Friday 4th & Saturday 5th July 2008
Winton, Queensland
The Queensland Boulder Opal Association's Opal Festival is held so that the miners, buyers, retailers, exporters and jewellers can meet at a central venue to do their buying, selling and socializing.
Program:
A variety of Queensland Boulder Opal will be on offer in all forms eg.
rough, faced, fully cut Opal and finished Opal jewellery.
The trading areas start in the Beer Garden of the North Gregory Hotel with
stalls flowing into the car park where the tailgaters will be set up to do their
trading.
Saturday morning also sees the Cobb Lane markets joining in on the trading with
a variety of stalls.
A Queen of Gems Opal
Jewellery Design Competition will be held
for the novice as well as the professional jeweller. A Dress Design Competition
is to held again, in which the dress design has to be inspired by Opal. The
exhibits in these competitions will be paraded and the winners announced at a
Gala Dinner Dance held on the Saturday night as the grand finale of the 2008
Opal Festival.
The Boulder Opal Jewellery Design Competition categories are :-
1. Student/Novice: 1st prize $1,000 Any form of Jewellery up to a retail value
of $2,500.
2. Professional: 1st prize $2,000 Any form of Jewellery – retail value is open
ended.
The Queen of Gems Opal Dress Design
Competition will have two
categories from which 10 finalists shall be chosen, and from these a 1st prize
of $1,000 will be awarded.
1. Evening Elegance.
2. Any other Item of Apparel.
QUEENSLAND BOULDER OPAL ASSOCIATION Inc.,
P.O. Box 334, Winton. Qld. 4735.
Narelle Banning Phone 07-46571565
Email qboa@bigpond.com.au