Out & About World Day of Prayer Glasshouse Country, like communities around the world, celebrated World Day of Prayer last Friday, with church members from across the area coming together for the service at the Calvary Lutheran Church at Glass House Mountains. The country in focus this year was Slovenia, with information shared about the lives of Slovenian people and the social challenges the country faces. Following the service there was a morning tea with Slovenian potica, which is traditional bread that looks a little like a jelly roll made of very thinly rolled yeast dough spread with a nut paste. In 2020 the country of study for World Day of Prayer will be Zimbabwe.
John & Peter Smith
Three generations of the Gough family Hazel, Elliott and Linda enjoy morning tea
The Seventh-day Adventist members who will be organising next year’s World Day of Prayer service
John & Peter Smith Lutheran ladies Judith Smyth and Marg Coulsen enjoy the Slovenian potica
Carmel McAvoy, Ellie and Greg Kilpatrick, Patricia Williams and Paulette Watkins from the Beerwah Catholic Church
World Day of Prayer coordinator Eunice Prickett guest speaker John &with Peter Smith Joanne Ellsum
Plenty of Australian film action The 24th Australian Film Festival is on this weekend at the Maleny Community Centre from Friday, March 8 to Sunday, March 10. Hosted by the Maleny Film Society, the festival
features a diverse selection of fine offerings including five feature films, award-winning shorts, panel discussions, workshops, free sessions and more.
malenyfilmsociety presents the
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Australian FilmFestival 8-10 March 2019
Special Guests
1pm
8 Mar 7:15pm
ALENA Lodkina
Director of Strange Colours
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10 Mar 9 Mar
10am
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Launch Party 5 Feature Films 5 Heart of Gold Shorts Expert Panel Discussion Film Appreciation
FILM FESTIVAL
AwArd winning short films from the 2018 festival
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Festival organiser Andrew Wallace said one of the great aspects of the festival was that it allowed a number of films to be seen and discussed in a short space of time as well as providing an authentic feel for what was going on in the Australian film industry right now. The festival program kicks off on Friday with the official launch party followed by a screening of ‘Jirga’, which was Australia’s submission for the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Picture. Also screening will be the hilarious short film ‘Your call is important to us’ starring Andy Lee. Saturday’s program features the inspiring documentary ‘Backtrack Boys’ followed by a meet and greet with representatives from the movie. There will be a free afternoon panel discussion and short film session featuring favourites from the 2018 Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival, which is held in Gympie each October. On Saturday night special guest speaker and emerging Australian film talent Alena Lodkina will introduce her feature ’Strange Colours’. On Sunday there will be an early 10am screening of ‘One Less God’ followed by a free film appreciation workshop and the final session of the program will ‘Ladies in Black’ at 2pm. For ticketing information and to find out more about this fabulous immersive festival visit malenyfilmsociety.info.
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