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Zest Festival 2013
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ZEST FESTIVAL 2013
The Zest Festival 2013 will cast its eye over the ocean
to Cape Town in South Africa. South Africa was a
critical place to rest, restock and reman your vessel.
Who would have hopped on the Zuytdorp and placed
their fate at the cliffs of Western Australia Let the
music and dance of South Africa get you moving and
open your heart to be moved by stories of the Cape.
Here in Kalbarri we will be exploring our cultural connections to
the Cape and celebrating these through dance, movement, art,
music, performance, food and adventure. This year we will
uncover the meaning of home and the power of travel to forge
bonds and relationships over vast distances.
There will be a rope theme as we have a fishing history and
have used rope like those sailors who travelled the trading
routes long ago. Learn ropemaking skills and how to use rope
from mooring a boat to hauling a craypot. The Kalbarri District
School emblem has a circle of rope which symbolises unity and
the bonds of friendship.
Far From Home Exhibition
What is home How do we remember it when we are away
What do we take with us to remind us of home when we travel
or migrate and why This exhibition asks the community to share
their stories and objects reflecting on those who’ve travelled far
and European exploration/colonisation in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries.
FAR FROM HOME: ADVENTURES, TREKS, EXILES & MIGRATION
Chamber Of Rhetoric
This year we will see a South African influence for the Chamber
of Rhetoric. The story of the Zuytdorp deepens as drumbeats,
dance, fire, Nanda storytelling and the sounds of the Cape come
alive with the movements of a port. Here cargo is being loaded,
people disembarking, nimble, brave bodies navigating ropes,
calling, singing and working in unison.
Binding Realities Sculpture
This sculpture exhibition is inspired by rope and its role in
maritime history. Dutch boats in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries had vast quantities of rope on board and whole towns
in the Netherlands were focused on growing hemp/flax crops for
rope construction in ropewalks – long custom made buildings for
the making of rope. It was an entire industry. When boats made it
to Cape Town, rope repair would have been part of the many jobs
to do at port. Join in a rope splicing workshop and help create a
Kalbarri community rope which will be turned into a sculpture.
Why not make a sculpture of your own
Trade Winds Taste Tent
Discover the food, flavours and culinary influences of the Cape
and enjoy the fruits of the ocean with Kalbarri seafood.
The Great Race
Test your orientation skills and race around the amazing
landscape of Kalbarri finding messages and learning about our
history, geology and nature. If you make it you’ll have the chance to
win a Kalbarri Adventure Safari package. You could find yourself
jumping out of a plane, leaning over a gorge wall on a rope,
canoeing the majestic Murchison River, quad biking and riding on
horseback through a wildflower wilderness. Are you game
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