AUTUMN EDITION 2017
CONTENTS
Our front cover a day at Shellys beach, a day which started with the madness of life, within moments of arrivng here the sound of the waves and wind wiped away all the noise and much fun was had : Stunt Man/ Model : Darcy Bold Make up and Hair by Peta and Em. Food by the girls and drinks by the boys. Photograph by Skye Leong. Thanks for the sunny, windy day Mother
WORDS from COUNCILOR Rick
Baberowski
Public Art Florey Park is Stockland’s newest creation in Oceanside Kawana and it features four table tennis benches wrapped in colourful public art. Cr Baberowski and I tested our skills against the two commissioned artists, Merry Sparks and Steven Bordonaro, as well as the Stockland Sunshine Coast representatives. Let’s just say that I’m happy to blame my table tennis performance on the southerly breeze! Nambour Museum Really enjoyed a great tour of the
Nambour Museum C Rick Baberowski was hosted by the volunteers and led by Clive Plater. Big range of diverse collections and great use of a labyrinth of spaces. Heritage Showcase
Over 15 local museums and heritage organisations on display to show and share the region’s history:
Words from councilor Rick Baberowski
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No Regrets byRobin Archbold
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10-11 Technology and the Arts: Androids dreaming of electric sheep by Kris Randell Queerly Me by Joshua Wilde Thining the beets by Robin Archbold
Gallery Hop with Skye Leong Gary Field Exquiste Wood carver
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World science festival
Visual arts Compettions $10,000s to be won
Fashion 4 pages of Opulance
21-23 Sing to me Pastiche by Joshua Wilde 24-26 28-29 MUSIC Sounds of the sunshine Coast and Hinterland 30-33 34-35 The Arts
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Firstly, dear readers, I’d like to thank you for your support and reception of issue one. Secondly, I’m very excited for the release of our second Zine; The Autumn Issue. To me, summer on the Sunshine Coast brings home childhood nostalgia. I spent many sweaty school holidays in Maleny, eating gelato from Colin James Fine Foods and exploring second hand bookstores and markets. This issue we left our writers somewhat to their own devices. Free to write about whatever they wanted within the world of arts and culture on the Sunshine Coast, and I was so delighted reading what they came up with. As always, I’d like to thank our fantastic writers for their effort and passion. Our aim here at Pastiche is to shed light on the extensive creative culture across the Sunshine Coast and Hinterlands. If you’re an artist,
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musician or writer who would like to share their work, we would love to hear from you. We are really hoping to include poetry in future issues and we’d love to explore the endless supply of talent across the coast. Contact us at info@ pastichemagazine.com.au Hannah Forsdike Pastiche Zine Editor
Editor Hannah Forsdike Sub Editor Robin Archbold Magazine layout & Katie Lawrence & Skye Leong Graphic design Web & Social Media Katie Lawrence Skye Leong Jade Leong Writers Kris Randall Angel Angel Goulter Randall Tunja Cottier Joshua Wildie Skye Leong Photographers Richard Waugh Kettle Fish Pastiche is a locally published, content-driven AIRZINE. It is designed to showcase contemporary creative industries, culture and community events, with an emphasis on the visual arts, music and the tantalising culinary offerings in the Sunshine Coast and hinterland. In summary my team of artists, designers and writers aim to share the Hinterland’s best-kept secrets in a seasonally themed magazine for all those interested in the finer things of life.
