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Holiday fun at Gunbalanya Youth Centre

15 January 2018

There was plenty of activity in Gunbalanya during the school holidays with Christmas festivities as well as a variety of youth programs and the Youth, Sport and Recreation (YSR) school holiday program.
To kick off the school holidays, all the young people came together for a Christmas party at the Gunbalanya Youth Centre with self-catered meals cooked by the staff and volunteers. 
They enjoyed a day full of feasting, games such as hoop shooting, pass the parcel, musical chairs, horse shoe throwing and of course little presents for everyone. 
With three volunteers from Darwin assisting, the school holiday program kicked off and included a huge variety of programs and activities, including sport, dance, art, crafts, and movie nights, to entertain the young ones over the break.
Gunbalanya Youth, Sport and Recreation Senior Team Leader Philamena McKenzie said, “it was a great help to the YSR team and gave us the capacity to run two different activities at the same time”. 
RISE in collaboration with YSR also delivered a two-day woodwork and crafts workshop and the end result were little painted wall hangings to take home. 
Meanwhile, YSR had Artback come out to deliver 10 days of dance workshops, confidence building workshops and even yoga.