Albury-Wodonga Winter Solstice

The Border Mail

Founders Annette and Stuart Baker, who started the event in 2013 after losing their 15-year-old daughter Mary to suicide, said this was not the end of the movement.

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00:00Thank you David for those words and thanks everyone for coming out every one of these

00:16last 13 years. It's really made it happen, this community. It's amazing. Our committee

00:25has been hard-working and wonderful and even though we're not going to have this

00:31physical event again in this space, there will be something happening every year on the 21st of June

00:39on the solstice and it might be bigger and different than what we've come to know in the

00:47last few years. So thank you and Annette has to say something. I would just like to say

00:54that the Albury-Wodonga community have actually owned this event since its first year and until

01:08now and we are grateful there would be no event if you were not sitting out there in the freezing

01:15cold and thank you. Thank you for turning up.

01:19I asked Stuart, he said yep and then asking Annette was the next challenge but it was so

01:38lovely to have their faces and their voices as something of a finale for our final physical

01:45event. Number 13, I'm not superstitious. In fact, I think it's even better that we've embraced our

01:52so-called fears and phobias and tonight is the final physical night but as you've just heard

01:56there are some grand plans afoot and I'm sure the committee, the bakers and other agencies and

02:02people involved will let you know when that is clear what the next direction is. It will be attached

02:08to the longest night of the year. That's an important part of it because no matter how dark

02:14it is and I presume there's still people out there, there will be a dawn, there will be daybreak

02:20at the end of the longest night. And to conclude what has been our 13th and beautiful night, it's

02:26been an exceptional night. I would love to introduce for the final time Northern Folk to see us conclude

02:32tonight's event. Thanks so much for being part of it and thank you everyone for being part of the 13th

02:38and final winter solstice.

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