Fort Fest 2018

Fort Fest 2018

CONGRATULATIONS to the whole Fortian community for a wonderful Fest this year!

This year’s Fest was blessed by a beautiful sunny winter’s day. We estimate a crowd of over 4,000 people came and enjoyed the great music performed by our IMP. The food was, as always, an absolute hit and all the usual parent run stalls provided plenty of opportunities to snap up bargains. Altogether the Fest raised around $20,000 on the day.

This will go towards re-modelling the Library, the plans for which are already well underway.

The many and varied SRC stalls were brilliant again this year, filling the Fountain Quad, not to mention the Talent Quest that was also a great success. We look forward to hearing a report back from the students on how it all went… I hear the Amnesty Stall made over $600 for Amnesty International on the Day!

And now to thank …

To make the Fest happen, I am happy to say that it was not a small group, but a very, very large one. The work of over 200 volunteers… guided by 25 volunteer Stall Captains, who took a leadership role, made the whole thing work.

Great great work by many and there are a few special thank yous that need to be mentioned …

  • Karen DiStefano, Joel Morrison, Rebecca Cameron, Catriona Arcamone and Michael Galvin for all their support.
  • Kevin the GA, without whose help the Festival team would have been seriously challenged
  • The support of the office staff, especially Denise, Kellorin and Christine
  • All 25 Stall Captains that did an awesome job – organising their teams, creating and running the various stalls successfully.
  • A special Call-out to those year 7/8 parents who bravely volunteered to be Stall Captains without having been to a Festival before! This includes Pippa, Suzanne, Suzanne, Alison, Michael and Jackie – apologies if I missed anyone
  • Elizabeth Kenyon – who organised the borrowing of trestle tables and Gazebos from Australia St Infants School
  • Australia St Infants School for the loan of trestle tables and Gazebos
  • Suzanne & Chris Trimmer – for stepping in and helping to get the BBQ sorted amongst many other things
  • Liz Barr – for buying all the BBQ meat and eggs at the last minute – what a lifesaver.
  • The SetUp team that worked tirelessly to get it all ready: Dime, Jan, Jess, Louie, Suzanne, Eric and Nam. Legend!
  • Our Comms team that put up flyers, advertised to over 20 local primary schools, promoted via social media, contacted the local paper and letterboxed locally. Great work all. Shruti, Lucia, Cecile and Suzanne(again)
  • Huge thanks to Craig Symonds and Feng. The two electricians that stepped up to keep us safe on the day.
  • Tamara and Talia for coming to the rescue as baristas when the going got tough at the Coffee Cart.
  • Lan and Shruti, for being there twice a week, week in – week out, in the cold, selling our merchandise before school
  • The Money Handling team for having it all so well run on the day. Natasha, Dime, Elizabeth and Kadir.

Lastly, this week we received congratulations on the event from an ex Fortian (year of 1956) whose grandchild is in Year 7. He generously donated $300 directly to the P&C Library fund. If you too would like to help pull our Fortian Library into the 21st Century please donate to: Fort St P&C * BSB: 032267 * a/c: 247674 * ref: FF18 Library

Jenny Curtis