Village News October 2013

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OCTOBER 2013

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Street party to build friendships 7

Artist in residence: David Hinchliffe paints New Farm faces 5

Photo: Top Row: Fiona, Alma. Bottom Row: Meredith, David Hinchliffe & Frankie

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The Gasworks precinct opens on its 140th birthday

Claudia Wheeler and Danika Maken enjoying a frozen yogurts at Gurts at Gasworks which is now open.

THE Gasworks retail, dining and entertainment precinct has opened, coinciding with the heritage-listed site’s 140th anniversary of the Gasometer.

The 3000sq m outdoor plaza surrounding the landmark Gasometer offers an outdoor, European piazza design as the centre of the precinct.

FKP executive general manager Queensland Gary Kordic says the former industrial precinct was being transformed into an urban community.

"We see the historic Gasometer structure, which has been synonymous with Newstead since 1873, as the centrepiece for the development and it has become the focal point of the open air public plaza," he said.

"The Gasometer was originally used to supply gas lighting - which was considered essential to any 19th century city - and serviced the needs of businesses and residents north of the Brisbane River until 1996, when it was decommissioned as part of Brisbane's urban renewal.

"Now - to celebrate the 140 year anniversary of the frame being relocated and reconstructed at Newstead - the structure has been

fitted with lights, which will come alive at night with a choreographed light show – symbolically lighting the way in Brisbane once again.

"The Gasometer and plaza has also set the scene for a host of regular community events and performances, including free live music every Friday night from some of Brisbane's best up-and-coming indie musicians. Visitors can also relax and unwind at the Gasworks Sunday Sessions, with live music and shopping from 3.30pm.

"The live music is already drawing a great crowd each weekend, and is part of a full calendar of events and celebrations to take place at The Gasworks over the coming weeks."

Mr Kordic says Newstead Gasworks played a significant role in the development of Brisbane as a major city and was an icon for more than a hundred years.

"The Gasworks will ultimately boast more than 17,000sqm of retail space and 103,500sqm of commercial space - so savvy operators are recognising that now is a great time to get in on the ground floor of this thriving new precinct," he said.

"The retail and commercial enclave has been designed so that it has the

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The official lighting ceremony with the Lord Mayor will kick off the anniversary celebrations on Thursday October 10, followed by live music on Friday night, Tastes of the Gasometer on Saturday with popular Brisbane band Sheppard (pictured) performing at 7.00pm, and a host of giveaways and live music on Sunday. capacity to cater for a wide variety of tenants - from boutique retailers and small businesses right through to major stores and larger companies.

"This mix of product and services is exactly what makes Gasworks so appealing to locals and visitors alike."

Mr Kordic says Gasworks - which is set within the 17 hectare parcel of riverfront land known as Newstead

Riverpark - is a new location in a very old part of Brisbane, which brings a sense of history to the contemporary precinct.

To celebrate the 140th anniversary of the iconic Gasometer at Newstead, a host of events will be held throughout the Newstead Riverpark precinct between 10 - 13 October. To find out more visit www.gasworksplaza.com.au

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PUMPKIN is a celebrity. Pumpkin is “People love her! She has never a chicken. Pumpkin spends her days tried to come inside, she just walks being adored around on the and fawned footpath. We over and fed keep a small dog tasty morsels at bowl filled with Little Larder on water for her to Moray St in New drink,” Netta Farm and she said. “She just has cultivated wanders around a growing and and sometimes loyal fan base on she just sits, and Instagram. hunches down,” Yes, Pumpkin she said. is a chicken.

“You She’s a sometimes see domesticated her trying to lead yard chicken, the other chicken to be precise. here but as they Her tastes are get closer the quite discerning. other chicken It seems the slows down and customers at then starts to Little Larder feed back up. The her much better other chicken food than she is clearly not a gets at home people person!”

Pumpkin the chook and so for the Netta laughed. past five months To visit Pumpkin has been free ranging her Pumpkin in her natural environment way to the popular Moray St eatery. visit Little Larder 1/76 Moray St. To Little Larder manager Netta Toomey see some of Pumpkin’s Instagram said Pumpkin was beloved by the images, search for customers and staff. @Pumpkinthechook.

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Artist examines his fellow humans in 3D A NEW exhibition by renowned sculptor Stephen Hart, which will explore the human condition and give an insight into the artist’s life in the city, will open at Museum of Brisbane on October 18.

Stephen Hart: Fellow Humans will showcase 20 hand-carved, wooden polychrome sculptures of individuals who make up the artist’s immediate or extended community, many of whom have made their own contribution to Brisbane’s creative life.

Best known for his figurative sculptures, Stephen Hart uses traditional techniques of hand-carved timber to examine and express aspects of humanity.

In Stephen Hart: Fellow Humans, Mr Hart has used an iPad and 3D digital imagery to capture his subjects in 12 consecutive positions with a 360-degree rotation, and has laboriously carved each individual.

Museum of Brisbane director Peter Denham said Stephen Hart: Fellow Humans examined a group of people in the artist’s life, exploring their unique characteristics as well as common elements that joined them together.

“In this new work, Stephen has focused on individuals that make up his community and explored what it means to part of Brisbane,” Mr Denham said.

Subjects featured in the exhibition include Mr Hart’s wife Beverley Trivett and eldest daughter Jody, along with some creative individuals from Brisbane’s community such as curator Louise Martin-Chew, well-known

Stephen Hart uses technology to create art. architect Robert Riddell and Australian artist Fiona Foley.

Mr Hart’s work has been featured in more than 35 solo and group exhibitions including Temperature – A Survey of Queensland Sculptors and Doubletake at Museum of Brisbane.

He has also won the Gold Coast Jupiter Art Prize, and has been a finalist in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Wynne Art Prize and the Woollahra Sculpture Prize.

Stephen Hart: Fellow Humans will run until March 2 2014. For more information visit www. museumofbrisbane.com.au. Museum of Brisbane is open daily from 10am to 5pm on Level 3 of Brisbane City Hall.

Admission is free.

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Hinchliffe paints New Farm

Bye bye Love Love THE iconic and much loved building that is home to Love Love Studio at 27 Florence Street is set to be demolished at Christmas time, following lengthy court battles that resulted in a win for the developers.

Going back to 2006, the planning application was approved and then challenged in court by the neighbours.

The courts have recently upheld the planning approval and the developer has set in motion the demolishing of the building on that site.

The new development, which will be a four storey building with offices and apartments, is slated to start construction early in the new year.

“It’s a great shame in many respects,” TPA president Ben Pritchard said. “It’s one of those uses we would have loved to have seen kept in the street because it’s a real community

access type of use and a really good thing to have in the street,” he said.

“Unfortunately there will be a four storey apartment building in the street now.”

Mr Pritchard said the two houses next door to Love Love Studio will be under even more pressure from developers now.

“And those two houses left will be dwarfed by the four-storey building,” he added. “It’s a great shame. I’m sure the community will miss that building.”

NEW work from New Farm artist Banx will be exhibited in the foyer at Central Plaza One, showcasing the collection inspired by a recent outback trip to Ruby Gap. Hosted by Moving Canvas Gallery, the exhibition “Our Back Yard” will be displayed in the foyer at Central Plaza One, 345 Queen Street, October 16 - 25.

The exhibition runs October 16 – 25 during office hours. All art is available for lease or purchase, for office or home.

See Moving Canvas Gallery’s catalogue at www.movingcanvas.com.au.

AFTER 25 years as a Brisbane Farm home. I thought a good way to councillor David Hinchliffe is putting celebrate that was to have an annual his love for New Farm in paint at show in New Farm’s only gallery, his exhibition at Graydon Gallery, Graydon, and to open up the gallery Merthyr Rd. at night to the public for painting This demonstrations. exhibition will I’m looking be different forward to from his 65 painting New previous solo Farm identities shows. For the as part of the first time he show” David is conducting said. nightly painting “I’ve had a demonstrations lot of questions at the gallery from people painting local since leaving identities council. Firstly, Meredith Briggs I’m not ‘retired’.

(Bouquiniste I work in my owner and studio in Hynes barista), Alma St the Valley Nukovic (‘New seven days a Farm Lady’ from week when I’m Facebook fame) in Australia. But and Fiona Hunt I don’t think of (Coordinator Alma, who now works for All About Fruit, with it as work. I at the local love my life now. artist David Hinchliffe.

Neighbourhood It’s extremely Centre). Money raised from the satisfying to know I’m doing work painting demonstrations will that other people love.” be donated to the New Farm The exhibition features paintings Neighbourhood Centre. of streetscapes from Brisbane and “Although I spend a lot of time New Farm to downtown New York, these days painting and exhibiting in the canals of Venice and the streets New York and London , I still call New of London, Paris and Melbourne.

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By Felicity Moore FRIENDS of Florence Street is a street party designed to bring together the people who live and work in the street and build a stronger sense of community in the neighbourhood.

Hosted by the Teneriffe Progress Association, the street event has been created as a way to connect with diverse range of businesses and residents living and working in the street.

“We’ve started going around and door-knocking the local businesses and asking if they want to get involved and so far I’m pleased to say we haven’t had a single person say no. It’s entirely in the spirit we hoped for, which makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside,” joked Mr Pritchard.

“People have responded so well and we’re convinced it’s going to be a success. It will be popular.

“We’re going to start small. We don’t want to go too big at first blush. We’re going to put up a few umbrellas and tents for shade cover and have people come and get to know their local businesses,” he said.

Mr Pritchard said he had been

surprised at the diversity in Florence Street.

“It’s been quite fascinating as I go around knocking on doors. I’m surprised at how much I didn’t know was in the street. There is a mining company, photographers, street artists, health insurance brokerage, and town planners,” he said.

Mr Pritchard said it was hoped that local suppliers would support the event by bringing out some of their wares and people can sample them understand what goes on in their street.

“I’m sure it will go on longer than the four hours we’ve allocated and we’ll get some extras coming along!” he said.

Mr Pritchard said the event would also be a way to make the current traffic issues facing the street and its surrounding community a talking point and if people were interested in asking questions members from the TPA would be on hand to answer questions and facilitate discussion.

For more information about the Teneriffe progress Association go to www.teneriffeprogress.org.au or come to the monthly meeting next Monday at 7pm, 24 Macquarie St Teneriffe.

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TPA hosts party to make friends in Florence Street Phoebe Birskys and Bridget Mullins with Theresa Gambaro.

Students given extra time to enter Literacy Awards THE closing date for the 2013 Teresa Gambaro Literacy Awards has been extended until October 11 to give students more time to prepare their entries.

Ms Gambaro said the end of school term was a very busy time for primary and high school students so a little extra time would help with essay preparation. This year’s topic is: Why is Australia a great country? Winners will receive a Kindle, a $100 Book Voucher, their name on the perpetual Teresa Gambaro Literacy Award Trophy and a Certificate. Runners up will receive a $60 book voucher and a certificate. The winning schools will receive a $500 education voucher.

Gambaro given extra time with 3.5% swing

LNP Federal Member for Brisbane, Teresa Gambaro, said she was honoured to serve the people of Brisbane for a second term after the latest figures from the Australian Electoral Commission reveal Ms Gambaro has secured a two-party preferred swing to her of 3.5 per cent.

“I am truly honoured and humbled to have been returned by the people of Brisbane to represent them for a second term in the Federal Parliament,” Ms Gambaro said.

