (Caterina) of local, seasonal delights served at your table, wine by local Yarrawa Estate and a delicious dessert to follow.
Everything is included in the ticket price, including the sensational songstress, the little bit naughty and a whole lot talented Christa Hughes to entertain you.
Some cool jazzy tunes, an intimate dancefloor and the chance to bid on some local art at our silent auction, will fill the rest of the evening.
Dress to impress and let us do the rest. If the dinner is a little out of your price range, you may want to try your luck on our raffle.
The prize is two tickets to the festival dinner and a night for two at the Love Shack, Rathkells Farm in Upper River on Saturday 3 March. (Raffle drawn and winner advised on 20th Feb). Raffle tickets available at The Red Shed, Rural Supplies or email us at upperriverhall@gmail.com.
Sunday is fun day – an event for all the family. Bring a picnic rug and relax around the hall grounds as the children (and the big kids) are entertained with roving circus performers, puppets, piñatas, games and competitions.
Food and drinks will be available for sale from our Mexican Street Food stall or BBQ and some gold coins will be needed to play the games, but entry is free!
The silent auction will finish at 2.30pm on Sunday afternoon and the festival will finally wrap up at 3pm.
We have already received offers of help from many generous people, particularly our festival patron, Upper River resident and film maker Ian Darling who has allowed us, through his support and generosity, to make this festival a quality event. But we still need more help – so if you can donate a prize or money or sponsor an event we would love to hear from you, or just come along, buy tickets and participate and support us that way!
The Upper River Hall and this festival fundraiser to fix it up, is for all the people of Kangaroo Valley to share and participate in - the people that live here and the people that visit here.
By supporting this festival, by coming to the events, you will be investing in more events happening at the Upper River Hall in the coming years.
We hope to see you there!
The ‘Up a river… festival’
organising committee