Nerves make way for hunger

Last Saturday at 12 noon in the new Coles end of the Cranbourne park shopping centre, nerves and inhibitions were pushed aside for a very worthy cause.

I’m high on the hill
Looking over the bridge
To the M.C.G.
And way up on high
The clock on the silo
Says eleven degrees

I remember I remember

~Leaps and bounds Paul Kelly

 

Councillor Amanda Stapledon, a great supporter for the food truck, was on hand to help launch a flashmob organised by the Cranbourne Uniting Church. Formed around a band of musicians from the Folk Uniting Night (FUN), a monthly evening of music and prose,  the flashmob gathered in the food court area to help raise awareness and the need of funds for the  Cranbourne Food Truck.

Now listen,
Oh we’re steppin’ out
I’m gonna turn around,
Gonna turn around once and we’ll do the Eagle Rock.

~Eagle Rock Daddy Cool

 The Food Truck provides a hot cooked meal and groceries to all those in need around the Cranbourne area. Sharon Start and a number of the musicians from the FUN group, with additional special guests, wove together a medley of iconic Australian Rock. Many of the mob participants are not used to this public showing but the nerves were put aside for a greater good.

I tell you folks
It’s harder than it looks

It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock ‘n’ roll

~Along way to the top ACDC

Setting up

Setting up

Setting up

Setting up

The not so flash side of things included the setting up of instruments, amplifiers, microphones and of course cables.

The performance, which lasted approximately fifteen minutes, was composed of a mixture of solo and ensemble parts. All ages, side by side and all young at heart.

Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees

How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?

~Beds are Burning Midnight Oil

The younger troop lead the way in dance with some awesome choreographed steps.

Finishing with a stirring rendition of “I am Australian”

I’m the hot wind from the desert
I’m the black soil of the plain
I’m the mountains and the valleys
I’m the drought and flooding rains
I am the rock
I am the sky
The rivers when they run
The spirit of this great land
I am Australian

We are one
But we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We’ll share a dream
And sing with one voice
I am, you are, we are Australian

~I am Australian The Seekers

Thanks

Much thanks and appreciation goes out to the many involved. The small seeds that grew, those that encouraged and supported, those who joined our throng, the City of Casey, Cranbourne Shopping Centre, the shoppers, singers and musicians. Philshar Photography and Roy Snook video.

Out here nothin’ changes, not in a hurry anyway
You feel the endlessness with the comin’ of the light of day

~Solid Rock Goanna

But perhaps with your support behind the Cranbourne Food Truck, we can make an immediate difference to the lives of some, today.

Flashmob Video

oh and BTW if you’re sad on missing out,the mob will return for a rerun

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This months FUN night

Cranbourne Star news article

Skits, food and music, a real treat

Saturday was a great day to rug up warm, hunker down next to an open fire and roast some marshmallows. Wilson Botanic Park Berwick provided just that at their Winter Treats Festival. Hot chocolate, fairy floss, cakes n biscuits, some amazingly hot sauces to warm the insides were just a few of my favorite things. Wood oven fired Pizza, Chilean street food, Tasty Taters, washed down with a refreshing homemade lemonade.

Chilean Street food

Hot hot mouth watering sauce

Taters and Lemonade

Tasty Taters

Homemade lemonade

Cakes and biscuits galore

A $10 passport got you in to taste the numerous samples on offer but if temptation swayed you there was plenty to purchase and take home.

The Sargent of custom cupcakes

chocolate yumminess

Krispy Kreme doughnuts

Steaming cappuccino to go

 

There is always room for the delicious Lions xmas cake

Cakes

and Sweets

Pavilions, food , people

One of the three sampling marquees

Fairy Floss makers

Escapees

Vampires

Members of BATS and Escapees theater companies manned the fairy floss machine dressed in Halloween getup. Handing out flyers and and raising awareness for the up coming BATS Wizard of Odd show and Wilson Botanic Park’s Halloween Scare Park.

Skits in the park

BATS also put on a quick skit, a taste of the September school holiday show, The Wizard of Odd. “Finding Toto”, is a short skit written by Tim O’Berine, that took us on a searching journey to find the lost Toto. Tin man, scarecrow and the lion all join in along the way to help the search. They find the witch who Tin man claims as his long lost wife and who definitely has Toto dognapped.

Scarecrow(Lauren Kimberly),Doroth(Taylah Graham),Witch(Steph Lowry),Lion(TK Abioye),Tinman (Tim O’Beirne)

Tinman

Searching for Toto

Scarecrow

Dorothy

The lion roars tonight

The with refuseses tinmans obsession

The beautiful… I mean wicked witch and the captured Toto

Lion,Tinman, witch and Toto

Congratuilations guys great skit

With the cast taking the last bow we certainly hope to see more live theater in the park.

Ready Mr Music

Keeping warm Michael entertains us with some classics

Michael Prizeman is becoming a feature at the park of late and it was great to hear him once more. There was another act on prior but unfortunately Michael and I had been at a flashmob event elsewhere and missed them.

Ripping out a lead break

Michael Prizeman

Michaels repetoire includes a kids mix too

Prizeman entertains us all, old and young

Learning a new skill

Cooking classes

Pedal your own milk shake

Arts n crafts

Mini market

Makeup stalls

Big red inter park travelator

A mini market, train rides and try your hand at arts n crafts

No event is complete without a giant jumping castle.

The end of a successful day

Time to head home, get some sleep so we can play again tomorrow

Many thanks to all those volunteers and vendors who helped make Winter Treats a great success. Proving that even on a cold day, there is more fun in the great outdoors than there is on a couch.