Ms Gambaro is the first woman to have won the seat of Brisbane since federation and since announcing her candidacy for the seat in 2010 has been successful in achieving a combined swing to her from the 2010 and 2013 elections of 9.23 per cent. She is also only the second Liberal since federation to win the seat for a second term.

Ms Gambaro said that she was proud of her strong record in standing up for Brisbane in the previous parliament.

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Vignettes from Bowen Hills’ past illustrate an era lost forever

“MY older sister Rosemary could have told you lots more about Bowen Hills,” said 96-year-old Joan Hesse. “She lived in our family home at 30 Cintra Road on and off for most of her life, but she died in April.”

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by Gerard Benjamin The view from Bowen Hills is changing quickly, making vignettes from its past ever more valuable, especially when the recollections are as clear as Joan’s.

“My father, John Bulgin, bought our block in Cintra Road from his brotherin-law Vince Corrigan,” explained Joan. “When Uncle Vince married my aunt in 1917, as a wedding present, his mother gave him the imposing house called Abbotsford.”

Abbotsford, dating from around the early 1870s, faced Abbotsford Road and ran back to Cintra Road. When Mr Corrigan subdivided the property into six blocks, the old house was shifted onto a smaller one, while the Bulgin allotment faced Cintra Road.

“Uncle Vin ran trotting horses,

LEFT: Cintra House, once the home of Boyd Dunlop Morehead, occupies a commanding position on the prominence named after Governor Bowen. RIGHT: Both Abbotsford and its neighbour Abbotsleigh (pictured) still stand on Abbotsford Road and he did well, judging by all of his The name Corrigan is also part of I’d take two trams. They were of winning ribbons. He had a horse and the texture of New Farm’s past. Joan’s the toast-rack kind. At the 150th trap, and he would take the family ‘Uncle Vin’ was the son of Nathaniel celebrations of the FVSS in 2011, down to his holiday home facing the Corrigan, a well-respected Fortitude my sister Rosemary cut the cake water at Sandgate.

Valley grocer and produce merchant. because she was the oldest past pupil “I remember when Grandma Bulgin The Empire Hotel was part of the present.” took us on that trip a couple of times. block he owned on the corner of Ann “My father was a great one for The seaside house was just three and Brunswick Streets.

English and correct grammar, doors along from John McCallum’s Following Nathaniel Corrigan’s especially apostrophes. He would large home Cremorne.” death in 1899, 26 allotments at correct me if necessary, and my Devotees of New Farm history Teneriffe – known as the Corrigan daughter does just the same…” will recognise the McCallum name.

Estate and mainly in James and “Cintra Road was usually quiet, John McCallum owned the Cremorne Gibbon Streets – were auctioned at except when mechanics from Eagers Theatre in South Brisbane, and his prices from £101 to £160 per lot.

Motors on Breakfast Creek Road New Farm home was the stylish “I walked to the Fortitude Valley would test their cars up our hill. I residence which still stands at 591 State School,” said Joan, “and when remember the horse-and-cart people, Lower Bowen Terrace. it was time to go to Girls Grammar, selling clothes props (in pre-rotary

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“I loved the dances at Cloudland, and after I married and moved away, I’d still often visit my parents’ home.”

“Before Cloudland, there was big old Montpelier House owned by Mr Cowlishaw. They called it ‘The Castle’.

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Joan has the satisfaction of knowing that her parents’ home will be enjoyed by her grandchildren.

Next time you take in Bowen Hills’ panoramic view from the Spanish mission style masterpiece of Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church (192425), with its blue neon light cross,

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96-year-old Joan Hesse (nee Bulgin) exhibits a youthful spirit, as she recalls her growing up years in Bowen Hills. also be sure to gaze at Cintra House on Boyd Street (close to Dunlop Street).

You might choose to imagine how Boyd Dunlop Morehead (1843-1905) – pastoralist, businessman and Queensland premier – must have enjoyed living there, as he watched sailing ships moving down-river on the way to England, with precious wool cargoes which were the mainstay of his firm’s prosperity.

OCTOBER MEETING: The next meeting of the New Farm and Districts Historical Society will be addressed by Turrbal elder Uncle Joe Kirk, who will share the story of his people in Binkenba (New Farm), a place of the land tortoise, and beyond. All are welcome at the Merthyr Road Uniting Church Centre on Saturday, 26 October, 2-4pm. Admission: $5 including afternoon tea ($4 members).

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I would like to thank, by this means, the kind person who having VOICE found my diary in the Merthyr Village shopping centre on Thursday 3rd October, took the trouble to trace my address, and not finding me at home, consigned it to a neighbour.

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Since this generous person declined to give my neighbour details of how I could contact him to thank him, I can only hope that he reads this and learns how very grateful I am. Since I cannot thank him personally, I will make a donation to the Fred Hollows Institute, within the Merthyr Village complex, in the name of 'Unknown benefactor' and hope that he is happy with this.

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Cavallucci launches gay pride march THE rainbow colours of gay pride were on display for all when State Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs Robert Cavallucci launched the Pride Festival march to New Farm Park last month.

Mr Cavallucci with Cr Vicki Howard (Central Ward) then judged the Mr Pride competition at New Farm Park.

“With the traditional rainbow flag in hand, I had the honour of waving off the 1000 strong Pride Fair march headed for New Farm Park, commencing a day of celebration and of valuing the diversity which is very much woven into the fabric of my electorate,” Mr Cavallucci said.

“Alongside my council colleague Cr Vicki Howard, I very much enjoyed playing a part in the Pride Fair Day events at New Farm Park and actually had a bit of fun judging the 2013 Mr

Robert Cavallucci sends the Pride Fair Day event on its way.

Pride event. And congratulations must go to Cr Howard on the role she played in both supporting the event and facilitating its new home in New Farm Park.

“I would like to say a big thank you to the hard-working committee members who organised such a brilliant Brisbane Pride Festival 2013 and look forward to continuing to support it in the years to come.”

Ray White hosts Calcutta auction charity event FOR a night fun and glamour, Ray White is hosting a Calcutta charity auction at the Queens Arms Hotel in James Street, the night before the Melbourne Cup, with proceeds to benefit Youngcare. Ray White New Farm principal Haesley Cush said QA Calcutta was sure to be lots of fun and everyone was welcome. “Everyone gets dressed up and comes to enjoy themselves at the Queens Arms Hotel,” he said.

“The event is free to attend and there will be Piper-Heidseick champagne at only $10 a glass, as well as fashion parades and a Calcutta auction on horses running the Melbourne Cup,” he said. From 7.30pm DJ Mikey will entertain until 10.30pm for those who want to cut a rug. For more information visit: www.QAHotel.com or contact Haesley Cush at 0421057233.

THE moment you step inside Cirque café, been a potato and goat’s cheese gnocchi you will fall in love with the ambiance. The with wild mushrooms and a sage nut relaxed atmosphere envelopes you and brown butter; braised beef cheeks served the delicious aromas emanating from with Paris mash and pea mousse; and the kitchen entice you to investigate the saffron infused clam broth with chorizo, menu immediately. leek, chat potatoes and a crusty baguette.

A favourite with locals for coffee, Cirque’s selection of delectable bistro breakfast and lunch, Cirque is now bites are perfect whilst waiting for your inviting customers to dinner on Thursday main meal, or to complement your glass and Friday nights. Since introducing of wine or craft beer while catching up Cirque by night, owners Christophe and with friends. Sizzling escargots with garlic Giselle Massieu, butter and a have been wowing crusty baguette diners with their or taragoshi delectable weekly and pink salt menu. fried squid The couple’s with a sweet combined love mustard dip of good food and will warm your great hospitality heart and prime is evident in the your palette for experiences they the rest of the extend to each evening – as customer. Their will the other Cirque owner Christophe Massieu. passion comes delicious tapas from many years of experience in hotels style selections. across Europe, which is where they first Upstairs, the café provides an intimate met. atmosphere which is perfect for small Christophe and Giselle’s intention has parties or group bookings. Whatever the always been to become part of the local occasion, Christophe and Giselle invite community and to provide a warm and you to stop by for a breakfast cocktail, enticing location for people to meet and coffee and cake, a business lunch or an enjoy fresh and delicious food together. intimate dinner party.

When you book for dinner, you can If you haven’t already discovered expect three main menu options available Cirque, you will find it at 618 Brunswick that week – a vegetarian, seafood or Street, New Farm. Phone 3254 0479 to meat dish. On the menu recently has reserve your table.

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AUSTRALIANS, generally, seem to have low expectations when it comes to customer service. We usually get around four out of 10, but it seems that that’s OK because all we expect is about four out of 10. But Robin Maini, from ElitePoint 3 believes this presents all businesses with an opportunity to gain an advantage and knock business competitors out of the race.

“When you go someplace and you get seven or eight out of 10 for service, you love it. You absolutely want to go back,” he said. “So the idea here is set yourself apart from other businesses by providing insane service and (customers) will keep talking about you and refer everyone else to you because word of mouth is the strongest marketing tool on the planet.”

Maini, a Canadian who hails from Toronto, arrived in Brisbane in 2004 working for Bartercard and was charged with improving customer service and training. He has since left Bartercard and made his home in Brisbane, becoming the chairman of the Fortitude Valley Chamber of Commerce as well as holding positions on the Economic Development Board.

He is also the driving force behind Winning Appliance store success, placing a firm focus on customer service and leadership development.

“When we created Winnings, we were hired by the Winning family

in Sydney to open up the store in Brisbane. No one had heard of the name Winning here, although they’ve been around in Sydney for a hundred years.

“So we opened up in the worst part of the city, on Brunswick Street, and we opened up our retail store and it sells the same appliances that four competitors within five kilometres who have been here for 30-plus years are selling.

“Everyone thought we were crazy,” he said. “The difference was in how the customer was serviced, literally from the moment they walked in the door until their product was delivered to their house many months later,” he said. “The service we gave throughout that process was absolutely different and that was taught by myself and my business partner Lisa.

“That’s why Winnings is so successful even still today, based on the customer service delivery.”

ElitePoint 3 is a business strategy company that focuses on improving leadership along with the customer service component. Maini said leadership development was an area of weakness for most businesses.

“Leadership is weak is because the state (of Queensland) has been growing so rapidly for years that people are being promoted into positions because business is growing and very

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Robin Maini and Lisa Moricz at ElitePoint 3 are helping businesses beat competitors by teaching them how to deliver “insane” customer service. little effort is being put into developing leaders.

“In other words, a great salesman doesn’t make a great sales manager because they don’t have any leadership skills but the best salesman is usually the one who gets promoted to sales manager. Just because he can sell well. Or a great engineer who’s been in the mines for 16 years is put in as the manager or supervisor of nine other miners - where does he learn leadership?” Maini said.

ElitePoint 3 offers a bespoke program, courses are a minimum of three months, but generally extend for six months. Robin and business partner Lisa Moricz analyse which areas of the business need improvement and then offer a tailored instruction on how to improve in those specific areas.

“These days, the most important asset for any company is its people.

If you invest in your people they’ll grow the business and they’ll grow themselves. And that’s really what we do,” he said. “So when we sit down with a business that wants to improve its service offering, whether it’s a hotel or it’s a chain of restaurants, or what have you, we go and work with the people in the business and show them what real customer service is - what we call Ritz Carlton service.”

