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december 5-11, 2008

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m Send event listings to [email protected] Changing perceptions ... Shobna and Bhavna Arumugam (first and second from left) with other festival organisers.

CHRISTMAS CHAIR TREE Sydneysiders have donated chairs to help build an innovative community-art installation: a Christmas tree made of chairs. A sausage sizzle and entertainment will follow the lighting of the tree. Today, 7pm, Playfair Street, The Rocks Square, free.

CAROLFEST Celebrate 50 years of this festiveseason choir concert and hear Silent Night in its original German or sing along to Deck The Halls. A light supper follows the singing. Saturday, 8pm, Sunday, 6pm, University of Sydney’s Great Hall, $25/$20/$10 (under 12s). See sums.org.au.

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FASHION SWAP In response to wasteful consumption, the Clothing Exchange invites vintage connoisseurs to swap their unwanted clothes with others. Enjoy a drink and canapes while the clothes are racked up. Monday, 6.30pm, 10A Fitzroy Place, Surry Hills, 0414 212 790, $20 entry. SEASONAL READING ’Tis the season to be jolly. It is also, the indigenous Dharawal people say, the season of the parra’dowee (eel). Listen as the Dharawal’s Fran Bodkin describes the six yearly seasons, each indicated by the activity of a plant and animal. Wednesday, 10.30am-noon, Maiden Theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens, $18 (members $12). See rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/ friends or phone 9231 8182. Andre Rangiah

THE GEN Y STEREOTYPE DOES NOT APPLY HERE, REPORTS MARTHA TATTERSALL. IF DEMOGRAPHERS and analysts are correct, generation Y is selfish, impatient to get ahead and looking for instant gratification through the least amount of work possible. Not so for a group of high school students in Sydney’s west, who for the past six months have met every two weeks to organise the

Youth4Youth Fiesta, a project that has brought together young people and provided them with an opportunity to organise and run their own event. ‘‘We wanted to get the community involved, celebrate youth in Parramatta and have fun,’’ says 17-year-old Shobna Arumugam of Macarthur Girls High School. She, along with 25 others from six local schools, has been working with Parramatta City Council and the Step To The Future Foundation to get the fiesta up and running. ‘‘Step To The Future and Parramatta City Council wanted to run a youth project for the community so we all came to a discussion meeting in the beginning and decided that we wanted to put on a festival for Parramatta and it just took off from there,’’ says Shobna’s twin sister Bhavna, who is also on the organising committee. The event will showcase local bands such as

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From Day One, A Bad Days Goodnight and The Beat Puppets, as well as Queensland act Ellington. Auditions were held last month to source local talent and other bands were found through social networking site Myspace. ‘‘We’re giving young people an opportunity to get out there and we’re promoting Parramatta as a creative city,’’ Shobna says. Stalls, rides and a selection of multicultural food also feature. ‘‘We’re trying to change the perceptions of the elder generation about us,’’ she says. ‘‘We’re trying to get the youth off the street, celebrate the youth in the Parramatta area and show Parramatta what we can do.’’

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