Rally for Don Russell PAC - City of Gosnells wants to close the venue
Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 02:08 pmMelz28 posts in thread
Rally for Don Russell PAC - City of Gosnells wants to close the venue
Fri, 15 Oct 2010, 02:08 pmInformation has come to light today that the City of Gosnells have voted in favour of closing Don Russell Performing Arts Centre in Thornlie.
Don Russell PAC is part of the CircuitWest network and this will effect both state and federal touring productions as well as the City of Gosnells and neighbouring communities.
Moved Cr C Fernandez Seconded Cr D Griffiths
That Council move management of the Don Russell Performing Arts Centre to City Facilities and hire out the centre in a similar manner to other City of Gosnells facilities
CARRIED 7/5
FOR: Cr T Brown, Cr C Fernandez, Cr D Griffiths, Cr L Griffiths, Cr K Jones, Cr B Wiffen
and Cr O Searle.
AGAINST: Cr W Barrett, Cr J Brown, Cr R Hoffman, Cr S Iwanyk and Cr R Mitchell.
All will be decided at the next Council Meeting - Tuesday Oct 26 at 7.30pm. Performing Arts lovers, we need to rally at that meeting to show the communities support of Don Russell Performing Arts Centre.
If you would like to read the minutes from that meeting - here is the link - it all starts on page 14.
http://www.gosnells.wa.gov.au/upload/gosnells/11F55A20C67649789F72A90811CE67B.pdf
To contact the councillors and to share your concern and voice your support for Don Russell PAC - this link will take you to the contact details of the Councillors http://www.gosnells.wa.gov.au/scripts/viewoverview_contact.asp?NID=126
I will definitely be at the next Council Meeting on Tues Oct 26 at 7.30pm
Address: 2120 Albany Highway, Gosnells
I hope you will all rally too!
They forced one of WA's loved community theatres to close last year - Acorn Theatre to move which resulted in their closure - now they're doing it to a professional venue !!!
If you want to contact me please do via email - taz@tazentertainment.com.au
Thank you for supporting Don Russell PAC
Tue, 26 Oct 2010, 04:57 pmI wanted to quickly call in and say thank you to the 253 people that signed our online petition to save Don Russell Performing Arts Centre... we hope it makes a contribution towards the hopeful reversal of the City of Gosnells decision. Some of your comments were so inspiring!
The rally last Sunday was very successful, and we understand that there were many who would have loved to come along to voice their concerns and show their support. You were definitely there in spirit :-)
Tonight is the cruncher... the City of Gosnells council meeting is on tonight (Tues Oct 26) and starts at 7.30pm. If you are able to attend, you are more than welcome, and we are hoping there will be a strong contingent of people, thus showing the dedication and support for this community venue that is one of Perth's elite venues and on state and national touring circuit.
City of Gosnells is located at 2120 Albany Highway, Gosnells and if you can try to be there at 7pm, that would be ideal. Please let Mr Chris Tallentire MLA know you are there to support Don Russell Performing Arts Centre.
Personally, due to other commitments, I am unfortunately not able to attend tonight, but I hope there are alot of you that will be. I of course, will be there in spirit, and our online petition will be submitted by one of the supporting Councillors tonight.
Thank you again to you all.
Cheers
Melanie DeCull
TAZ Entertainment
Melz :-)