Glad you brought this up Neil, we need a wider debate on this topic.
Country Energy (a great supporter of Bush Poetry) contacted Jan Morris mid December with support for hosting a children's performance competition. Given the concerns over possible low attandance due to the short notice, to their credit Jan Morris and Country Energy soldiered on. And I believe Country Energy committed to the Children's programme for next year.
For members information, I've included correspondence between Jan and myself.
With a bit more preparation time the Country Energy Tamworth Children's Performance Competition for 2012 will be a success.
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Thanks, Manfred. I think we have done all we can do. Now we just have to wait and see what happens. Thanks for all your help, Jan On 05/01/2011, at 11:09 PM, Manfred wrote:
> Hi Jan, this is what was put up on the ABPA Website ...
>
http://www.abpa.org.au/
>
>
> CALLING ALL PARENTS
> How would you like your child to be the winner of the very first
> COUNTRY ENERGY CHILDREN'S BUSH POETRY COMPETITION?"
> There are still some spots available in the Inaugural COUNTRY ENERGY
> CHILDREN'S BUSH POETRY COMPETITION for the 17th January 2010 The Age
> groups are, up to 11 and, 11 - 15 years of age.
> Only TWO categories for the competition, Original and Traditional.
> The venue is at St Edwards Hall, Hillvue Rd, South Tamworth starting
> at 8.30 am.
> For more information contact
janmorris@northnet.com.au or send a SSAE
> to PO Box 3001, West Tamworth NSW 2340.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Manfred.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Morris [mailto:
janmorris@northnet.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 January 2011 3:19 PM
> To: Manfred
> Subject: Re: Tamworth Children's competition
>
> Hi Manfred,
>
> The information is already on the ABPA website. But is it possible to add
> something like " The Tamworth Poetry Reading Group is still looking
> for entries for its inaugural Children's Bush Poetry Competition which
> is generously being sponsored by Country Energy. There are sections
> for Age up to 11 and 11 to 15, and there are 2 sections in each age
> group, Original and Traditional.
> The competition will be held on Monday 17 January at St Edwards Hall,
> Hillvue Rd, South Tamworth starting at 8.30 am.
> So come on kids, how would you like to be the winner of the very
> first COUNTRY ENERGY CHILDREN'S BUSH POETRY COMPETITION?"
>
> How's that? Did I get carried away? Can you put that on?
> Jan
>
>
> On 05/01/2011, at 1:44 PM, Manfred wrote:
>
>> Jan, we can put a notice on the ABPA home page ... what would you
>> like it to say ???
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Manfred.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jan Morris [mailto:
janmorris@northnet.com.au]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 4 January 2011 8:10 PM
>> To: Frank Daniel; Manfred
>> Subject: Tamworth Children's competition
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just thought I'd share with you my concerns that the children's comp
>> will not be a goer. So far, we have no entries, despite everyone's
>> enthusiasm at the idea. We will turn up at the venue of the Monday
>> in case we have people turn up, and I will look at it again next
>> year, bearing in mind that the first Tamworth Bush Poetry Competition
>> had 4 entrants, from what I've heard. Perhaps we started too late, or
>> perhaps the date is too early in the week. Lots of people don't turn
>> up till later in the week.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm stressing out a bit about it. Also, Cliff had a bad fall
>> on Christmas Day and will take a lot of healing. He tore the tendon
>> from his kneecap and, as it is all shredded, it was hard to reattach.
>> So I am nursemaid as well as competition organiser.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm not whinging, just need to share the load a bit.
>>
>> Looking forward to seeing all my bush poet friends,
>>
>> Jan