November 27, 2020
Friday night will be the last night to catch a special video display on Kingaroy’s peanut silos put together by local volunteers.
The 25-minute stop-motion animated video, organised by Centacare Family And Relationship Services, was made by 17 volunteers during two workshops held recently in Kingaroy.
The video (see below) tackles the confronting subject of gender-based violence.
The volunteers each contributed a short animation which were then welded together into a continuous presentation by Tina Torrens, from Torkit Business Solutions.
The video premiered on the silos – with the assistance of PCA – at 7:00pm on Wednesday night and was repeated on Thursday night.
After Friday night’s performance it will shift to the Kingaroy Cinema where it will also be shown.
Erin Jeffs, who oversees the sexual assault service at Centacare in Kingaroy, said the video was made with a government grant to raise awareness about sexual violence.
The original plan was to have the video ready for Sexual Violence Awareness Month in October – when Centacare usually host the Reclaim The Night march – but COVID-19 stopped this from happening.
In the end, the group had six weeks, instead of the planned seven months, to pull the project together in time for “16 Days Of Activism“.
“We own (these animations) now so we will be able to use them for all different things,” Erin said.
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Video by local animators and Torkit Business Solutions
