On Mar. 9, 2019, a certain young lady named Alice will be coming to Barriere. She will be joining in the fun at the Mad Hatter Tea Party at the Senior’s Hall. The doors will open at 11 a.m. with tickets sold first-come-first-served.
If you forget to wear a hat, the price of entry will be $15 per person, ages six and up. If you remember to wear a hat, you can get in for only $8 each, but you must be wearing it. Having the hat stuffed into your coat pocket doesn’t count!
Kids five and under get in free. For those of you who have dithered and not decorated your hat – there will be a table set up inside where you can do just that – decorate your hat… but you have to have your own hat!
Alice and two of her friends will be judging the hats, and they will have some very nice prizes to give to the lucky winners. Some of the prizes you could win include beautiful jewellery, donated by Sweetnams, a gift card for the cinema, and more.
There will be games to enjoy and people to chat with. The Mad Hatter himself may drop in, and perhaps he’ll help show those of you who don’t know, how to play croquet – Wonderland style! And you can win fun prizes as well.
There will be other games to challenge the attendees (here’s a hint – reading Alice In Wonderland and/or Through The Looking Glass before this event may just give you the edge.)
A light lunch will be served to all those attending. Coffee, tea, juice, sandwiches (with the crusts cut off, of course – this is a ‘tea’, after all), and some sweet treats that will just beg you: “eat me”.
Proceeds from this event will be donated to Barriere and Area Literacy and Learning Outreach. Literacy is important, it contributes to economic growth, helps reduce poverty and crime, and promotes democracy and civic engagement. Literacy can help prevent diseases through information provision and confers many personal benefits, such as financial literacy, increased self-esteem, confidence, empowerment and social well being.
So come on out, have some fun, and support a worthy cause at the same time – see you on Saturday, Mar. 9, 11 a.m. at the Senior’s Hall.
And don’t forget your hat!