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Email: info@byronbayoceanswimclassic.com.au

Phone: Syl Reid 0421 155 600 

6th May 2012

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Award winning singer- songwriter - guitarist Ralph Mctell will be touring Australia in May 2012, and will be including Byron Bay as part of this tour. Performing material from his recent album "Somewhere Down The Road," McTell will also be playing several songs from his new Bob Dylan birthday tribute "Don't Think Twice It's Alright." The concerts will of course feature songs from McTell's extensive back catalogue of over 350 songs, including his worldwide , Ivor Novello award winning hit,"Streets of London"

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Byron Bay’s Premier Endurance Event…...are you up for the challenge?

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Sarah Key, internationally acclaimed master physiotherapist to the British Royal Family is pleased to announce her Australian debut 'Sarah Key Talks Back' lecture and workshop series to the community of Byron Bay. Her 90 minute power point presentation lecture and personalised 3 hour 'This is How' workshop provides participants with a clear and proven method of putting their back problems on a journey to alleviating pain. Her can-do, informative speaking style will explain the ‘5 Stages of Spinal Breakdown’ which include: stiff spinal segment, facet joint arthropathy, acute locked back, prolapsed intervertebral disc and unstable spinal segment.

With clinics in London and Sydney Sarah has been treating HRH the Prince of Wales and the Royal Family for over 30 years. It has been said “If she’s good enough for the Queen, then she’s good enough for me!” Her rare appearance offers you the convenience of not having to wait months for an appointment or travel long distances, as well as paying only 1/6 her normal fees for a ninety minute session. Sarah’s easy to follow methods equip patients with lifetime skills to self-treat their own back.

Sarah is a best selling author of four popular books titled 'Back Sufferers' Bible', 'Back in Action', 'The Body In Action' and 'The Back Sufferers' Pocket Guide'.

Sarah was keynote speaker at the 2010 Back Show held at Olympia in London and also holds regular seminars at Highgrove, the estate of HRH the Prince of Wales in Gloucestershire for GPs and health care professionals. Sarah was made a Member of the Victorian Order by Her Majesty the Queen in 2002.  Download Sarah's biography here.

Each participant of the 90 minute seminar and workshop will receive a copy of Sarah's 150 page 'The Back Sufferers' Pocket Guide'.

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 music drama based on Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, with music and adaptation by Wayfarers' director Judith Clingan AM.

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The Ballina to Byron Bay Charity Walk is a fundraising event for Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter and is organised by the staff and volunteers of the Service.

The walk celebrates the helicopters’ 30th anniversary of service and provides an opportunity for the community to say thank you to the helicopter.

Join us on Sunday May 20 to walk for charity.

http://www.brunswickheads.org.au/festivals-events/mullum2bruns-paddle/about-the-paddle/p/428 

The third Mullum2Bruns Paddle is being held on Sunday 27 May 2012 as an eco-friendly family fun event, run by the community, for the community. Last year, 667 paddlers experienced the magical journey down the Brunswick River on a perfect warm winter’s day. We are expecting even more this year with the Paddle’s growing popularity and the addition of a new division. The main paddling events begin at Heritage Park in Mullumbimby and conclude at the Terrace in  Brunswick Heads, where live music, free paddle clinics, a duck race, raffle, BBQs and other fun entertain the crowds throughout the day in a festival atmosphere.

The Mullum2Bruns Paddle offers divisions for recreational and competitive paddlers of all ages and abilities. It's a great program!

• The 10km Echo Fun Paddle invites residents and visitors of all ages to paddle down the river from Mullumbimby to Brunswick Heads in any non-motorised craft at their own pace. There will be a prize for the Best Decorated Craft so we are expecting some creative entries.
• The 10km Hotel Brunswick Paddle Challenge is an open division and it’s always a close finish.
• The 10km Print Rescue Stand Up Paddle Challenge tests the experienced stand up paddlers.
• The shorter 1km Surf Lifesaving Club Board Challenge, in several divisions, takes off from Torakina and several relays for the nippers between the bridges are also included on the program.
• A new Paddle 2 Fitness Extreme Challenge has been added this year. Paddlers will contest a 20km course from Brunswick to Mullumbimby and back again. 

Last year there were  667 entries, so if you would like to stay in Brunswick Heads for the weekend, it would be advisable to book your accommodation as soon as possible.  Very limited kayak hire is available from local operators. 

The event is once again being jointly staged by three high profile volunteer community groups: The Brunswick Volunteer Rescue Marine Rescue, Brunswick Surf Lifesaving Club and the Brunswick Visitor Centre, and funds raised on the day will be split between the three non-profit organisations.

Registration is essential. Online registrations are now open. Alternatively you can register on the day at Heritage Park Mullumbimby from 7.30am.

