Dinner and show to remember

Contributed by Carolyn King

THIS term Beerwah State High School arts and hospitality departments teamed up to bring one of the biggest events of the year to our school and local community with “Dinner and a Show”.

The Performing Arts building was transformed into a beautiful restaurant and refreshments stand, with visual art on display, and table decorations created in collaboration between our school nursery, the visual art department and the Hospitality department.

The evening encompassed a variety of arts entertainment from our Beerwah Dance Company, melodies by music group ‘The Tremelos’ who really ‘Wiped Out’ the audience, scenes from Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet and King Henry VI complete with skilfully choreographed sword fights and the feature comedic Play ‘10 Ways to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse’.

Guests were entertained by solo vocals during the scrumptious dinner service of either slow cooked beef or country chicken casserole, cooked and served by our talented hospitality students.

Dessert was a sticky date pudding with caramel sauce, or a flourless chocolate cake with a raspberry coulis, served while short videos from Beerwah SHS Alumni shared their memories and experiences of their time at school and how this has shaped their employment pathways into various arts careers.

There was even a small dance interlude complete with audience participation! It truly was an honour to be able to create this special evening of celebrations for our school, our students, our staff and our community.

We hold very fond memories of this ‘Dinner and a Show’ and we would like to thank all of the audience members who came to support our school.

Outspoken welcomes Anna Funder to the next Maleny event

OUTSPOKEN is delighted to welcome Anna Funder back to Maleny.

Anna is the highly-acclaimed author of Stasiland and All That I Am, which, between them have sold over half a million copies in Australia alone. In her new book, Wifedom, Anna’s attention is focused on the Orwells, and onto Mrs Orwell in particular.

‘I have,’ she writes, ‘always loved George Orwell, his self-deprecating humour, his laser vision about how power works, and who it works on.’

It was to Orwell she would turn when her own life began to overwhelm. But then she read about his wife, and her curiosity was piqued.

Horoscopes

Cancer

JUNE 22 - JULY 22

As the cosmic combination of radiant Sun and eloquent Mercury in your emo sign unite your head and heart into a powerhouse of empathy and intuition so strong, you’re functionally psychic, this week is the year’s peak period for you birthday persons to trust your gut and watch for eureka, light-bulb moments.

LEO

JULY 23 – AUGUST 23

As Venus and Mars continue their entertaining sashay through your sign, creative juices flow and enthusiastic new connections or unexpected business opportunities surface. Only caution? If you feel slighted, defensive or inclined to take things personally this week, ask yourself if that’s really true before arcing up.

VIRGO

AUGUST 24 – SEPTEMBER 22

With wordy Mercury, your planet ruler, in the sign of sensitivity, be extra wary when giving advice this week, because right now feedback could easily be perceived as judgmental or hurtful criticism. During this emotionally charged transit you’ll catch more flies with empathy than helpful hints, however well-meant.

Eileen O’Shaughnessy was also a writer, and her literary brilliance not only shaped Orwell’s work, but her practical common sense saved his life. Why and how, Funder wondered, had she come to be do completely written out of their story?

Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder re-creates the Orwells’ marriage, a period that

LIBRA includes both the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. Somehow the fact that Eileen was in Spain with Orwell never gets mentioned. Nor that she worked at several Ministries in London during the war to support them both.

Anna pulls back the curtain on Orwell’s often promiscuous private life, asking what it takes to be a writer—and what it is to be a wife. Wifedom

Week Beginning June 27

SEPTEMBER 23 – OCTOBER 23

This week Mars and your patron planet Venus are in the sign of dramarama, along with a challenging alignment between rule-making Saturn and rule-breaking Uranus. All of which suggests that it might be time to take an inventory of your inner circle. Are your partnerships enhancing your personal growth?

SCORPIO

OCTOBER 24 – NOVEMBER 22

At its least appealing, this week can be mind-changing, game-playing, fickle and tricky. So take a pro tip and start thinking nurturing treats, because this particular astro-transit inclines earthlings to equate nourishment with love. And Scorpios to find comfort and security in up close and personal connections.

SAGITTARIUS

NOVEMBER 23 – DECEMBER 21

Been feeling frustrated or unheard? Then this week recommends active listening, where the goal is to understand, empathise, and refrain from saying anything you would’nt want said to you. Saturday’s moon in Sagittarius provides a valuable opportunity for the constructive practice of response versus reaction.

DECEMBER 22 – JANUARY 20

As Capricorn’s mentor planet Saturn slips into slow gear and your relationship planets bicker about who’s right, where’s the fun factor in this week? According to Venus it’s through giving your most impressive outfit an airing, kicking up those Goaty heels, exercising that wicked wit and channeling your inner minx.

Aquarius

JANUARY 21 – FEBRUARY 18

With the present celestial focus on home, roots and emotional bonds, this week calls for reaching out to your nearest and dearest, the stars of your innermost circle, and the nurturers in your life. For letting your family, friends and mentors know just how much their love and support continues to mean to you.

Pisces

FEBRUARY 19 – MARCH 20

Your patron planet Neptune hits its annual speedbump this week in Pisces, merging you deep into the waters of your subconscious for introspection and reflection. This transit is massively supported by Saturn in your sign, whose astrological duty is to steer your path with specific instructions and directions.

(sometimes the word reads like a sentence) speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past. Part biography, part story, part polemic, the book defies genre. It is utterly original, both a fascinating story played out against significant events of the Twentieth Century, and an ode to the unsung work of women everywhere.

Our introducing author will be Angela O’Keeffe, speaking about her new novel, The Sitter.

Maleny Community Centre

Wednesday July 26, 6 for 6.30pm

Tickets $25 and $18 students, www.outspokenmaleny.com

Aries

MARCH 21 – APRIL 20

Aries activist Maya Angelou’s observation that People will forget what you said and did, but never how you made them feel holds even truer than usual this week, when making an extra effort to tune into people’s emotional cues could mean the difference between heartwarming connection and triggering clash.

Taurus

APRIL 21 – MAY 20

Taurus energy is naturally slow and steady, but with unpredictable Uranus, the side-spinning planet, currently passing through your sign, changes can be sudden and abrupt. The good news? Stabilizing Saturn settling into water sign Pisces is reminding you that the best way to go is, as always, with the flow.

GEMINI

MAY 21 – JUNE 21

With your mentor planet Mercury checking into the sign of sensitivity this week, if conversations feel laced with subtext and innuendo because people are guarded about what to share and what to keep under wraps, ask clarifying questions that allow others to open up, but not so full-on they feel interrogated.