Street Science! is proudly presented by BHP Billiton Foundation Date: Saturday 25 March and Sunday 26 March Time: 10am-4pm Venue: Cultural Forecourt, South Bank Parklands In 2017 South Bank Parklands will again turn into a science playground with dozens of FREE immersive events for families to enjoy. Come along and participate in hands-on activities and explore the science behind robots, fossils, bubbles, slime, spiders, solar energy, drones, augmented reality, experiments and even explosions! Festival Lab will also host free
live experiments and interactive demonstrations during Street Science! Sessions are free with limited capacity tickets allocated on event days. View the free activities on offer at the Festival Lab here. Also at the Showcasing Science Stage, catch more free quick fire demonstrations. See the full list of shows here. And don’t forget to visit Queensland Museum for more fun and FREE Street Science activities. http://www.worldsciencefestival. com.au
NO REGRETS
In 2011, palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware wrote a blog that was read by over three million people. The blog led to the publication of The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing.Leon Nacson, managing director of Hay House Australia, said, ‘Ware’s book sales just exploded.The Top Five Regrets of the Dying was becoming an international phenomenon because it was so identifiable and such a powerful, real-life topic.’ The subject matter, especially the first two regrets, resonated so powerfully with my wife, Jo and I (49 and 63 years old) that we’ve decided to change our lives before it’s too late. Regret 1: I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. Regret 2: I wish I didn’t work so hard. *** I have had a love affair with words, written, spoken and sung, from a very early age. I took a 30-year hiatus as I attended to my careers and family. I returned to writing and performing poetry after my divorce in 1998. Twenty years of real estate and three bouts of depression later, I sold my agency in 2006 to pursue my
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creative dreams at the age of 53. I was fortunate to have the support of Jodie who worked as a nurse educator and then nurse practitioner while I gained a creative writing degree and performed my poetry and storytelling at major festivals and other venues throughout Australia. Now it’s her turn. Jodie’s always had an aptitude for art, but was discouraged by her high school art teacher’s opinion of her work as ‘too cute’. In her early 20s, a chance tour with famous illustrator Alan Lee (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Faeries with Brian Froud) of his barn studio in Devon validated her passion for fantasy and folklore. She renewed sculpting and drawing her favourite subjects. For the next quartercentury she learned and honed a range of skills. Her current focus is on pencil portraits. At the beginning of the year, she tentatively asked on Facebook if anyone wanted her to do a portrait for them. She received 20 commissions before the end of the day, but because she works full-time, only does one every few weeks. What she can do with blocks of femo—the plasticised clay—and paintbrush and pencil is the stuff of fantasy. She was always ahead of the
trends; steampunk, owls, foxes. She always knew what was coming. She’s worked her way up the nursing ladder; from private care of aging British lords in English country manors, to remote aboriginal settlements on the Gulf of Carpentaria, to nurse practitioner at Nambour Hospital and project management for the new Sunshine Coast University Hospital. Experienced and highly proficient as she is, stress is ever present and takes its toll. The Turning Point, The Plan and The Leap Time, health and willpower run out eventually, and windows of opportunity to make dreams come true close with age and infirmity. Jodie wants to spend more time with our 11-year-old daughter Ella before she leaves home. In October this year, Jodie quit the high-powered career and took a well-earned break. She has a two-day position as a nurse practitioner to return to, leave a well-paid job. It will require and I am a sessional academic brains, application and teamwork, at the University of the Sunshine but our skillsets and combined Coast.There is a base level of experience should stand us in income to pay most bills, but good stead. nothing for frills. We have a little There is still a degree of trepidation house on the Range at Mapleton of course, but leaps into the with a modest ocean view and unknown are sometimes the lesser a lovely studio we made in our of the two evils, despite the fear. beautiful garden. The plan is to Most people have a dream life combine our successful career tucked away, but choose the experiences and well-honed skills ‘safe’ option. We all have a ‘What to create and sell our creativity if?’ or ‘If only’ as demonstrated by from home via the Internet Bronnie Ware’s ‘Regret 1: I wish I’d and other avenues. We have had the courage to live a life true no delusions; according to the to myself.’ Australian Bureau of Statistics, The Partnership the average annual income for We’re both creative on a number a professional writer is $12,480. Artists are similarly poorly paid. This of levels; with a combination of excellent presentation skills, sales does not encourage someone to and promotional acumen, and
very high professional standards with proven work ethics. Jodie’s far more organised, efficient and disciplined than I am, and I’m more entrepreneurial. If we utilise our skills cooperatively, we can succeed at our new venture. My contribution will consist of freelance writing and editing, writing novels and eBooks, running school poetry, writing and performance workshops, writing programs through libraries, and fees for performance poetry and storytelling at festivals and other venues. Jodie’s will be to produce drawings, paintings, and portraits, some of which can be used to produce prints to sell online or via markets. She can also run various artistic workshops in her garden studio, an enterprise for which she’s perfectly suited. So, here I sit writing this story for Pastiche, for which I’ll receive a small payment. Well-paid Woodford gigs are coming up, and there’s an eBook to publish and a first novel to complete. After Christmas, we formulate the business plan that we’ll put into practice next year. The goal is to see if we can make the dream a reality.We want to live a life true to ourselves, rather than one daywonder what might have been if only we’d had the courage to take the leap. No regrets.
