⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 178 

- *"HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, KID"

WHO IS JESSE MATHESON? 

   Who is Jesse Matheson? (CLICK ON THE PIC TO FIND OUT) 

PIC: Referenced from Sydney Morning Herald

* Quote made famous by Humphrey Bogart 

in the film "Casablanca" (1942)

WE ALL WANT TO SEE THE SUNSHINE

Sorry but I've made a mistake here. Two in fact.

(Oh and I just discovered a third mistake.

Oh no there are actual four mistakes.)

Clearly a bad hair day.

You will note that twice in my recent letter to Jesse Matheson (following)

I have mentioned that my proposed retrospective art exhibition

is planned (i.e. if you can plan in these unpredictable times?) for February 2026...

...well it was, but of course that deadline has passed.

The opening date I am now focused towards is Tuesday 9 February 2027.

My retrospective was previously postponed as there were other priorities 

with my Mother's health in decline before her passing and the state of my own health.

My errors here I put down to the grieving process.

I'm truly astonished in the nefarious ways grief can affect you.

A whole new world of experience for me.

Others might well be supermen or superwomen but I'm only human.

Anyway looking at what I have ahead of me this year 

I'd better get on with it. 

And so we begin.

Included here are copies of letters sent to Gil Beckwith in 2024 

who was the previous CEO of Mardi Gras.

Gil replied to this correspondence with a genuine heartfelt response 

that I received with due appreciation.

And now following is a copy of my most recent letter to Jesse Matheson 

the new CEO of Mardi Gras. FYI.

Well it's been said before life is what we make it. - Neville Williams

Here's something of a teaser...

See if you can find the third and fourth mistakes in my letter to Jesse. 

It's so hard to do anything properly these days. "Too muchie!"

Perhaps we all need to lift our standards...for starters. - N.

(My mistakes are revealed at the bottom of this page.)

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If you want to look at the initial plans Mardi Gras has put down for the future. (CLICK HERE)

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Article from Sydney Star Observer May 2024

Celebrate life!

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Coming February 2027

Title: "A Mature Sydney Gay Community on Show" / PIC: Neville Williams (2024) Carriageworks

While it is hoped there might be a "connection" with the Mardi Gras people 

the proposed Exhibition is not a Mardi Gras Show.

"Sunshine!" is intended as an exhibition leading into Mardi Gras.

THE MISTAKES: "The correct spelling is "alluded" not "eluded" 

and it should read "I mean..." not "I'm mean...".

Then again perhaps I do have a mean streak in me! Grrrr! - N.

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