NEWS
The amazing diversity of Teneriffe will be on display when a writer’s breakfast kickstarts the inaugural Teneriffe Festival on Saturday week (3 July).
The breakfast will run for an hour from 9am on the grassy banks outside Aqua Linea restaurant. Join award-winning speculative writer Trent Jamieson, together with Anthony Brown, who penned The Boys from Ballymore and Vicki Bridgestock, author of the historical work, Tides of Teneriffe.
Come along and listen to three Brisbane authors who dared to dream and have now become successful authors. Are you a secret scribbler? Do you have a story you are wanting to tell, but don’t know how to begin? Or are you already happily writing and looking for like-minded people with whom to share your passion? This could very well be the inaugural meeting of The Teneriffe Writers Group!
The breakfast will be followed by the “Walking of the Sheep” through Ethel Street and the official opening of the festival by the Queensland Governor Penelope Wensley.
Teneriffe Festival committee chairman Richard Bodle says everyone is welcome to attend the festival.
“Teneriffe, the most charming heritage suburb of Brisbane, recently had its official suburb status returned by the Queensland Government, after a decision decades earlier to incorporate it into Newstead.
“This newfound independence is enough reason to celebrate our past and the present while welcoming change for the future.
“Teneriffe has more than 100 years of history, no better expressed than in the charming wool stores along the bank of the Brisbane River. They have been renovated to the highest standard to make Teneriffe a thriving cosmopolitan community with restaurants, boutique offices and home to thousands.
“We in Teneriffe look forward to having you join us to celebrate the inaugural Teneriffe Festival.”
For more information on the festival and relevant road closures, go to www.teneriffefestival.org
THE DAY’S ACTIVITIES
• Governor officially opens Festival approx 11am.
• Running of the Rams' (featuring Teneriffe Gym 'Jocks' dressed in white, parodying the 'Running of the Bulls' in Pamplona)
• Sheep Muster' (organised by Roy Potticary, an Oakey sheep farmer who puts on shows involving sheep dog work and shearing displays at the Jondarayan Woolshed) .
• Wool fashion displays (featuring some of Teneriffe's most exciting designers) .
• Jan Power's Farmers Markets and Peter Hackworth's Arts & Crafts.
• Steinway on the Street' (classical pianists play on a Steinway grand piano in Vernon Tce) .
• OMNI BUS tours around Teneriffe Woolstores and Teneriffe Hill with local historians
• Judging of the best dressed "Ram" from the 'Running of the Rams" down Ethel Street • Cooking with Lamb demonstrations
• Knitting demonstrations and competitions
• Spinning and weaving demonstrations
• Sculptor working on 'Teneriffe Sheep Sculpture'
• Sheep Shearing demonstrations (organized by Roy Pottica)
• A theatrical enactment of the History of Teneriffe - with a narrative from the book 'The Tides of Teneriffe'
• The Outdoor Picture Show - featuring the first film directed by Charles Edward Chauvel in 1926 - The Moth of Moonbi - Filmed in Moreton Bay and at the Orchids around Teneriffe House.
* Male Grooming 101
• The Bean and Barista Championship
• Old footage on the Winchcombe Carson Wool Store - with soundtrack accompanied by a collective of classically trained pianists (screened at night on the side of the woolstore)
