Rotorua's Wearable Creations 'n Colour event is expanding in its sixth year with more people entered and more categories to win.
Organised by Rotorua Creative Art Trust, this year's show, being held on Friday night, will be the biggest Rotorua has seen, with 63 creations set to be judged.
Among those entered
are Rotorua Lakes High School trio Katherine Hamilton, Nicole Hennessy and Alissa Corbett,.
The three 17-year-olds have all entered before and Katherine has been working on her creation since February. All three agree the competition is a good confidence builder and a lot of fun.
They are keeping their designs under wraps until the big reveal later this week.
Rotorua Creative Art Trust chairwoman, Barbara Cook, said one of the reasons this year's event had attracted so many entries was due to the hard work of organisers.
"We're pretty passionate about it. There is only a small team working to achieve a huge event. It's become one of the major events in Rotorua."
The main focus was on youth in the competition, Mrs Cook said.
"We want them to be all that they can be. Every person is an individual on the stage. The focus is on them."
She said each creation entered took a lot of time and hard work to make and many were quite large and heavy.
New categories were introduced to include as many people as possible, Mrs Cook said.
Youth, culture and corporate art categories were seeing a return to the stage, while the categories of Group and Enviro Art were making their first appearance.
Mrs Cook said organiser were providing more choices for entrants to make sure everyone was included.
"As we grow we try to accommodate what people tell us. We're producing on demand. Every year we try and learn from what we do."
All profits made from ticket sales will be going to the police Blue Light Rotorua programme, which focuses on youth development.
Blue Light spokeswoman, Viv Sutton, said the aim of the programme was to build better relationships between police and youth at risk. Money raised this year would help fund existing programmes like Wahine Toa, a self-confidence course for teenage girls who had been victims of sexual abuse, Ms Sutton said.
Pre-judging for Wearable Creations 'n Colour is done a week before the show. Five judges deliberate over the creations and the stories behind them to come up with the winner of each category. The supreme award prize is a trip for two to Singapore.
A matinee show will be held at midday on Thursday, with tickets costing $5 for students and $20 for adults. The gala show will be held at the Energy Events Centre on Friday, when winners will be announced, with tickets starting at $25 for students and $40 for adults.
Tickets can be purchased from Ticketmaster.
Young designers see if they can cut it
by Lisa Rapley AUT journalism student news@dailypost.co.nz
Rotorua Daily Post·
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Rotorua's Wearable Creations 'n Colour event is expanding in its sixth year with more people entered and more categories to win.
Organised by Rotorua Creative Art Trust, this year's show, being held on Friday night, will be the biggest Rotorua has seen, with 63 creations set to be judged.
Among those entered
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