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E-News 2: Friday 29 Aug 08 Events & Media Opportunities

WEEK ONE – FESTIVAL CAIRNS

Festival Cairns 08 is in full swing and today leads the program into the first of four action-packed weekends.

Last night we tipped off the QLD Cup at the Fish Tank and yes, Skytrans Cairns Taipans was victorious at the first hurdle in beating the Gold Coast Blaze – but can they do the same tonight against Townsville Crocs? And Shakespeare has been shaking the foundations of Cairns City Library..….a great weekend in store with TimeOUT Concert ready to rock the Cairns Showgrounds….don’t recall a concert there since AC/DC came to town in November 1996…so that will be a truly special, history making occasion – no doubt…and for those waking up from a hangover on Sunday, spare a thought for celebrated triathlete, Brad Beven and the city’s sportspeople who will battle it out in a challenge of the fittest at Festival of Sport.

Don’t forget the first of four Festival Friday’s tonight at Ba8, Shangri-la….

Check out the website for more information www.festivalcairns.com.au – or my Festival Cairns blog – features all press releases/media kit and updates…www.pipmillerpr.com.au or call me on 0419 681543

For interviews with Operations Manager, Narell Black, call her on 0433 078830 or tel: 40307518 email: narell@eventscairns.com

Please note, there are media opportunities included in week one e-news. They are written in RED. Other opportunities will no doubt arise during the week and will be issued / notified under separate cover.

Friday 29 August:

Media Opportunity: 4pm at Tanks Art Centre for Sneaky Beats, Saturday 6 September at Esplanade Lagoon

• Photo op – Rehearsal at Tanks Arts Centre in the two week lead-up to the event – opportunity for media to discuss event with program coordinators and youth involved and get photographs of youth rehearsing for the event. Main player, David of Amedance, has just won a Q Song song-writing award. Contact Eva Roberts, Mob: 0404 848 666 or Pip Miller , Mob: 0419 681543

• NBL QLD Cup continues at the Fish Tank – games from 6pm and 8pm.

• First of Four Festival Fridays kick off at Ba8 from 5pm – live music.

• Launch of KickArts BIG exhibition from 6pm at KickArts – Good Social Opp

• Ben Winkelman Trio from 6.30pm for 7.30pm show at Tanks Arts Centre (Tank 5)

• Statespeare from 7.30pm at Cairns City Libraries

Saturday 30 August:

Picture features La Goons who will entertain kids at The Pier on Saturday

• Family Fun at the Pier from 10am to 1pm featuring La Goons

• Cairns Regional Gallery Festival Cairns Family Fun Day from 10am to 3pm

• The Tropical Writers’ Festival from 10.30am at Shangri-La (Literary dinner from 7pm featuring Nick Earls)

• TimeOUT Concert at The Cairns Showgrounds from 4pm to 10pm

• Subway Hoops Clinic at Fishtank from 4pm to 6pm

• Jeff Lang from 6.30pm for 7.30pm show at Tanks Arts Centre (Tank 5)

• Cairns Choral Society’s 2008 Gala Spectacular from 7.30pm at Cairns Civic Theatre

Sunday 31 August:

• Festival of Sport from 8am to 8.30pm at Fogarty Park and Esplanade

• The Tropical Writers’ Festival continues at 9.30am

• Family Fun at the Pier from 10am to 1pm featuring La Goons

• Cairns Choral Society’s 2008 Gala Spectacular from 3.00pm at Cairns Civic Theatre

• NBL QLD Cup culminates in basketball final at fish tank from 6pm

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Pip Miller PR
Tel: 61 7 4032 4400
Mob:0419681543
Email: pip@pipmillerpr.com.au
www.festivalcairns.com.au

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Click on link to appreciate wonderful body art by Rachel Bradley of Silver Star Entertainment – among her many claims to fame in local Cairns – she is a body art afficionado – beautiful Paris and Caitlin were painted to perfection for the official launch earlier this month and now grace the cover on Day One….just one of 65 press clippings recorded for Festival Cairns this month – how fantastic is our media support!!

