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www.kalatas.com.au | Volume 5 Number 11 | AUGUST 2015
‘Lovers
Markets’
Winter Wonder Dance
SWING to great music! The Alpha
Phi Omega Sydney ‘Winter Wonder
Dance 2’ will be held on August 29 at the
Blacktown City Recreation and Bowling
Club. The party night starts at 7pm with
DJ and sounds provided by BPM. Winter
Wonder Dance 2 follows on the success
of last year’s dance party event organised
by the APO Sydney. Tickets are at $25
per person (includes nibbles). For more
details call 0413 215 671 (Malu); 0410
714 888 (Christine).
Art show
‘Runaway with me’
ARTIST Therese Baylon will hold a
solo painting exhibition at the Hunter’s
hill Art Gallery from August 3 to 9
(6pm-8pm). Part of the proceeds of her
exhibition will be donated to ‘All Hands
Volunteers’, a non-profit organisation
which built homes in Tacloban City
after Typhoon Haiyan. Members of the
Filipino community are invited to see
the exhibition. The gallery is at 3/37
Alexandra Street, Hunters Hill, Sydney.
For more details, contact 0424693912.
Giveaway plants
WANT to plant something this coming
spring? The annual free travelling plant
giveaways will be held by the Blacktown
City Council starting this month until
October. There are five giveaway sites
across Blacktown City, one in each Ward,
where residents can collect two plants per
property from a selection of native and
exotic species. Nursery staff will be onsite
to assist residents to select plants that will
be appropriate for their garden.
There will be 2,500 plants available
at each event to residents from the
Blacktown City Local Government Area,
so first in first served. Free plants will be
given away on August 4 at The Village
Green, Campbell Street, Blacktown
from 9am-2pm; and on August 6 at the
Dawson Mall in Mt. Druitt, 9am-2pm.
Open to all Blacktown city residents.
SEE the ‘Lovers Markets’ in Parramatta
on August 29. The Lovers Market has
been on every last Saturday of the month.
It is held at the Centenary Square in
Parramatta. The ‘Lovers Markets’ offer 0