A Wonderful Return On The Horizon - The Burdekin Water Festival Needs YOU
The scheduled return for the Burdekin Water Festival has been celebrated across the region, with the festival set to ignite Queen Street on Saturday 7 September with the nostalgic theme, Bring it Back.
The theme, Bring it Back was decided at the Burdekin Water Festival Committee’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on Monday 10 June where a group of dedicated members of the community put plans into motion for the 2024 event.
Drawing from Water Festivals of the past, the theme, Bring it Back aims to take locals on a trip down memory lane, and the committee encourages all businesses to decorate their shop fronts to capture their most treasured memories of the annual festival. In discussions with the Water Festival Committee, common memories amongst the group included extravagant floats and costumes, Angie Baby, candy being thrown from the floats, various local organisation’s mascots participating in the parade, Queen Street festivities, delicious food stalls, and awesome entertainment throughout the day and into the night.
The committee has begun calling for your support to ensure this much-loved event returns with a bang, and needs organisations, sporting clubs, dance and performance schools, community groups, businesses, primary, high schools and kindergartens, and ultimately everyone in the community to become involved in some way.
“We have a short time frame to get this underway, and we need as much support as we can, financially, and with volunteers, so if you can help in any way, please contact us,” expressed the Burdekin Water Festival Committee’s Media Advisor, Kari Ravizza.
Both junior and senior ambassadors from any organisation, businesses, groups and / or schools in the region are also strongly encouraged to come forward.
On the evening of last Monday’s AGM, the Burdekin Water Festival Executive Committee was announced, receiving extremely positive feedback from the community, acknowledge the event will be in safe hands. The esteemed president, Eusebio Aguirre will be joined by Vice President Frank Nucifora, Treasurer Debbie Szendry, Secretary Bruna Pearson, and Secretary Support, Colleen Harris.
With updates and calls for support being published on the Burdekin Water Festival’s Facebook page, Wednesday 12 June saw the committee excitingly secure Queensland Country Credit Union as one of their major sponsors.
The committee expresses its gratitude to the region for their support of their efforts to date and looks forward to organising an extraordinary comeback event for the much-loved Burdekin Water Festival.