ElitePoint 3 will be conducting a Customer Service Excellence course every Tuesday in their Valley office, geared specifically to sales and service personnel in retail and hospitality.

For more information on ElitePoint 3 visit: http://www.elitepoint3.com.au/.

Contact director Robin Maini e: info@ ep3.com.au or 0411 709 339.

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Strong family ties are the secret to Moray Cafe success When members of one family have been working in harmony together at the same establishment for more than four years, it probably says something about not only their affection for each other, but how much they enjoy their work.

Chisholm family siblings, Dylan and Stefanie, had been working at The Moray Café in New Farm for several years when parents Daryn and Vicki decided it was time they acted on their interests.

The Chisholm’s wanted to own ‘that neighbourhood café’ - a local place where people could drop in for a meal or coffee or a special celebration with close friends or family. In September, they bought The Moray Café and their vision came to life.

“We saw an opportunity to create a family run café with old fashioned family values,” Vicki said. “We love the New Farm area, the shady tree lined streets, relaxed atmosphere by day but a vibrant night life and café culture.”

Daryn and Vicki’s intention at Moray Café is to cook delicious, inspiring dishes that patrons don’t always

see anywhere else. They wanted to utilise the amazing ambience that the Moray street-scape provided and offer customers something special away from the traffic and the hustle.

Manager, Stefanie Chisholm, and Front of House specialist Ryan Vines, know the café inside out after working at it for several years and are thrilled that the café is now part of the family.

“I love that the café is nestled beside the beautiful iconic fig tree on the corner of Moray Street and Merthyr Road,” Stefanie said. “Being a family run café creates an extra special atmosphere that our customers have come to enjoy.”

The Moray certainly has something unique to offer with the experience of Head Chef Rodney Florent, whose background includes 21 years in fine dining, gastro pubs and cafés. Rodney trained in Melbourne and Paris and was the one responsible for introducing the Fat Chook Parma to The Moray.

Having spent that past five years at Moray Café, Rodney has nurtured a culinary team consisting of two other

Dylan Chisholm (Owner/Chef) with Darren Slinger and Head Chef Rodney Florent. Ashley Boidin with Stefanie Chisholm (Owner/Manager) qualified and highly skilled chefs to produce modern suburban cuisine at its very best. Chef Darren Slinger served as an apprentice under Alastair McLeod at Brett’s Wharf and Tank Restaurant and Chef Dylan Chisholm, has recently become fully qualified at the age of 17 having spent four years at The Moray learning the ropes from Chef Rodney Florent.

The à la carte menu has a culturally diverse range of choices, and with a focus on using only fresh Queensland produce, all food items are prepared and cooked on site daily. The Signature Moray Burger has become a classic with its 250g of Wagyu beef, pancetta, blue cheese, salad leaves and tomatoes with onion jam, toasted bun and beer battered chips.

The drinks menu is all about complementing incredible food, with a selection of wines, spirits and beers, including the popular Burleigh Beer.

The tapas menu consists of deliciously small plates to suit either popping in for a drink and a bite before a night out or as a delectable starter to a main meal with friends.

The Moray does gluten free menu options well and their interest in wholesome fresh produce is backed up by their preference for free range eggs, organic soft drinks and Maleny dairy milk. Their coffee of choice is Reverends seasonal coffee blends.

The Moray Café has been an icon in New Farm since it first opened in 1982.

The Chisholm family now represent a new era for the café, bringing with them a passion for good food, fine wine and a happy family.

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Fusing mind and body with yoga

Breast cancer survivor works out HEALTHY registered nurse Liz Fistonich, 51, was shocked when she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. But she was determined to beat it and incredibly she continued to work out at her local gym throughout her chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment.

She has since become a Personal Trainer at Jetts Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.

Staying fit and eating well had always been a priority for Liz and she knew she had to stay strong and healthy to beat the life-threatening illness, so she adopted the motto of “no excuses, ever” and stuck to it.

“The doctors told me there was evidence that active people reacted far better to the cancer treatment than those who weren’t.

“There was some nausea and I did sleep after chemo, but generally I was up and around the next day,” she said.

The day after undergoing her monthly chemo treatments, Liz would go to one of her local Jetts fitness clubs in Brisbane at Hamilton, Skygate or Fortitude Valley - and at times her husband would have to carry her to the car - but she was determined not to miss a workout, regardless of how lightweight it had to be.

Liz would also train when it was quiet, conscious of her chest drains and club managers gave her exercises to do when her physical ability was limited.

Her resilience and determination to stick to her routine at the gym while on treatment paid off. Liz was discharged only one day after having a mastectomy in February this year, and the doctors couldn’t believe her recovery. She was back at her local gyms doing leg-work

Liz Fistonich the following week.

Liz has now been cancer free for three months and is on a mission to raise awareness of the importance for women to maintain active and healthy lifestyles on entering middle age. Feeling fantastic and with a new lease on life, she resigned from her nursing career and recently started in her new role as a personal trainer at Jetts Fortitude Valley.

Liz wants to work with people who have been compromised physically or emotionally by illness or injury, to give them motivation and courage to fight.

“Fit and healthy need not be a major departure from your current lifestyle. It doesn’t matter if you simply want to be fitter or if you are preparing for the battle of your life – it can be beaten. I am evidence that fit and healthy works.”

Holy Spirit students show off their big hearts

WORLD champion skipper Jake Eve put on a show for Holy Spirit pupils last month for Jump Off Day, as the New Farm school wrapped up its Jump Rope for Heart program. The Heart Foundation’s mascot, Happy Heart, helped Eve teach the children new skipping skills and about the importance of regular exercise for heart health. The Foundation’s Jump Rope for Heart is in its 30th year.

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Founder of Fusion Hot Yoga, Michele Martinek, is a woman with determination and a hunger for answers to the same questions many of us ponder throughout our lives how to have a healthy mind and body.

Her desire to begin every day on the right foot for her children’s sake, has taken her on a journey of learning how to help not only herself, but many others.

Michele’s induction into yoga practice came as a result of her search for a class that would assist with rehabilitation of her lower back injury. She found that yoga helped strengthen her back and overcome her injury remarkably, and as a welcome bonus, her overall health and wellbeing improved.

“I knew that if I could benefit so greatly from yoga, then other people would experience the benefits too,” Michele said.

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It was late 1945, after World War II had ended – and while the victorious Australian soldiers were marching through Queen Street to the wildly cheering, streamer-showering, adoring crowds of Queenslanders, out in the quiet back streets of suburban Moorooka little Gem Kinnane looked out across the road from her family house.

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suddenly no longer there, and Gem saw a large concrete foundation sitting alone in the vacated paddock.

Within weeks, she saw some people moving in, invading the patch and using it for a roller skating rink. Soon, there were more than a hundred skaters and onlookers every Sunday afternoon, and it wasn’t long before Gem was stumbling and skating her way around her new playground herself.

Then a skate dancing instructor turned up. He asked Gem’s mum if he could play music at the rink and use her electricity power plug. In return he would teach her daughter how to skate. Gem soon became a princess of the rink, but she harboured the desire to skate on ice. She had heard and seen pictures of Olympic champion ice-skater, the Norwegian Sonja Henie, and dared to dream.

Her parents took her on holiday to Sydney and it was at the Manly Beach ice arena that opened her eyes to the wonder of ice skating. Gem was soon skating on ice, but had to leave the great experience behind when the family returned to roller-skating Brisbane.

Gem was saddened to lose her daily skating practice when she was sent

to board at Stuartholme Convent, and then sadder when the Moorooka site folded, but there were two other rinks for roller skaters - one on the Wynnum foreshore and the other, the fabled Blue Moon riverside rink at South Brisbane, on the southside of the old Victoria Bridge.

While Sonja Henie, by now three times Olympic champion, 10 times world champion, and now film actress and star of the Hollywood Ice Revue was featuring on television screens, our city’s first ice rink at Mowbray Park was launched.

Gem found ice skating to be second nature to her, to be “freer and faster” and with practice became one of Brisbane’s best dancers on ice, solo or with partners. “However,” she said, “pair skating can be more dangerous, as the blades are sharp. I received stitches in the chin and legs, but I never broke any bones. Pair dancing became my favoured style.

“An American instructor there, Bob White, offered free lessons to me and a partner because of my potential. The ABC TV filmed us skating for several feature shows. In later years Mowbray Park rink closed down, but another opened at Kalinga Park, Toombul. Later again, one opened at Acacia Ridge.”

The Ice Skaters Association asked Gem to be an instructor, and so she became a professional ice skater, performing at big shopping centres

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It was 1975. Gem was now a Brisbane ice queen performing with several others on their portable ice

Gem found ice skating to be second nature to her, to be “freer and faster” and with practice became one of Brisbane’s best dancers on ice, solo or with partners.

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Life on ice is nice for dancing queen Gem Kinnane

Gem Kinane was a glorious ice dancer. rinks, the size of a small dance floor.

“Previously, I had worked in a solicitor’s office for four years then at a scrap metal dealer’s office, in shorthand, typing and book-keeping,” said Gemma. “And for a while I had two jobs, instructing and dancing at weekends and on some week nights, and the office job weekdays.

“When I was about 31, a man, Keith, came up to me, saying my name, and recalling when he first saw me skating 20 years earlier. He was 14 years my senior, and I remembered him from being a regular skater. We hit it off, and married a few months later.

“Keith and I skated all over the world, in Innsbruck, Los Angeles, Washington, Scandinavia, through Europe and America, and I was often complimented on my skating by respective champions and instructors.

They improved my coaching and skating styles to another level.

“Sadly, Keith passed away just nine years after we married. I continued in two jobs, and travelled alone on holidays, skating at top overseas venues, and including paddling down the Amazon in a rickety old wooden boat.

“Some years later I became friendly with Michael, a fee-paying pupil of mine at Acacia Ridge, and we have been together ever since. Michael, an accountant, and I have enjoyed travelling overseas together ever since. At first, skating at renowned ice arenas, then taking a strong interest in bush-walking, trekking and cycling.”

Countries the fit couple have trekked and cycled are the Himalayas, South Africa on safari during the apartheid years, Kenya, South

villageseniors America, and the unique Galapagos Islands.

“The hardest trek we have ever done was in the little kingdom of Bhutan, near Nepal,” Gem said. “We were snowbound – no roads, and confined to our icy tents. The group of us became ill, and all the packhorses were sick from creek water, as conditions were less than sanitary.

“Then there were some of the most beautiful places , like cycling through Slavinia, walking in Slovakia, camel riding in the Rajahstan Desert, climbing in the mountains of Uganda searching for the silverback gorillas - which was amazing when the beautiful gorillas caressed us, held our hand, looked us in the eye. I felt overwhelmed. It is one of my greatest memories.

“France is the best place to cycle, and there are great cycle paths through Vienna and the Austrian countryside.

Gem, quiet, modest and unassuming, has a demeanour that never exhibits the passion she has for skating and other sporting pursuits, or her extensive world travels.

Following her skating and office career, for a few years Gem worked as a casual housekeeper at New Farm, including at Glenfalloch.

While the queen of the ice has hung up her blades, she continues an effortless glide through life with graceful dignity that befits one of our community’s hidden gems.

Euthanasia is the elephant in the room

THE death of a pet is an emotional event in any family. Pets are a much-loved and faithful member of the family and their passing occasions much sorrow.