Visual ARTS 2017 CompetitionS
Obi Art Prize submissions in by 30 April 2017 2017 marks the Inaugural launch of the Obi Art Prize a prize designed to highlight and inspire national and local issues of social importance through the work of Artists. The Obi Art Prize launches a new theme each year, with the inspiring 2017 theme being RESPECT- based around the following issues. • Domestic Violence • Indigenous Healing • LGBTI communities • And/or Refugees Art has the power to make a difference, and the world events of 2016 highlighted the need for RESPECT around these issues. THEME: RESPECT FIRST PRIZE MONEY: $3,000 PEOPLES CHOICE: $2,500 YOUTH AWARD: $1,500 OPENING DATE: 30th September Kingaroy Sculpture Prize The Kingaroy Regional Art Gallery has announced a $10,000 sculpture prize to kick start public
art in Kingaroy streets and parks. The prize money is the largest ever offered for a single event on the South Burnett arts calendar. The competition – to be called the Kingaroy Biannual Sculpture Prize – is a major new public art initiative for the town and region. The inaugural prize includes an Open Award of $7,000 and a Local South Burnett Award of $2,000. Both awards are acquisitive, and there is an Encouragement Award of $1,000. Judging will take place in March 2017 with winning and short-listed entries all displayed at the
Kingaroy Gallery precinct, to coincide with the annual Wine and Food Festival. We’ve been hugely fortunate having Dr Rhyl Hinwood AM – regarded as Queensland’s most prominent living sculptor – to judge the inaugural event. www.kingaroyart.com.au Wootha Prize offers wood artisans working in sustainably harvested Australian timbers from native forests or plantations, recycled or weed timbers, the opportunity to showcase their work to the broad Maleny Wood Expo audience. Winners will be announced at an Awards Ceremony on the evening of Friday 28th April, and publicised in national woodworking magazines and other media. The Wootha Prize forms the feature exhibition at the annual Maleny Wood Expo, to be held from 29 April to 1 May in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. http://www.malenywoodexpo.com/ wootha-prize/
Technology and the Arts: Androids dreaming of electric sheep One of the subjects I found most interesting at university was Neural Networks; Computer systems modeled on the human brain. The key difference between neural networks and ‘traditional’ computer programs is that neural networks are trained rather than programmed to perform their task. A typical computer program is great at doing tasks like searching through a set of encyclopediasto find information for you. When is the last time you searched for something in a set of encyclopedias for yourself? Possibly you have never even seen a set of encyclopedias. I was going to keep a set to pass on to my children, but after a couple of moves it seemed ridiculous to keep something so large for a such a small amount of sentimental value, when the same information is available from our phones. Neural nets, on the other hand, are good at human tasks;recognising faces, or understanding human speech. Google Images uses a neural net to search for pictures based on the words you type in. They have indexed millions of images, tagging them with words like ‘red’, ‘dog’, ‘picnic’ and the neural net begins to make its own connections between the patterns in images that are all tagged with ‘dog’, and so it eventually learns pretty well what a dog looks like. After that the neural net doesn’t need humans
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to tell it there is a dog in a certain picture, it can figure it out for itself. So you can go to images. google.com and type in ‘dog’ and it’ll give you a bunch of pictures with dogs. Some creative engineers at Google recently came up with the idea of looking inside their vast image neural net, by asking it to output a picture of what it’s seeing after having begun to apply its recognition process to an image. This is the ‘Search by Image’ function Google now offers. It’s like showing a picture to your friend, then asking them to draw what they saw.The picture they draw for you reveals some of the original picture, and some of the thoughts that arose in
your friend’s mind. It tells you a bit about how they think. The images produced by this process are best described as psychedelic.A stream of computerised consciousness. Which is pretty amazing.
