The school hall has been transformed for the A Touch of the Brush performance by Circartus happening as part of the Wingham Akoostik Music Festival this coming weekend, October 20 and 21. 

School students have created a replica of a rainforest, including rainforest animals from all around the country – brush turkeys, flying-foxes, turtles, snakes, lizards, tawny frogmouths, frogs, and even a life-size cassowary.

The public is invited to start the journey to A Touch of the Brush at the Wingham Brush Public School hall at 4.15pm and then make their way down to Wingham Brush for the performances.

Students from class 3/4B were inspired to write invitations after a torch-lit walk through their ‘rainforest’. Here are some examples:

Dear Wingham Brush, There’s a forest in the new hall on Saturday the 20^th and Sunday the 21^st of October. You can hear the beautiful sounds of nature in our forest. You use a torch to find all the magnificent creatures our classes have been working on. Watch out for bats though! If you’re lucky you might even see a waterfall. Kind regards, Matilda

Dear Wingham Brush, You should come to Touch of Brush on the 20th and 21st of October 2018. If you do come, you will feel like a bird flying through The Brush. They will turn off all the lights so it’s all dark like in the night and provide torches so you can find animals with the torch. Go swimming like a turtle through the waterfall. LOOK OUT!!!! It’s a cassowary. Save yourself, Ruby Beard

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