Caring for a pet keeps one younger. And

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by Tony Townsend chance encounters when walking lead to friendships in which often pets’ names are known long before the owners introduce themselves. Children love to pat animals, and a man walking a dog can be considered safe while a man out by himself can be treated with suspicion – a sad indictment on our society.

But when a pet contracts a terminal disease or has reached that age when the quality of their life is minimal, at least an owner can take them to a vet to be put out of their misery before they have to endure undue suffering.

The same cannot be said for we older people. As our population ages and medical sciences develop, we are sometimes kept alive in situations you would not want to treat your pet. An Advanced Health Directive and Enduring Power of Attorney for personal/health matters completed in consultation with

your doctor and your family while you still have all your marbles can provide some measure of control over the degree of treatment you want, but does not give to you or anyone else the right to terminate your own life.

Voluntary euthanasia is a very divisive issue arousing strong passions amongst supporters on both sides of the argument. Like most seniors organisations, National Seniors regards this as a personal issue and prefers to concentrate on more general matters.

Nevertheless euthanasia remains an elephant in the room whenever seniors’ issues are discussed.

As this article goes to press, the branch initiative to invite Noeline Brown to our October general meeting has attracted a large crowd of interested people. The next major event for all

seniors is Grandparents Day on Sunday October 27, when families have the opportunity to recognise, in some way, the contribution of grandparents to the family and the community.

October events at New Farm branch include dinner at 6pm on Friday October 18 at the Moray Café in Merthyr Road, when we welcome anyone interested in our organisation, and the following day, Saturday October 19, a visit to the Twelfth Night Theatre production of The Book Club. We welcome the return of farmer Brian and his wife Mary at our general meeting on Wednesday November 6 at 10am at the Uniting Church in Merthyr Road.

For further information on any of our activities please call Tony Townsend on 33152523 or go to our website www. nsanewfarmbranch.com.

Christmas parties at City Hall for elderly

BRISBANE City Council is once again throwing its doors open and welcoming the seniors community to enjoy the newly refurbished City Hall in the first week of December at the Seniors Christmas Parties.

“This much-loved celebration returns to the beautiful surroundings of City Hall this year and will feature twice daily variety show concerts and seasonal refreshments,” a council spokesperson said.

“Council remains committed to supporting the participation of seniors in community events and I would encourage seniors to book well in advance for this popular celebration.” Tickets are free but bookings are essential. Call QTIX on 136 246 from Monday, 21 October.

For more information, please visit www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/live or contact Council on 3403 8888.

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No more excuses – let’s get down to business The election is over! Now what? For months, we’ve endured headlines and polls, editorials and sound bites - most telling us business is on hold until

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by Alan Blair after the election. Now, that excuse has expired and it’s time to decide how to leverage the 55 business days remaining between today and Christmas. What you do (or don’t do) over the next few weeks will determine how your new year starts. I encourage every business to take three crucial steps now, invest what’s left of 2013 wisely and set themselves up for a successful second half of the financial year.

Focus Choose one thing to focus on over the next 4 months, something that will have significant positive impact on your business. Launch a new product, invest in sales training or put the systems in place that will allow you to spend more time working on your business. But do something that’s outside your normal routine.

Don’t do the same old stuff “more” or “better”. That’s continual improvement.

What you’re after is major growth or transformation; things that will make a big impact in a short timeframe.

Organise Develop a plan detailing the 2-3 most crucial objectives you’ll have to achieve to make the impact you’re after and the resources necessary for success.

The election is over. Christmas is 55 business days away. You have 4 months to produce something spectacular by the end of January that will blow your customers away & make this financial year a smashing success.

Breaking your main objective down into the specific actions you’ll take and the resources you’ll invest, makes all the difference between deciding, planning or resolving and actually achieving something. Organising any project aimed at growth or transformation requires deliberate allocation of the necessary time and resources before you begin. Finding time and resources on the fly doesn’t work.

Be Accountable Every year, someone tells me

Christmas “snuck up” on them.

Christmas is December 25th every year, so what they’re really saying is they’re not being held accountable to the daily actions required to achieve their goals. I’ve witnessed businesses that practically shut down between Melbourne Cup Day and Australia Day because “that’s the holiday period”.

Taking that viewpoint indicates a severe lack of accountability.

Even if you don’t take three months off from November through January, without accountability, it’s easy to let precious weeks pass, making no progress towards your most important goals. Business owners typically don’t have anyone to keep them focused and help them avoid the distractions of daily operations. It’s your responsibility to seek out relationships that will provide the accountability you need to continually drive your business forward.

The election is over. Christmas is 55 business days away. You have 4 months to produce something spectacular by the end of January that will blow your customers away & make this financial year a smashing success. No more excuses. What will you achieve?Alan is also fundraising for Junior Diabetes Research Fund.

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SouthPoint developer appoints selling agent THE Flight Centre awarded its $140 million tender for new global headquarters to developer Anthony John Group, with the 20,000sq m site, called SouthPoint, to be built on the corner of Vulture and Grey streets in South Bank, rather than in Fortitude Valley where a rival developer wanted to build it.

Anthony John Group has appointed sales agents to sell on the $200 million SouthPoint project which will feature The Flight Centre as long-term leaseholders, with 4,500 sq m of retail space at the base of the tower, the Australian Financial Review reported.

The Emporium was also by Anthony John Group.

SouthPoint is planned to be a luxury apartment building offering 228 3, 2 and 1-bedroom units, as well as office space, supermarkets, a dining precinct and a hotel.

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“I come from a family of four boys and I think being the eldest of four brothers helped prepare me for the rigours of a legal practice,” he says. “I chose law because I like solving problems for people. Being a commercial lawyer enables you to become a trusted adviser, which is a big responsibility but also an honour.”

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Amy McBreen chose a career in law because she wanted to find a way to be of practical help to people. She was admitted as a solicitor in September 2011 and has gone on to specialise in family law, litigation and wills and estates at Q Solicitors.

One of triplets, Amy was raised in Toowoomba, moving to Brisbane in 2006 to complete her double degree in law and business at QUT. Some say her career in law is well suited to her competitive spirit.

“I wanted to do something that would offer people real solutions,” she said. “I have been employed at Q Solicitors for almost two years now and I have really enjoyed developing relationships with our clients, particularly those local to the Teneriffe and New Farm area.

“I’m a competitive person and I’ve always enjoyed team sports. I play netball for Blue Jays Netball Club at BNA Chermside, and thanks to Dad, I’m a tragic Roosters supporter!”

Amy said the most rewarding part of her job comes when she finds the perfect solution for her client.

“Not all clients are the same and one solution does not fit all. Even though the law is (reasonably) rigid it can often be used to provide tailor made solutions that work for the client,” she said.

Alan Bartels established his law firm on a solid foundation of honesty, understanding and trust. It is these guiding principles that have served the loyal and diverse client base of the firm that bears his name well.

These are also the esteemed values instilled in Alan from a very early age. His father, the late Reginald W. Bartels OAM was the Superintendent of the Queensland Ambulance, Order of Australia Medalist, and Queensland Father of the Year. Alan was one of eight children, all of which entered the legal, law enforcement or medical professions.

“At Alan Bartels Solicitors we pride ourselves on offering a transparent approach to providing practical legal advice irrespective of the complexity of the issue at hand. We value the trust our clients place in our expertise and experience to capably negotiate and successfully navigate the spectrum of commercial, personal and professional interests,” Alan said.

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ROMAC helps generous spirit give a Vietnamese boy a better life IT is a rarity to find philanthropists months.” with hearts as big as that of New “When kids come in it’s a lot of Farm Rotarian Elaine Morgan. work, they don’t just go in and go to The much-loved local has been hospital. We make sure there is a heavily involved with Rotary Oceania ROMAC presence each day, to make Medical Aid for Children, ROMAC, sure that the parent is comfortable, for 14 years as a national board that the child is comfortable, the member. hospital need us to ask questions, The volunteer-run organisation sign something. Occasionally, we’ll helps to sponsor up to 50 severely ill get an emergency. At one stage, we children from the Asia-Pacific region had four children here when we try to for medical aid in Australia. have only one at a time,” she said.

“These are children from the “They gradually get better and poorest we get excited conditions, but when they children feel sick, we cry It was the best thing that I ever did for whose parents him because he had food, love, guidance, together and when don’t have they go home you stability and education. Noel and I paid the money because it was above anything that Romac wave goodbye. It’s to fix them, a mixed feeling could do, but he had everything they have life because you know threatening they’re back to problems poverty but they’re or they’re severely disfigured and going home happy.” malformed. They would die if it wasn’t When a 13-year-old Vietnamese for ROMAC intervention,” Elaine said. boy named Kchin arrived with only a “Once we find the child, either nurse for company in 2002, waiting through Sisters of Mercy, ministers for orthopaedic surgery on his leg, of religion, missionaries or other Elaine and her husband Noel’s lives Rotarians, we give them a fair changed. medical assessment. Then we bring “From the day I laid eyes on the them to Australia with a family fellow, he had the most open happy member, where they will stay with a face. He was a skinny little thing host family of their own culture and hopping on one leg, but he smiled. once they’re fixed they go home. They I thought, ‘You’ve got nothing to stay for anything up to six, nine or 12 smile about but look at it’,” Elaine

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“He came to live with us and he thrived. Noel was the first father figure he ever had.”

What was meant to be three-month stay turned into four years and Kchin became part of the family.

Having never received an education before, his thirst for knowledge was insatiable. He

was “unstoppable” with maths and soaked up his English and Vietnamese lessons.

“One day he asked for a dictionary, he had never asked for anything in his life. He treasured it and caressed every page. It was and still is his most treasured book. He would sit and read it like someone with a novel and taught himself grammar,” Elaine said.

When he returned to Vietnam

Support research into Type 1 diabetes VILLAGE News business columnist Alan Blair, whose son Ethan is diabetic, is raising funds to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. “My son Ethan has to draw blood 2190 times a year, from his fingers to test his blood glucose levels,” Alan said. “Once again this year, my family is joining over 40,000 people around Australia at the 2013 Walk to Cure Diabetes. It’s an event that really makes a difference,” he said. Alan is hosting a beer and nibbles night at the Green Beacon Brewery, 26 Helen Street, Teneriffe. Make a donation of $40 or more and you’re on the door list for entry – it’s that easy! Make a donation of $80 or more and two people are on the list. See how that works? So what are you waiting for – email Alan with your details or click the link below to make a donation. Drink beer (and help fund research that will) cure diabetes! Your donation will help turn research projects into clinical trials that lead to major developments and breakthroughs, improving the lives of those living with T1D and their families. JDRF have made great breakthroughs in treatment and prevention with their support of research all over the world.

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“It was the best thing that I ever did for him because he had food, love, guidance, stability and education. Noel and I paid because it was above anything that Romac could do, but he had everything,” she said.

Kchin came back to Brisbane in 2007 for more procedures after suffering further complications and the Morgans remained solid pillars of support. It was then that Elaine realised in order for him to have a better life, he would have to stay in Australia and thus, began a long battle with immigration to grant Kchin a student visa.

“It’s a wonder my nose isn’t flattened because I ran into so many brick walls! I had a whole room of threads hanging and I couldn’t join any together,” Elaine laughed. “But all of a sudden one day, I was able to and it went like wildfire from there.”

By the end of 2010 he was no longer under ROMAC’s care.

