THE Belconnen Arts Centre and Belconnen Community Service will be hosting the inaugural Spring Winds Kite Festival this Sunday between 12 and 4pm.
They’re asking the community to join them to celebrate a unique day of community celebrations and be a part of this spring-inspired festival on the banks of Lake Ginninderra, adjacent to Belconnen Arts Centre.
The Festival will have kite making workshops for families, kite parades, kite flying, drum making and playing workshops, drumming parades, origami activities, kinetic art works, bird and fish installations, Cars that Paint, guerrilla knitting, a jumping castle, face-painting, delectable food and an exciting variety of dance and music performances.
Large kites will be flown and on display, and many groups will bring their own community kites made last year for the Arts Centre’s WIND AIR WATER KITE FESTIVAL.
From 4 to 6pm there will be an an after party and celebration of the Belconnen Arts Centre’s fifth birthday at the Arts Centre.
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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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