Rusty Spring Festival

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We regret to announce that the November 2011 Rusty Spring is cancelled. It was shaping to be a great day and a popular event, but some staffing changes at Solace – the organisers of Rusty Spring – mean that not enough staff hours were available in the short term to make sure that Rusty Spring would be run to a satisfactory standard.

Rusty Spring will return at a later date, early to mid 2012.

The first Rusty Spring mini-festival has happened, and happened well. Workshops were packed out with enthusiastic people, songs were sung with gusto, kids are already nagging parents about the next time, bowls were bowled. Jude Waldron ran a great choir experience, Cam Semmens was mesmerizing as the final performer, Kate Nettelbeck engaged an enthusiastic crowd with a explanation of Permaculture, Kate Wakelin was impressive and engaging for her large audience, Paul Steele and Keith Briant delivered fascinating workshops. Rusty Kids was very popular once again and Bek Pryor excited a bunch of Tweens with a in-depth artistic experience.

A big thanks to all the festival goers that made our first mini-festival a roaring success. Special thanks to the volunteers who made Rusty Kids another special event. The volunteers come along because they genuinely want the best for children and their passion and skill is evident in the enthusiasm of the kids.

The next Rusty Spring mini-Festival will start on Tue 1 November at 10am (Melbourne Cup Day). Sign up for Rusty Spring emails to get all the information in good time.

The Rusty Spring mini-Festival is being opened up as I type. Banners, signs and last minute equipment is popping up in our three venues and we are eagerly waiting for our first festival goers to arrive.

Thanks for the support, we’ll see you in an hour!

The Rusty Tweens program has a later start time, 11am instead of 10am. There is still time to register for this exciting chance to hang out with artist Bek Pryor and work on a painting together.

A Rusty Spring mini-Festival Draft Program is available for download, this is a draft program, so expect changes.

Parents: we’ll need full details of your kids before they are left at the Rusty Kids program. Some kids are visiting us again so these details can be checked and signed-off for this year. This happens at Rusty Kids when dropping kids off.

Two program workshops have been confirmed. Katie Nettelbeck will be sharing her own experience to permaculture; a great topic for people wanting to explore permaculture for themselves. Paul Steele will host a workshop on the process of creating a new dream and putting it into reality: whether business or social, this is entrepreneurship experience from one of the best.

Dinner numbers need to be confirmed by Friday midday, so evening registrations have been extended until Friday morning. Register at www.solacechurch.org.au/rustyspringfestival/.

You can now register for the day program or the evening program only. The day program includes all events up to 6pm. The evening program runs from 6pm and includes dinner and entertainment.

There are 5 places left in Rusty Kids, 10 places for children at the dinner and a few places left in the tween’s program.

There will be tickets available on the day, but we’ll need to know numbers for dinner before the day, so if you are planning to come to dinner, register ASAP. We will be closing dinner registrations on Thursday.

Keith Briant, the new South Eastern States Coordinator with TEAR Victoria has been confirmed to present a workshop at 11am at Rusty Spring. Keith will lead an active and engaging time exploring practical ways of following a justice-infused style of Christianity and how this can be of real benefit to the poorest people of the world. This is a great chance to meet a new TEAR staff member and engage with the quality and depth that TEAR bring.

There are only 8 places left in the Rusty Kids program. Bookings for the day program have been temporarily closed so that people wanting a full program registration get priority access to Rusty Kids.

There are still places left in the Rusty Tweens program – full art workshop with Rebekah Pryor!

A few Rusty Kids places are still available. Thanks to everyone who has registered! If you haven’t registered a child yet, best to do so quickly before we’re full up.  It’s going to be a great day for kids, and it provides parents with some space to enjoy the mini-festival too.

We have a few places left in the Rusty Tweens program as well. Register and ‘add guest’, indicate a child’s ticket and the birthdate. We’ll assume any kids 10 years and older will be part of the Rusty Tween’s program.