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Queerly Represent Me:
Art and Video games
Hey! Listen! Defining art is a difficult thing. How does one define something which is so varied and essentially goes out of its way to defy boundaries? Well, isn’t art an expression of… something. What that something is could be anything and everything. Surely then, art is at its most effective and moving when it provides voices to those who have been silenced in the past. Be the silenced voice a group or individual,art is the portal through which to see the world in a unique way.A means through which to understand others, and ourselves. Art’s a reflection of society, which has both positive and negative elements. It’s no secret that throughout history, certain groups of people have been excluded by others. The art created often falls victim to this. Books, music, movies, video games can all be so varied in so many ways.Yet so limited in who it represents. Unless you know where to look… What? Art is evolving! You better believe it. When done right, it’s super effective. Alayna Cole is a writer, game designer and academic on the Sunshine Coast. She is currently studying a Doctorate, focussing on queer representations in narrative, specifically unsettling the patriarchal, heteronormative elements traditionally found in
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fairy tales. Alayna has always been passionate about storytelling in any form, including interactive. Among her many achievements, she is the founder of Queerly Represent Me. A pet project of Alayna, Queerly Represent Me is a database of video games, journal articles, and research concerningthe representation of diverse sexuality, gender, and relationships. QRM is about collecting various positive representations in one spot for researchers, gamers and anyone to find. The idea for the site came to Alayna while researching for her Doctorate. She discovered many articles, ideas, and games representing the various communities. Originally, the database was a means of keeping track of her research for her own study. She briefly considered writing some articles about her findings but soon decided that once published, an article is ‘fixed’ in place. Also, with all the information gained Alayna simply had too much for an article. In a field, which is fluid, changing and evolving constantly, an article could soon become outdated. Discussing the conception of QRM, Alayna says, ‘The
database is a way of sharing more information than some articles could have, and in a format that can be constantly updated.’ With over 700 games currently catalogued on the site, a database appears to have been the right choice. What constitutes a video game is like explaining what constitutes a novel. The medium is so varied and different games have different purpose. Gamers vary, as do the games they play. When asked about the potential of video games, Alaynaanswered: ‘Interactive narratives take creative writing and enhance the way we can experience a written story, walking simulators take paintings and allow you to wander around inside them, and action games throw you into a movie and ask you to participate.’ She further explained this is a simplified explanation of gaming. That, like most art forms, games borrow from a variety of mediums to create something unique and distinguished. As games expand in scope and ambition, the storytelling is becoming more inventive, complex, sophisticated and personal.Games allow you to take walk in someone else’s shoes. Some people who visit QRM may find the pair of shoes they’ve been seeking. The interactive
aspect of games creates a unique relationship with between player and character. As Alayna explains: ‘Interactivity has the potential to strengthen the bond between a player and a character, and to increase the empathy a player experiences for the plight of others. This identification and understanding is particularly relevant when increasing representation of minority groups in games, as it can lead to more positive societal outcomes.’ The best games are an immersive experience, drawing the player into a world. This interactivity has potential to connect with those who identify with the characters, but also could help those who are questioning their sexuality and/or are forming their self-identity. Alayna is hopeful games and the arts in general will continue to broaden its horizons. While mainstream games are beginning to feature more representations of minorities, they still have a long way to go to catch up with independent developers. Even in the indie scene, it is difficult to find representations of asexual persons and those who identify as transgender or as nonbinary gender. However, the response to Queerly Represent Me has been overwhelmingly positive, an encouraging sign indeed. Art which brings attention to one minority group not only connects with members of the group, but will hopefully
encourage the representation of other marginalised groups. Bringing attention to these gamesencourages pride in one’s self, acceptance and further creativity. Art reflects society but society is constantly changing. Alayna wants Queerly Represent Me to constantly evolve and the artistic community should always aim to do the same. The database is not just for academics, gamers or those who identify as part of the queer community. It’s for
