Childrens Programme
African drumming Baalo Baajo
Learn Africa drumming and dance with Nii and Sam
Aloha from Hawaii
Be prepared to greet people the Hawaiian way. Create a stunning flower lei and a grass skirt.
Baby sign and sing with Robyn Lagaspi
An introduction to signing with your baby. Learn some simple steps to help ease communication and encourage language development in your baby. Find out how to alleviate those two year old tantrums. Suitable for babies and toddlers birth to two years old.
Circus workshop
Come and learn some skills to run away with. How about Juggling, unicycling, stilt walking, adagio, fire twirling plate spinning and more. Suited to ages 5 and up.
Desert sand dunes in a jar
Create a sandune of colourful layers and capture it in a jar.
Dream Catchers
Build a Native American dream catcher and sleep soundly tonight.
Dreaming Stories
Settle in to learn about the land, living with the land and belonging to the land through some traditional indigenous stories
Everybody eats rice
Transform the worlds most popular staple into something yummy.
Felting with Sarah and crew
Create a unique headband or belt by felting coloured wool on to cotton. Limit of 13 participants so book in early.
The Griffini & Cornelis Show
Crazy juggling, disappearing, levitating, audience participation show! If you miss it you just wont see it!
Handas surprise
Come on a journey with Handa through the Savannah of Africa. Create some African animal masks and recreate the story through some dramatic play.
Korean Drums
have go at playing the Korean drums
Lets play music with Deb
A fun filled musical experience for kids aged 2 5 yrs. A range of singing, dancing and instrumental activities bound together in the world of music and make believe.
Mardi Gras Masks
Join in with the carnival atmosphere of the festival by creating your own Mardi gras mask complete with beads, feathers and other glittery delights. This activity can be a bit fiddly so best suited to children over 5 years old
Passport making
Make your own VF Passport complete with photo portrait (youre even allowed to smile in these ones) ready for stamping as you travel the globe over the next two days.
Sound circles with Deb
Not quite a choir , not quite a performance but a meeting of hearts, minds, bodies and voices. Based on the simple idea of combining sound, percussion and body movements sound circles enables people to explore create and enjoy sounds from within and around them.
Tai chi Qigong with Penny
Join Penny and become a lotus flower. Gentle breathing and movement exercises to relax the mind body and soul. Suitable for 5 year olds to 100 years olds.
Visual Art Workshops
Awaken Your Inner Picasso
Be inspired by Picasso and produce your own creative masterpiece. This workshop, presented by Ainslie McMahon, is designed to engage participants with the art of Pablo Picasso where the outcome will be a Picasso inspired portrait.
Creating Books and Boxes
Nannette Balchin, a Quirky Purple Mango, will help you create fun and imaginative books and boxes out of recycled materials.
Dreamcatchers
Using vines, twine, feathers and beads learn the mystic American Indian art of making dreamcatchers. This workshop is presented by the Quirky Purple Mangoes.
Easy Etchings
with Lynda Hawryluk is a simple and fun workshop introducing participants to scraperboard etching. Using small etching tools and scraperboard samples of all sizes, participants will be shown how to design and etch their own elegant, funky and unique artwork.
Fun Portraits
Well known local artist Brian Kehoe will help awaken the dormant artist inside.
Garbo Chapeau
Recycling has never been so much fun as it is with the inspiring Rita. Let her guide you through the world of wearable art and fashion some truly fashionable festival wear.
Global Beads
Theresa and Shirley from Global Beads will be presenting 2two beading workshops. For Beginners: Learn the basics of beading and make a set of earrings and a necklace. Beach Sandals: Be the envy of everyone on the beach this summer with a pair of unique beaded sandals.
Wrapt in Wire Unleash your creative spirit and craft yourself a set of funky wire candleholders. Made using non tarnishing modeling wire this will be a festival memento to cherish. Not suitable for children.
Little Bit of Love
Come and create a glass mosaic heart. Veronika Zeil will show you how to glue glass and porcelain pieces onto recycled wooden shapes to make beautiful decorative pieces.
Metal Casting: Demonstration and Workshops.
Festival goers are invited to watch or participate in these metal casting workshops. With the help of master caster Jimmy Z you will be given the opportunity to cast a free hand mould of a name or symbol.
