{"id":5104,"date":"2020-02-13T14:23:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T14:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2020-02-13T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T14:23:05","slug":"love-is-in-the-air-at-the-nsw-seniors-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/13\/love-is-in-the-air-at-the-nsw-seniors-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"LOVE IS IN THE AIR AT THE NSW SENIORS FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Love to Celebrate\u2019 is the theme which hundreds of thousands of NSW seniors will embrace for the 2020 NSW Seniors Festival.<br \/>\nActing Minister for Seniors Geoff Lee helped officially launch the state-wide festival today with the first of four Premier\u2019s Gala Concerts at the ICC Sydney.<br \/>\n\u201cOur seniors are the heart and soul of our communities and we love putting on these free concerts to see their smiles and hear them sing along with some of Australia\u2019s greatest talent,\u201d Mr Lee said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe theme \u2018Love to Celebrate\u2019 captures the spirit of our older generation perfectly because they can all celebrate the wonderful contributions they have made to help NSW become what it is today.\u201d<br \/>\nAustralian music legend John Paul Young is joining a star-studded line up of talent including Vanessa Amorosi and Paulini at the Premier\u2019s Gala Concerts, which are a highlight of the 12-day festival.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Premier\u2019s Gala Concerts enjoy packed houses every year with free world class entertainment and this year the ultimate headline act is John Paul Young, singing \u2018Love is in the Air\u2019 on Valentine\u2019s Day,\u201d Mr Lee added.<br \/>\nAfter tapping their feet to the tunes at the concerts, seniors can learn from dozens of exhibitors at the NSW Seniors Festival Expo, at the ICC Sydney Exhibition Centre.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Expo is bigger and better than ever with seniors getting the chance to practice chair yoga, strengthen and tone with Curves gym Balance classes, try out speed friendship sessions,\u00a0 or sharpen up on their gardening skills with Bunnings.\u201d<br \/>\nMore than 500,000 seniors are expected to take part in events across the state over the course of the festival from 12-23 February.<br \/>\nFor more information on events in greater Sydney and regional NSW go to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seniorsfestival.nsw.gov.au\/\">https:\/\/www.seniorsfestival.nsw.gov.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Love to Celebrate\u2019 is the theme which hundreds of thousands of NSW seniors will embrace for the 2020 NSW Seniors Festival. Acting Minister for Seniors Geoff Lee helped officially launch the state-wide festival today with the first of four Premier\u2019s Gala Concerts at the ICC Sydney. \u201cOur seniors are the heart and soul of our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/13\/love-is-in-the-air-at-the-nsw-seniors-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LOVE IS IN THE AIR AT THE NSW SENIORS FESTIVAL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}