anyone who wants to explore other perspectives, broaden their horizons and understand others. There are so many voices out there waiting to be heard. Why not visit Queerly Represent Me, stay a while and listen? See Alayna’s amazing database at: queerlyrepresent.me
Get Involved Council commits to Horizon festival for another three years An embryonic arts and cultural festival will be given room to grow after Sunshine Coast Council committed to funding the festival for the next three years. Following the stand-out success of the inaugural Horizon Sunshine Coast festival of arts and culture in 2016, council agreed to fund the festival in 2017, 2018 and 2019, committing $343,000 annually. Arts Portfolio Councillor Rick Baberowski said Horizon was born from an identified gap in the Coast’s events calendar for an arts and cultural festival. “We have a considerable depth of talented local artists and we wanted to provide a platform for them here on the Coast to
showcase their talents to the community and visitors,” Cr Baberowski said. “We also want the Coast to be known for, not only the many excellent national and international sporting events, but also for providing a strong offer of cultural and artistic programs as a feature idell n our events calendar. “By committing to the festival for another three years we’re confident that this quality festival will continue to develop and grow, providing further cultural, social, and tourism benefits to the region while also having flow on effects into our economy. www.horizonfestival.com.au/getinvolved-horizon-2017
Sing Pastiche to Me
By Joshua Wildie
This is the tale of an unfortunate soul and the strange events that happened to her one summer afternoon. It begins with our tragic heroine sitting in her office at the University of the Sunshine Coast locked away from the outside world. She checks the clock and it’s quarter past one. Already? She wonders how it can feel like she has been here forever while simultaneously feeling like it’s only been the blink of an eye since she arrived. The assessment which is piled over her desks, the emails which pour into her inbox, the many red pens which have sacrificed themselves in the name of marking. These are all clues to where the time has gone. Yet none of this compares to the horrors which are to come. Our hero’s name is Sarah Kanake and she is an author from Gympie. Her debut novel, Sing Fox To Me, was published earlier this year. An Australian Gothic tale set in Tasmania.It’s the story of twin brothers who leave Queensland to live with thegrandfather they’ve never met in Tasmania. One brother isJonah, an ominous, angry boy who develops a dark obsession with the mysteries of his surroundings. The other twin, Samson, has Down-Syndrome and finds delight and fascination with
the mountain. Their grandfather, Clancy has become a broken man since his daughter, River Fox, disappeared. Yet he is determined to bring her home. Each character is lost in their own way and there’s something about the surrounding bush…something which can’t quite be explained. Sarah picks up another assignment but finds it hard to focus. Something that has been burrowed in her mind is scratching its way to the surface. She has an interview coming up. A student of hers writes for a local magazine and asked if she would like to be the subject of an article. She asked if he was a journalist. ‘Well…no. Not as such.’ She decided it best not to inquire what that meant exactly, instead agreeing to the interview. What’s the worst that could happen? Sure, this student was a bit of a weirdo, butif she wanted a weirdo-free world, she’d have to cut a lot of people out of her life. What’s important is that this guy isn’t dangerous. Probably. All she knows is, that he’s from Gympie, like her, wants to be a writer, like her, and reads a lot… like her. She finds it difficult to predict what this student will write though. To calm herself, she thinks about her novel, about the answers she can give to
whatever questions this ‘journalist’ plans to ask. Setting plays a vital role in Gothic fiction. When people think of ‘the Gothic’, what comes to mind are castles before anight sky.They think of foggy moors where gloomy yet irresistible loners tend to wander. Or they think of black-haired teenagers writing poetry while listening to The Cure. In Australian Gothic fiction, the unknown elements of the
environment are heightened. Weird stuff happens. People go for a walk and have a habit of not coming back.Gothic stories are about finding the unfamiliar in the familiar. They’re about revealing the mysteries of our environment; about asking questions which are never quite answered. In Sing Fox To Me, the setting is the evocative Tasmania foreston Tiger Mountain. Jonah, Samson and Clancy spend much time wandering through the forest, discovering things about the mountain, and themselves. Sarah grew up in somewhere quite different. Her environment was wide open, hot and dense with bushland. That part of Queensland which isn’t the postcard-ready beaches but not quite the outback either. It was the perfect, quiet environment to become obsessed with reading.