Nuno Felting and Hat Felting
Participate in the nuno felting workshops and make hip wraps, bandannas and scarves by felting brightly coloured wool onto cotton fabric. Or try hat felting in 2 dimensional moulds to produce berets and crazy hats with embellishments in the form of dread locks or 3D patterns.
Quirky Key Rings
Fashion a fabulously decorative key ring from beads and string. A Quirky Purple Mango will help you make a key ring youll want to hang as an ornament.
Screen Printing with Nancy Brown
Banners for your Tent Festival goers will screen print a colourful banner with their own design and Village Festival written on it, to hang from their tent. Festival Bags Festival goers can screen print their own design on a village Festival calico bag to carry their festival treasures around in.
Music and Dance Workshops
Ukulele Workshop with Azo Bell unlock the inner uke within, allowing you to tip toe through four strings with ease!
Baala Baajo Drumming and Dancing Learn Africa dance with Nii and Sam
Bellydancing Workshop with Stars of Arabian Nights show you the mysteries of Raks Gothique a fusion between belly dance and gothic dance.
Bellydancing Workshop with Abadeeya discover the eternal beauty of belly dance from ancient ritual to modern Middle Eastern Dance fused with refined costuming and wild African beats.
Comedy and Spoken Word
Comedy Club comes to Yeppoon Saturday Night
Jimbo is a cult comedian of no fixed abode who travels to gigs all over Australia wearing only his unapologetically raw, uncensored, risky, outrageous, r rated, rude, interactive brand of humour.
Julia Wilson Described by many as the toughest woman in comedy, Julia tours the world with her dubious morals making appearances on stages around the globe, from TV (Stand Up Australia, Love My Way), to radio (JJJ, Nova) and film.
Ellen Briggs is a talented mother of two, with a sharp tongue e and a rapidly rising career in the comedy industry. She has appeared on "Stand Up Australia", and was a finalist in the nationally televised Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2007 Raw Comedy Competition.
WARNING Comedy Club is strictly for adults, rated XXXX and all that stuff. We cant be held responsible if you: a) are offended deliberately or incidentally, b )laugh so much your guts fall into your shoes and your cheeks ache.
The Great Debate 2pm Sunday
Queensland Vs The World!
That the World is divided into Two Types of People Those who are Queenslanders and Those Who Wish They Were!
In honour of Queenslands 150th Birthday celebrations we present an artful, considered and quite possibly humorous attempt to define those elements that make Queensland not only our fastest growing state but increasingly the centre of the known universe. Dress attire of shorts and long socks with maroon shirt strictly optional.
Warning: The Debate could contain traces of hilarity possibility not suitable for young children or particularly narrow minded /humourless individuals May contain nudity. We hope not. But it could.
The 2008 Great Debate is funded by the Q150 Celebrations Fund.
The Australian Poetry Slam 08
Slams are an electric spoken word showcase open to anyone with something to say....two minutes, a microphone, and a live audience the judge! Performers can speak, sing, scream, rap, howl or whisper their words. Your Slam host and feature artist for the night will be QLD Slammaster and renowned performance poet Ghostboy. This is a partnered event between The Village Festival and Rockhampton Regional Council Libraries presented by The State Library of Queensland.
Poets Breakfast Join Bob Pacey and friends for some spoken word performances on Sunday morning at the festival.
Health and Harmony
Yoga Wake up your body and spirit to Yoga. BYO mat
Kirtan join a local Kirtan group leading participants in Hindu chanting to uplift your soul.
Yoga Nidra a method of complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation. BYO mat
Circus, Street Theatre and Celebrations
Opening Celebration 7pm Friday 30 August 2006
Come around the world with us as we celebrate the Global Village during our 2008 opening celebration. A dancing, drumming extravaganza that will usher our sixth festival.
POG Circus Fusing traditional circus skills with a refreshing splash of contemporary performance, POG tempt the palate with an exciting blend of juggling, unicycling, stiltwalking and clowning, balanced by audience participation, body percussion, and amazing feats of stupidity.
Saturday Night Fire Show! Join us at dusk for some fire magic featuring Twirling, juggling, and breathing.
CQ Circus Locals with more panache, charisma, estrogen and bling than Beyonce James Bond, and Angela Jolie glued together, They will melt your spleens and fry your and optic nerves with their sheik acrobatic antics that are guaranteed to rivet you to the edge of your seat. Born and breed in Central Queensland this is a all grrrrl circus troupe you dont want to miss.
Saturday
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