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Click on link to see the fruits of my fashion labours – prints and patterns being the chosen theme!

e-news-1-25-aug-08E-News 1: Monday 25 Aug 08 Events & Media Opportunities

WEEK ONE – FESTIVAL CAIRNS

Festival Cairns 08 will ‘rock on’ into week one with books, basketball, music and theatre culminating in action-packed weekend with TimeOUT Concert at Cairns Showgrounds on Saturday 30 August and the final of the NBL QLD Cup at the Fish Tank on Sunday 31 August.

Check out my Festival Cairns blog – features all press releases/media kit and updates…www.pipmillerpr.com.au or call me on 0419 681543

For interviews with Operations Manager, Narell Black, call her on 0433 078830 or tel: 40307518 email: narell@eventscairns.com

Please note, there are media opportunities included in week one e-news. They are written in RED. Other opportunities will no doubt arise during the week and will be issued / notified under separate cover.

Monday 25 August:

Media Opportunity: Festival Cairns Becomes Omnipresent throughout Cairns in days leading up to kick off!

• Festival Cairns Operations Manager, Narell Black and team spends the day placing signage and promotional material at key arrival and departure points for visitors in the city… Narell Black 0433 078830 or Matt Colleton on 0400 930316.

Tuesday 26 August:

Media Opportunity: Dress Up Your Business

• In its second year, Dress Up Your Business has captivated the business community achieving a record of 30 plus entries from businesses throughout the city vying for the chance to dress up their shop fronts and office space in Festival colours and icons while competing for a chance to win big – $500 prize money up for grabs for first prize and Birch Carroll and Coyle movie pass packages for the runners-up.
Participating businesses include Balloons Etc, Birch Carroll and Coyle (event sponsor of DUYB campaign, McDonnell’s Law, BDO Kendalls, The Edge and more..

Wednesday 27 August:

Media Opportunity: Fun at Games at Event Partner SUPA IGA Pease Street, Manunda

• Live outside radio broadcast at Supa IGA Pease Street (featuring entertainment, Skytrans Cairns Taipans, mini- squad etc)

Media Opportunity: 7pm at Rydges Tradewinds for NQ Events’ Food, Wine & All That Jazz

• On Saturday 6 September, Events NQ will once again stage Food, Wine and All That Jazz – which is not surprisingly, one of Festival Cairns’ most popular and iconic events.

Rydges Tradwinds Catering’s executive chef, John Crank will present one of his special dishes (Moroccan lamb curry with cous-cous & lemon wedges) that will be served to guests attending the fourth annual Food, Wine and All That Jazz event in a new waterfront location on the Esplanade (north of Skate Park). He will be joined by Felix the Firedancer and his pyro-technique crew who, at the event, will perform along with popular dance band, Hip2Soul, four piece band Paris Texas and Gherkin the Clown (stilt walking, balloon sculpture, juggling and clowning for kid’s space).

For Information, contact Majella Smith, Events NQ on tel: 4053 9123 or visit the website: www.foodandwinenq.com.au

Thursday 28 August:

• Shakespeare in the Library from 9am at Cairns City Libraries Tel: 4044 3797

• NBL QLD Cup tips off at Fish Tank with first game from 6pm and second game at 8pm. This is a challenge of the best of Queensland’s basketballers – Gold Coast Blaze, Townsville Crocs and Skytrans Cairns Taipans. Tel: 4030 7555

Friday 29 August:

Media Opportunity: xam at Esplanade Lagoon for Sunday’s Festival of Sport

Meet with Festival of Sport Ambassador, Brad Bevan – champion triathlete and local lad who originally hailed from Mirriwinni…Simone Roseler, Marketing and Promotions
Inner City Precinct, tel: 4044 3715
Media Opportunity: 4pm at Tanks Art Centre for Sneaky Beats, Saturday 6 September at Esplanade Lagoon

• Photo op – Rehearsal at Tanks Arts Centre in the two week lead-up to the event – opportunity for media to discuss event with program coordinators and youth involved and get photographs of youth rehearsing for the event. Main player, David of Amedance, has just won a Q Song song-writing award. Contact Eva Roberts, Mob: 0404 848 666

• NBL QLD Cup continues at the Fish Tank – games from 6pm and 8pm.