However, he was successful student, and, at 18 years of age, walking independently. He excelled in his first year of formal education in Year 11 at St James College.

He was awarded the International Student of the Year from Queensland Education and Training International

and a year later, he became school captain. By then, he had endured 16 surgeries and other procedures.

But tragedy struck the family, which also includes Elaine’s two daughters, in 2012 when Noel passed away suddenly.

“It really was an awful time. Kchin was really objectionable then but I had to give him a few jolts saying I wasn’t enjoying it either and we worked our way through it,” Elaine said.

Now a permanent resident in his second year of university studying international relations, juggling parttime work and ROMAC ambassador duties, Elaine feels incredibly proud that she and Noel were able to help her “Vietnamese son” flourish in his new life.

Seeing the difference ROMAC makes to a child and their family’s life gives her the lift to continue her work.

“It’s [volunteering] a lovely thing to do. Children that really suffer; there’s something special about them. They develop the nicest natures because they’re so used to suffering and they know what the other side of life is like,” she said. “They know their family can’t afford to fix them and there’s no hope. But when they come here, we treat them just like our own kids.”

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St Joseph’s hosts Fashion in the Garden

THE St Joseph’s parent community likes to think it fundraises in style and is once again hosting its annual Fashion in the Garden event.

Hosted by Sofie Formica, with fashion by some of the hottest brands in Brisbane including Living Silk, Nautica, White Label, Lorna Jane,

Fashion in the Garden: Saturday 19 October 2­- 5pm at St Joseph’s Primary School, Kangaroo Point Bobbi Belle, Can Can Cossies, French Rendez-­Vous, Olive Home, Harvey + Harvey, Planet Robe and That’s Unique this year’s vent is shaping up to be something special.

Organisers promise: “This is a day of decadence designed to pamper the special ladies in our lives!”

Prizes include family passes to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at QPAC, dinner or four people at Aria and Sofie Formica will also be interviewing former Project Runway contestant and dad at the school, Savva Agryrou.

Savva will be spilling the beans on his time on the reality TV show and

Fashions from top designers on show. sharing insights into his fashion philosophy.

Fashion in the Garden is an annual event in the school calendar, and is designed to raise much-needed funds for the school and its student projects. First on the list is an irrigation system for their new Edible Garden and Outdoor Classroom.

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Nominate a worthy recipient

Make sure you nominate a winner like Michael Andreotti (right) from Hunt for Homeless at the 13th Annual CAN Awards pictured with Tim Smith (left).

KNOW someone who has helped make a difference in inner-city Brisbane? The CAN Awards recognise and celebrate work in the community, private and public sectors that has achieved a social justice outcome and equity in the inner city of Brisbane.

The New Farm Neighbourhood Centre is hosting the CAN Awards and nominations are open across a range of categories, including for an individual, program, business, government body, institution or community group and proposers are welcome to submit more than one nomination.

The first CAN Awards were held in 1997, honouring people and organisations for their work, passion and leadership in the community. Now in their 16th year, the CAN Awards

continue to shine a light on work done in this area.

Award recipients are decided by a panel of independent community leaders and announced on the night.

To nominate online visit www. surveymonkey.com/s/ZPCNBWP or pick up a form from the New Farm Neighbourhood Centre, or the Westpac New Farm branch.

Nominations close 30th October 5pm and the winners will be announced at the CAN Awards Monday 11th November, 2013 5:30pm at the New Farm Neighbourhood Centre (Community Hall).

Contact Clare at the New Farm Neighbourhood Centre on 3358 5600 or clare@newfarmneighbourhood.org for details or to RSVP.

Swap community program launches AT a time when recycling and minimising waste are becoming more important, a new concept – well, an old concept with a modern spin – is launching under the branding of Neeboz.

Neeboz is a swap program that draws communities together to facilitate the exchange of household items that are no longer of use to one person, but that may be needed by another person.

Described by its founder, Jodie Hampson as a “revolutionary new social bartering” system, the New Farm community will be first to engage with the program at a swap market on Saturday, October 12, on the day the website launches.

Ms Hampson said it was appropriate that a community as close-knit as New Farm was hosting the first Neeboz, which is a concept that relies on community bonding.

“We’re hosting a weekend swap market to get people interacting face to face before they take their swapping online with Neeboz that night,” Ms Hampson said.

“New Farm is a close-knit village-like neighbourhood filled with people who, I’m sure, will appreciate and take on the community ethos of Neeboz,” she said.

New Farm locals were invited to bring household items, clothes along to the swap market, from household goods to clothes to hobby/craft skills participants would like to share.

Neeboz is an online sharing economy community that offers revolutionary networking, bartering and exchange services for Brisbane residents.

For more information visit: www. facebook.com/neeboz or www. meetup.com/BrissieSwappers

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Crime prevention officer, Senior Constable Vicki Campbell, said the data can be used by Crime Stoppers Volunteer Area Committees and Neighbourhood Watch Groups throughout Queensland to get involved in Crime Prevention Strategies.

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Bee part of the solution and save our tiny pollinators

What was it that motivated you to get into the beekeeping business?

Jack Wilson: I came back from four years overseas working on farms in Germany, a couple in Hungary and some very influential farms over in California. I realised that not much was happening in Brisbane when it came to agricultural systems, and after a couple of trips down to Melbourne in 2012, I came up with the idea to bring what they were doing down there back to Brisbane, which was beekeeping and rooftop gardens.

How is Bee One Third helping our environment and how can people get involved?

Our main objective is to inform the public of the importance of the honeybee and its role in our ecological cycle. People can get involved by looking up some bee-friendly flowers to plant. We actually hold a workshop with a number of different agencies, where we teach people how to grow bee-friendly edible crate gardens.

Tell me about the hives on James St. That was our pilot rooftop hive, a big experiment for us. James St actually contacted us and we jumped at the opportunity. The hives at James St now represent our one-and-only flagship project in collaboration with the James St precinct. (By midSeptember) we will be having five more beehives go up, with full grate access with walkways and a number of different edible gardens.

Do the different locations provide different flavours of honey? Tell me about the flavour of the honey from James St. We’ve been able to see eight different honeys with eight different colours, not one is the same. Eight totally different flavours. The flavour of James St honey was quite unique in that it developed over time. We harvested it in March this year, and it was a runny, elongated taste with very mild caramel undertones. Over three

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By Grace Winzar URBAN apiarists Bee One Third are raising awareness of food origins and saving the honey bee by installing rooftop hives in the inner city and suburban areas of Brisbane.

One third of our global food system is pollinated by the honey bee but the honey bee is endangered due to pesticides, varroa mite and hive beetles among other elements working against them. Bee One Third is the creation of part-time beekeepers Jack Wilson and Kat Skull.

Bee One Third has James St hives and is collaborating with artists Michael Zavros, Gail Sorronda and Belinda Sinclair.

Jack and Kat in their bee suits at Mandalay Technologies roof in South Brisbane. to four months the flavour profiles binded together; the soft caramel tones from the beginning got really rich and rounded with almost a toffee finish.

Why should people buy your honey over honey from a supermarket?

It’s 100% cold extracted and 100% raw. (Supermarket honey) is usually heat-treated, blended and pasteurised and there’s no way of actually telling where it came from.

Can you tell me about your recent collaborations with artists?

Bulgari Art Award winner Michael Zavros and fashion designer Gail

Sorronda have collaborated on clothing. Michael did some charcoal prints of bees swarming, and Gail took the prints and transferred them onto her clothing designs. The clothing will be available in late September.

Belinda Sinclair does abstract art, she’s sensational! She’s painted some beehives for us and there will be an exhibition of her work at Lust for Life (in Fortitude Valley) on the 5th of September. See her box in the image above.

A full selection of Bee One Third honey will soon be available at Scrumptious Reads on James St, and James St hive honey will be sold at Gerard’s Bistro.

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Success as Spring Hill Fair returns to Central School THE return of the Spring Hill Fair was welcomed by the community with a warm embrace as fair-goers, stallholders and organisers agreed this was an unqualified success.

“Feedback has been very positive, with everyone asking to be invited back next year and providing valuable feedback, ideas and experience on how we can make future Spring Hill Fairs spectacular,” “said Miranda Crisci, P&C vice-president at Central State School.

Fears that the weather was going to turn quite nasty proved unfounded as the rain held off and the heat dominated the day.

The Fair was organised and delivered by volunteers and many local businesses and organisations offered support with donation of goods and services or financial support.

Also, all local schools, both private

and public, primary and secondary were invited by formal letter to participate in the Fair. Various not-forprofit and charitable organisations participated and raised funds.

“The school established some great business connections by bringing the Spring Hill Fair back to the community,” she said. “And we plan to work more directly with local business, to ensure their direct participation in the next Spring Hill Fair. We will continue to grow these connections into the future.”

The successful fair caps off a strong year for Central State School with the announcement of the reunification, and the Year 7 cohort coming number one in NAPLAN in Queensland, ahead of Grammar and Ironside State School.

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HUNDREDS of thousands of people banner and has sold more than one have purchased tyres from the million tyres. man dubbed the tyre discount king “I will retire when I turn 96, and over the past 50 years and Vince in the meantime, I get a lot of Vitanza, will be remembered for his satisfaction from being involved dedication to business and to his in the overall management of the customers. business,” Vince said.

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Coorparoo and Fortitude Valley. always been actively involved in Always supported her Sons Anthony and Michael manage his industry, holding down roles on interested husband in the the Bridgestone Select stores at the TyrePower Board and The Qld in motor business while Fortitude Valley and Milton, with the Tyre Dealers Association. He has vehicles, Vince’s transition into the raising their four children, Anthony, Coorparoo site managed by Tony also had time for the community automotive industry was natural.

Melissa, Venetia and Michael. In Jones. There is hope that at the right and has been heavily involved at One of his fondest memories was earlier times, Lyn was responsible for time, daughters Melissa and Venetia his children’s schools, as well as racing a stock car in the Brisbane a variety of tasks including checks, will become involved in the family the New Farm Rotary Club and the Exhibition in 1963. pick-ups and deliveries. enterprise.

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Eclectic design becomes the hero If you are searching for a furniture store that will leave a lasting impression, then Samarang Lifestyle Furniture is a must see for some of the most authentic, beautiful Indian pieces not seen anywhere else in Brisbane.

Samarang’s stylists have travelled throughout India to find the most exotic furniture and home wares to bring to their customers, and are always seeking unique, one-of-a-kind pieces from the home of the world’s most gifted craftsmen.

Indian furniture is colourful, textured, and often showcases sculpturing and intricate details which make it unique. This approach to their design gives each piece personality and individual flair.

Since the introduction of minimalism into contemporary homes, the artwork and furniture pieces in a room have become the feature. Previously, wall colour, floor coverings and window furnishings were the design heroes, whereas the standout items have now become any piece that provides colour, depth, texture and meaning. The new hero of the room could be a statue made of wood, stone or marble. It could be an iron drum or treasure chest, a carved teak console table or a wall mask. That special piece will imbibe imagination into a room, giving it the revitalization it needs at the same time as making a statement.

Samarang specialises in unique, one-off and ‘wow’ pieces including eclectic items that can be mixed into a modern décor for every room of your house. In order to fuse Indian furniture with modern furniture, the team at Samarang believe it is important to keep an interior design theme simple. Their advice is to focus on

particular elements to capture the right look for your home and keep the backdrop pure using consistent colours that will complement the palette for your artwork and furniture Modern interior design has become far less structured in recent times, and individuals are more relaxed about mixing old and new styles. Samarang has a range of wooden and woven furniture from Indonesia which is individually handcrafted from natural materials providing each piece with a signature style and allowing integration with other pieces.

