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UPDATE NEW SHOW ADDED

The Bay Theatre Players production of Calendar Girls will be back onstage tomorrow ( Saturday) night and Sunday matinee as planned. The Bay Theatre Players cast are looking forward to welcoming you back to their lovely little theatre space for this heartfelt and funny show saying: “This weekend is sold out, but we have added Wednesday 2nd November to our performance dates with plenty of good seats still available on that date. “Nov 1st- 31 seats, Nov 3rd - 4 seats, Nov 4th - 12 seats, Nov 5th- 24 seats. These will go quickly so don't wait. Get good seats now!

Book Here: www.trybooking.com/cbcdv

Some words our audiences are using to describe Calendar Girls: Beautiful, moving, hilarious, brave, outstanding, unmissable. Don't forget to purchase our very own Calendar for $15 and help us raise funds for Cancer Research.

Bay Theatre Players Inc would also like to remind our patrons to bring cash as our EFTPOS facility is still unavailable

Alexander Gadjiev, Winner Of 2021 Sydney Interna onal Piano Compe on, Won The Compe on Online But Is Now Here To Perform Live For Local Music Lovers 2pm Sunday 30 October, St Bernard’s Church Batehaven Italian/Slovenian Alexander Gadjiev scooped the pool at the 2021 Sydney Interna onal Piano Compe on, winning first prize as well as six of the minor prizes. Alexander is now in the middle of a na onal tour as part of the prize winner’s package and will perform for local audiences on Sunday 30 October at St Bernard’s Church in Batehaven. The Sydney Piano Compe on is one of the major interna onal compe ons for emerging pianists. It is usually conducted as a series of recitals in front of live audiences. The 2020 compe on was postponed due to COVID and in a world first, was conducted online in 2021. Performances were pre-recorded and then streamed for the judges and online audiences. In this tour, Alexander is playing live before Australian audiences for the first me. “Exploring the vastness of Australia this year, sharing my music in front of live audiences across the country, and mee ng the is a dream come true for me.” said Gadjief of this na onal tour. Alexander Gadjiev is an ar st on the cusp of a major interna onal career. The audience can expect a stunning display of virtuosic skills in a program that will feature works by Chopin and Schumann. The concert will also include the new work by Australian composter Colin Spiers, who won The Sydney Piano Compe on’s ‘Composing the Future’ compe on in 2021. The prize-winning piece ‘Eine Kleine Nacht Music’ can o en be heard on ABC Classic. Tickets can be purchased online at www.southcoastmusicsociety.com or at the door Adults $35, Concessions $30. Students and an accompanying adult Free. Alexander Gadjiev is presented by the South Coast Music Society in associa on with the Sydney Interna onal Piano Compe on. The South Coast Music Society has been bringing fine classical performers to local audiences since 1996. We have an exci ng program planned for 2023 that will include The Australian Baroque Brass in April; Katherine Selby (piano) and Andrew Haveron (violin) in May; Soprano Bronwyn Douglas accompanied by Alan Hicks in August; and Diana Doherty (oboe) with Bernade e Harvey (piano) in December.

Oct 29th - Chris McGrath at Club Catalina Oct 29th - Joe Driscoll – Tuross Club (6.30pm) Oct 29th - Steve Mar n at Tomakin Social Club

Oct 29th - Driving Sideways at Batemans Bay Soldiers Club Oct 30th - Joe Driscoll at The Patch, Tomakin Social Club

Oct 30th - Alexander Gadjiev, Winner Of 2021 Sydney Interna onal Piano Compe on, Won The Compe on Online But Is Now Here To Perform Live For Local Music Lovers 2pm Sunday 30 October, St Bernard’s Church Batehaven Nov 4th - Dave Berry – Tomakin Club (7.30pm) Nov 5th - Inven are back & bigger than ever with an amazing new program at 2:30 pm on Saturday, November 5 at St Paul's, Narooma Tickets $28 from Mitre 10, Narooma & Nested on Wallaga, Bermagui, $30 at the door or from h ps:// www.trybooking.com/CDFWX