• Festival Fridays kick off at Ba8 from 5pm – live music.

• Launch of KickArts BIG exhibition from 6pm at KickArts – Good Social Opp

• Ben Winkelman Trio from 6.30pm for 7.30pm show at Tanks Arts Centre (Tank 5)

• Statespeare from 7.30pm at Cairns City Libraries

Saturday 30 August:

• Family Fun at the Pier from 10am to 1pm featuring La Goons

• Cairns Regional Gallery Festival Cairns Family Fun Day from 10am to 3pm

• The Tropical Writers’ Festival from 10.30am at Shangri-La (Literary dinner from 7pm featuring Nick Earls)

• TimeOUT Concert at The Cairns Showgrounds from 4pm to 10pm

• Subway Hoops Clinic at Fishtank from 4pm to 6pm

• Jeff Lang from 6.30pm for 7.30pm show at Tanks Arts Centre (Tank 5)

• Cairns Choral Society’s 2008 Gala Spectacular from 7.30pm at Cairns Civic Theatre

Sunday 31 August:

• Festival of Sport from 8am to 8.30pm at Fogarty Park and Esplanade

• The Tropical Writers’ Festival continues at 9.30am

• Family Fun at the Pier from 10am to 1pm featuring La Goons

• Cairns Choral Society’s 2008 Gala Spectacular from 3.00pm at Cairns Civic Theatre

• NBL QLD Cup culminates in basketball final at fish tank from 6pm

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Tel: 61 7 4032 4400
Mob:0419681543
Email: pip@pipmillerpr.com.au
www.festivalcairns.com.au

17fc-festival-cairns-flying-start-26-aug-08-prMEDIA INFORMATION Tuesday 26 August 2008

FESTIVAL CAIRNS 2008 GETS OFF TO A FLYING START WITH MUSIC, SPORT, THE WRITTEN WORD AND LOADS OF FAMILY FUN

While the Beijing Olympics are now history, Cairns is poised for another event…but this time, much closer to home. After a year of planning, now there is just one day to go until kick-off for the city’s seventh annual community celebration, Festival Cairns. For the next three weeks, the tropical city will kick up its heels with an action-packed program of events spanning music, arts, sport and good old-fashioned entertainment – giving credence to the well-worn cliché, something for everyone.

Embracing this year’s theme, Love Cairns, Love the Environment, Festival Cairns is all about drawing attention to the reasons of what makes life in the tropics so great.

“From the clear air that we breathe to the abundant greenery and laid-back lifestyle, there really is much to love about living in Cairns,” commented Festival Cairns operations manager, Narell Black.

With the first official event being the National Basketball League’s four day QLD Cup tournament beginning on Thursday with games from 6pm at the Fish Tank, there is loads more in store leading into the opening weekend that includes Shakespeare in the Library, and the very special, Ben Winkelman Trio at The Tanks Arts Centre on Friday night.

Saturday kicks off with family fun all round starting at 10am with Family Fun at the Pier as well as Cairns Regional Gallery’s Festival Cairns Family Fun Day. This is also day one of the two-day Tropical Writer’s Festival at Shangri-la as well as the annual Subway Hoops Clinic at the Fishtank for aspiring basketballers, Jeff Lang at The Tanks Art Centre.

For music lovers, this weekend is a feast with the first of two Cairns Choral Society’s Gala Spectacular at Cairns Civic Theatre and week one highlight, the second annual TimeOUT Concert at Cairns Showgrounds. This event is destined to rock the foundations of Cairns with an amazing line up that gets going from 3pm to 10pm. For one night only, the city will bask in four of the hottest headline acts – Scribe, Kisschasy, Blue King Brown and Faker.

“One thing is certain, in our opening weekend and throughout Festival Cairns, the city’s youth are well and truly catered for,” commented Narell.

