photo: Ulli Brunschweiller
Everyone loves a re-enactment (those who don’t are weirdos) and thus there was a big turnout for the photo shoot at the infamous Fitters Workshop at Kingston this morning. It is well known that Megalo Print Studio + Gallery has been afforded ye olde workshop and had it taken away – on several occasions. Bolshy choral musicians (among others) are after it and Liberal and Green Parties have got together to (effectively) block Megalo’s move with a Parliamentary Inquiry. See submissions. So there aint nothin gunna happen at Kingston for a good while. “Well done everyone”, the social secretary said sarcastically. In the mean time, ever thinking positively, print makers and friends posed outside the workshop many wearing caps and aprons just like the fitters of olden times. You will see from the photo that a lot of people are supporting Megalo ….. and here are a few random shots of people milling around at the time of the shoot. Names have been left out to protect the guilty.
Postscript
The usually placid social secretary is extremely irritated today having read Elizabeth Farrelly’s piece of carping emotional claptrap in the Canberra Times (2/2/12) with the OTT title Eve of Destruction. (It comes complete with a doctored photo suggesting that the evil Alison Alder who has torn ye gorgeous olde workshop asunder and planted a stake in the heart of cultural development in the ACT*) That’s right folks if Megalo moves into the Fitters Workshop its gotta be the END OF THE WORLD, however, if a few amateur choral singers perform there from time to time its dawn of a renaissance for the arts and culture in Canberra. What can you say …. ?
* Mysteriously the photo has vanished. Too hot to handle?
The fitters
ready for action
supporters
milling
el windswept presidente
excellence indeed
familiar faces 1
familiar faces 2
