Let’s Get Together
A 5 Pillars Project:
People, Place, Planet, Prosperity, Participation
Let's Get Together Project
PROJECT OVERVIEW:
A celebration to support the installation of a cob wall around the Mud Hut at Winchelsea will occur March 2025. Community members will be involved in creating the wall and also in planned entertainment & activities held throughout the week.
We have received $5000 from Surf Coast Shire under the Community Initiatives Grant for the entertainment and graphic design for signage.
Facilitated by local entertainer Nic Dacomb of Krazy Koala working in partnership with Mud Fun we will see a collaboration between community groups and interested individuals to finalise this asset for the community and visitors alike to enjoy for many years. Individual community involvement will be acknowledged in some way through creative design & signage led by local indigenous leader mentoring students.
PLANNING COMMITTEE:
- Alison Dean(Convenor)
- Mike Tucker
- Sue Fletcher
- Jenny Murray-Jones
- Elaine Atkinson
- Jacqui Doyle
- Surf Coast Shire Rep
PROJECT OUTCOMES:
Together we are building a healthy, connected community. The cob wall built by the Winchelsea community unifies our picnic shelter to be our new mud hut once more. This establishes our ownership of our community space and is an opportunity for special memories that we build together.
WEEK OF ACTIVITIES
An all ages festive summer event will take place over a week from 1 to 9 March 2025 around the creation of a beautiful hand sculpted wall around three sides of the Winchelsea Mud Hut.
It is expected there will be drummers drumming, music and dance ensembles playing along, a sing a long combined with a group of barefoot mud mixing community members, rhythmically stomping mud with their bare feet to churn the mud mixtures in a synchronised manner.
The mud mixtures are then formed into blobs and passed rhythmically from the mud pit to where they are formed into bricks and walls for the purpose of building the walls.
Woven into the event we hope to offer:
- Activities run by Community organisations – Cooking Demos, etc
- Sausage Sizzles & Food vans
- Information stands and market stalls
- Food Produce Swaps
- Recycling events
- We are open to suggestions
Local artist Jenny Murray Jones will be doing some of the graphic design work.
Jenny is a Yorta Yorta woman from northern Victoria. She came to Winchelsea in 2009. Jenny acquired a rich range of skills from her parents – woodworking, dressmaking, appreciation of art, and above all, a sense of her strength as a proud first nations woman. As a secondary school teacher Jenny was able to connect with her own painting style, one that has afforded her numerous exhibitions. Winchelsea has strong connections for Jenny and she has found her space here.
