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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 37, No 15. July 3 1974

Minifest for Vic

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Minifest for Vic.

As many of you will have noticed, a Mini Arts Festival is due to take Victoria by storm on Thursday July 11 and Friday July 12. This will entail many and glorious happenings, including an enthralling Opening Ceremony on Thursday at 10 am, progressing to such amazing activities as a jazz concert, Dr Geiringer's words to the people, mad midnight folk dancing in the gym, Asian food in the restaurant, films, folk concert, maneating alligators, modern dance, guerilla theatre, a cake stall, drama in many forms, midnight horror poetry reading in the graveyard, Visual Arts handicrafts sale, photographic exhibition, wine and Design, insane importations from the Himalayas scaling Easterfield, karate display, bad limerick competition, Indian dance and costume exhibition, plus other lectures, displays and forums. Another idea is that suggested by an overseas student who wants to see everyone wandering around dressed in costume as he has vast numbers of friends who are all keen to show off their national costumes. In addition there must be many other students who have always fancied spending the day as Batman or the Governor-General, so to make the campus even weirder, come along in costume. The main idea behind the festival is to maintain a continuous high level of activity with something for everyone.

It is some time since a full-scale NZSAC Arts Festival has been held in Wellington, and since then, festivals in far-flung centres have attracted ever-dwindling numbers of Victoria students. The idea in having a home-grown spectacular is that of bringing "culture" to the people who haven't got the time or the money to journey to other centres for it. Most happenings will be free or substantially subsidised by Cultural Affairs, so there will be no excuses to stay away. Full programmes of events will be available on July 11. If you have any thoughts about participating, please come and see me in the Studass office, or phone me at home, 759-487. People are coming from as far away as Palmerston North to join in the premier event of Victoria's social calendar, so don't spend those two days hunched over a library desk — come down the hill and find out what's going on for a change.

—Barbara Leishman