More info: 0439 648414 www.montaguechoristers.org montague.chorister s.narooma@gmail.com

Kindly supported by Jenny and Jock Munro Nov 5th - Flock of Haircuts at Club Catalina

Nov 5th - The Pearlerz – Tuross Club (7.30pm) Nov 5th - Midnight Jukebox at One Tree Tavern Nov 12th - Sco Stone at Club Catalina

Nov 12th - Jeff Aschmann will be playing at Grumpiescafe on Saturday November 12 in Mogo November 12 - 12:00 -3:00

What’s on Four Winds welcomes the Australian String Quartet to the Windsong Pavilion on 25 November.

The evening will showcase one of the na on’s renowned string quartets, performing a diverse and dynamic range of repertoire that conveys the potency of chamber music of today when in their hands. The musical journey will move through a triptych of miniatures from an exci ng genera on of Australian voices – equal parts animated, reflec ve and atmospheric. The night will culminate with Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 9 – a vibrant work of masterful contrast and counterpoint that conjures up ecsta c moments, brimming with energy. ‘’A diverse array of sonorous string sounds – invi ng listeners on a journey to reflect and connect’’ Ma hew Hoy, Four Winds Ar s c & Crea ve Director A delicious dinner will be available on the lawns of the Windsong Pavilion from 5:30pm. The light meal will be sumptuous Thali plates created by J-Bird catering. Meat and vegan curry op ons will be available with fluffy steamed rice and flavourful condiments to match. All meal op ons are gluten free and dairy free. Dinner is available for pre-purchase via the Four Winds website or at the event. The Four Winds bar will be open throughout dinner, during interval and a er the event. Four Winds welcomes to this event Guest of Honour Margaret Throsby, who re red recently from her role as a broadcaster on ABC Radio. Margaret has made a significant contribu on to many Four Winds fes vals as MC and presenter on ar st panels. We thank Margaret for her contribu on to Four Winds and the arts throughout her career in radio and television.

What’s on—cinema Feral horses and Kosciuszko on film at Narooma Kinema on 17th November

A suspension of feral animal shoo ng is the latest chapter in the struggle over feral horses in Kosciuszko Na onal Park. The cull is intended to protect the park by reducing feral horse numbers to 3,000. At last count in 2020 there were 14,000 feral horses in the park with that number increasing 20% each year. Whether the cull is making any headway will be seen in another count occurring before Christmas this year. The cull was secretly suspended by the NSW government in mid September in an apparent bid to placate Sydney shock jock Ray Hadley. ‘Although the suspension is the latest worry, feral horses in the park have long been a big concern,’ says film-maker Mandy King who explores the issues in her film Where the Water Starts. To make the film, King and her partner, Fabio Cavadini, teamed up with Indigenous and non-Indigenous community leaders who KIng says are really concerned about feral animals trampling and bogging up the fragile ecology of the headwaters of the Snowy, Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers which is also suffering climate change impacts. ‘Over genera ons, the landscape has been degraded to the point where 34 species of na ve plants and animals are now under threat. The high country has not evolved to handle hard hooved animals such as deer and especially feral horses,’ says King. Richard Swain, a Wiradjuri descendant raised in the high country and Indigenous Ambassador on the Invasive Species Council, is a strong, passionate voice in the film. ‘It's at pping point now, if you get the horses off and do a li le bit of remedia on, this will recover,’ hopes Swain. ‘Locals can learn more about this important na onal discussion and what the future holds at the screening of Where the Water Starts at the Narooma Kinema on 17th November,’ says King. Ted Rowley whose farm adjoins the Kosciuszko Na onal Park and Ngarigo custodian Aunty Rhonda Casey who is in the film will be on the Q&A panel a er the film. Tickets can be purchased here h ps://fan-force.com/screenings/where-the-water-starts-narooma-kinema/

