Creating Community Spirit on WA Day 2014

Regular readers know my passion for examples of community development initiatives that help create positive community spirit. Naturally then, WA Day was a ‘go to’ event. Following is a sample of some of the initiatives I saw during the day. Hopefully some of them might spark some ideas for your community, and if so please let me know.



WA Day © The Ponder Room

One of the first things I saw was the Story Telling tent where the children were all utterly engaged in the story being told by Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company (more information here)



WA Day © The Ponder Room

There were the usual stilt walkers, this time MasterChef inspired chefs and butterflies.



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WA Day © The Ponder Room

An ‘I love WA’ message board, this time using ribbons with messages on them.

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There were community art projects, the most popular the kaleidoscopic dot painting.



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WA Day © The Ponder Room

A new initiative of pictures hanging from trees was intriguing.

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A chill out area where you could charge your mobile phone and play table tennis … an interesting combination.


Chill out area WA Day © The Ponder Room



WA Day © The Ponder Room

Then there was the Signature Dish Competition which has been written in a separate post. (here’s the link)


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And finally my favourite, a very Australian idea … tarp surfing. I loved this idea.

Tarp Surfing WA Day © The Ponder Room

Huge congratulations to all involved, it was a great day and I only went to the Perth Cultural Centre events, there was even more going on in other parts of the city. Roll on next year.

For more information about Celebrate WA go to http://www.celebratewa.com.au/