Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 10 : Record of press coverage, March 1982 - May 1984

,r - The Telegraph 17 September 1982 For Sandra Manning, FHtl• val '12 aHiatant executive di• recto;, the moat exciting event will be the opening concert on Sunday. · When the massed military bands strike up the first notes in the City Botanic Gardens, Sandra could be Cltp.!ctcd to feel proud. This will be the moment she has planned and worked towards for four years. It will be a grand moment all round. For the Commonwealth it is the first official Commonwealth Festival. And for Brisbane, Warana celebrates its 21 st birthday. Brisbane will host 3000 visiting artists, 700 from overseas. They will stay in a~ "artist's village" at Nudgee College. "Twenty countries will be repre– sented in the performing arts, and all the Commonwealth countries will be represented in other art forms," said Sandra•. "Brisbane people will be delight– ed and enlightened, and will have lots of fun. And the visitors will see some of our ways and .life-styles. It will be a true cultural exchan1e." Warana means "Blue skies' San– dra explained, keeping her fingers crossed. But crossing her fingers and hoping for the best isn't the way she has organised Festival 82. Immaculate and efficie11t, she pays attention to every detail. It is easy to see why she rose from being a top private secretary to second in command of the Festival team. Sandra came to Australia from Scotland in 1960, and still some– times breaks into a Scots brogue. It must please her to think that her hard work will pave the way for the second Commonwealth Festival in Edinburgh in 1986. Slie began pioneering for Festival '82 whel'I she joined the Com– .monwcalth Games Foundation four years ago. She joined the Warana Festival team in 1980. • Fingers crossed ~ --:·•'('°'··· . .,· ~- \' ', ~ '. \i ·\ ->• ;,,, for the ~r;, . -~ ,.~-- .,,. 4d" , . ;~ : ~~ ✓-~:~~A ' .. '"'• •. ·;: S 1.fV£f r ·_· Gf!,?'--'··~ . ...... -~~~I?E-:--t ,.,· 1 , .. ,~.· . \ ; ' ~ big day • S•ndr• M•nnlng, AHlat•nt E•.cuflve Director ot FH• flval '12, 1, •lrHdJ planning nHf 1••r•• teaflv•I. .':'\ Before this she was private secre- ''!:ady Diana's wedding dress is tary to the managing director of only one or the very wonderful cos– Myer Queensland Stores Ltd., Mr \umes to be displayed in the exhiqi– George Purdy, until his retirement iion of Commonwealth costumes in 0 1 ~ 78 · h ,. t f f,. ed masks and jewellcry."s}iesatir.= 1ven t e ,eas o events o ,er . . . . . . . . by Festival '82 it will be difficult for .......'.'lh1s 1:xh1~1t1og 1s unique - 1t 1s most people to choose what to see. ~JiCfUllruu t has~ ~n staged and But the three events not to be 1ll\'ontbeseeo_~_ga1n . !!Jfasc_(f, !IC~rfill}g to Sandra, are th~ There will ~ cig!tl_g_ther exhibi- GaJl!:ry_ exhibition1, which open on tions in the ~!l.lli- Sunday, the parade on Saturday, ----i'iicfestival Centre at 88 Edward September 25, and the Festival Fair Street is in a nurry of activity. San– from Friday, September 24, to Sat- dra works 10 to 14 hours a day, and urday, Oct~ber 2. most of the staff work six or seven By JO MACKELLAR days a week. And when it is all there will be the tidying up, re to be written and planning fo . Warana '83. Following Warana 's spccta~u\a, 1 coming of age. r~ture festivals promise to be of a high standard. "Next year's festival will mat~ this year's in quality if not quanf ty ," Sandra said. "At least thr countries will participate. And we are already looking a something special for 1986, wh 7 _ :J Warana will be 25." ~