Orange Blossom Festival
The Orange Blossom Festival - 9th - 19th September, 2011
Orange Blossom Festival Program of Events 2011 (2.13MB)
Once again, we have celebrated another vibrant Orange Blossom Festival.
Many thanks to all the volunteers, community groups and community members who worked tirelessly to make
the 2011 Orange Blossom Festival a wonderful success.
For any information about Orange Blossom Festival 2012, contact
Council's Civic Events Team on 9843 0532 or email: events@thehills.nsw.gov.au
Thank you to our Orange Blossom Festival Sponsors 2011
Our sponsors' contributions are the backbone of the success of the Orange Blossom Festival.
Please show them your appreciation.
PLATINUM SPONSORS
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Castle Towers is the premier shopping, fashion and entertainment destination for Sydney's North West. Discover the many ways you can indulge at Castle Towers with a choice of two department stores, David Jones and Myer, discount department stores, Target and Kmart plus over 310 speciality stores.
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GOLD SPONSOR
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Hillside Hotel is one of The Hills premier local venues - offering great food and entertainment for the whole family.
Parent company “Premier Venues” have been a long-term supporter of Council’s community events, and are the Foundation Sponsor of the prestigious Excellence In Youth Awards.
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SILVER SPONSORS
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GLORIA JEANS COFFEES: Australian owned and locally operated, the Gloria Jean’s Coffees family stretches far and wide across the country. It is a brew of passion, community and commitment to delivering the highest quality coffee to our guests that unites our Australian team in the same Vision – to be the most loved and respected coffee company in the world.
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The Davin Griffiths-Jones School of Performing Arts has become one of Sydney’s Premier Performing Arts Studios and the Hills District most recognized dance school. 2010 has been the biggest yet. The school opened in 2000 under the direction of well known performer Davin Griffiths-Jones. The school is one of the few in Australia that focuses on Multi Skilled Training in Dance, Vocal and Acting to give our students a much broader range of opportunities once they turn professional. This has given the school a solid reputation and is now recognised for giving students all round training. With two locations (Winston Hills & North Ryde) the school continues to grow and grow!
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Castle Hill RSL provides members and the community with a modern and progressive community focussed club group that provides the best hospitality, gaming, sporting, entertainment and fitness/aquatic services and facilities. Members, their families and friends of all ages in the Hills view their club as their first choice for entertainment, gaming, food, beverages, functions, sporting and fitness/aquatic needs. Castle Hill RSL is proud to support organisations and the community. Castle Hill RSL supports a diverse range of community activity – and this year is the host of the ORANGE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL TAKENT QUEST FINAL!
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STOCKLAND BAULKHAM HILLS: If you live in the growing Hills District in Sydney's north-western suburbs, Stockland Baulkham Hills is your local community shopping centre, catering to your everyday needs. Stockland Baulkham Hills shopping centre makes shopping even easier, as it is conveniently located near the intersection of Windsor Road and Olive Street, has 3 supermarkets and over 80 specialty stores including a food court, fresh food precinct, banking, postal, health and medical services. The Centre offers free 1 hour and 3 hour parking, with over 500 car spaces undercover. If you are shopping with kids, make sure you visit our award winning Parents' Room, located next to Taylors Shoes and the playground located near Little Rock Cafe. We also have "Kids Cabs" available for free hire.
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HOME HUB HILLS: Located in Castle Hill, NSW, Home Hub Hills is one of Castle Hill's larger shopping centres with over 75 Homemaker and Lifestyle Superstores including Domain, Harvey Norman, Kitchen Connection plus more. Need a break shopping? Home Hub Hills is home to over 10 fabulous cafes and restaurants to enjoy!
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MEDIA AND RADIO SPONSORS
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The Hills Shire Times is a proven and trusted brand amongst Hills Shire residents and business owners. The newspaper has been established for over 50 years and has a readership of over 87,000.
The focus on local content and support of local events & activities makes the Hills Shire Times a product that is both important and relevant to anyone based or interested in The Sydney Hills.
www.hillsshiretimes.com.au
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LISTEN LOCAL -2CCRfm 90.5 is YOUR community radio station serving the Sydney areas of Parramatta, Holroyd and the Hills. Just check out our on air guide to see what’s happening and when, or have a look at our presenters and their programs which includes regular news, weather and traffic updates, Morning Magazine with news and special guests such as local politicians and personalities, plus a range of special interest programs.
LISTEN LIVE: You can listen online with Live Streaming with our new iPhone app, or download the best bits to listen again with Podcasting.
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The 2010 Orange Blossom Festival
Many thanks to all our hard working volunteers and sponsors who made the 2010 Orange Blossom Festival another one to remember. Over 60 events and activities were held during this Community Festival. To see what happened during 2010 Festival visit the Hills Shire Times website.
History of The Orange Blossom Festival
From its beginnings as footpath and garden competition in 1959, to the beginning of an annual festival in 1969 to stimulate the social, cultural and sporting activities within the Shire, the Orange Blossom Festival has today grown to be one of Australia’s largest community owned and run festivals.
The Orange Blossom Festival’s name stems from The Hills Shire’s beginnings as a major citrus growing region from the 1800’s onwards. The Festival greatly promotes the community’s image, culture, and opportunities to the rest of Sydney and Australia as a whole as well as providing a valuable forum for local community fund-raising efforts. This makes the Orange Blossom Festival a fundamental element of our local community development, tourism and economic development strategies.
Bringing together local community based events under the one banner, offering residents and visitors a large variety of events:- including fairs, senior and youth activities, open days, sporting events, art and garden exhibitions, concerts, food fairs, information seminars, fireworks and much more.
The Festival has grown to become a pinnacle part of our Shire. As we are welcoming more and more new residents in the Shire, this Festival is an ideal platform to introduce them to what that is available for them to see and do, as well as share the vibrant community spirit our Shire is famous for.
The Festival is co-ordinated by Council in partnership with local community groups and organisations and is funded through sponsorship from local businesses to some of Australia’s largest companies such as: Sydney Morning Herald, Lend Lease, Commonwealth Bank, Woolworths, Gloria Jeans Coffee, Subaru, LJ Hooker, Sun Herald, St George Bank, Living Choice & HomeWorld.
For more information about the Orange Blossom Festival phone 9843 0532.
Volunteering
The Hills Shire has an incredible volunteering spirit and a large volunteer network. Volunteers from throughout the community play a major role in The Orange Blossom Fesetival by including their events within the Festival calendar giving residents and visitors a diverse range of events to enjoy and provides community groups with a forum for fundraising. It takes hundreds of volunteers from various groups clubs and organisations all over the Shire.
These groups include service clubs, community organisations, schools, sporting clubs and special interest groups. Many dedicated people are willing to give up many hours of their own time to make these events a success.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer email events@thehills.nsw.gov.au