Sarah was already reading novels before she started school and her love affair with books only grew from there. Since returning to Queensland, she’s been blown away by the artistic
community that has grown on the coast. Everything from the numerous Independent Bookstores, to events like Outspoken, and the work produced by her students encouraging the blossoming creativity of the community. There was something about leaving the Sunshine Coast that made her discover so much more about it when she returned. As she leaves her office, she decides to be optimistic about this article. If nothing else, it will hopefully let readers know that her novel, Sing Fox To Meis available in all good book shops and that they should buy it immediately. She also hopes the writer is at least subtle when it comes to plugging her book.
It’s summer break and instead of the usual hustle, the university is quiet and near deserted. Sure, the occasional academic can be found haunting the hallways and the sounds of summer students can be heard in the distance, but overall, the place is… different. Familiar yet, somehow not. The wildlife has taken advantage of the lack of students and have started to inhabit the university grounds more thoroughly. Kangaroos lounge on the grass, looking at passers-by with casual disinterest. Ducks waddle in lines through the undercover areas of the buildings. Each step Sarah takes echoes through the vacantlandscape. She arrives at the café and finds her interviewer already sitting there. His hair is a mess, as though it hasn’t heard of a comb, let alone seen one. His eyes have bags beneath them which underline his lack of sleep. He wears a black shirt and jeans despite it being 30 something
degrees out. Our hero sits down and the questions flood through her mind. What is he going to write? What type of questions will he ask? She clears her throat. ‘So… what type of article is this going to be?’ The interviewer smiles and shrugs before reading the first question scrawled across his notepad.
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Thinning the Beets
By Robin Archbold
In 1961, a skinny, curly-haired seven-year-old Catholic boy from the foothills of Cork in Ireland’s mountainous south, climbed aboard a truck with other local boys and went to thin sugar beets. He was the youngest and smallest of the boys in the truck, the last of 11 children in his family. It was his first season in the beet fields. After a full day of thinning beets, he was the only boy not to finish his row. Fearful of not being paid, he was surprised and dismayed when the farmer, after eyeing off the anxious-faced boy, peeled off a red ten shilling note and pressed it into his hand. When the lad arrived home in the dark, he slipped the note into the breast pocket of his confirmation suit for safekeeping and made himself a promise. His dismay originated from widely known on the Australian getting paid for work he hadn’t completed. He vowed that would festival circuit. Music, storytelling and never happen again. Fifty-five poetry around the fireplace were years later, that vow has served staples of Joe’s impoverished Irish Joe Lynch very well. childhood. He developed a love Joe has lived at Mount Mellum, for Yeats, Poe, Tennyson and Frost just south of Maleny in the at an early age, and has always Sunshine Coast hinterland, for the been able to spin a yarn. He last 10 years with his wife Ricki. came to Australia in 1977.At 6 foot Joe’s working life has been spent four inches, with a lean muscular in the construction industry, with build, a mass of fair curls, and the forays into labouring, boxing, gift of the gab sweetened by a and being a bouncer at the Irish mellifluous Irish accent, he had no Dance Hall in London during ‘The trouble finding work. After a few Troubles’ in the 1960s. His is a life years driving heavy machinery of hard work and colourful stories, in Darwin and on Australia’s east and it’s the latter for which he is coast, he ran his own earthmoving
business in southeast Queensland and the north coast of New South Wales. He worked seven days a week, the first to arrive and last to leave, ‘always running,’ as his mates observed. He made a lot of money, bought houses, got married, and had three kids. They were productive years; but work didn’t leave much time for family, and the marriage suffered. It was a girl in a takeaway shop in Lennox Head that halted his momentum. He started writing poetry from that day and never stopped. His marriage eventually fell apart;taking a heavy financial and emotional toll. The business was sold on doctor’s orders— ‘you’re a walking statistic’—and Joe moved to Nimbin for two years. Locals still talk about Joe’s arrival. A Rolls Royce pulled up at the bus zone in the village centre, a tall, lean, man unfurled himself from the driver’s seat, strolled to the boot of the car, and produced a guitar case. Within moments the case was open on the pavement, and he was busking in a rich Irish tenor voice. Even in a place as filled with odd characters as Nimbin, a Rollsdriving Irish busker was a singular phenomenon. Nevertheless, they were desperate alcoholic days as Joe fought his demons. When his10-year-old son, Joey, came to live with him, it gave Joe ‘someone to look after’, and his recovery began. He moved to the Gold Coast, became involved in local theatre where he met Ricki, and went back to the earthmoving industry. He worked hard again, but made