While the city wakes up from a hangover, sport enthusiasts will have their runners on for this year’s one day, Festival of Sport at the Esplanade from 8.30am. The energy will continue with another Family Fun Day at the Pier, the final Cairns Choral Society’s Gala Spectacular Performance and the adrenalin-charged decider between basketball teams, Gold Coast Blaze, Townsville Crocs and Skytrans Cairns Taipans at the Fishtank.

Weekend One Run Down is as follows:

Friday 29 August:

• NBL QLD Cup continues at the Fish Tank – games from 6pm and 8pm.

• Festival Fridays kick off at Ba8 from 5pm – live music.

• Launch of KickArts BIG exhibition from 6pm at KickArts – Good Social Opp

• Ben Winkelman Trio from 6.30pm for 7.30pm show at Tanks Arts Centre (Tank 5)

• Statespeare from 7.30pm at Cairns City Libraries

Saturday 30 August:

• Family Fun at the Pier from 10am to 1pm featuring La Goons

• Cairns Regional Gallery Festival Cairns Family Fun Day from 10am to 3pm

• The Tropical Writers’ Festival from 10.30am at Shangri-La (Literary dinner from 7pm featuring Nick Earls)

• TimeOUT Concert at The Cairns Showgrounds from 4pm to 10pm

• Subway Hoops Clinic at Fishtank from 4pm to 6pm

• Jeff Lang from 6.30pm for 7.30pm show at Tanks Arts Centre (Tank 5)

• Cairns Choral Society’s 2008 Gala Spectacular from 7.30pm at Cairns Civic Theatre

Sunday 31 August:

• Festival of Sport from 8am to 8.30pm at Fogarty Park and Esplanade

• The Tropical Writers’ Festival continues at 9.30am

• Family Fun at the Pier from 10am to 1pm featuring La Goons

• Cairns Choral Society’s 2008 Gala Spectacular from 3.00pm at Cairns Civic Theatre

• NBL QLD Cup culminates in basketball final at fish tank from 6pm

Festival Cairns 2008 will run from Wednesday 27 August to Saturday 20 September, 2008.

For further information about Festival Cairns 2008, click on www.festivalcairns.com.au or contact management company, Events Cairns on tel: 07 4051 0222 / email: info@eventscairns.com To contact Operations Manager, Narell Black, mob: 0433 078830

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For three weeks from 27 August to September 20, Cairns goes into festival mode. Highlights of Festival Cairns 2008 include Ergon Energy’s Busking Festival, Cairns Amateurs Racing Carnival, Food, Wine and All That Jazz, Carnival on Collins, Qld Cup Basketball Tournament, Festival of Sport and finale favourite, RACQ Insurance’s Parade of Lights. For further information, visit www.festivalcairns.com.au.

Tourism on Q is sent out weekly to more than 5200 subscribers – including representatives from government, education, general industry as well as operators and general public.

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The Pier is going all out as Festival Cairns headquarters in 2008 and to celebrate will hold a series of Family Fun Days starting opening weekend – Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 August 08. Entertainers, Rachel Bradley (who is also a facepainter of incredible talent), Terry Doyle and Danny Simony will join forces to give kids a great time while mum and dad enjoy breaky on the boardwalk.

To promote The Pier’s involvement and also the distribution of the program in this Friday’s Cairns Post – a special photo shoot was held today featuring none other than the entertainment group above and my two youngest children, India and Felix….

Have a look at the special pictures taken on my i-phone…and clipping in Saturday 23 August Cairns Post!

DUCKS….TAKE YOUR MARKS…

MEDIA OPPORTUNITY

On Monday 18 August at 10.30am, the Calanna Rotary Duck fundraising folk and Harald Falge will assemble lagoon-side to make a colourful splash launching this year’s duck race.

Date: Monday 18 August 2008
Time: 10.30 am
Place: Lagoon, Cairns Esplanade
What: Official launch of 2008 fundraising effort by Rotary through its Annual Calanna Rotary Duck Race and other Events
Who: Organisers from Rotary Mulgrave Cairns,
event major sponsor, Mario Calanna of Calanna Pharmacy, Harcourts representative, Harald Falge (of Harald’s House) PLUS
Rotary’s giant Duck mascot, loads of little yellow ducks and
KIDS fishing for plastic crocs
Why?: To assist in raising much needed funds to support Harald’s House in their quest to build a home for the Homeless Children and under privileged of Cairns and support and guide them into a better life back into our local community

Backgrounder:
This event is a colourful spectacle that takes place annually as a highlight of Festival Cairns finale. This year the events line-up takes place from 1pm, Saturday 20 September and will no doubt attract plenty of spectators who will gather to witness 10,000 plastic ducks take their marks at 4pm.