Where possible, suppliers are selected based on their approach to sustainable, environmentally sound practices. Many of Samarang’s furniture pieces are individually handcrafted from natural materials, providing each with a unique signature and style.

Samarang invites customers to pore over the many and varied Indian and Asian home ware and furniture pieces which are constantly being added to their collection. Their interior design buyers have recently returned from a procurement trip to India. Their task was to locate sensational but functional pieces to give a cultural edge to a home’s décor and are thrilled to be able to offer visitors to their Teneriffe store a glimpse of their exquisite new pieces.

Samarang’s Teneriffe store at 25 Helen Street is fast becoming Brisbane’s leading name for showcasing Indian furniture and home wares. The store is open 7 days and has a beautiful range of furniture, décor and giftware to tempt visitors.

Balinese nuptials VILLAGE News graphic and web designer, Sarah Mino, Director of Mino Design Studio, married sweetheart Roger Rail in a tropical paradise Roger & Sarah Rail. wedding in Bali.

Photo by kissstudio.com The stunning bride, originally from Zimbabwe before her family migrated to Brisbane in 2003, wore a strapless white three-quarter length chiffon gown by Melbourne designer Bariano. The groom wore a suit by Calibre. The happy couple met when they were both studying at Griffith University.

About 80 guests flew in from all parts of the globe and stayed at the resort with the couple for an extended “group honeymoon”.

“It was so much fun! We got to spend time with family and friends in a gorgeous tropical paradise setting,” Sarah said.

Instead of a wedding cake, the bride and groom cut a stacked cheese wheel, made up of Lachlan triple cream, truffle pecorino, and sheep’s cheddar gorgonzola. The cheeses came from New Farm Deli and were transported to Bali by the bride.

“It was absolutely superb and we cut the wheel straight after the ceremony and at the cheeses with canapés at the reception.” the newly minted Mrs Rail said. For information on graphic or web design services, visit minodesignstudio.com.au or contact Sarah: sarah@minodesignstudio.com.au.

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Nesting mums make baby bumps a business opportunity MARISA Lotze and Michelle Ladru worked together at a Fortitude Valley engineering firm and by an amazing coincidence fell pregnant at the same time and went on maternity leave at the same time.

Being organised professional women, they began the nesting process in typically organised and professional fashion - they researched all the baby products on the market to see what they needed and wanted for their coming bundles of joy.

“We found that there were a lot of great products on the market that weren’t available in Australia,” Marisa Lotze said. “We seem to dip out on a lot of these really great products here,” she said.

In My Nest So the women embarked upon the journey blazed by legion of mumpreneurs ahead of them and set up their own company to distribute amazing baby products to the Australian market. And that’s how In My Nest was born.

Marisa, a long-time New Farm resident before her recent move, wanted to create a business where she could work from home and saw a gap in the market that she was confident she could fill.

The women have collected a range of carefully researched products that

are sold through about 20 retailers, a mixture of online and bricks and mortar shops. In addition, In My Nest has the exclusive distribution rights in Australia for the Sili Squeeze and Mixie Bottle products.

Exclusive distribution rights The Sili Squeeze is a silicon pouch that can be used with pureed food, yoghurt or drinks (water, and juice) put into it and with its specially structured mouthpiece kids get the food into their mouths, not all over their clothes.

“With the Sili Squeeze, we were chosen over some larger distribution companies because we represented as two mums - what they represented.

They wanted someone who didn’t view it just as a money spinner but someone who had passion for the product,” she said.

And passion for the product is evident in spades. Marisa explained about the unique features of the small version of the Sili Squeeze: “It has applications for children with special needs,” she said. Through its unique design the product is particularly well suited to children with cleft palates and other similar facial deformities.

“The way it is designed it is really easy for them to gum down on the mouthpiece,” she said.

In My Nest has the exclusive distribution rights to Australia for the Sili Squeeze and Mixie Bottle.

Getting the name known The women have been showcasing at the Pregnancy, Babies and Children Expos in Brisbane and Sydney and next February will be part of the Kids Instyle trade expo, promoting their products to retailers and wholesalers who are hunting for high-end, unique children’s products to sell.

Marisa, already busy raising

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“Between Craig and all the grandparents, we have Liam covered so I can attend expos and work on the business,” she said.

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The Kangaroo Point Rovers brought home three grand final wins. From left: Simon Fraser (reserve grade captain), Imogen Rothwell (women’s team captain) and Mo Gamble (first grade captain). Photos courtesy Keegan Smith.

The Piney Revolution capped its season off with a grand final win on Saturday as both Kangaroo Point Rovers reserves and firsts triumphed on home soil. The women’s team completed the trifecta and brought home a third piece of silverware for the trophy cabinet.

The women’s team won the Women’s City League 5 Blue Premiership and grand final, which was a fitting result for the 10-year anniversary of a women’s team at the Kangaroo Point Rovers Football Club.

The club has collected a cabinetful of silverware, including: Capital 3

Premiership, Capital 3 Reserves Premiership, Capital 3 Grand Final, Capital 3 Reserves Grand Final, Capital 3 Club Champions.

Reserves grade captain Simon Fraser said it had been a hugely successful year for the club.

“We’re all really proud of our efforts,” he said. “It was a great contribution from everyone. We want to thank our assistant coach Kristian Tognini and head coach, Tim Moore. Tim has been instrumental in our success this season, his first season as head coach,” Fraser said.

Lend your support to walking for mental health awareness

MENTAL health will be in the spotlight on Sunday October 13 when the Mental Awareness Foundation will host the official Mental Health Week Walk for Awareness and its third annual fundraising event.

The event raises money to support charities that are working directly with communities implementing programs to raise awareness of depression and mental illness, while supporting the preservation of life.

After a quick warm up and stretch, walkers will embark on an 8km walk around Brisbane ’s winding river and beautiful scenery. As participants make their way towards the finish line, they’ll pass some of Brisbane’s finest landmarks including the Kangaroo Point cliffs, the Botanical Gardens and The Story Bridge.

In the morning, 200 white helium balloons will be released to the skies to honour lives sadly lost to depression and mental health illness.

During the morning and following the walk, supporters will be entertained by live music from local four-piece band Strip Back, face-painting and jumping castle for the kids, presentations and awards as well as barbecue lunch and cake stall.

WHEN: Sunday October 13, 2013. 6:30am for an 8:00am start WHERE: Captain Burke Park, Kangaroo Point (under the Story Bridge) MORE: http://mentalawarenessfoundation.org/

Drink coffee for a cause and help the artists ARTSLINK Queensland is set to launch a social enterprise in the form of an espresso bar to support Queensland artists.

The café, called Mr Rush, is beside Artslink Queensland’s Teneriffe headquarters and is part espresso bar, part aesthetic experience, with a gallery that celebrates Artslink Queensland’s grassroots links to the state’s regional cultural community.

Artslink Queensland chief operating officer Stephen Beardsley said the social enterprise, inspired in name by associate artist to the organisation and beloved Toowoomba actor Geoffrey Rush, would raise vital funds to bolster Artslink Queensland’s programs and services for local artists, cultural organisations and schools throughout regional Queensland.

“We’ve crafted a unique character for Mr Rush that aims to capture the vivacity and resilience of Queensland’s regional arts community,” Mr Beardsley said. “Strongly anchored in our mission to support and promote regional Queensland artists, Mr Rush will reinvest profits into our arts programs to improve on the work we already do.”

Artworks from upcoming and established Queensland artists spill into Mr Rush’s bright space, infusing the

playful art deco style with a sense of Artslink Queensland’s vintage roots.

Mr Rush Espresso Bar manager Stefan Cooper-Fox said Mr Rush’s specialisation in espresso filled a niche need for coffee in Teneriffe.

“First and foremost, we aim to deliver high quality espresso and exceptional service,” said double-espresso drinker Mr Cooper-Fox. “We wanted to cultivate a space where business professionals, artists and locals could meet over coffee and tapas plates. We love coffee and love art, so we thought, why not join the two?”

Mr Cooper-Fox hopes that people will visit Mr Rush time and time again for its consistent high quality coffee and food.

Visit our website www.artslinkqld.com. au for more information.

Navy servicemen move to new home THE Naval Association of Australia Brisbane sub branch was rescued from permanent closure in March when members from the Pine Rivers sub branch moved clubs to help keep flagging membership alive.

Since then, the club has weighed anchor at a new dock, finding a home at the Keith Boden Memorial Hall on Edinburgh Castle Rd in Wavell Heights.

President Ric Mingramm said the move was necessary because the sub section’s previous home, the Newmarket Memorial Hall on Enoggera Road, had gone through a change of trustee guardianship and it was no longer an exclusive use home for the club.

“It was also noisy, which made it difficult to hold meetings as the older members couldn’t hear the proceedings,” president Ric Mingramm said. “The new executive wanted to get the sub section back into an exclusive-use facility where the veterans could feel home and it allowed for greater usage.”

So the group moved to the Keith Boden Memorial Hall. Members have helped refurbish the new hall and worked to create a club house that befits a Naval Association sub branch.

“Eighty-six-year-old Korean War veteran Norm Isdale drove from his home in Oxley on Saturday and

Korean War veteran Norm Isdale, 86, drove all the way from Oxley for two days to help with painting and sanding.

Sunday and worked form 8am- 4pm each day painting and helping,” Mr Mingramm said.

The Brisbane Sub Section has double its membership in less than 12 months and has brought the average age down by about 22 years.

“With the new exclusive facility we have been able to present it in a manner that depicts our naval traditions, and now look to support to upgrade the facility to make it more homely for our veterans and members,” Mr Mingramm said. “We are now actively recruiting for ex-Navy people to join us.”

For more information about the Naval Association Sub Branch contact president Ric Mingramm 0430 940 189. Visit www.naa-brisbane.org.au.

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By Lisa Rutter Combine long days with a handful of dedicated team players, a swirl of creative genius and a fashion runway and the finished product is a successful Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival debut for rising online fashion boutique Lalabazaar.

The exhibition was an absolute treat.

One by one, the models glided down the runway, adorned with a readyto-wear collection of frenzied floral fabrics, sports luxe and edgy chic designs with detailed textures.

The collection was right on trend, with a colour palate infused with bold patterns.

Monochromic black and white tones were uniquely matched with bursts of floral prints and a mash up of textures of fabrics.

For its very first MBFF runway show, Lalabazaar showcased well-known local Aussie designers such as Finders Keepers, Cameo, and Keepsake to name a few.

It was an eclectic collection that came together beautifully Lalabazaar founder, Suzie Lightfoot who refers to the business as Lala,

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(back) Suzie Lightfoot, Loren McKone.

(Front) Toya Carter & Josh Kilroy. could not have been more pleased with how the runway rolled out. Suzie spoke highly of her backstage experience.

“Everyone was just so happy to be there and be involved; helping and supporting each other. The vibe was very Brisbane.”

Lala celebrates its first birthday this month and has a mass following on the social media scene with just under 12,000 loyal Facebook followers and a team of dedicated staff who all share a passion for supporting Australian fashion and home grown talent.

