Lions Clubs Parade

12 tys. delegatów ze 146 krajów przybyło do Sydney w ostatnim tygodniu czerwca na doroczną konwencję Lions Clubs International. Tym razem światowy zjazd Lionów organizowali Australijczycy.
Członek Klubu Lwów – jak czytamy na stronie internetowej organizacji - to ten kto osiągnął sukces, kto żyje dobrze, dużo się śmieje i kocha ludzi. Kto wśród mądrych traktowany jest z respektem i kogo kochają małe dzieci. To ten, kto zostawia świat lepszym, niż go zastał, kto widzi w drugim tylko to, co dobre i kto sam z siebie daje to, co najlepsze.
Wczoraj ulicami Sydney od Hyde Park do Opera House, uczestnicy konwencji - członkowie Lions Clubs, przeszli w barwnym pochodzie. Wśród nich byli Polacy: pięć pań z Gdanska: Katarzyna Gebert, Joanna Wasiluk, Elżbieta Szmyd, Helena Polejko i Lucyna Czajka oraz Ryszard Jakubowski z Poznania, który obecnie pełni funkcję Gubernatora Okręgu - 121 Polska.

Slash's Dr. Dan Theme is in Sydney !

Sydney's Radio Triple M listener Nick Prichard returns from Paris, where he got meet Slash, ex-member of Guns N’ Roses and collect the guitar legeend's version of the Dr.Dan theme.
This iconic piece of rock was Triple M’s theme music for around 20 years.Everyone knows this classic riff as the ‘Spirit of Aussie Rock 'n' Roll.’


See all my photos of the world exclusive delivery of Triple M's Dr. Dan theme recorded by Slash! Nick's trip with Harley bikes escort from Sydney Airport early morning today to Triple M studio at Goulburn Street in city.

See also: Triple M

Suicide in Bondi Junction shopping centre

46-year-old man prepared to jump from a balcony ledge on the top floor of one of Sydney's busiest shopping centres in Bondi Junction today.
It was a scenario all too common in Australia, which has one of the highest suicide rates in the Western world.
The final moments of the man's life, which unfolded before hundreds of lunchtime shoppers, including children, at Westfield shopping centre in one of richest Sydney's suburb - Bondi Junction have raised questions about whether shopping centre management handled the situation effectively.

Few minutes latter the man died.








This is also question for designers of public spaces.

Macquarie Visions *2

Governor Macquarie laid the fundation stone for St Mary's Catholic Cathedral in 1821.

Macquarie Visions

Macquarie Visions is public event celebratingin imersive light displays the 200th anniversary and story of two visionary liders, Governor Lachlan Macquarie and his wife Elizabeth.

From 1810 to 1821 the Macquaries made an unparalleled contribution to the growth of NSW and Australia, instaling hundreds of ground-bracking public programs and championing the importance of agriculture, education, justice, benevolence and "fair go" for all.
Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie are attributed with much of the infrastructure building of NSW including churches, schools, hospitals, roads and banks.







Macquarie Visions illuminates the incredible legacies and achivement of Macquarie's 11-year tenure as Governor of NSW through innovative, theatrical and contemporary light displays of Macquarie Street linking St Mary's Cathedral to the Opera House as a part of Vivid Sydney Festival.

Lighting the Sails

In 2009 Brian Eno's "Lighting the Sails", attracted more than 200 000 people to the festival. This year Vivid LIVE curator Laurie Anderson put her own mark.