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24.01.2022 Churchill Neighbourhood Centre is collecting donations to provide a thank-you dinner for the Churchill CFA on 6th May 2019. Any leftover money will be donated t...o them to use as they wish. Want to help? Heres what your donation could provide: $30 = main course, dessert and celebratory beverage $15 = main course $10 = dessert $5 = celebratory beverage See more

24.01.2022 The Latrobe and Francis Orchestra in full string!

23.01.2022 To our Behind the Scenes Crew who got the show on the road: Our sponsors: Latrobe City Council; Gippsland Trade Printers; Woolworths; Churchill Carols by Candlelight Committee; Churchill Neighbourhood Centre; All Events Stage Hire; Duenna; BAM Allstars; Churchill and District News; Churchill CFA; Latrobe Valley Dance Promotions Marketing Support: Nikita and the Whats On team at Latrobe City Council; Gippsland FM; Kathy Ryan; all you wonderful Facebookers who shared the ...posts; local primary schools and the businesses that promoted the event in their shop windows or on their Facebook pages; Fiona who distributed the flyers, and Bronwyn who organised that. Event Permissions: Wendy Hrynyszyn at Latrobe City Council; Tom Curtain and Sara Storer for allowing us to sing Speak Up, and Bob Brown for allowing us to sing Give me a Home Among the Gum Trees. THANK YOU!

21.01.2022 Mothers Day Classic Walk/Run for Breast Cancer Research The Mothers Day Classic Walk/Run is for Breast Cancer Research. This event is a national event in Melbou...rne and our regional event is held along the Gippsland Plains Rail Trail from Traralgon to Glengarry 6km or Toongabbie to Glengarry 9km. They are running a virtual event! My Contact is Helen Hoppner - [email protected]

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20.01.2022 We welcome to the stage Beth and Norm from Latrobe Valley Dance Promotions Beth and Norm have taught their love of dancing for eight years. Their other hobby is outback cycling. They have even managed to combine the two hobbies - they got off their bikes in Katherine and gave a dancing demonstration! They are off their bikes for the Twilight Festival and will demonstrate the waltz for us. Then they will give a short lesson to anyone who wants to give this beautiful dance a go. The question is, where else will you have the opportunity to practise some moves under the watchful eye of experts, accompanied by live music, courtesy of members of the Latrobe and Francis Orchestra?

20.01.2022 We learned how to waltz with Norm and Mary from Latrobe Valley Dance Promotions. Clear your Thursday night - theyll teach you more then!

20.01.2022 We welcome The Space Between to the stage - our final act! The Space Between is an up and coming local band who will play rock and acoustic for us. We think youll say in months to come, We saw them first at the Churchill Twilight Festival!

19.01.2022 We welcome to the stage the Latrobe and Francis Orchestra. We have been fortunate to have an orchestra in the Latrobe Valley for many years; no need for a trip to the city to hear beautiful classical music! Encouraging new musicians and experienced alike, the Latrobe and Francis Orchestra plays as a full orchestra, string groups and woodwind ensembles. At our Festival, members of the Latrobe and Francis Orchestra will play live to accompany Norm and Beth as they demonstrate the waltz, and to accompany you if you want to give it a go. If you love to waltz, you remember dancing the waltz long ago, or you just want to buy one of those sequinned dresses you have seen on Come Dancing, come along to enjoy dancing to the beautiful music conjured up by these musicians.

18.01.2022 Heres a "mud map" showing where the Civic Space is in Churchill: just downhill from the shopping centre. The map also indicates ways of getting to the event: where the bus stops are, and which major roads you might take if you are driving.

17.01.2022 The Centre is moving to a new phone number: 5120 3850. Of course, a redirection has been arranged from the old number to the new number. HOWEVER This morning... Telstra cut off the old number, and did NOT set up the redirection to the new number. Telstra claims that this problem will be rectified tomorrow, Thursday 29 March. If you urgently need to speak to the Office, please phone 0490 912 963 Sincere apologies for this hiccup, which is beyond our control. See more

16.01.2022 Well! :-D We had a lovely time at the Festival, and hope you did, too. But we were so busy (for instance, having our heads shaved) that we took no photos! Man...y of you did, however, and it would be great if you could post them here, email them to the Centre, or even bring them in on a USB key or your camera and we can make copies then post them on Facebook. Thanks in advance <3 See more

