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Edition 34, 2020
Hi Friend,
Welcome to Brainwaves.
This month we have some exciting new initiatives to announce:
- we have partnered with Optus to take outdoor family movies around the state. First stop is Strahan and we have more locations coming. Stay tuned!
- Walk for Epilepsy virtual event in October is a great way to get moving no matter what your fitness levels are.
- we have just filmed a new TV commercial - see a behind-the-scenes photo below!
Thank you to our volunteers Newlyn and Ivy who have been busy collating our Health Professional kits ready for delivery.
We have been updating our website too and now have new forms on our Fundraising Page to help make it easy for people to sell merchandise or host an event.
Take care,
Wendy Groot, CEO Epilepsy Tasmania.
Family Movie Event in Strahan
We are very excited to promote the first of our outdoor Tassie movie events - in Strahan!
In partnership with Optus, we are touring Tassie with good old-fashioned outdoor family movies - bringing back the good times!
On Saturday 24 October from 2 pm for some family fun with prizes before the movie starts at 4 pm. On the oval at Strahan Primary School we will be showing "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" - let's show kids what movies used to be like!
Sausage sizzle and popcorn available to purchase.
Bookings essential due to COVID-19 restrictions. Book on TryBooking website.
$10 a single or $30 for a family. All funds to Epilepsy Tasmania and more locations to come.
#walkforepilepsy
This year's Walk for Epilepsy is a virtual event so that more Australians can engage and participate, despite COVID-19 restrictions.
It will run for 25 days in October (1st to 25th) because this represents the number of Australians affected by epilepsy (1 in 25). Participants choose their own challenge - walk, run, ride, swim, or a combination - because living with epilepsy can be a challenge.
Register for free at www.WalkForEpilepsy.org.au and choose Epilepsy Tasmania as your charity of choice.
Tassie Celebrity Fundraising BBQs
We have three exciting BBQ fundraisers being held outside Bunnings in Kingston.
On Sunday 4 October, Sunday 18 October, Sunday 8 November please stop by and buy a sausage and see who the surprise celebrity cooks are!!!
All proceeds to Epilepsy Tasmania
New TV Advert Coming Soon
This week we are filming a new television commercial to increase awareness of the services and support Epilepsy Tasmania offers.
Keep an eye out for it on the WIN Network all around Tassie and we would love your feedback.
Tasmanian Schools Accepted The Challenge
Twenty-three schools around Tasmania (including Flinders Island District High School) participated in our #FingerKnittingChallenge to raise awareness of epilepsy.
Their challenge was to:
Step 1. Drape a room, piece of furniture or anything at all in purple finger knitting
Step 2. Share their efforts on social media using the hashtag #FingerKnittingChallenge
Spot prizes for exceptional efforts have already been awarded to:
- Mount Stuart Primary School
- Fairview Primary School
- Latrobe High School
- Waverley Primary School
- Spreyton Primary School
- West Ulverstone Primary School
The competition has now closed so we are busy looking over all the amazing photos to choose the two winning schools - we will announce this on Facebook and in the next edition of Brainwaves!
“When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. "
Alexander Graham Bell
Epilepsy Tasmania is a not-for-profit community organisation improving the quality of life of Tasmanians with epilepsy, and those around them, through education, coordination and support.