This year’s race is the third year the money raised by Rotary will benefit Harald’s House.

In the past four years since its inception, the duck race has raised well over $100 000 for local charities.

The tickets are $5 and will be available for purchase from any ANZ branch in the Cairns area and Calanna Pharmacies in Woree and north Cairns. There are four prizes up for grabs including a $11,000 spa from The Pool Man, a $7,000 trip to New Zealand for four people courtesy of Flight Centre and a Skytrans Cairns Taipans Family Gold Pass.

This year’s duck race has been greatly expanded to feature an afternoon program of duck related events beginning with a ‘blessing of the ducks’ and traditional Aboriginal dance.

In conjunction with this year’s duck race, Rotary Mulgrave will also host “Harcourts Crikey-Catch-a-Croc Spectacular” with all children welcome to enter. There will be a limit number of crocs. Children will have the opportunity to fish one of these crocs out of the lagoon to win a stunt bike from Pump ‘n’ Pedals.

The entry fee for “Harcourts Crikey-Catch-a-Croc Spectacular” is $10. Entry forms will be available from Harcourts or on the day. This event will be held at 1pm at the Lagoon.

The duck themed events continue with a first in 2008 – the “Myer Fashion Parade”. Models will strutt their stuff down at duck headquarters on the Esplanade Lagoon – wearing the latest swimwear fashion from Myer. This will be immediately followed by a more tongue-in-cheek event, “Myer Fashion on the Duck Field” held at 2.00pm. This event is open to all who wish to dress up in their finest “Duck” costume to win $500 shopping spree from Myer. Entry to this event is $10.

At 3pm it is The Rotary Corporate Duck Race before the main race at 4pm and finally, a celebrity duck race which is being kept under wraps. This event is based on four celebrity ducks being auctioned by Locco at 4CAFM – who are then required to swim to the half way line – and the best news is, they all win a prize.

The 2008 Calanna Rotary duck Race at the Lagoon Brought to you by Southern Cross Ten, 4CAFM, Calanna Pharmacy, The Pool Man, Flight Centre, Harcourts, Pump ‘n’ Pedals and Rotary Mulgrave Cairns

For further information, contact event organiser Sally Dixon, Mobile No: 0412 412 989
Office Ph: 4033 0254

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Issued by: Pip Miller PR Tel: 0419 681543

DUCKS….TAKE YOUR MARKS…

MEDIA OPPORTUNITY

On Monday 18 August at 10.30am, the Calanna Rotary Duck fundraising folk and Harald Falge will assemble lagoon-side to make a colourful splash launching this year’s duck race.

Date: Monday 18 August 2008
Time: 10.30 am
Place: Lagoon, Cairns Esplanade
What: Official launch of 2008 fundraising effort by Rotary through its Annual
Calanna Rotary Duck Race and other Events
Who: Organisers from Rotary Mulgrave Cairns,
event major sponsor, Mario Calanna of Calanna Pharmacy, Harcourts
representative, Harald Falge (of Harald’s House) PLUS
Rotary’s giant Duck mascot, loads of little yellow ducks and
KIDS fishing for plastic crocs
Why?: To assist in raising much needed funds to support Harald’s House in their quest to build a home for the Homeless Children and under privileged of Cairns and support and guide them into a better life back into our local community

Backgrounder:
This event is a colourful spectacle that takes place annually as a highlight of Festival Cairns finale. This year the events line-up takes place from 1pm, Saturday 20 September and will no doubt attract plenty of spectators who will gather to witness 10,000 plastic ducks take their marks at 4pm.

This year’s race is the third year the money raised by Rotary will benefit Harald’s House.