16.01.2022 Just a quick message to all those who made the Churchill Twilight festival go so well: The Support Staff: Anne, our fruit cutter and mocktail maker; Meagan and Melissa on the mocktail stall; our site preparation team, Milton, Tim, Rebecca, Tom; our ushers Tenille, Jeanie, and Jacqui; our photographers Susan and Brenda; our MC Bronwyn; Hazelwood Rotary, our sausage sizzlers; our Community First Aid team, Den and the Latrobe Street Games Team including Aaron our instant sound ...and lighting engineer and troubleshooter; Edith and Wendy from Latrobe City Council; Gabby our security officer, and the CFA who gave us light! Our Official Opening: by the representative of our main sponsor, Latrobe City Council, also our representative at Council, Cr Darryl White OAM. Thank you for supporting us yet again. Our Acts: Duenna, their lovely voices encouraging people to attend the amazing Boorun Boys with musical accompaniment by Steven Walsh and William Dalton, bringing us dance to a traditional story, and a Welcome to Country the Churchill Twilight Festival Singers if you were there and sang along, thats you! the super charged BAM Allstars who travelled a long way to get us up and dancing the Latrobe and Francis Orchestra who serenaded us with strings as the sun went down Latrobe Valley Dance Promotions representatives, Norm and Mary, who glided us through modern waltzing And last, but certainly not least, we were the first audience to hear the newly formed The Space Between. Watch this spacebetweennow and when we wont be able to afford their appearance fees! THANK YOU And to the audience who came to spend the evening with us, sang and danced with us, who bought food from the local eateries, who persevered when it became clear that someone did not check whether the power was on (Abigail will confess later), THANK YOU, TOO! Photos, lots of photos will follow.

16.01.2022 Some of the group Duenna performing outside IGA in the Churchill shopping centre (as an introduction to the Festival).

15.01.2022 A selection of photos from people attending the Festival.

14.01.2022 Slight change of order of events for tonight: note that you have to participate in TWO singalongs and TWO dance events :-D

14.01.2022 We got all cool, and just a little bit romantic, courtesy of The Space Between.

07.01.2022 Heres how the event is looking so far Of course, there are little breaks here and there so that you can refresh your drinks, get food, talk to people, visit the conveniences and so on. Looking forward to seeing you!

07.01.2022 Working Bee this weekend. The next working bee will be this coming Saturday Feb 8 at 9am. Please meet at Mackeys Rd car park to sign in and be allotted tasks. Morning tea provided.

07.01.2022 BAM Allstars got us up on our feet!

06.01.2022 Were still building the final poster/handout for the Twilight Festival. Heres a draft but note, anyway, your instructions. WHAT TO DO Turn up with family and friends AND someone who otherwise mightnt have transport Bring chairs and/or picnic rugs Bring food and drink Or plan to buy it locally! Noodles? Pizza? Chicken and chips? Pasta? Bring a glass or mug for your FREE sparkling fruit mocktail Dancing shoes optional

06.01.2022 We welcome the Speak Up singers to the stage. Some of us (you know who you are! ) will be singing Speak Up, the anthem against bullying by Tom Curtain and Sara Storer. Tom has given us permission to do this, and we are planning that it will be loud enough to reach him in Katherine! If you want to learn the chorus to help us, here it is: You gotta Speak up, even if your voice shakes You gotta Stand up, even if your world breaks Be there for one another, were all in this tog...ether You gotta Speak up, even if your voice shakes If you want to learn the whole song, look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ7zaLkzp50 See more

06.01.2022 We welcome to the stage Duenna. Duenna (female guardian) is a small all-womens choir formed in 2018 in the beautiful hills of Budgeree. Bringing together women from all walks of life, the choir sings music both accompanied and a capella, and from many different genres. While led by choir director Amber Rhodes, Duenna is very much a group-inspired effort. Duenna performed most recently at the 2019 Boolarra Folk Festival.

06.01.2022 While we were preparing for and then enjoying the Twilight Festival, the bushfire burned and still burns south of Churchill.

04.01.2022 Well be singin and a pickin at the Churchill Community Festival tomorrow morning between 11am - 12pm in front of the Hub. Come along and join us!

03.01.2022 Heres the final version of our poster for you to print out, share with people etc. There are heaps of copies available at the Neighbourhood Centre. Apologies for the delay: largely because of the fires, we didnt have (and still dont have) all of the relevant logos. A big thank you to Latrobe City Council for their generous support of this event.

03.01.2022 Churchill Community Festival We welcome The Boorun Boys to the stage: The Boorun Boys were formed 2 years ago from members of the Aboriginal Youth Group run by Ashleigh Dalton. Her father, William Dalton, coaches the Boorun Boys; he has danced since he was a boy himself. To ensure traditional dance continues to thrive, he is handing his knowledge and skill to these dancers, the youngest only 3 years old! Mr Dalton will offer the Welcome to Country.

03.01.2022 For your diary March 16, twilight! More details will follow shortly.

02.01.2022 We welcome BAM Allstars to the stage. The BAM Allstars are all students in dance and drama classes so expect something super charged and sensational. Choreography is mixed with current pop music and the result is dancing that will make you want to jump to your feet and join in. Thats what we want you to do! Dont be shy - the group has come over the border from Wonthaggi, but they are very friendly!