Kilbirnie Festival –Fun for ALL the Family!
Kilbirnie Festival –Fun for ALL the Family!
Kilbirnie
Festival Fair Day
This is the 12th year for one of
Wellington’s biggest annual fairs, held in Bay Rd,
10am-4pm, this year on Sunday 1 March. The Festival presents
200 craft & food stalls, kids’ rides, kids activities and
entertainment area in the Kilbirnie Plaza mall, music
presented by top Wellington venue San Francisco
Bathhouse’s Acoustic Lounge Stage, Thomas Goss’ School
of Rock Stage, and our Community Stage for locals, offering
a broad range of music, entertainment and performances.
Performers on Fair Day include (times and performers may
change):
Community Stage
10am: Russell Self (and
throughout the day)
11: tbc
11.50: Step Out Dance
Company, juniors
11.55: Step Out Dance Company,
seniors
noon: Olmecha Supreme Sound System with the
Freeloaders Breakdancing Crew
1.15: Solemn 2
1.30: The
Salvation Army Brass Band
2.30: F8 To Decide
3.15: The
Satisfactions
4pm: finish
Aerobics
Demonstration
Arthritis Exercise Group
San Francisco
Bathhouse Stage
10am-4pm, a selection of the top
performers from the Acoustic Lounge nights; including The
Rodrigo Brothers
4pm: finish
School of Rock
Stage
10am-4pm, a selection of the top bands from
Wgtn’s School of Rock
4pm: finish
Children’s
Area
10.30: Piccolo The Pixie
11.30: Chris Donnelly
juggling, unicycle, fire
12.30: Piccolo The
Pixie
1.30: Chris Donnelly juggling, unicycle,
fire
2.30: Piccolo The Pixie
Street
Performances
Aerobics Demonstration
Arthritis Group
Exercise Demonstration
Fair Day Devonshire
Teas
Available at the Kilbirnie Lyall Bay Community
Centre, a quiet oasis on Fair Day. It is a tradition of the
Community Centre to offer, in our friendly, quiet
surroundings, fresh scones and pikelets, raspberry jam,
cream, and tea or coffee for $2.00. Open from 10.00am on
Fair Day, Sunday 1 March. Just sit, relax and enjoy!
Fair Day cancellations on 384-1998 from 7am on the day.
Retailer Sale Days
Wednesday 25 February –
Sunday 1 March, retailers throughout the Kilbirnie shopping
area will be offering sales, discounts and special
deals.
Bus Trips
Both of these two trips will use
kneeling buses for easy access. Morning tea trip for rest
homes, Thursday 26 Feb, leaving from road frontage, Rita
Angus Retirement Village, 10am, returning approx 12.45pm,
and going to Williams Park, Days Bay. Residents from Rita
Angus Retirement Village, Kilbirnie, Mt Victoria Lifecare
Newtown, and Alexandra Rest Home Newtown have been invited.
See Sue, Activities Officer at the Retirement Village for
tickets. Lunch trip for the community, Friday 6 March,
leaving 11.30am, to The Beach Café, Eastbourne, see Beryl
at the Community Centre, 387-7867, for tickets. Purchase
your own refreshments on both trips.
The Kilbirnie Recreation Centre, the Wellington Regional Aquatic Centre and the Ruth Gotlieb Kilbirnie Library will all be hosting Festival activities over the Festival week.
Library
Activities
The Tea and Tales session, with morning tea,
at the Library on Thursday 26 February will have a Kilbirnie
flavour. Library staff will read excerpts from novels,
journals, biographies and histories, and those attending are
invited to contribute. The Library will also be hosting a
Family Quiz evening starting at 6.30pm on that same
day.
Succulents
Rita Angus Retirement Village are
hosting the Wellington Cacti and Succulents Club on Saturday
28 February and Sunday the 1st March, and invite members of
the public to visit 10-3pm to view the plants on display and
for sale. There will also be guided tours of the Retirement
Village throughout the day.
Community
Directory
Wellington Citizens’ Advice Bureau- Eastern
Suburbs (CAB) has produced a new and comprehensive eastern
suburbs Community Directory, which will be launched at the
Fair Day, and will subsequently be available free from the
Bureau and other local
locations.
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