
KARAOKE CAROUSEL in Hyde Park (above) took me back to my childhood days on the merry-go-rounds at the local show, with their galloping horses, nostalgic music, and vivid colours. But in addition, this one offered visitors the chance to grab the microphone and belt out a tune … a few voice lessons needed there!

JURASSIC PLASTIC in Sydney Town Hall is a real kid magnet! Designed by Japanese artist Hiroshi Fuji, it features several giant 60 kg dinosaurs, made from many thousands of discarded plastic toys. Its message is about excessive consumerism and waste, but that probably wasn’t foremost in the minds of the littlies totally absorbed in playing and creating from the piles of bits and pieces of toys on the floor. Mind you, there were several adults who couldn’t resist having a go too!

It was lovely seeing young and old alike creating frozen fish sculptures in moulds, using water they had collected from the harbour, and then placing them in a large replica of a canoe in the cove, where flames and the late afternoon sun melted them, symbolically returning the fish to the Harbour. Such a great concept!

Chris Haldane is USK Sydney organiser and is an artist in her other life. More of her work can be seen at:
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