In the past four years since its inception, the duck race has raised well over $100 000 for local charities.

The tickets are $5 and will be available for purchase from any ANZ branch in the Cairns area and Calanna Pharmacies in Woree and north Cairns. There are four prizes up for grabs including a $11,000 spa from The Pool Man, a $7,000 trip to New Zealand for four people courtesy of Flight Centre and a Skytrans Cairns Taipans Family Gold Pass.

This year’s duck race has been greatly expanded to feature an afternoon program of duck related events beginning with a ‘blessing of the ducks’ and traditional Aboriginal dance.

In conjunction with this year’s duck race, Rotary Mulgrave will also host “Harcourts Crikey-Catch-a-Croc Spectacular” with all children welcome to enter. There will be a limit number of crocs. Children will have the opportunity to fish one of these crocs out of the lagoon to win a stunt bike from Pump ‘n’ Pedals.

The entry fee for “Harcourts Crikey-Catch-a-Croc Spectacular” is $10. Entry forms will be available from Harcourts or on the day. This event will be held at 1pm at the Lagoon.

The duck themed events continue with a first in 2008 – the “Myer Fashion Parade”. Models will strutt their stuff down at duck headquarters on the Esplanade Lagoon – wearing the latest swimwear fashion from Myer. This will be immediately followed by a more tongue-in-cheek event, “Myer Fashion on the Duck Field” held at 2.00pm. This event is open to all who wish to dress up in their finest “Duck” costume to win $500 shopping spree from Myer. Entry to this event is $10.

At 3pm it is The Rotary Corporate Duck Race before the main race at 4pm and finally, a celebrity duck race which is being kept under wraps. This event is based on four celebrity ducks being auctioned by Locco at 4CAFM – who are then required to swim to the half way line – and the best news is, they all win a prize.

The 2008 Calanna Rotary duck Race at the Lagoon Brought to you by Southern Cross Ten, 4CAFM, Calanna Pharmacy, The Pool Man, Flight Centre, Harcourts, Pump ‘n’ Pedals and Rotary Mulgrave Cairns

For further information, contact event organiser Sally Dixon, Mobile No: 0412 412 989
Office Ph: 4033 0254

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Issued by: Pip Miller PR Tel: 0419 681543

MEDIA NOTIFICATION -SOCIAL & NEWS PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
BUSKER PERFORMS IN-HOUSE AT BDO KENDALLS IN
FESTIVE CELEBRATION

Festival Cairns major partner, BDO Kendalls are celebrating their relationship with the region’s largest community event with music in a staff gathering this Thursday 14 August at 4pm.

Organised to surprise, one of Cairns’ buskers will put his hat on the ground to perform inside the BDO Kendalls building this Thursday afternoon. Without a word of warning, the busker will start to sing a lively tune – that will no doubt stop employees in their tracks, bring a smile to their face and beckon them (and their loose change) to the boardroom for their own Festival Cairns launch.

When they are gathered, the team of 50 accountants and business advisers will continue to enjoy the busker’s performance before they are taken through their company’s involvement in Festival Cairns and its importance. After which, the Skytrans Mini-Squad will burst through the doors (in another surprise) – handing out giant Festival Cairns lollipops to staff.

This is the fourth year BDO Kendalls has been a major partner of Festival Cairns, and they have secured their own event.

BDO Kendalls are presenting Swing by the Lagoon (from 3pm to 5.30pm on Sunday 14 September 2008). This free, family concert by a world-renowned military band 1RAR performing live on stage is a coup for the Festival Cairns program and one which is destined to be a highlight.

BDO Kendalls Chairman, Eric Olufson will take the opportunity to talk with his team tomorrow and underscore the importance of their company involvement in Festival Cairns and the local community.

DATE: Thursday 14 August, 2008

TIME: From 4pm to 5pm

PLACE: BDO Kendalls, Cnr Aplin and Sheridan Streets, Cairns

WHO: The team from BDO Kendalls, and Festival Cairns event management team

For Info: Mr Eric Olufson, Chairman, BDO Kendalls Tel: 1300 138 991

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