National Walk for Values in Adelaide
On Saturday, 12 April 2008, National Walks for Values were conducted in Capital Cities right across the Nation. Walkers carried banners, placards, balloons, brochures and handouts in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Here is the pictorial narrative National Walk for Values in Adelaide.
The 2008 National Walk for Values in Adelaide
It was a crisp and cloudy morning in Adelaide walkers gathered to make ready for the 2008 National Walk for Values.
The Values Float was assembled in Victoria Square and manoueverd into position for the Walk.
It was 9.20am when Walk Coordinator Kevin Francis commenced by acknowledging the Kuarna people and their value laden existence with the land. Kevin outlined the walk route and instructions by the police escort.
The Deputy Lord Mayor of Adelaide, the Honourable Ms Susan Clearihan, warmly welcomes all the walkers, and declares how pleased she is to be invited to be associated with such an event. She talks about the need for values in Australian Society and how lucky we all are to live in such a culturally diverse place such as Adelaide. She wishes the walkers well for the day and declares the start of Adelaide Walk of the 2008 National Walk for Values.
The 2008 National Walk for Values gets underway, departing Victoria Square for Hindmarsh Square
It took the group quite some time to get underway and cross the tram lines and leave Victoria Square. Sturdy young men push the Values Float along the tram lines to the Intersection.
The 2008 Adelaide National Walk for Values proceeded along Flinders St. to Pulteney St, and then towards Hindmarsh Square.
Walkers carried Banners and placards which proclaimed the practice of Human Values.
The Walk arrived at Hindmarsh Square for the final part of the National Walk for Values program. Here, the program was compered by Peter Goers, a well-known Adelaide personality who does the weekday evening radio program on the ABC. The MC spoke very highly about what the National Walk for Values was developing.
The first speaker was Julia Tarnawsky, a noted educator, psychologist and member of the Spirituality and Management group. Ms Taranwsky said that "At their highest, values are eternal, universal and transcendent qualities, magnetic attractors which inspire humanity to strive, to lift, to refine, to transform in dignity and freedom."
Julia Taranwsky went on to say that ‘when values are embodied they are potent, they become rivers of living water flowing from our inmost being. They become a dynamic compass, impelling us to live out our uniqueness in coherent, directed ways that enhance our life journey and our society’.
Read Julia Taranwsky's talk, Values as a Dynamic Compass for Living
In the musical interlude, Tom Lahey and Omkar Nagesh sang a beautiful Values song, “I Believe in Love”.
Fiona Huppatz is a sportswoman and a member of the Australian Netball Team. Fiona addressed the National Walk for Values about Values and Sport.
Ashrita Krishnan came to the stage to sing a Values song. The MC, Peter Goers, was quite taken with the song, and interviewed her on stage. Ashrita has been invited onto Peter's radio program to sing her Values song on air in the near future.
Walk Coordinator Kevin Francis took the stage and thanked everyone for their participation and contribution to an important event in the life of Adelaide, the promotion of Human Values and the practice of human values. He thanked Peter Goers, the Master of Ceremonies, for his valuable contribution and invited Peter to participate in next year's Walk for Values in Adelaide.
Kevin Francis formally declared the Walk complete and declared the need for the practice of human values firstly in the home, then at school, in the workplace, and in the wider community.
View the Photo Album of the Adelaide National Walk for Values
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