The 2010 program features quality films across all genres: comedy, drama, animation documentaries and student films have been selected for their excellence in film making. Amongst the 171 films is Australian actor Bud Tingwell’s last film titled The Last Bottle. Frank Woodley (of Lano & Woodley comedy duo) brings more humour to the program through his delightful short animation Chicken of God (below).

Kat Stewart [Underbelly] appears in a strong supporting role in a beautiful film titled Trampoline and David Wenham delivers a classic performance in a movie titled Glenn Owen Dodds [GOD] which carries the tagline -“Want to know the meaning of life? You’ve got five minutes.” (right)

The festival presents a fantastic family program which includes the stunning animation titled Lost & Found [UK].Narrated by British actor Jim Broadbent, this gorgeous feature film is about a little boy and his unsolicited mission to get a lost penguin back home to Antarctica. Also part of the family program is Luc Jacquet’s first film since March of the Penguins entitled The Fox and The Child: a beautifully shot feature film about a life changing encounter between a fox and a young girl set amongst breathtaking scenery.

Heart of Gold International Film Festival offers special events, documentaries, workshops, seminar programs and the very popular Filmmaker Presents sessions along with its extensive short film program from around the world.

The Heart of Gold festival recruited Malcolm Blaylock as its director. He has directed the St Kilda Film Festival and has also served as a jury member for Interfilm Berlin and Spain’s Short Film Festival Bilbao.

Malcolm commented on the quality of the Heart of Gold “There are so many good films, from all over the world. As I travelled the various film festivals this year I was looking for films that were entertaining and that fitted our unique brief. Regardless of genre, each film had to have somewhere within its premise -no matter how deeply or darkly placed - a positive spin on the world and a positive view of humanity”.

Heart of Gold International Film Festival

Gympie Civic Centre, 11 – 14 March 2010

www.heartofgold.com.au

Saturday 13 February

QUIET CHAOS

(Italy) MA15+ Drama 112mins

New Summer / Autumn program - out 13 February

Pietro is a successful executive, happily married, and father of 10-year old Claudia. After a morning at the beach, which culminated in saving the lives of two drowning women, he arrives home to discover his own wife’s fatal accident.

Resuming life as a sole parent, Pietro takes Claudia to school on her first day back and decides not to go to work. He sits in his car, wanders in the park and has coffee at a nearby café. This becomes a daily routine. His co-workers and relatives all come to console him but end up confiding their own pain and difficulties.

Gradually, Pietro begins to look at the world through new eyes, and through his love for his daughter, Pietro emerges from this journey with a newfound love of life.

White Skin Black Spirit … my search for identity is a brave and uplifting story told on film by Maleny film-maker Paul Alister. In his 46-minute documentary Paul records the remarkable emotional journey of Crystal Waters resident, Terri-Anne Goodreid, who travelled to the Northern Territory to trace her aboriginal roots and discover her lost family connections.

Paul’s film is being shown at the Maleny Festival of Australian Film this month and has been sold to the Message Stick television series. It will be broadcast by ABC TV during 2010. Paul told the Hinterland Times the background to the making of White Skin Black Spirit.

“Terri-Anne’s story reveals what it is like for someone who is very white-looking going into an aboriginal world and being accepted,” says Paul. “She now identifies fully as an aboriginal person. Getting material to capture that journey and that emotional process was very difficult, particularly on a shoestring budget”, he adds with a smile. Paul first heard of Terri-Anne’s story through his role on the management committee of the River School and she was a parent. “I didn’t want to come across as patronising”, says Paul. “Her story sounded very interesting and at the time she was actually writing a thesis on it.

We started from there and it took well over a year. I just fitted in the filming with the corporate video work that I do. “ Like many documentary film makers Paul is usually self-funded and takes the gamble that he will recover at least his costs by later sales of DVDs, or to a broadcaster. “I did develop a rapport and I think we became quite close.

We started filming when I heard that she was going up to the NT for the funeral of her adopted mother’s mother. I thought that would be a good place to start.” “I couldn’t actually film that ceremony because it was women’s business. And I must say that I often felt I was tagging along, filming and talking to aboriginal people who had never seen me before. Paul says that documentary film-making is often a matter of luck, being in the right place at the right time and of course having the mindfulness to capture good sequences when you can. “And you need the right equipment … you don’t want gear that takes a long time to get ready because a lot of the best shots are accidental. Some of the really great shots you don’t discover until you’re in the editing.”

