THE INAUGURAL Mindscapes Mish Mash Variety Night 2013 kicks off tomorrow as part of Mental Health Week’s Mindscapes Festival.
Billed as “an evening of arts and entertainment by a cross section of consumers, carers, amateurs, and professionals” this; is entertainment from the community and threatens jugglers, jokers, performance artists and musos, all performing short sets.
Mindscapes Mish Mash Variety Night, 7-11pm, Thursday October 10, at the White Eagle Polish Club, 38 David St, Turner,
Details of other events at the of the Annual Mindscapes Festival are below:
Mindscapes Short Film Festival, at National Film and Sound Archive, McCoy Circuit, Acton, 6pm to 9.30pm, Wednesday, October 9.
Poetry night, at Smiths Alternative, 76 Alinga St, Canberra City, 6.30-8.00pm, Thursday, October 17.
Art and Photography Competition, at Belconnen Community Centre, 26 Chandler St, Belconnen until October 18.
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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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