This Sunday, Sydney Human Towers went to Maroubra to take part in the Fête de l’École, a festival organised by the International French School every year. Storm and Lou, our newest dosos, are students in this school and they invited us to perform and carry out a workshop for their schoolmates.
We arrived there around 11 am and the festival was already full on: everywhere we looked there were lots of families and kids running, games and activities, food stalls and music performances. We set up our stall, including our new brochure, and got ready for warm-up. During the following hour, many curious parents and students came to talk to us, read our posters and watched us rehearsing the towers that we would do next.
Even if the day started a bit rainy, by the time of our performance, the weather was extremely hot and we sweat a lot when we started with the walking pillar of 3. Then, we did a 4of5 with aconxaneta and we completed the performance with a 7of4. We are very proud of this tower, since it showed the great potential of our youngest castellers, with 3 strong new dosos and two very smooth and perfectly synchronised aconxanetes, who did all the steps exactly at the same time.
After the performance, many kids wanted to try building towers and we had a 2-hour non-stop workshop. We taught them how to climb a pillar and how to properly hold someone on their shoulders, as well as how to be dosos, acotxador and enxaneta. It was a very nice experience and it was a pleasure to see so many kids excited to climb and get climbed. They never got tired of it!
We finished the day with a delicious BBQ at the Maroubra beach. We cannot be prouder of our kids, who did an amazing job both at the performance and during the workshop. We also would like to thank the organisers of the Fête de l’École for giving us the opportunity to perform in their festival. We felt very welcome and we hope we’ll see each other again sometime soon! And we are very excited to see new young faces on Thursday!