Narjong, the water healing ceremony held on Long Plain in Kosciuszko Na onal Park in March 2019. Credit: South Coast photographer, John Ford

Above: Richard and Alison Swain feeding baby wombats. Credit: Fabio Cavadini

Gadfly 259 By Robert Macklin ‘Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.’ So said Charles Dudley Warner in a quote commonly misattributed to his good friend Mark Twain. The same goes for ‘politics makes strange bedfellows.’ Oddly enough, these two little quips, taken together, will decide the future of humanity. It is now clear that the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were too sanguine in their predictions of the chaos that even the 1.5 degree increase in global heating would wreak upon the species that caused it. They either underestimated the effect of the feedback loop that increases the problem exponentially, or they merely provided advice instead of rousing the populace to action. Scientific politesse trumped bellowing rage. Moreover, they failed to join the dots where the rolling pandemics, economic disruption and rising nationalistic hysteria, would all follow the collapse of manageable weather systems. That, alas, is what is now staring us all in the face. The Arctic ice is melting at an increasing rate, the methane is rising from the great Russian tundra, the melting snow and ice from the Himalayas to the Antarctic are not just raising sea levels, they are rearranging the oceanic currents and winds that result in wild inundations like the ones we’re suffering right across eastern Australia. And this is just the beginning. Our feeble international response is so pathetic that it’s reflected in the first of Mr Warner’s quips. The second is a work in progress. The four great polities that have within their power to act in concert to at least slow the feedback to manageable proportions – America, China, Russia and India – are led by men so wrapped in their own political survival that they’d rather blow up the bedroom than hop between the sheets. Even Joe Biden’s America, which used to accommodate both sides of the political spectrum in an admittedly spacious double bed, have split into two singles – one red, one blue - and never the twain shall meet. So, where do we go from here? Curiously, I think the answer lies in the very extremity of the climate changes that are bedeviling the world and threaten to become existential. We have seen the response in miniature time and again as the fires bear down on townships or the floodwaters rise to unimagined heights. When that happens, communities transform themselves to become mutually supportive entities. Where once they were niggling neighbors, now they’re roaming Samaritans willing to put their own lives in danger to rescue the very bloke they used to feud with. And at the official level, Local, State and Federal authorities put aside their differences for the common good. The day is coming when together they will recognize that SES volunteers can no longer handle the crisis; a new professional organization of civilian emergency workers will be created to deal with the disasters. And our economies will be reorganised to incorporate the Disaster Force into a major industry. Next step is the realisation that we might not be in bed together, but we’re all in the same boat; and the disaster industry will be upscaled to an international force whose operations will ignore the manmade borders that used to mean so much. At such a time, the pretentions of small men like Putin, Trump, Modi, the Mullahs of Iran et al will seem simply pathetic as they’re washed away in a flood of human sensibility. Well, that’s my dream anyway. robert@robertmacklin.com

