Share a Secret

Competition

 

 


If you live in, work in, go to school or just visit Ashfield, you may think you know all there is to know about the place, but everyone has a different favourite thing about our area. It might be

  • A favourite place
  • A little known fact
  • An unusual garden
  • Something you've seen on the street that makes you laugh
  • An beautiful tree
  • An amazing restaurant
  • A piece of history
  • An architectural gem
  • A taste sensation

 Ashfield Council is launching its Share a Secret about Ashfield competition  during Local Government Week  to find out what hidden gem you think is worth celebrating about our neighbourhoods and community. Once we've received all your nominations we'll share the results on a specially designed map and the three people who have sent in what we consider to be the most fascinating fact will win a prize.

 You can share your secret by

  • Emailing us at shareasecret@ashfield.nsw.gov.au, or
  • Mailing us at Share a Secret, Ashfield Council PO Box 1145, Ashfield, 1800 NSW or
  • Dropping your entry off at our Customer Service Office, 260 Liverpool Rd, Ashfield.
  • We've also produced postcard entry forms too. You can pick them up at Customer Service, Ashfield and Haberfield Libraries, on our stall in Ashfield Mall during Local Government Week on Friday 6 August outside Flight Centre. You don't need a postcard to enter though, any bit of paper will do.

 We would love it if you could include a photo/drawing with your submission too.  

 

Here are a couple of examples by Council staff to start you off

From Anthia - A favourite piece of public art for me is the black and white outdoor floor tiles in the back yard of Thirning Villa. I really love their clear monochrome design against the terracotta

From Frances -  A secret piece of history I think is worth sharing is the fact that the literary critic, poet and peace activist Dorothy Auchterlonie Green spent her formative years in Ashfield, attending a small private school called 'Kurraba'. Dorothy Green was recently the subject of  a biography by Dr Willa McDonald (book jacket pictured here) 

 From Annie  - Ashfield is full of beautiful front gardens but one I think deserves highlighting is that of Mario Marrone in Croydon. Mr Marrone built this homage to Sydney Opera House, complete with internal lights and piped music, in 1982.  What a wonderfully quirky idea!

 

The concept for this competition was informed by two interesting blogs celebrating the distinctiveness and 'localness' of neighbourhoods in Sydney
Nosey in Newtown  and Walk Sydney Streets