Leading up to the party on May 21st each of the three streets or neighbourhoods made art work to exchange and decorate the streets.

The Dundas Placers held several pinata making workshops at the Albert Park library on the corner of Dundas Place. Pinatas are 3D hollow shapes made out of paper mache and filled with sweets or other goodies. They are hung from trees and children hit them with sticks untill they break and the bounty falls to the ground.They have been used for hundreds of years in countries such as Spain, and Nicaragua (and more recently Australia) to celebrate special occasions such as birthdays and Christmas. Go to www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinata for more details!

The Dundas Placers were inspired to make pinatas in the shape of trams because both Sheffield and Melbourne have tram lines and the trams in Melbourne go right down Dundas Lane. They used cardboard boxes to construct the tram shape then covered it with papier mache, helped by Victoria Schnaedelbach, a local creative arts therapist.The workshops were "chaotic and fabulous as all good community projects are".

Andrew Sibley, a famous Australian artist who lives on Dundas Place painted the three trams in beautiful green and gold livery, complete with passengers! Two of them they were duly packed up along with the Albert Park Primary work and other goodies and posted to Nicaragua and England.

Victoria and Anthea packing up the goodies

In the end the Dundas Placers decided the tram was too beautiful to smash and Paul made a papier mache globe instead.