time for family, poetry, singing and storytelling. He tells of lunchtimes spent under a shady tree telling stories to his young crew. One day they were complaining about the cost of takeaways—‘$18 for a hamburger and drinks.’ — ‘That’s nothin’ he told them. ‘One day I went for takeaway during a job in Lennox Head and it cost me $750,000.’ It also produced one of the most ardent and romantic poems ever written, The Beautiful Smoko Girl. In 2004, Joe went to the Woodford Folk Festival for the first time. He won Poet of the Week at the legendary Woodford Poets’ Breakfast, and was encouraged to do his own gigs. His application to perform at the National Folk Festival in Canberra was accepted, and he was awarded ‘Reciter of the Year’ forSomewhere in Iraq, a poem inspired by a dialogue between a father and his son (Joe and Joey) who is fighting with the Australian forces in the Middle East. He has since become a star fixture at Australia’s two biggest festivals, packing out every venue he performs in.Enthralled audiences at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival, the National Celtic Festival, the Australian Celtic Festival and many others nationally and on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. His late-life performance odyssey has also taken him to New York and back to Ireland. Joe has adapted many traditional Irish myths and legends as well as writing his own compelling material. The Children of Liris a half hour tale of ancient Ireland that a packed, spellbound audience at the
Maleny Community Centre will never forget. Since his Woodford comingout, Joe’s star has risen relentlessly. Highlights include his mesmerising performance in front of 10,000 people at the Woodford Festival closing Fire Event and performing in the world-famous Speigeltent at last year’s National Folk Festival. Woodford Folk Festival founder and director, Bill Hauritz, asked what happened when he noticed everyone crying after returning from a key event at the Woodford Planting Festival last year. The culprit was Irish Joe Lynch and his
poem,The Planter and the Tree. Joe has recently retired from the earthmoving business, and with his number one supporter and muse, Ricki, intends to further his career as storyteller and poet. The Sunshine Coast is fortunate to have a world-class poet/ raconteur-in-residence; the excavator driver who’s found his true calling as a modern-day Seanachai—the traditional Irish storyteller. The same dedication shown as a seven-year-old Irish lad thinning the beets will ensure Irish Joe Lynch achieves the legendary status he deserves.
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BEATS from the Hinterland and Sunshine Coast
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“We would like to continue our decades-long love affair with Australia by bringing the rock to the regions. We will be playing old favourites and new with our usual shambolic splendour.” – Brian Ritchie
love for Australia from his many visits, Hayden has now settled in Queensland where he lives with his Australian wife and young family in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. www.highlifeband.com.au
HAYDEN HACK Hailing from the liberated musical landscape of modern South Africa, Hayden Hack left his homeland some 10 years ago to travel the world and develop his craft and songwriting skills. Playing his own brand of funky afro-inspired journeyman music in some of the worlds largest cities, Hayden retells stories about the world from a viewpoint only a traveling artisan can. His songs represent the emotional and cultural influences of his personal interactions and paint a musical picture for his audience to experience. Always holding a
TERENCE THALLON’S music has been influenced by his world travels through East and West. His music is uniquely interwoven with layered contemporary instrumental storytelling while the love of gypsy song weaves its patterns into joyful poetic symbolism. https://www.facebook.com/ public/Terence-Thallon
Violent Femmes return to Australia in March 2017 for their most extensive tour since 2005. The autumn tour follows a sold-out national tour in March 2016 that included headline spots at Womadelaide, Golden Plains, Twilight @ Taraonga and A Day On The Green, this time however, the Femmes will traverse the road less travelled appearing in regional & suburban centres, major cities and an encore performance of their A Day On The Green headline shows with Hoodoo Gurus.