He peered into the inky blackness but first light only switched the colour to cloudy grey as fog consumed the blueness of the waters, the bo le green banks of the river and confirmed the mystery of the bush beyond. Bazza sipped his coffee and stared into the monotonous greyness. The vivid colours Mother Nature munificently provided whisked away by her troubled offspring; the weather. He sighed, and pondered the connec on between memory and colour. Bazza had just returned from a motorcycle trip to the northern reaches of NSW and into the hinterland of south east Queensland. From the strobing green black and white of the gum trees on the Clyde mountain, it was country awash with colour. Me culous weather planning by his be er organised co riders allowed an apprecia on of a countryside now bathed in vibrant colours, previously scorched brown by drought. As he peered into the fog his thoughts on colour shi ed to a conversa on with another Old Mate they had reconnected with on their travels. He had spent the intervening decades mastering Braille and was now teaching vision impaired kids. The teaching of concepts such as colour, size, gender and distance were essen al for these kids to engage in conversa on and gain an apprecia on of literature. As the fog to set in, the memory or experience of colour was all Bazza could rely on. It was reassuring. Apprecia ng colour without these visual terms of reference had him squin ng into the fog and he contemplated the lines from the song ‘A Life me of Nigh me” by the Pure Prairie League. “I feel the clouds rolling in I can feel the blue skies turn to gray I feel the darkness se n in and I know the sun is going down You see my ears they are my eyes now I can't see a blessed thing Oh how I wish I could see again the joys sunlite bring”* To teach ‘colour’ to the vision impaired, Old Mate would rely on the kids using their ‘finger eyes’ to explore and learn. Students feel the colour ‘brown’ by exploring the textures of wood, bark or even soil and for ‘green’ the touch of leaves or grass. For the primary colour ‘red’, he would guide a student’s hand towards a lighted candle and talk through shades of red at varying levels of heat or highlight its different applica ons by feeling the textures and apprecia ng the smells of raspberries and strawberries. Bazza closed his eyes to darkness for a long moment and reopened to the pearly fog, a world restricted to two colours. The response to “Surely the colours ‘black’ and ‘white’ are the easiest to teach?” had stunned Bazza. “No mate….. almost impossible. A person born blind has no visual terms of reference. Other colours can be taught with the senses, but ‘black’ and ‘white’ are a real challenge. I’ve tried teaching ‘black’ by comparing it to total silence and ‘white’ by using constant noise like a fan or running water but it’s pre y ineffec ve.” “A world without black and white eh?……. That might solve a few problems.” * h ps://youtu.be/mGI3MrRz5YI

ON the invita on of Mrs. G. Mercer and Miss Mollie Lou t over 60 ladies assembled at the Shire Hall on Tuesday a ernoon and presented them with gi s of material for making sweets for their stall at the Scotch Fair, which takes place in the Mechanics’ Hall on 4th and 6th November. Choice roses and poppies graced the tables upon which was set delectable refreshments. Keen interest was manifested in the name guessing compe on which was won by Miss Gwen Jeffrey, who was presented with a cake as her prize. SUGAR is to be reduced to 5d per lb. on November 1, and there will be a corresponding reduc on in the price of jams, canned fruits, jelly crystals, lemon peel, lemon and orange cordials of all kinds, and other manufactured products containing sugar. The usual monthly mee ng of the Moruya Progress Associa on took place in the Shire Hall on Tuesday last. Present: - Rev. G. A. Sanders (chair), Messrs. F. Sebbens, J. Foreman, L. Russell, G. Mitchell, O. J. Armstrong and Sec. C. Carter. … It was decided to get permission from the Shire Council to remove the present bathing sheds to below Mr. Mitchell’s mill. A number of members present volunteered to help in the shi ing of the sheds. The ma er of protec ng the trees planted this year was le in Mr. Mitchell’s hands. Miss Winifred Wallace, elder daughter of Mrs. E. M. Wallace, died on 20th inst. at her mother’s home at Gundary. The deceased lady, who had been a martyr to rheuma cs for many years, bore her afflic on with a Chris an for tude that was an edifica on to the many friends who visited her in her sufferings. The parish is the poorer for her death inasmuch as she was an exemplary Catholic and an enthusias c worker for the Church. … Great sympathy is felt for Mrs. Wallace (mother), Mrs. Davies (sister), and Mr. T. Wallace (brother) in their bereavement. MR. John Coppin, snr., was seized with a sudden illness which developed into bronchi s last week. At his wish he was admi ed to the local hospital, where under the careful nursing of his daughter, Matron Constable, he is progressing sa sfactorily. ADVERT. WANTED. A GOOD Woman as Cook. Apply – CLYDE HOTEL, Bateman’s Bay. ADVERT. A BALL -in aid of- The R.C. Church Funds - will be held in- THE NERRIGUNDAH HALL -on- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17th 1922. Good Music. Double Tickets 5/-. Single 3/-. MRS. CURTIS & MISS L

O’TOOLE, Joint Hon. Secs. Extracted from the Moruya Examiner by the Moruya and District Historical Society Inc. h ps:// www.mdhs.org.au