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MEDIA INFORMATION Monday 16 June 2008

RECYCLE REJUVENATE REFRESH

CAIRNS FAMILY MEDICAL CENTRE’S INAUGURAL LANTERN ART 08 COMPETITION

Hundreds of left over lanterns created for last year’s Festival Cairns finale highlight,The Parade of Lights, will be re-cycled, rejuvenated and refreshed as the foundation for Cairns Family Medical Centre’s inaugural Lantern Art 08 competition for schools.

For the past four years Festival Cairns has staged its annual mural art competition, however this year it has been re-created into Lantern Art 08 in an effort to be resourceful and reflect this year’s theme, Love Cairns, Love the Environment.

Students from around Cairns will be encouraged to register in this competition that promises a goody bag of cash prizes to the value of $1000. Following registration, which will finish on Friday 19 July, students and their teachers or parents are invited to Festival Cairns Lantern studio in Mulgrave Road. From here they will select their lanterns to remodel and refresh using any material or fabric they see fit.

Judging will take place prior to the Parade of Lights procession on the final day of Festival Cairns 2008, Saturday 20 September. All lantern creators and their art work will then be displayed in a moving procession that makes up the Parade of Lights.

For further information, contact organizer, Tim Arnott on tel: 40510222 or info@eventscairns.com

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Visit the website on www.festivalcairns.com.au or contact Events Cairns on tel: 07 4051 0222 or email: info@eventscairns.com
Pip Miller PR
Ph: (07) 4032 4400
Mob: 0419 681 543
Email: pip@pipmillerpr.com.au
Internet: www.festivalcairns.com.au