Expect to hear cuts old and new including tracks from 2016’s comeback release We Can Do Anything. A triumphant return after a 16 years absence. Continuing the localised theme, Violent Femmes have also invited Rayella * (an indigenous fatherdaughter duo from Marlinja in the Northern Territory) along for shows in NSW, N.T and Queensland. Violent Femmes bassplayer Brian Ritchie first encountered Rayella at the Bush Band Bash in Alice Springs in 2014 and both parties hooked up for an informal jam after the Violent Femmes 2016 performance in Perth. “Eleanor and Raymond’s father/ daughter vocal frontline lend authenticity to their stories of life, aspirations and place… Their music is a deep blend of modern life and ancient energy” – Brian Ritchie. Its the Violent Femmes as you know and love them appearing Australia All Over.
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The Butter Factory Cooroy
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with Skye Leong
Bound, Bundled &Boxed Dam Dames
Exploring the ideas and associations that arise from the words “bound”, “bundled” and “boxed” has led the artists to some very subjective responses: especially when one considers the English language allows for different meanings for the same word within different contexts. By choosing to work alone within an agreed brief and regular consultations, they have presented a broad interpretation of words that are common in our everyday lives. Robyn Gill is an internationally known ceramicist, Jean Cameron is a sculptor and painter, and Ann Brown works with textiles and
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Caloundra Regional Close enough: Young Queensland artists
This group exhibition includes works by post-emerging Queensland artists whose practices are concerned with shared and personal histories, be they autobiographical, culturally specific (such as Indigenous) or informed by broader, sociopolitical factors. Through a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture and video, the artists in this exhibition explore a range of issues from the personal to the political, demonstrating the diverse ways in which artists make sense of the world and their place within it.
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Noosa Regional Gallery
Gary
Field
Unique sculptures and one off pieces carved from salvaged Australian and Exotic timbers
Animal FanFair: Humans – Animals – Environment
draws attention to humankind’s changing relationships with animals which are complex and often contradictory. The artists examine human nature and challenge us to think about how we treat animals, asking us to question the ethics of keeping, killing and engineering new species of animals. Artists include: Katka Adams, Marian Drew, Hayden Fowler, Kelly HusseySmith, Owen Hutchison, Claude Jones, Sam Leach, Emma Lindsay, Rod McRae and Walter Stahl. Animal FanFair: Humans – Animals – Environment is organised by Moreton Bay Regional Council and toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland. 2 March to 23 April 2017
For SunshineCoast and HInteland artists to get promoted in Brisbane
ARTS HIVE enquire : www.lucidartprojects.com.au exhibiting spaces available in Brisbane
Gary Field finds inspiration for his works in many aspects of this country’s natural features and objects collected from the bushland and beaches of Eastern Australia are a source of creative ideas. The seed pods, leaves, feathers, stones, bones and shells gathered serve to keep the images fresh in his mind when he returns to the workshop in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland to create original art pieces in wood. Gary first makes a series of sketches or clay models before selecting the piece of timber that will become a bowl, a jewellery box or a sculpture. He works in a range of Australian and exotic timbers including Red Cedar, Huon Pine, White Beech, Rose Mahogany and Camphor Laurel, much of it salvaged. North Queensland born, Gary was educated in Brisbane and attended Kangaroo Point College of Graphic Arts and the Brisbane Institute of Fine Art. He is a self taught woodcarver who has also been involved in several sculpture workshops at Griffith University.
This is the rabbit of hearts from the Alice in Wonderland collection. This collection was a collaboration of work by my father Don Powell and myself. Don Powell carves predominantly in wood, and his work can be seen in Saint Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney’s Hyde Park, amongst many other places. It is carved in ancient mammoth ivory (that died out in the ice age). The Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland was made into a necklace by me. It is set in 18ct white gold and rose gold and set with diamonds and rubies . The collection includes the Rabbit chasing time, Alice holding a pink amingo & the Mad Hatter.
CREATIVITY COMMUNITY CULTURE
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