Future plans to include more Australian fashion labels in the Lala catalogue is on the cards as Suzie has a strong alliance with Australian designers and labels.

Contact Lisa Rutter: 0429 069 068

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From school drop-out to rising star

The Trouble With Templeton played the BigSound conference in Fortitude Valley and is Brisbane’s next up and coming sensation. Tom Calder is second from right.

BRISBANE indie folk rock band The Trouble With Templeton were back on home turf last month to play the Triple J stage at Oh Hello! in Fortitude Valley as part of the BigSound conference.

Lead singer, guitarist and driving force behind the band Tom Calder said playing in front of the home crowd was always special.

“We’re excited to be back, it’s really fun,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s the audience who creates it, or if it’s you in your mind, but there’s definitely some sort of feeling like family, like unconditional love,” he said. “It might not actually be that way, but it definitely feels like that!” he said.

Calder is part of the new breed of musicians working to create commercial viability blended with creative integrity and he focuses on promoting the band with the disciplined approach of a full-time job.

Part of that promotion includes social media. With almost 6000 likes on Facebook and a growing following on Twitter, along with Instagram, MySpace, YouTube, and Tumblr, Calder spends time every day building the band’s following.

“It’s another avenue that helps us reach people. It helps us inject our personalities into it. That’s why people loved the Beatles so much, because they were such big personalities,” he said. Calder listed The Beatles and Tom Waits as musical influences.

When asked if he would embrace an offer from a big label that would bring money and people to do that part of the work for him, leaving him free to focus on the music, Calder paused.

“Money is not the goal,” he said. “It’s part of the goal, but it’s money without compromise. I would never sign with a label that had any say whatsoever in how the music sounded. I’m just not interested in doing that. I do it to sound how we want to sound,” he said.

TTWT has drawn a team of professionals around them that help with the functions that a major recording label would fulfil, including media and promotional opportunities.

Calder said it gave them the freedom to pursue their creative goals without bowing to the pressures that a major label could potentially bring to bear.

For a high school drop-out success is building steadily. A former student at Hillbrook Anglican and Kenmore High School, Calder decided not to complete his high school education in order to pursue a musical career, risking a horrified reaction from his parents.

“I’m sure part of them wanted me to finish, but they were pretty supportive. I think they knew that if I was passionate about doing something - or not doing something - then it was for a reason. I didn’t drop out and do nothing.

“Regrets are a waste of time!” he said.

Calder refuted suggestions that Brisbane had had its day as an incubator of great new live music.

“I think there’s quite a lot of great stuff coming out of Brisbane at the moment. You see it publicised a lot more lately,” he said. “And it’s the bands that create the demand, ultimately and there’s tons of great bands coming out now.”

Last year Triple J named The Trouble With Templeton in its Next Crop - a list of bands to watch in 2013. Calder said the boost provided by Triple J had been instrumental in getting the band to its current level of success. He said the next goal was definitely building on album sales and focusing on writing and recording the next album, which was his favourite part of the job.

“I don’t know (why mainstream radio stations aren’t playing us). It’s not what is popular at the moment,” he said. “All I can do is put (my music) out there. I don’t put too much thought into that (why we’re not on commercial radio).

I’m just trying to write great music,” he said.

The Trouble With Templeton are embarking on a UK tour in October. They have a new album out now, available here: www. thetroublewithtempleton.com. Watch the band’s new single You Are New: http://youtu.be/S45P1fLIieg

AS the dust settles in Fortitude Valley following the hugely successful BigSound conference, headline act Amanda Palmer is preparing to jet out of Brisbane, but not before sitting down with Village News and sharing some of her thoughts on why music should be given away for free.

Amanda Palmer, US singer and performance artist likes to court controversy. She is sometimes billed as Amanda Fucking Palmer. She once stripped naked and let strangers draw all over her. She is one of a new breed of artist who doesn’t fall easily into a pigeonhole - she’s not simply a singer, or an artist, or a blogger, or even an agent provocateur - she’s all of those things to varying degrees.

Frontwoman for the successful band, The Dresden Dolls, from the early 2000s, Palmer experienced being part of the music industry machine and part of a major recording label. It didn’t appeal to her and the experience left her cold.

Her ideas set her apart - she believes in giving her music away for free. In a compelling TED Talk earlier this year she argued that we should stop trying to make people pay for music and instead let them pay. It’s a subtle difference but one that represents a huge leap in the way the economy of the music industry is structured. She spoke about the way artists should ask to be supported for their work, ask for the crowd to pay for what’s a fair exchange.

In 2012 she launched her Kickstarter project.

(Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform that helps connect projects with money, through everyday people contributing an amount they can afford).

Palmer set out to raise $100,000 for an album and

a tour and ended up raising almost $1.2 million, a stunning victory for a “hippy idea” that was easily dismissed.

“I’m almost more proud of my TED talk than I am of the Kickstarter (success) because the TED talk explains what it is and why it came to be and why it works,” she said.

“The talk is about asking and how hard it is, especially as artists, to ask for things and how vulnerable we feel and we might be rejected,” she said.

“It reached musicians, which was the target audience, but it went so much further than that. I have had people from all walks of life thank me for that talk because (either) they are in a relationship where they can’t ask, or they work for non-profits, and they were so happy to hear someone voice the things they think about all day and discussed.”

Palmer loves Brisbane and has visited six or seven times before. When she arrives in town she tweets her legion of followers on Twitter (almost one million followers at time of writing) and connects.

She has coffee with them, or a smoothie, she does impromptu free performances, and sleeps on their couches.

For Palmer, music is, in her words, “a bridge to connect with people” and she revels in that connection. Not for this artist is the sectioning off, away from fans, that many artists embrace when they become successful.

“I love Brisbane,” she said. “I’ve got a history here (in Fortitude Valley). A couple of years ago, I was here and we paraded down to the ICA because

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Amanda Palmer’s big ideas challenge the establishment at BigSound

Amanda Palmer - Agent provocateur Amanda Palmer enjoys challenging her fans and critics. someone there was a fan. It was fucking awesome,” she said. “Hells yeah, I love this place,” she said.

To hear Amanda Palmer’s music, visit amandapalmer.net/ To watch her TED Talk, visit: www.ted.com/talks/ amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking

Vivien Leigh returns in her scandalous glory SCANDAL, heartbreak and deliciously wicked comedy saturate Vivien Leigh’s School for Scandal, produced by HeartBeast Vicious Theatre Ensemble.

Inspired by Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comic masterpiece, and fused with old Hollywood Gone with the Wind style, heartBeast fuses the story of Vivien Leigh (Karen Disdale) and the fable world of the 1770 School for Scandal production.

On stage, Vivien plays Lady Teazal in all lights of sex, sarcasm and salacious gossip. Off stage, beautiful Vivien struggles with the reality of touring Australia with the Old Vic Theatre Company.

Like the sailors of old, Vivien was rumoured to have a different dalliance in every port. Brisbane was no different. This production unites the scandal of what was actually happening off stage with the ‘scandal’ that was being enacted on it.

Vivien Leigh’s School for Scandal plays October 10 - 26 at Trinity Hall Church, Church Street, Fortitude Valley. Bookings: QTIX 136 246 or qtix.com.au. Tickets: $28 Adults, $22 Concession.

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Iconic Brisbane fast food store Burger Urge is staying local

THE brothers behind the Burger Urge sensation, Sean and Colby Carthew, have bought a building in Lamington Street, New Farm for $750,000 which will be transformed into their head office.

Burger Urge started 10 years ago with one store in Fortitude Valley and has since grown to five stores, including West End, the UQ St Lucia and QUT Gardens Point campuses, and the first franchised store at Kelvin Grove.

The new HQ is at 15 Lamington Street and is 300sqm over two levels.

The Carthew brothers wanted an office in New Farm as they have always lived in New Farm; their flagship store is in Brunswick Street on the border of New Farm and Fortitude Valley.

Sean said they wanted Burger Urge to remain synonymous with the area, even if it goes national.

“We were born here, grew up here ... we live and work here,” Sean, 32 said.

His parents lived in the family home in New Farm and brother Colby, 30, lived on the same street as their restaurant.

The brothers have plans for 30-50 Burger Urge stores across Australia within five years.

A franchise costs about $300,000, lower than many fast food and restaurant chains.

“We want it to be affordable so franchisees start making money sooner,” Sean said.

“We love the business. It has been a lot of hard work, we’ve put thousands

Lamington St site into an “edgy office” that has the same fit-out as their stores. It will feature raw materials, industrial fittings; it will have a games room and a bar for staff.

the opening of the Fortitude Valley store.

Since this time Burger Urge has cemented its reputation as the place to go in Brisbane for gourmet burgers

Burger Urge takes up headquarters in Lamington Street, New Farm. of hours into it. But it has all been worthwhile.”

The refurbishment will be conducted by the Trademark Group.

It will cost $200,000 and the Burger Urge team are aiming to move into the completed venue at the end of July.

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Burger Urge employed more than 70 staff across the five stores and was a favourite of inner-city dwellers, including federal member for Griffith and former prime minister Kevin Rudd.

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Peter Alwast at Ryan Renshaw Gallery Review of Peter Alwast’s exhibition Frozen in the Tracks at the Ryan Renshaw Gallery Playing with shadow and light and intertwining both representational and abstract elements, Brisbanebased conceptual artist Peter Alwast invokes questions about the real and the imaginary.

Alwast’s current exhibition Frozen in the Tracks at Ryan Renshaw Gallery shows works which experiment with light and criss-crossed layers of neon halogen pipes, connecting in seemingly infinite compositions.

Through his practice (which includes photography, drawing, painting, digital animation and video) Alwast elegantly expresses a consideration for societal issues such as consumerism and urban development, with an undertone of disinterestedness.

His video works and drawings translate different modes and layers of representation, invoking questions about the relationship of different media (new media to painting and drawing), two-dimensional and threedimensional imagery, and of the real and the virtual. His use of light and his varying approaches to media suggest a bridge between concrete and abstract, constructing ideas about subjectivity, the role of memory and the personal within real and virtual spaces.

Alwast holds a Master of Fine Art from the Parsons School of Design in New York and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Future Perfect at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2011) and Translations at Grafton Regional Gallery (2012).

Alwast’s work has been collected by the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, the Musuem of Contemporary Art, Sydney, the New School University, New York, the Gold Coast City Art Gallery as well as numerous major corporate, university and notable private collections in Australia and The USA.5 Frozen in the Tracks is currently exhibiting at Ryan Renshaw Gallery until October 12, 2013.

Review of Belinda Sinclair’s Smoke and Mirrors exhibition at Lust for Life gallery.

We are all consumers, creators, destroyers; we are in a permanent state of transition: simultaneously predator and prey, selfish and virtuous, living in ambivalence, for the most part with acceptance, or possibly denial of our eternal contradictions- at least, that is what Belinda Sinclair’s artworks suggests.

Brisbane-based artist Belinda Sinclair recently had an exhibition at Lust For Life Gallery in Fortitude Valley. Part of her collection included graphic imagery painted on beehives. These were created in collaboration with Brisbane based urban beekeeping organization Bee One Third.

The purpose of this collaboration was firstly to help spread the word about the worldwide decline of the honeybee and to actively promote local solutions. The artwork was also intended to put into question the way in which we, as consumers, live our everyday lives.

