THE Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia is hosting a Balinese dance performance at the National Gallery of Australia this weekend, but you’ll have to hurry to get into this one, as the Gallery’s website reads: “sold out”.
The performers are the visiting “KITA” (us) Art Community Dancers from Bali and their hope is to entertain audiences of all ages and backgrounds with a range of dancers, including a masked dance as pictured.
The Indonesian Embassy in Canberra has told “CityNews” that a very limited number of tickets are still available directly from the Embassy, but they are running out fast.
Indonesian dance and gamelan concert, James O Fairfax Theatre, National Gallery of Australia, Sunday, April 23. Inquiries to pensosbud.canberra@kemlu.go.id and requests for tickets to 6250 8642?.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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