Channel Ten contacted me, for their kids show "Toasted TV", they would love to do an episode on the Samba School. It will be an 8 minute special, and would take about 2 hours to film, probably from 8am-10am.

Sounds like a lot of fun, however it is on a working day and I'm aware a lot of you would find it difficult to make it. However, let's see - so please register asap!

The last Polish Beer & Vodka night!

This Friday, we'll have the last Polish Beer & Vodka night! Grazjina is leaving the Polish Club in December, so let's give her a loud farewell! Please register here!

Who's going to Woodford?

I'm going to be at Woodford on the New Year's weekend - Saturday 30th, Sunday 31st, Monday 1st. Is anyone else going to be up there at that time? It would be great to share the fun. I've booked a tent in Tent City so I can have a bit of private space, and not keep people awake with my snoring. :) :)

Monday night is the big Fire Event, which veteran Festivillians will know is Not To Be Missed. I plan to try and get into the lantern parade. Anyone else up for this? Its an enjoyable way to experience this wonderful event. The bonus is that you don't have to fight for a scrap of space amongst the spectators on the hill at the ampitheatre! If there are some of us up there, we could do this as a group, I think it would be a special way to celebrate the start of the new year together. And afterwards I plan to go to the Blues Tent, the Kingdom of Silly Dancing.

Interested? If you don't want to put a comment here, you could email me at pkg18@hotmail.com

Hugs

Patty

Denis & tonight's rehearsal

Tonight is the last rehearsal before Denis commences his great Cuban adventure!!! So please come to tonight's rehearsal and let's see him off in style!!!

The great Primavera photo and film initiative

Over the last 4 years, we have played at close to 50 events, and have done almost 200 rehearsals (scary!). A lot of people have made a lot of pictures and even films, and it's time to start a good archive of this, for our own purpose, but also as a source of media pictures we can use for promotion.

So, I need your help to gather as many pictures as we can! Here is the high-level plan:
1) 1-Nov till 12-Nov: have a look around at home and start collecting all your pictures. Do not send me anything yet at this stage;
2) 5-Nov: I'll make a list of all the gigs and will post information about this. I'll then make some instructions on how to put your pictures on CD(s). If you want I can supply blank CDs;
3) Early Dec: I collect all the CDs and put them in one big archive. I've got some good archiving software that I purchased for this;
4) December: We'll do some classification (probably a 1-5 star rating of each picture). That way we can easily find the best pictures;
5) I'll give everyone a CD with the best pictures, OR I post them on the web somehow (to be decided).

For people that have film footage (I think that's Paul, Patty and Dorian), please email me a list of what you've got as soon as you can.