Paul acknowledges that Terri-Anne is what filmmakers regard as ‘good talent’, that is she looks good on camera and is articulate without being shy or withdrawn. At times this was crucial in the making of White Skin Black Spirit as Terri-Anne confronted her emotional past as a child or suddenly met aboriginal relatives who were completely unknown to her. For example, when Terri-Ann went to her old orphanage it was very emotional and the tears came for her. Yet she worked her way through the process on camera and it is a sequence that has affected people through her sincerity and honesty. “It was a bit like a video diary for her” says Paul. “From my point of view it was often a case of wanting to be there, but not be there, because it was very sensitive stuff.”

Paul’s next documentary has also attracted the attention of ABC Television, and it’s also close to home. He plans to reveal the success beneath Maleny’s unique Ananda Marga River School, an institution he helped establish more than 15 years ago.

White Skin Black Spirit will be show at the Maleny Community Centre at 10.30am Saturday January 9. DVD copies of the film can obtained at www.alistermultimedia.net/Whiteskin.htm

The weekend festival will be launched at 6pm on 22 January by special guest David Williamson who will talk about writing the screenplay for Balibo. This film was awarded Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 AFI awards. It will screen that evening.

With many plays, television and film scripts to his credit, Williamson is Australia’s best known and widely performed playwright. Balibo is a political thriller which is based on the events surrounding the death of five Australian journalists during Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor in 1975.

For the afternoon session on Saturday 23 January, selected short films will be followed by the 1970s outback classic, Wake in Fright. Considered at the time to be a landmark piece of cinematography, it has recently been saved from oblivion, and examines the darker side of Australian mateship.

The evening session will include local writer Michael Berry’s Banjo Paterson with a Paintbrush. This documentary delves into the life of larrikin bushman and painter Hugh Sawrey, whose paintings captured the spirit of rural life in Queensland. Following this, Rachel Ward’s impressive debut film Beautiful Kate (another AFI Winner) will screen.

Described by Ward as “Australian Gothic”, it is a complex emotional tale about family secrets, guilt and a troubled father-son relationship.

The final screening on Saturday 30 January is Last Ride, another fine feature debut from Glendyn Ivin. This beautifully drawn and moody film tells the story of Kev (Hugo Weaving), a flawed but vulnerable man, who is on the run with his young son.

Passes for the Gala Night and Weekend Festival, as well as individual session tickets, are available. All tickets for the Gala Night must be prepaid. Dinner by Pomodoras is available from 6pm on Saturday 23 and 30 January.

For full program, pricing, tickets and information about the January 2010 Maleny Festival of Australian Film, phone 07 5476 5468 or website: www.malenyfilmsociety.info

Thanks to the generosity of many friends, the first fundraising gig for Utribe Festival is on at Crystal Waters on Saturday 5 December.

With the line-up including Maleny’s Hayden Hack and band, Khan and band from the Sunshine Coast, Tim Loydell and the Deckchairs fresh from their recent east coast tour, solo artists Kyla Cobe, Adam Scriven and possibly others, Utribe fans are in for a great night of roots, funk, reggae and folk. Starting at 5pm and running through until midnight there will be curries, salads, desserts and other temptations available.

Tickets at the door - $15 for adults, $8 for under 18’s, kids under 12 free.

For enquiries or if you would like to help, please contact the Utribe Office on 5435 2166 – leave a message if the office is unattended.

The Utribe team will be hosting a gig every six weeks or so at different locations to help clear outstanding 09 Festival debts and enable planning for the 2010 Utribe Festival. If you would like to see Utribe Festival return even stronger and better in 2010, come down to Crystal Waters for a night of wonderful music and the great atmosphere that Utribe brought to the region.

Chicago Blues and Natural Ball

Kicking off the month at Palmwoods Hotel, Brisbane’s Chicago blues crack shots Natural Ball are taking the bolt up the highway for 4 sets of their cracking mix of hot blues and loose limbed funk, perfect for filling the Palmwoods dance floor on Saturday December 5.

