By Michael Doran
Red Faces was once the place to find your five minutes of fame but it has long since been consigned to the TV cutting room floor.
However the Ectopia Festival on Sunday 24 March in Yarra Junction is the place to be for anyone game enough to face the crowd and have their act judged by ‘audience satisfaction’.
The event is called ‘The Valley’s Got Talent’ and the only criteria the organisers have set is the act ‘MUST compliment the environment’. Which means performers need to promote our beautiful environment somehow in their act, because this is what Ectopia and ECOSS is all about.
Tha acts will be split into Under 12 and Over 12 with the scoring being done by three professional judges, who will be taking audience satisfaction into their deliberations. Performances will be judged according to inventiveness and uniqueness, costume design and effort, promotion of the environment and talent.
Organisers have called for actors, singers, dancers, jugglers, instrument players and anyone with special talents to come and entertain the Ectopia crowd. They are also encouraging diversity and creativity to go with the environmental theme.
So if you want to launch a career, have a laugh or get a sustainability message across email Mellie.allen@hotmail.com or phone on 0417 160 862 for the entry forms and all the details. Details on Ectopia Festival 2019 are at www.ecoss.org.au
