Street Faces in Geelong

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This evening we had the launch of the Street Faces project in Geelong, Australia. Of the twenty-eight faces chosen, Peceli's portrait is on the wall of the Geelong library. Buses took a group of us on a tour of Pakington Street and inner city Geelong to view some of the portraits of a cross-section of people from our wonderful community of Geelong. We had speeches, music, drinks and eats at the Geelong Performing Arts Centre as part of the launch. The project was organised by Diversitat and the City of Greater Geelong with several other sponsors and is part of the Pako Festa for 2010. Twenty-eight faces were used because Pako Festa is 28 years old and our Fiji group have been part of this huge ethnic festival for all of that time - with dancing, participation in the parade and in earlier years with crafts and a stall.

Street Faces in Geelong

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A project of Diversitat and others, there will be eighteen very large photos of Geelong people up on the walls of buildings around Geelong by Friday this week. I took part in a workshop and my photo of Peceli is one of the 18 out of 2000 so that's lucky. Peceli's face - 2 metres by 3 and a half metres - will adorn an outside wall of the Geelong library for a couple of weeks. We will go to the launch party on Friday night so that will be fun to meet with the other 'lucky' faces. Go to further information.

Of course the annual Pako Festa will be on Saturday February 27th and there's plenty of information on the Pako Festa website. A Fijian dance group will be coming down from Melbourne to go in the parade and to dance on the stage at West Park in the afternoon. Our Fiji Geelong Friendship Club have participated in Pako for at least twenty years.