By Violet Li
Lynbrook Residents Association held a distinctive Christmas Festival this year, bringing a Moonlight Cinema to the neighbourhood.
The celebration, named NOT Christmas Festival and Moonlight Cinema, was held in the Banjo Paterson Reserve on Saturday 29 March.
The festival featured an array of market stalls, food trucks, amusement rides, and live performances.
“The event was called NOT Christmas festival because we couldn’t run our Christmas festival last year because it rained,” president Scott Watson said.
“We called it NOT Christmas festival when we played some Christmas carols and just had a bit of fun.”
Mr Watson said the association had not run a movie night for a long time.
“We were really happy with the turnout, around 600 to 700 across the day,” he said.
“It’s always nice to get the community together and have a few markets and the movie.”
The association picked a 1997 movie called The Castle.
“It was no accident that we picked The Castle,” Mr Watson said.
“It’s resonance against big business. It’s very Australian humour.
“It’s essentially about a big group of people that live next door to an airport, and they’re being forced to move out of their homes, so they fight them through the courts.”
