2017 Lips 'in Sync ! Fundraising night

Plans are underway for the 2017 'Lips N Sync' fundraising night. Put the date aside for an awesome evening on 18 March 2017. The last two years events were fantastic ..... heaps of fun and will live on in the annals of Nymboida's musical history.

2015 Event

2016 Event

It's your chance to be a star! Its karaoke without the bad vocals!

Thinking of performing ?  What to do:

Email me with the name of the song you will mime, or preferably a link to the Youtube clip, dress as your artist of choice and ' work it, baby!'

Thinking of donating a meal ? What to do:

Toni is seeking donations of home cooked meals for the buffet. Please let me know if you can help out. 

Thinking of turning up for an awesome evening ?

You get a delicious smorgasbord meal, donated by awesome locals from Nymboida, and some great entertainment.  The door charge is $15 for Adults, $5 per child. All proceeds go to our projects in Cambodia.  Don't forget to BYO drinks.

You can download a flyer suitable for printing here and for email here

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Wow.. what a night at Nymboida's Grand ol Oprey !

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WOW.. what a night of musical wonderment

The sublime Geordie Little

What a fantastic night this was. I mean the crowd whistling, cheering, clapping, screaming kind of fantastic. First we all enjoyed an absolutely delicious buffet prepared by our talented local gourmets followed by some of the best musical performances ever to grace the stage of the Nymboida hall.

A HUGE thank you to all the volunteers who helped organise the event, all the volunteers who came down and helped clean and set the hall up to make it a magical night. Thanks also to the culinary whizzes from all over Nymboida who donated meals for the event and Phil W for his mixing skills. Finally, thank you to the musicians who really made the night such a success. Annie and Al, locals from Nymboida, Sam.I.Am from Pillar Valley and of course the guitar virtuoso Geordie Little.

Photo's

Here's a link to the photos

Videos on Youtube

And as a special treat we have links to several of the videos that were taken on the night. 

Annie and Al

Annie and Al

Unfortunately our 'cinematographer' was busy eating while Annie and Al were on stage and missed getting video of their performance ! We've spoken to him sternly about this tragedy.

SAM.I.AM

Sam can be found on Facebook here

Geordie Little

and Geordie has plenty of music you can listen to on his web site here and you can follow Geordie on Instagram here

Fund Raising

The evening was a joint fund raiser for the Nymboida Community Groups Incorporated and the Cambodian charitable organisations and causes we support. So a huge thank you to everyone who attended and supported this amazing event.

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Lips 'n Sync a huge success

We were quite nervous before the event, as usual. We worry about getting the number of people required to make the effort of running the event worthwhile, whether we'll have enough food and if people will enjoy the evening. In hindsight we could have saved ourselves the concern because the night was such a fantastic success.

Lips 'n Sync

The acts for this year were:

• Meatloaf's 'Paradise by the Dashboard light', Trevor and Toni
• Tiny Tim by Bob Warner, tip toeing so gracefully, 

Bob tiptoeing gracefully !

• Our very own twisted Laena covering Joni Mitchell's Twisted 

The effervescent Laena !

• And the fabulous Rick and Phil as the equally fabulous Sonny and Cher. 

Phil (l) and Rick (r)

Videos

of the wonderful and hilarious acts

Dinner

As usual the buffet was delicious and plentiful.  Supplied by members of the local Nymboida Community

Lillith checking on the food

We owe much to the people of Nymboida and surrounds.

Raffle Prizes

Thank you to all of the following local businesses for donations of raffle prizes:

• Indigo Wolf Electrical, 
• Nymboida Camping and Canoeing, 
• Coutts Tavern

Come in winnner ! Blue 69 !

and a huge thank you to everyone who donated meals, all of the awesome acts and everyone who attended. Without your support we can't continue our projects in Cambodia. You are all such wonderfully generous people and we are proud to be a part of this community.

Enjoying the show !

Next Year

Start thinking about acts you might like to put in next year, it would be good to build on the numbers so let's get those thinking caps out of the back of the closet, dusted off, and firmly seated on your heads !

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Fund Raising Charity Garage Sale

Done and dusted !

It went well and although the numbers were down a little on two years ago, we have raised about $800 with a few last minute sales still trickling in from some of the left over items.  Thanks to our biggest customer, this sale and the last one two years ago, Daniel from Glenn's Ck Rd (I promise not to tell Sophie)

Viola, Sunny and Letisha trying out the walking machine !

Snapping up the bargains

and a link here to heaps of other photo's

Thank-you's

There are so many people to thank and if we've missed anyone, apologies.

• Helping man the stall: the wonderful Kim, Jenny, Lilith, Viola and Georgie.
• Helping set up the day before: Jenny D and Ruth and many others.
• Cleaning up: Laena, Ruth and Janelle
• Musicians: Sebastian, Clayton and Laena on drums !
• The Clarence Valley Council for allowing us to get rid of some of the items that no one would take
• The Daily Examiner for doing the story on the sale
• The Hall Committee for waving the Hall Fee for all our fund raising events so far

and a huge thank you to everyone who donated their treasures to be sold and everyone who attended.

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Market Stall

As mentioned previously, Toni sells her excess produce,  grown at our property, and cheese she hand makes herself,  along with an eclectic mix of items at the local Nymboida markets. The profits going as donations. Plenty  of work goes into the stall, making cheese etc.  This week there was a donation of plants to sell, thanks Jennie.  As well as Toni selling some Buddah's from a local crafstman. The money from the Buddah sales goes directly to CHOICE at Franks request.  The rest of the money raised goes to help fund various projects we''re engaged in.  $121 was raised from the sale of the Buddah's and $47 from everything else.  Not too bad at all !

Store at the markets

Garage Sale Update

More donations to the fund raising garage sale have been coming in. We're starting to  get enough now to fix a date, so put 13 October in your calendars to come down and browse the brick-a-brack that will be available at the sale.  All the funds raised go to help fund the various on going projects we are engaged in.  The Garage Sale  will coincide with a market and will be a great morning out.

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Cambodian Benefit Dinner

Cambodian Benefit Dinner

Dinner Flyer

We will be holding our next fundraiser on Saturday 8th of June. The 2011 'Taste of Asia" dinner and open mic night was such a success that we thought we would visit the idea again. This years event will be held at the Nymboida Community Hall. Local boys Clayton and Sebastion Young will be performing two pieces, one of which will feature their beautiful voices. They are members of the Gondwana National Choir and recently travelled to Sydney for performances. John Spencer and Phil Wakeling, both accomplished musicians will also be performing.

The meal for the night will be a showcase of favourite dishes from the community.
All of this for $10 a head? A bargain.
Please RSVP by the 3rd of June for catering purposes. I wouldn't like anyone to go hungry (pun intended)

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