Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Passion Tasting Festival

WHAT IS YOUR PASSION? Is it food, books, music or simply meditation? Well, there’s now a festival for you. A new, 3-day Passion Tasting Festival will be held at the Maleny Showgrounds this month offering a wonderful array of indulgent delights. Jill Shelton the Festival Director says, “Our aim was to create a festival where people [...]

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Kenilworth’s Easter Food Fest

THE BUTCHER, the baker, the cheese, chef and wine maker will all present their creative skills at The Kenilworth Cheese Wine and Food Fest on Easter Saturday, in Kenilworth Town Park. Curious to know where that glazed ham comes from? Or what to do with the leftover pork hock? Introduce your self to local butchers Bruce [...]

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Nathalie’s French tradition

FRENCH-BORN artist Nathalie Bastier sees the world, people and environment through textures, repetitive patterns and colours. Her exhibition at Maleny’s UpFront Club ends on March 16. Her strong works involve a labor intensive process -a step by step procedure including the manipulation and outlay of elements such as textiles, plants and the creation of their imprints [...]

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Marianne offers Indian ‘mixed spices’

MALENY ARTIST Marianne Osborne will present her third exhibition - “Masala” - around the walls of Maleny’s UpFront Club this month. The opening will be in the evening of Thursday March 18 and will run to Tuesday April 20. “Masala” is a blend of ‘mixed spices’ representing the mixture of Indian influences. Marianne says she feels a [...]

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Films now bring gold to Gympie

THE FOURTH Heart of Gold International Film Festival will screen in Gympie from March 11-14. It will offer film buffs a total of 171 films including 166 shorts and 5 feature length film from 22 countries. The 2010 program features quality films across all genres: comedy, drama, animation documentaries and student films have been selected for [...]

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Gympie’s Art with Heart auction - Place your bid!

AN INTEGRAL PART of the annual Heart of Gold International Film Festival -Art with Heart -is set to showcase some of the region’s most accomplished and renowned artworks which have been generously donated by participating artists and creators. To ensure the Exhibition includes something for everyone, this year Art with Heart has widened its scope to [...]

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Guitar and Didgeridoo Duo

THIS YEAR’S Maleny Autumn Musical Festival offers audiences the opportunity to witness music, art and nature combined in an event not to be missed. On Sunday 18 April 2010 at 10am world renowned didgeridoo master William Barton (top left) and acclaimed guitarist/composer Anthony Garcia (top right) join forces to present a unique program of music to [...]

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Book Bites with Anne Brown of Rosetta Books

When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead Miranda’s world is turning upside down: her best friend Sal gets punched by a new kid for no reason and he shuts her out of his life; her mother wants to become a contestant on a TV game show; and the apartment key they keep hidden for emergencies is stolen. [...]

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Explaining acts of God

Book Reviews: Michael Berry ON A RECENT television news bulletin a distraught resident of Port au Prince in Haiti faced the camera to declare that, “I have lost my wife and my children. I only have God now”. The horrific earthquake in Haiti and the 2004 tsunami that devastated coastlines to our north, are only two natural [...]

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The Rebel Priest Father: Peter Kennedy

BRISBANE CATHOLIC Priest Peter Kennedy was sacked by his Archbishop for contravening aspects of Catholic doctrine in February 2009. This was a crisis that had been brewing for several years and was as much about Peter’s shedding of Church formalities as it was about his personal struggles with the relevance of a heavily doctrinal church. Kennedy was [...]

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