Kenilworth Market 1st birthday | Arts Council | Church Cheerio

SAVE THE DATE • 2 JULY 2022 • KENILWORTH MARKETS 1ST BIRTHDAY

Kenilworth Market is having its first birthday. We would love you to join us on 2 July 2022 to celebrate.

As it’s our birthday we’d like to share a little of our story. The idea for the market actually happened back in 2020, when one of the founding members, Terri, asked on Facebook “why don’t we have a market in Kenilworth?’ So, after conversations with other locals, a small committee was formed. It was agreed that a market could help locals who had lost employment and income through COVID, as well as giving something extra for all the visitors who flock to the area on weekends.

Our town has become the place to go in the weekend for campers, off roaders, dirt bike riders, nomads and of course donut and cheese connoisseurs.

The first market day was 3 July, 2021. It was pouring down with rain. A handful of us were there and although I don’t think anyone sold heaps of stock that day, there was lots of support form the local community and it was still a nice place to be. Even in the rain.

Fast forward to now and we have a wonderful group of stallholders who bring their wares to market. Some are there every week, every fortnight, and others on a monthly or casual basis.

We have artists, makers, craft people and growers as well as carefully selected products that we know you need and love. The market is managed by a small group of volunteers and as a nonprofit, we are privileged to be able to give back to our community.

July 2nd is going to have all sorts of extra activities happening. Most of our part-time and casuals have also booked in for the day so the park will be full. Like our Facebook and Instagram pages to keep up with what’s happening, and please come to the party on Saturday 8am, 2 July.

ARTS COUNCIL 'THIS & THAT'

Kenilworth ArtsFest – our 24th festival – is on this year from 30 September till 3 October. Entry forms will be soon be on our KAC web page. We’re on the look out for volunteers! We do look forward to getting help from the community here.

A slight change in the festival this year will be the Poets’ Breakfast morphing into Poets Alive at the later time of mid morning with a very entertaining morning’s entertainment of poetry, singing by the Singalong! group and some toe tapping music from the Hot Curri Jam ukes band. A great morning happening on Saturday 1 October from 10am.

Sad to say, the planned Children’s Art classes will not be going ahead. If you know of anyone interested in holding classes, please let us know.

KAC is also keen to have someone with the requisite skills to be an Assistant Tech person. We can’t offer you any pay but we can offer an interesting experience with KAC. We’re a friendly lot! Ph 0472 767 482 – we’d love to hear from you!

Our next big event is a co-hosted art show with the Artists Alliance Australia in the Kenilworth Hall 22 – 24 July with a Gala Opening Night on Friday 22 July at 6pm. On Sat 23 / Sun 24, Stephen Cassettari will be conducting his popular Chinese Brush Strokes workshop at Kenilworth Hall. Bookings are now open via our KAC web page.

Congratulations to Theresa Lyndon on the beautiful kingfisher and butcherbird murals at Kenilworth Showgrounds. A worthy addition to the public art in Kenilworth.

CHEERIO FROM THE CHURCHES

The wet weather caused the cancellation of some church services over the past few weeks. Hopefully things will be back to normal soon. St Luke’s HC continues on Saturday afternoons at 4:30pm.

The date for Mass at St John Bosco’s is 26 June at 10am.

A well attended ecumenical service, led by the Uniting Church, was held at St John Bosco’s on Sunday 29 May with Rev’d Graham Dempster and it was followed by social morning tea in The Shed.

St Luke’s, on behalf of the Maleny Parish, recently delivered seven hand-crafted rugs to Anglicare in Nambour. These were well received and St Luke’s thanks all who made this possible.