A new experience this year for adult writers, this events builds on Chocolates in Rhyme - Chocolate Winterfest, Latrobe’s schools’ poetry writing competition.
With assistance from experienced poetry coordinator Mrs Fay Forbes, this experience offers adult writers- experienced and amateur - the opportunity to enthusiastically embrace the theme of chocolate and showcase your original creativity through performance poetry. Celebrate the creativity of our community at the chocolate box stage as patrons consume your delights

Venue
Shadows Café, 160 Gilbert Street, Latrobe is a licensed coffee shop with an extensive menu servicing a variety of delicacies.

How to be involved
Applications from experienced and amateur performance poets as well as those who are happy to write ‘chocolate poetry’ and have their poems performed by others may register to participate by completing the attached form and returning by June 27, 2009 to Mrs Fay Forbes, c/- Post Office, Forth, 7310.

Chocolates in Rhyme - 2009 Winners

Lower Primary - Kindergarten to Grade 3

» Winner - Chocolate Poem by Emma Saint-John (Stella Maris Primary School)

» Runner Up - Yummy Chocolate by Evie Dudgeon (South Hobart Primary School)

» Highly Commended

Upper Primary - Grades 4-6

» First Prize - Alex Eastwood (St Patrick’s Catholic School)

» Runner Up - Reuben Sayers (Mt Nelson Primary School)

» Highly Commended

Junior Secondary - Grades 7-9

» First Prize - Damien Bowman (Reece High School)

» Runner Up - Tegan Pattison (Penguin High School)

» Highly Commended

Senior Secondary - Grades 10-12

» First Prize - Prairie Nischler (Rosny College)

» Runner Up - James Costin (Rosny College)

» Highly Commended

As part of Chocolate Winterfest, Latrobe an opportunity is offered to students to participate in a poetry competition – Chocolates in Rhyme.
There is no particular style required for the poems, just creative imaginations with students expressing how they feel about chocolate in 150 words or less.
Click on the link for the entry form with full details on how to be involved.
Entries close Thursday, 28 May, 2009.
All entries will be considered in the judging process and displayed throughout the town of Latrobe during Chocolate Winterfest, Latrobe.
Participants are invited to present their poems at the presentation of prizes at 3.30 pm at Shadows Café, 160 Gilbert Street, Latrobe.

Winning entries and runner-ups will receive the following prizes -

Winning Poems.

Chocolate Winterfest, Latrobe has been successfully celebrating chocolate for chocolate lovers from the island and abroad over the past five years. These people are just waiting to be indulged!
If you would like to tempt those chocoholics to feast their eyes, make their mouths water and their tastebuds drool and imprint on their minds all the delights and delicacies that are available in Tasmania then you will be interested in our chocolate dessert competition “My Chocolate Love Affair”.
We invite you to join in the fun, let your hair down, let your artistic talents flow and seduce us with a display of your favourite chocolate dessert inspired by “A Chocolate Love Affair”.
The competition will be judged by a culinary professional with a perpetual trophy awarded to the winner (or representative) the afternoon of Sunday, 12th July, 2009.

How to be involved
Complete the attached entry form and return by 4pm on Wednesday, 24th June.

Expressions of interest are being sought from artists, fashion designers and crafts people to participate in the development of a wearable arts exhibition to be themed around Chocolate.
Wearable art must be able to adorn the human body whilst the chocolate wonders reflects the chocolate inspiration of your creation that must be expressed in this exhibition.
Image the body as the hanger and let your imaginations soar with whatever materials you can lay your hands on, to reflect your chocolate creativity!
Anyone can be involved. It’s your chance to experiment with materials and produce an innovative design that stands out from the crowd. Read the information package attached and get creative!

Treasure seekers will be challenged to find the extraordinary at various venues throughout the town of Latrobe on Sunday, 12th July. Over $500 worth of prizes to be won from local businesses. Entry forms available from the Latrobe Memorial Hall, Australian Axemans Hall of Fame and House of Anvers on the day.

An annual exhibition held in conjunction with Chocolate Winterfest, Latrobe is the Apex Club of Latrobe's Art Exhibition and Sale. The art exhibition enables artists of many mediums the opportunity to display their talent to the wide audience of Chocolate Winterfest, Latrobe with a separate section just for photographers. Artworks are further categories into adult and student sections. For more information, click on the relevant entry form or contact Tammy Walters on 6427 7625 or 0417 132 687.

Adult Art Show Entry Form		Student Arty Show Entry Form
Photography Adult Art Show		Photography Student Art Show

Are you an undiscovered talent? We're looking for circus, animal or novelty acts; magicians, comedians; all kinds of dancers, singers ... in fact, all ages with any talent. Over $500 in prizes to be won.

Are you the best cake decorator? View the talent and imagination of youth when inspired by chocolate. Get decorating yourself and drop off your decorated chocolate cake before 9.30 am.

Primary School Students		Secondary School Students

Design your own Chocolate Scrapbooking page - no, not that time you stuffed your face with chocolate! Enter the competition and win a Scrapbooking Package worth $50.00 (see Competition entries).
Say “wow”, “aren’t they clever”, while you feast your eyes on the exhibition of scrapbook entries. Help us find a winner! Your opinion counts.

A community lantern parade will start activities for the official festival opening on Saturday, 11th July from 6.00 pm and you are invited to be a part of it. Make your own lantern (instructions at http://www.abc.net.au/2000/educ/Lanternidea.htm) and come along to the Australia Axemans Hall of Fame.
The Lantern Parade is a short walking parade that will commence at the Bert Campbell Memorial Walk alongside River Road, Latrobe (opposite the Latrobe Mersey River Caravan Park) with participants lighting their lanterns and making their way along the walking track to the Australian Axemans Hall of Fame. Lanterns will then be displayed amongst the trees until the conclusion of the evening’s activities, approximately 7.00 pm.