Iojdaa in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia | Community organisation

Iojdaa

Locality: Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 437 265 696

Address: Morilla Street 2834 Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.iojdaa.com.au

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25.01.2022 It is with great sadness, that we announce the cancellation of the 2020 Lightning Ridge Opal Festival. The Lightning Ridge Opal Festival has become a large eve...nt and due to its size requires a significant amount of planning. With border restrictions still in place and no announcement or approval for holding large-scale events, we do not believe that we will be able to deliver this year’s event to our usual scale and standard. The Festival is a major economic driver for Lightning Ridge and our region. We encourage anyone who had planned to visit Lightning Ridge in the next coming months to do so. Lightning Ridge is a wonderful town to explore and we are ready to welcome visitors. We are now planning the 2021 Festival and hope that it can be bigger and better than ever! SAVE THE DATE: 28TH-31ST JULY 2021 Lightning Ridge Opal Festival Committee

21.01.2022 First Place Winner of the Fantasy category. Mac Art Jewellery. This piece was unique and highly imaginative. Congratulations to Ian Mac the creator of this amazing entry. Fantasy Category was sponsored by Lahoud Opals Pty Ltd

19.01.2022 All photo credit to Peter Chaffey Photography https://www.facebook.com/Peter-Chaffey-Photography-232843163413885/

16.01.2022 Non Professional Figurative category Highly Commended Sara Smith "Feather" Sponsored by Designer Miners

13.01.2022 Highly Commended for Fantasy category was awarded to Sherman Opals "Sea Siren Goddess". The category of Fantasy was sponsored by Lahoud Opals Pty Ltd.

05.01.2022 Congratulations Mac, it was an awesome piece. Maclayne Hart thoughtvmight be of interest to you

05.01.2022 Winner of the Non Professional Abstract Carving was Christina Loewe with her amazing carving entry "Green Vein". Christina lives in Germany and sent her entries all the way here to Lightning Ridge to make a clean sweep of the competition winning both the Non Professional Abstract Carving category and the Non Professional Figurative Carving category with her other entry "Hippi Crocodile" The Non Professional Abstract Carving category was sponsored by Designer Miners.

04.01.2022 The 2019 IOJDAA committee owe a huge thank you to Justine Buckley and Andrew Kemeny for many many hours of work that went into the video production and photography of entries. Justine photographed each entry for us on multiple backgrounds taking many many hours across many weeks. Thanks also goes to her lovely photography assistant for a day Vicki Bokros and also Justine's lovely daughter Cloe for the workspace organisation. Andrew worked tirelessly for hours on end to comp...ile the amazing video presentations that helped with the visual impact of the awards on the night. To say the awards wouldn't be the same without the help of these amazing people is a hollow statement as it would have been nothing without their input, skill and expertise. They worked extremely hard on this for us and all the while were preparing for their own business endeavours at the opal festival. Please give them your appreciation as they are indeed worthy of all the thanks yous and appreciation we can given them.

03.01.2022 The Highly Commended placing for the Professional Abstract Carving category has also been awarded to Daniela L'Abbate for her exquisite entry "Yoda" this carving was truly breath taking and Daniela did an amazing job enhancing each layer of colour. Congratulations Daniela L'Abbate. The category of Professional Abstract Carving was sponsored by Designer Miners.

03.01.2022 Winner of the Professional Abstract Carving category is Daniela L'Abbate with her amazing carving "Balancing Rocks". Daniela L'Abbate is an AMAZING carver she is well renown by Lightning Ridge locals for her exceptional carving talent. Daniela also won the Professional Abstract carving highly commended placing for her gorgeous carving "Yoda". Congratulations Daniela on your well deserved win.... The category of Professional Abstract Carving was sponsored by Designer Miners.