The Weekly Times - TWT - April 11th, 2018
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Wednesday 11 <strong>April</strong>, <strong>2018</strong> THE WEEKLY TIMES 15<br />
Sports Star of Year Gala Dinner<br />
at Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club<br />
PARALYMPIC legend Louise Sauvage is guest speaker at the annual <strong>TWT</strong> Club Six/Ryde Sports<br />
Foundation Sports Star of the Year Gala Dinner on Friday May 4 at Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club.<br />
<strong>The</strong> nine time gold medallist<br />
- often regarded as<br />
the most renowned disabled<br />
sportswoman in Australia<br />
- will talk about her<br />
illustrious wheelchair racing<br />
career that spanned<br />
four Paralympic Games in<br />
Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney<br />
and Athens.<br />
An outstanding array of<br />
local athletes are vying for<br />
the prestigious award with<br />
all 12 finalists to share<br />
$12,000 in prizemoney<br />
and receive individual trophies<br />
on the night.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y’ll receive a further<br />
$700 to go on top of their<br />
$300 monthly awards<br />
courtesy of Club Six.<br />
Ryde Sports Foundation<br />
will host the annual Dinner<br />
from 7pm and parade<br />
their latest crop of sporting<br />
champions.<br />
2017-18 Grand Finalists<br />
include Zara Nicholas (touch<br />
football), Michael Galanos<br />
(gridiron), Alyssa Lowe (athletics),<br />
Tarah Ogilvie (swimming),<br />
Robert Supala (lawn<br />
bowls), Alex Seyfarth (rugby<br />
league), Alanna Fisher (soccer),<br />
Sam Thompson (BMX<br />
Bike Riding), Lachlan Sharp<br />
(hockey), Shehana Vithana<br />
(squash), Emily Keenan (netball)<br />
and Kate Barry, Eloise<br />
Dwyer and Millie Puckeridge<br />
(acrobatic gymnastics).<br />
All finalists receive a urther<br />
$700 to go on top of their<br />
$300 monthly awards courtesy<br />
of Club Six.<br />
35th Sports Star of the Year<br />
winner also will be presented<br />
with the Ryde Sports Foundation<br />
Ross Horner Mayoral<br />
Perpetual Shield by Ryde City<br />
Mayor Jerome Laxale.<br />
<strong>The</strong> RSF Encouragement<br />
Award is also up for grabs.<br />
Royal Rehab Achievement<br />
Award recipients will be introduced<br />
to patrons on the<br />
night.<br />
Tickets $50 includes three<br />
course meal with wine, beer<br />
and soft drinks and can ONLY<br />
be purchased from Ryde<br />
Eastwood Leagues Club reception<br />
desk.<br />
All sporting groups, parents<br />
and friends are asked to<br />
purchase a ticket and come<br />
along and support these outstanding<br />
local athletes.<br />
For further details contact<br />
RSF secretary Kim Clayton<br />
0413 399 376 or Ryde Eastwood<br />
Leagues Club 9807-<br />
2444.<br />
Women Like Us Show at<br />
Bayview Hotel Gladesville<br />
STAND-up comedians and colleagues Mandy Nolan and Ellen Briggs<br />
have oined forces on stage and now for the first time on the page, with a<br />
collection of stories that examine what it means to be a woman in today’s<br />
media dominated world.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir book Women Like<br />
Us further explores the<br />
philosophy behind their<br />
travelling stand-up comedy<br />
show of the same<br />
name.<br />
As part of their national<br />
book tour, the duo will appear<br />
at the Bayview Hotel<br />
Gladesville on Wednesday<br />
May 2.<br />
Aside from making<br />
women laugh, they want<br />
to make women feel good<br />
about themselves by challenging<br />
the popular narratives<br />
around identity, body<br />
image, social and gender<br />
roles.<br />
Both Mandy and Ellen<br />
strongly identify as feminists.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are motivated by a<br />
desire to create conversations<br />
among women who<br />
may not themselves identify<br />
as feminists, but on<br />
closer inspection realise,<br />
they share many of the<br />
same values.<br />
“We’ve built a following<br />
outside of the mainstream<br />
media and entertainment<br />
industry, which isn’t interested<br />
in middle-aged<br />
women,” says Ellen.<br />
“But there are so many<br />
of us! We generated the<br />
interest in our work ourselves,<br />
then our audiences<br />
generate further interest<br />
for us through a pay-it-forward<br />
approach of recommending<br />
our show to their<br />
friends. We laugh that its<br />
not just a comedy show…<br />
it’s a movement!’ she said.<br />
Mandy added that it is<br />
not uncommon for women<br />
to hug and thank them<br />
after the show for telling<br />
their stories, and best of<br />
all, making them feel ‘normal’.<br />
“When we started out,<br />
we weren’t aware of the<br />
power of comedy celebrating<br />
and satirising our<br />
failure to meet societal<br />
that women still spend<br />
far too much time in quiet<br />
self-loathing about their<br />
looks and who they feel<br />
they’ve failed to be. Our<br />
message is about selfacceptance,’<br />
Tickets $35 with dinner<br />
from 6pm and show at<br />
benchmarks<br />
ness,<br />
achievements.<br />
re attractive-<br />
relationships<br />
It’s<br />
and<br />
clear<br />
she said.<br />
8pm.<br />
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