Then on Saturday December 19, Palmwoods Got The Blues goes live all over again. Young Gun Tom Richardson is one of the most popular young artists ever to perform at Palmwoods. His latest cd release “Evolution” is receiving airplay across the country and Toms ever widening reputation sees him packing the “joint” wherever he goes. The dreads and lap slide guitar are almost de rigueur these days for Australian roots artists but Tom is something else again.

8Asa Broomhall is another of the Palmwoods hotels favourite regulars and is back on on the same night along with Ray Beadle (below) . Ray’s third release “Loaded” documents the continued expansion of the monumental talent of this young man not yet 30yrs old. A hotshot guitar player certainly, but Ray’s wonderful songwriting and souldeep singing are what enable this young man to stand apart from the rest.

Free Entry at 8pm to Natural Ball. 5.30pm for Palmwoods Got the Blues.

Bernard’s Herd is ‘Micks’ media

Bernard O’Scanaill has one of the most intriguing and attractive painting exhibitions yet seen around the walls of Maleny’s UpFront Club. This quirky Irish pianist and guitarist has delivered a set of what he calls ‘Micks’ media paintings with the iconic Range focus of cows. Strongly abstract but with recognisable bovine features these paintings have attracted a lot of attention. The launch in November included spot performances at the Club by muso friends including the multi- talented Trevor Hart and Kim Cotter.

Maleny is in for a real treat on 12 December when Maleny Singers in conjunction with Maleny RSL and Maleny Rotary Club will present their inaugural ‘Carols at Twilight’.

For the first time in Maleny the Nambour Salvation Army Band will accompany the Maleny Singers in a program of Christmas carols and lessons in the Cenotaph Gardens of the RSL commencing at 7pm.

The lessons will be read by well known local identities and the Reverend Ingrid Busk will officiate.

Hinterland families are invited to bring a blanket and join with in the singing of favourite Christmas songs and carols - song sheets will be handed out on the night.

In case of rain the concert will be held in the RSL hall. For further enquiries contact Judith Caradine 54943018

Council backs Xmas Carnival

Sunshine Coast Regional Council is one of this year’s key supporters of the annual Maleny Christmas Carnival.

Each year, the township of Maleny organises a Christmas street carnival with the proceeds being donated to a worthy local charity or organisation. This year, Maleny Commerce and the organising committee for the annual Maleny Christmas Carnival are delighted that the nominated beneficiary is the Maleny Hospital Auxiliary.

“It’s a tremendous boost for the Carnival. Our aim is to raise as much as we can from the event to benefit the hospital. Council’s assistance can only translate into a better Carnival and a better result for the hospital.” said Lara Hodgson a Carnival Committee member.

This year the Carnival features more rides (and not just for the little kids) , a fantastic live music program being organised by Danny Rose of the UpFront Club, the monster raffle with fantastic prizes, a great variety of food, a new feature of show bags, show stalls by local clubs & associations and of course a visit by Santa.

The Carnival will be held on a specially closed off section of Maple Street in Maleny on Friday 4th December between 5:00pm and 9:00pm.

Raffle tickets are already on sale. There are many great prizes to be won, including first prize of a laptop computer generously donated by Maleny Computers. More information and the latest news, visit the Carnival’s web site: http://www.malenychristmascarnival.com/

Celebrating Indigenous Films

January 2010 will be a month-long celebration of Australian film, presented by the Maleny Film Society in the Maleny Community Centre in Maple Street.

The beauty of the Hinterland, its spiritual networks and the current residents’ respect for the indigenous people who lived here for thousands of years will be the focus of a Celebration of Indigenous Film and Culture on Saturday 9 January.

The full-day program from 10am until 5pm includes three locally-made films, and a performance by the Gubbi Gubbi Dance troupe at a Bush Tucker lunch provided by Dillybag catering.

Bunya Dreaming documents dynamic indigenous visionary Bev Hand’s recreation of the centuries-old Bunya festivals in modern times; followed by Sit-Down, Shivanii Cameron’s empathetic depiction of Saltwater National Park (NSW) at a time when enterprises set up by indigenous workers were losing their Community Development Employment Program funding. In White Skin, Black Spirit: The Search for My Identity, Paul Alister records the remarkable emotional journey of Crystal Waters resident Terri-Anne Goodreid, who travelled to the Northern Territory tracing her roots and discovering her lost family connections.