Belinda personally has had a long fascination with beekeeping, as her grandparents lived in a place and time where keeping bees was an everyday part of life. Her work reflects on that time and highlights a disconnection between then and now.

Belinda used beeswax to coat over the painted surface of the hives, then carved and painted into the wax surface. Beeswax is tactile and pliable – and an added bonus- it also smells and feels great, making it a unique and pleasurable material to work with. The result of using beeswax gave the hives a glossy finish.

Aside from being nostalgic theoretically, the imagery is also aesthetically nostalgic, as it references mid 20th Century design.

If you missed the exhibition, the hives will soon go on to house bees on the Mandalay building in South Bank.

writes poetry and literature from uncommon moods such as boredom, disinterest and laziness. The effect of this, while being hilarious, is also surprisingly moving.

At the Queensland Poetry Festival Tao read a poem about a list of things that he wanted to do and instead did nothing; one about loneliness with a title that was seven lines long and one called a poem written by a bear, about an existential bear experiencing sympathy for the creatures that he has a natural desire to maul and consume.

Tao read these poems in deep monotone, without expression in either his voice or face, which again, while funny, effectively placed the listener within the bleak, emotional landscape in which the author’s mind seems to reside.

Tao Lin has written seven books of fiction/poetry including the novel Taipei (2013) and the poetry collections you are a little bit happier than i am (2006) and cognitivebehavioral therapy (2008).

During his first few years as a published author (2006-2008), Tao was also known for staging outrageous conceptual art events in support of his published works, such as blanketing New York City with stickers that read “Britney Spears”, and giving a reading in which he repeated the same sentence over and over again.

Local artist launches debut single

NEW Farm singer Jo Cooper has launched her debut single, Stupid Boy, at a star studded event at the Press Club in Fortitude Valley and she’s preparing for her upcoming album release.

The song was written by Jo and was produced by multi-Grammy Award winning producer Leon Zervos (Muse, Fall Out Boy, Pink, Maroon 5).

The glitzy film clip to accompany the single’s release features Carmelo Pizzino, from Dancing With The Stars. To see the video clip go to: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=MgAQ6w_ytA0

Poets entertain at state festival Review of American Poet Tao Lin at this year’s Queensland Poetry Festival.

American Poet Tao Lin, dubbed Kafka for the iPhone generation, entertained audiences at this year’s Queensland Poetry Festival with readings from several of his works, including i want to pour orange juice on my face.

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Inner City Home Will Surprise & Captivate You Bowen Hills 22 Cintra Road Behind its discrete facade, this grand home will delight with its sheer size and rich character features. Currently celebrating its centenary year, beautifully maintained ‘Illalandi’ is positioned in an elevated hillside enclave in Brisbane’s fastest growing precinct, just 2km from the GPO, 200m from Bowen Hills train station and a short stroll to the Gasworks Retail Centre, Emporium and huge array of surrounding amenities.

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Ripe for Renovation with City Views Spring Hill 140 Kennigo Street Situated in an ultra-convenient location only minutes’ walk to the CBD, this character filled home is a must inspect. Set in a highly sought after pocket of Spring Hill this home offers three large bedrooms with plenty of room to move and grow.

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Split Level Apartment In The Heart Of James Street Fortitude Valley 19/25 James Street Very rarely are these stunning split level executive apartments offered to the public, with the owner moving interstate this is a necessary sale. This 180m2 apartment sprawls over 2 levels & is a part of the highly regarded East Village’ development.

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Big Returns, 2 Car, 123m2 Spring Hill 24/69 Leichhardt Street Located on level 5 in the south tower of the Centrepoint Apartments, this two bedroom apartment offers sweeping views over Brisbane CBD.

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SOLD UNDER THE HAMMER Spring Hill 156 Kennigo Street Situated on an elevated north facing position, this character filled Queenslander is the perfect fusion of space and style.

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Market conditions proceed market awareness

A wise real estate man (Paul many buyers to act. Bidders Chard) made a comment to me were registering, properties were in the late 90s. He said, “Haesley selling and in some cases prices there are more buyers at opens, were moving. But with a new more bidders at auctions and government we are (as always) listings are starting to tighten. In reminded that things don’t change a couple of months the papers, that dramatically overnight. television stations and radios will So what is happening today? be spruiking about the changes to Well, I have called about 30 the market.” auctions over He went on the last week. to say that by The interest is that time the run still there, but may be over. He the ‘sting’ in said, “Market market has With Haesley Cush the conditions dulled. Why? proceed Certainly not market awareness.” What he due to an oversupply. There is a was saying was that the news is shortage of property available and reporting yesterday’s market, not there is a lot of people still wanting necessarily today’s. to buy. I think it’s a mature sign of Over the last week I have our market that affordability is still spoken to several media outlets at the forefront of buyers minds. about the possible changes to the We do have enough evidence to market. But speak to the agents suggest that things are improving. and they will say ‘that’s old news.’

The next deadline is Christmas Prior to the election the Brisbane and it should bring another rush. market place was HOT. Buyers The market loves a were faced with the psychological psychological deadline. So as deadline of the election and ‘Chardy’ was alluding to, you can the ‘unknown’ of what might wait for the news to report it or you happen to prices with a change can get in now… because today’s in government. This prompted news is usually yesterday’s results.

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Ray White New Farm is moving house!

THE big news at Ray White New Farm is that we are finally moving premises. Although there is always an element of sadness when moving from a place that holds seven years of great memories, the old office just couldn’t cater for what the team has planned for 2014 and beyond.

From its humble beginnings, the Ray White New Farm team is now very strong. In what was incredibly good timing, an opportunity arose at 612 Brunswick Street that was too good to refuse.

Matt Lancashire and his team of sales agents continues to grow, and the new building situated adjacent to Cirque Cafe is absolutely perfect to house New Farm’s best real estate professionals. With 34% market share, The Ray White New Farm sales team continue to set industry benchmarks, and their results tell the story.

In what is undoubtedly the most exciting time of growth for Ray White New Farm, the staff are absolutely thrilled to be in there before Christmas, and are fired up and ready for huge year in 2014.

Experience the Aurora phenomenon

This is not just a penthouse apartment and check out this view!

Matt Lancashire in front of the soon to be open Ray White New Farm’s new head office at 612 Brunswick street. (opposite their existing office)

Standing on any the balcony of Brisbane’s 69-level Aurora Tower is an impressive place to be simply because of its spectacular views of the city and beyond. Currently for sale is the 65th floor penthouse with some very unique elements to be experienced.

New Farm Property agent with Place Real Estate, Sherie Storor, is no stranger to selling prestige apartments and describes this apartment as twice the penthouse you usually find.

“A luxurious residence at this level with four bedrooms and two living areas and this sort of spectacular view is quote unique,” Sherie said.

“The property was originally two penthouses joined together to make one magnificent ‘sky-home’.”

The apartment has the best of both worlds with living and dining aspects overlooking the river to the Story Bridge and several of the bedrooms facing Mount Coot-tha. The apartment includes four carparks and is registered for pets. Two separate entries and a wet bar completes the picture.

“Living this high has its benefits, with all balconies fully enclosed but still allowing gentle breezes and stunning views,” Sherie said.

“Everything in the city still seems reachable and doesn’t feel like you’re up in the clouds.”

Currently for sale by private inspection, for more information, contact Sherrie Storor on 0466 872 705.

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High-end property sales predicted to lift this spring

This Cutters Landing Refinery penthouse unit sold in the millions of dollars in August.

THE property market is preparing for a boost to sales figures with favourable conditions, including low interest rates, a post-election boost to confidence, and housing affordability the best it’s been in years, hopefully contributing to a frenzy of activity.

Evidence of the strengthening Teneriffe, Newstead and New Farm peninsula property market comes on the back of some impressive “topend” August sales, Teneriffe Realty principal Richard Bodley said. “(In August), the agency negotiated two multi-million dollar sales on penthouse properties; one in Mirvac’s new Pier development at Waterfront, Newstead for a price in excess of $5 million and the second at the Cutters Landing Refinery building in New Farm,” he said.

These two sales follow a recent series of $1 million-plus sales of Wool Store apartments in the Winchcombe Carson building in Teneriffe.

“These high-end sales reflect a continuing improvement in confidence for buyers of waterfront and prestige

property in our area,” Teneriffe Realty principal Jennifer Lockley said. “They are a reflection of the mood of the general buying public and from our enquiry levels I predict a strong spring selling period,” she continued.

“We are definitely not in a boom market but our sales over the three months to the end of August are very encouraging and I believe buyers are just waiting for the dust to settle following the federal election. I think the outlook for spring will be the strongest since 2010.”

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) house price index, the Brisbane index grew 1.9 per cent in the three months to June. ABS housing and lending finance data also shows that the numbers of owneroccupiers and investors in the market continues to increase.

The REIQ’s CEO Anton Kardash agreed that the recent rate cut would add to a growing number of indicators that show our property market is well and truly heading into positive territory.

Newcomer to Sydney Street welcomed Residents of Sydney Street are about to receive a welcome new addition to their pocket of New Farm. Brisbane-based developer and builder, Kenlynn, launched their new apartment complex in early 2013 to very strong buyer interest.

With over 50% of the apartments now sold and construction well underway, real estate agents believe it will be one of the best positions in the neighborhood to live or invest.

According to Kenlynn’s Andrew Travers, Sydney on Sydney ticks all the boxes including an indication for strong potential investment growth in the New Farm area over coming years (BRW Jan 2013 predict a 7.1% growth in 2013).

“Whenever people are buying real estate, it’s always about the location and the position,” Andrew said. “Sydney on Sydney apartments are only two kilometres from Brisbane’s city centre, and a quick walk to the City Cat and buses. The outlook is perfect all around for the lifestyle of choice.”

Those of us who already live in New Farm know and love it and do not need any further justification for residing here. However, for those who have not had the pleasure of living within a stone’s

throw of beautiful New Farm Park, Merthyr Road shopping Centre, the Powerhouse entertainment precinct and dozens of outstanding restaurants and cafes, they may just want to take a minute to look at the lifestyle they have been missing.

The boutique development of 57 apartments offers a choice of one, two or three bedrooms, and high demand has already meant that only the one and two bedroom units are still available. The Architects, Noel Robinson, have used a contemporary design consisting of stylish and functional living spaces.

Each includes premium fittings and quality workmanship with modern designer finishes including stone bench tops and Europeanstyle appliances, fully tiled floors and quality wool carpets to all bedrooms.

The apartment complex has both secure access and secure car parking to make the lifestyle just that bit more attractive.

Touted as one of Australia’s top 5 suburbs to invest in, New Farm’s new must-have address, Sydney on Sydney, will be completed in July/ August 2014.

Phone 07 3107 9224 or visit the website for more information www.sydneyonsydney.com.au

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If you’re thinking about selling your place, give our place a call. 3107 5111 2013 AUSTRALIA’S BEST MAJOR INDEPENDENT AGENCY

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There’s good reason why Sherrie is Place New Farm’s Number One agent. “ I am absolutely thrilled with the commitment and result Sherrie Storor provided throughout the sale of my property. Her innovative use of social media and video was fantastic and ensured my property stood out above the rest. The buyer came from our Courier Mail advertising campaign and Sherrie worked professionally, tenaciously and passionately throughout the whole process. She went over and above in the negotiations and worked consistently day and night with the buyer. She did not let go of them, even when I had given up. Sherrie is just a positive person that would never accept failure.

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