What: Common Ground 08

Where: Coorparoo Common, Cambride Street, Coorparoo

When: Sunday 27 January 2008

Time: 10.00am - 5.00pm

No matter your age or interests, a new local festival is bound to provide common ground for all.

A wide range of musical acts, sporting heroes and community groups will unite at the Coorparoo Common on Sunday 27 January 2008 to take part in the inaugural Common Ground Festival, a free grass-roots community event aimed at celebrating local diversity.

East Brisbane Community Centre Executive Officer Sonia Herbert said that the rapid growth and eclectic nature of the East Brisbane/Woolloongabba area provides a perfect opportunity to stage an event that showcases this unique community.

“I believe the festival will be a valuable community event with the potential to have long-term impacts on the vibrancy and inclusiveness of suburban Brisbane culture,” Ms Herbert said. 

Selected sporting personalities from the Brisbane Lions, Queensland Cricket and others, will join noted community members in a friendly match of backyard cricket.

Winners of the 2007 Brizband School Challenge, The Cairos, will headline the festival’s live music line-up, which is a varied mix of home-grown bands sure to suit the tastes of young and old.

The park’s well known skate bowl will also become an arena for skating competitions and demonstrations, with local skaters invited to show off their talents. 

The event will also feature a wide range of free attractions including hip-hop dance, workshops, street performers, market stalls, face painting, children’s rides and activities and a variety of Australian and international cuisine. 

The wide variety of attractions on offer is testimony to the area’s diversity.

 Ms Herbert said the festival aims to draw a wide audience including families, youth, seniors, indigenous and cultural diverse members of the community.

“The community support for the Common Ground Festival has been overwhelming” Ms Herbert said.

The East Brisbane Community Centre is currently developing a new youth program which will not only be responsive to the needs of local young people, but will also be in large part developed and organised by those involved. 

For thirty years, the East Brisbane Community Centre has been providing much needed community-oriented services to residents of the East Brisbane/Woolloongabba area including community support, child care and a place/space to be included and heard.

For more information on the Common Ground Festival 2008, please contact the East Brisbane Community Centre. Ph (07) 3891 5686, Email: , Web: www.ebcc.com.au

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