ANNUAL MEMBERS EXHIBITON
Feilding & District Art Society held their Annual Members Exhibition awards ceremony on Sunday, 11 May. Award certificates were presented by Allen Gamble (Chair of the Art Centre) together with Lynn Fletcher to 21 participants. This year the centre received the most entries in the eight award categories which ranged from oil, acrylic, watercolour, drawing media, ceramics, pottery, sculpture, handcraft, porcelain, out of the square, photography and the Theme for the Children's Story Book this year was "Fairy Tales".
The Fielding Art Centre became a Society in 2004 and this exhibition is the 15th held for the members of the Society.
The public are welcome to visit the centre at 104 Manchester Street, Feilding to view all the 81 entries. Hours are from 10.00am to 4.00pm during the week and 10.00am to 2.00 pm Saturday. The Exhibition runs from the 13th May to the 8th June 2019.
More photos on the Feilding and District Art Society FADAS facebook
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20.1% Small fireworks displays in each community
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32.7% We shouldn't celebrate it!
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10.5% Anything but fireworks
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