Dairy Flat arts festival offers students 'a chance to shine'

Chelsea Channing

By Chelsea Channing
Published June 10, 2019

Dairy Flat School was awash with tie dye t-shirts, dream catchers, papier-mâché puppets and fence paling portraits in June, at the culmination of a three-day arts festival involving the whole school.

The festival, which has a proud history spanning more than 18 years, is run once every two years.

During this ...

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