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January 20, 2025

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The Overall Grand winner Aniella Lev in Sacred Spilosoma the costume she designed and made at Shearwater’s annual Wearable Arts extravaganza WAVE last week.

Last week’s WAVE (Wearable Arts Vision in Education) exhibition, was held at Mullum’s Shearwater School.

WAVE is embedded into Shearwater’s high school curriculum with around 200 students taking on roles as dancers, musicians, actors, writers, filmmakers and editors, lighting and audio technicians, carpenters, tailors, set and prop designers, stage hands, models and caterers!

This year’s production drew sellout crowds, 1100 people over the four nights last week.

Photos Jeff ‘Bric-A-Brac And Back’ Dawson

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