Please note: It is a requirement by law that all children in a kayak under 12 years wear a life jacket.

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Back by popular demand, acclaimed pianist Kathy Selby returns to Byron to play works by Mendelssohn, Stravinsky and Chopin, with musicians of exceptional calibre:
Violinist Sophie Rowell, renowned for her chamber music prowess (First Violin Australian String Quartet 2006 – 11, Tankstream Quartet 2000 – 2006) ), and
Cellist Julian Smiles.(Goldner Quartet, Australian Ensemble, former principal cello Australian Chamber Orchestra).
Julian is one of Australia’s leading cellists. With a career based in chamber music, but extending with great success into solo as well as orchestral playing, his schedule sees him performing and recording extensively both in Australia and overseas. Julian plays on an 1827 Lorenzo Ventapane cello

There are few pianists in this country as thoroughly equipped to meet challenges as Kathy Selby does. She can flash over the keys with quicksilver speed and delicacy, punch out crisp staccato chords and sing with the sweetest cantabile tone as required.

Selby and Friends National series has earned an enviable reputation for the highest quality performances with an atmosphere of warmth and familiarity.
This concert encapsulates the chamber music experience: intimate, involving music among friends.

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A baby is just the beginning. Motherhood is for life.

Motherhood The Musical is a hilarious, musical journey about the lives of four mums. There's Barb, an over-worked, underpaid, stressed-out mother of five; Brooke, the lawyer, who works too much and barely sees her kids; Trisha, a single mum struggling to balance work, her family and her divorce; and finally Amy, the naive young woman about to have her first child.  As the three friends throw Amy a baby shower, the truth about motherhood (the good, the bad and the ugly) all come out into the open: the nappies, the dirty laundry, the lazy husbands, juggling the demands of children, a career and everything in between.

Written by the award-winning singer/songwriter Sue Fabisch, Motherhood The Musical has received rave reviews during its Australian tour. You'll love this joyous musical journey as it looks at the blessings and the perils of being a Mum. This is all about laughing and crying, craziness and calm, smiles and tears, all wrapped up into 90 minutes of great musical entertainment.

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Yes that’s right. Splendour In The Grass is planning to return to Byron Bay for the 2012 event.
After two years at Woodfordia in Queensland, we are now working on bringing Australia’s premier winter music and arts festival back to where it all started, Belongil Fields in Byron Bay.

The 2012 line up includes The White Stripes, Smashing pumpkins, Bloc Party, Missy Higgins, Wolfmother.

 info@nrwc.org.au

 1300 368 552

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The Byron Bay Writers Festival had its beginnings in 1997, when a small group of locals led by Chris Hanley wondered whether authors might accept an invitation to spend a winter's weekend in Byron Bay. They did, and an audience of two hundred  locals enjoyed a gathering of fifty Australian writers. Since then, the Festival has grown from a single venue event to fill four huge marquees and venues around town and sells 45,000 individual tickets. The guest list now numbers more than one hundred and over the years the most significant and respected contemporary Australian writers have participated through lectures, lunches, panels, conversations, launches and readings.

The focus of the program is firmly on Australian writing, with recognition of our physical place in the world through the inclusion of Indonesian and Asian authors. The Byron Bay Writers Festival enjoys a close relationship with the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival and believes that through words and ideas, bridges are formed that cross cultures and schisms. Fundamentally, the Festival provides a forum for intelligent discussion and guests are invited to address the issues that matter to them as writers and which necessarily concern us all. It is a celebration of the vitality of thought and creativity with a healthy emphasis on fun.

The Byron Bay Writers Festival is organised by the staff and Committee of the Northern Rivers Writers' Centre, a member based organisation receiving core funding from Arts NSW.  

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Two of Australia's most loved female artists – songstress Katie Noonan and classical guitarist Karin Schaupp are recording their first full length album – 'Songs of the Southern Skies'. The album explores music close to home and very close to their hearts, featuring some of Australia and New Zealand's best classical, folk, jazz and pop songs - from the Finn Brothers, Cold Chisel, Nick Cave, Icehouse, Bic Runga, Gurrumul, The Easybeats, Vince Jones and Gotye, through to traditional folk songs and the works of Peter Sculthorpe, Elena Kats-Chernin, Matthew Hindson, Richard Charlton and the like. With new arrangements, the songs are performed with the intimate combination of Noonan's angelic and versatile voice and Schaupp's lyrical and fiery guitar.

A feast for lovers of all styles of music.

This collaboration brings together two artists at the top of their game, true masters of their fields – artists who have enjoyed the challenge of stretching their musical boundaries, and have become great friends along the way. Noonan has four ARIA awards and 6 x platinum album sales to her name, whilst Schaupp has been lauded around the world as one of the best classical guitarists of her generation.

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