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Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Signs - Emerge

On Friday 22nd I went to a free local community event - Emerge - held at Hossack Reserve, a park two blocks from my house. 


The event organized by the City of Canning council, was from 5 to 8pm , and all you had to do was bring a picnic blanket, a chair, your family and dogs if you so wished and enjoy the outdoors.
A few food trucks sold food and sweets, and there was live music, and a few activities mainly aimed at the kids, such as rock climbing, obstacle course, bike track...

The aim of these events is to activate local underutilised spaces and bring the local community together.

I went on my own, there were a lot more people than I expected, but I didn't find any known faces from my neighbourhood.


When I got to the park I went straight to the Wicked Waffles van which belongs to my former colleague Jan and her husband. I visited Jan who now lives in Mandurah in February and you can read about it here
We had a bit of a chat and then I went over to the Indian food van to order Chicken Korma at the Paratha Box. After I ate the curry, I ordered a small waffle with cream and syrup.

I returned home at about 7,30pm and shortly after got the call from my son to say baby Eleonor, our granddaughter had been born.

Rock climbing, Live music and picnic tables
Picnic under the lights











A few of the food vans (Wicked waffles - top right)

More signs from the event






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32 comments:

  1. Oh this would be great fun. A day of entertaining. Well there is food too.

    Have a fabulous day. ♥

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    1. A great duo - food and fun. Thanks Sandee

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    1. Obrigada Francisco, foi um fim de tarde muito agradavel.

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  3. The concept is great, I think!
    Our little corner had a street festival - in 2010, when we had just signed the contract for the condo. Never again, sadly, no other street festival.
    Also sad you found no familiar face there.
    And it looks like a fun event, too!

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    1. It was a fun event. I've just been invited to a event for residents of the suburb through the "Buy nothing group" on Facebook. It should be less people and a way to get to know a lot of the suburb's residents.

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  4. Wonderful shots. Congratulations on the good news!

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  5. Caused my interest to emerge. A wonderful eve. CONGRATULATIONS!

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    1. Thanks Cloudia :) It was a lovely event.

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  6. How gorgeous that you went to Emerge and came home to the emerging news of Eleonor! Congratulations all round. Happy days indeed.
    Wren x

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  7. So much fun!!!
    Congratulations!!!
    : )

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  8. It was a good thing to organise and sounds and looks like it was popular. City of Canning deserves some praise for its community building effort.

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    1. It certainly was popular, I was amazed with the amount of people there. They seem to do a good job indeed Andrew.

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  9. It all looks so colourful, what a great event.

    Many congratulations on the good news … I love the photograph on your earlier post.

    All the best Jan

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  10. first I've seen inflatable rock climbing.

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    1. My first time too Adam. The kids were enjoying it :)

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  11. Dearest Sami,
    The City of Canning Council had a great idea for organizing such an event!
    Lovely for getting out and picnic or order some food.
    So at the time you ate your waffle more or less, you inherited a granddaughter...
    Hugs,
    Mariette

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    1. Thanks Mariette. A lovely idea to get people out of the house enjoying the warm weather.

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  12. Aproveitamento dos parques públicos.
    Acredita que em Macau não deixam pisar os relvados?
    Faz algum sentido??

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    1. Bem estranho, pensei que em Macau fossem mais "open minded". Aqui a relva e para ser usada e as arvores serem abracadas :)

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  13. Making the most of the warm weather before it fades away.

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    1. True Joan and we're lucky the days are still quite warm.

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  14. That looks like a perfect event!

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  15. ...I'm looking forward to warmer weather here so that festival season can start!

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    1. Always good to have festivals at summer time.

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  16. This really is a good way to bring the community together, super photos. Not nearly as exciting as the news when you got home though Sami, so exciting xox

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    1. Thanks Grace, yes more exciting news at home indeed.

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