Cost of the day is $25 for Maleny Film Society members and $30 for temporary members. Tickets are also available for individual films and lunch.

On the same evening (9 January) at 7.15pm, the Film Society will be screening the recent, highly acclaimed indigenous film Samson and Delilah.

Chenrezig summer celebration

Chenrezig Institute, the Sunshine Coast’s Tibetan Buddhist Centre is having a summer open day on 6 December. At 10.30am there’s Dharma Club for kids and a public talk by Geshe Jamyang, Chenrezig’s resident Tibetan Lama (below). At noon there’s a vegetarian lunch at the Big Love Cafe complete with Tibetan dumplings. On the prayer wheel lawn is live acoustic music, chai, cakes or kulfi (spiced Indian ice cream). At 1.30pm there’s a guided tour of this remarkable centre, including the meditation hall and grounds. A guided meditation will take place at 2.30pm.

 More details, Phone: 54 53 2108.

Hear ‘Venhere’ at UpFront Club

Australian pianist Sean Foran - piano (Aust) Joachim Badenhorst on clarinets from Belgium and vocalist Kari Bleivik from Norway are a true international trio. They combine the skills of three young artists, each with a distinct personal voice and extensive international performing and recording experience. Between them they have performed around the UK, Norway, Sweden, USA, Mexico, Canada, France, Belgium, and Australia at countless major festivals. Haunting, captivating and truly mesmerising, this trio take listeners into a realm of sounds rich in emotion, with impressive improvisations and limitless interaction between musicians. Their debut album “UNRAVELLING” recorded in the UK in February 2009 features new compositions by the award- winning composer Sean Foran plus thoughtful reimaginings of music by Nick Drake, Swedish folk songs and obscure jazz standards.

The energetic and enthusiastic French Horn student from the Queensland Conservatorium, Armin Terzer, (below) will be the soloist in the beautiful Mozart Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat K.417 with the Pacific Chamber Orchestra.

Antoni Bonetti, who will conduct the orchestra, is an extremely well known musician, educator and conductor from Brisbane. After more than 20 years at St Peter’s Lutheran College, Indooroopilly, Mr Bonetti is now Leading String teacher at Good Shepherd Lutheran College, Noosa.

The orchestra will also be performing Schubert’s Overture ‘In the Italian Style and Symphony No. 2 in B flat, D.125, Bruckner’s ‘Locus Iste’ (‘Made by God’) and Milhaud’s ‘Le Boeuf sur le toit’ Music for ballet by Jean Cocteau.

The concert with afternoon tea, is at St Mark’s Anglican Church, Buderim at 2pm on Sunday 15 November, 2009. Tickets at the door.

Adults $30, students 15 yrs and under, $15. Group bookings of 10 or more - $25 each. Ph: 5446 8128

Cornelius and Mojo at Palmwoods

Kicking of the November blues & roots lineup at the Palmwoods Hotel are The Delta Monarchs, making their debut here on November 7. A new band on the SE Queensland scene, the Monarchs are already creating waves and are looking to Palmwoods as a perfect tune-up for their Woodford debut.

Then on Saturday November 21, Palmwoods Got The Blues settles in for another large helping of world class Blues talent, cold beer, great steaks and free courtesy buses.

Pete Cornelius (right) was one of the highlights of the 2009 East coast Blues & Roots festival at Byron Bay over Easter. So popular in fact that it’s taken until now for his schedule to free up enough for Pete to get on a plane and bring the Palmwoods stage alive once again. Five acclaimed CD releases and numerous overseas tours all testament to this man’s talent.

To add to the gumbo, Mojo Webb also returns with his crack band tuned like V8 supercar and ready and raring to go. A Palmwoods regular despite his criss-crossing the country playing festivals and high profile gigs to an ever increasing fan base.

Wendy + 3 at Maleny Artwork

Wendy Nugent with her painting The Shape of Water

Wendy Nugent is exhibiting at Maleny Artworks Gallery during November together with Patricia Cale, Barry Smith and Fiona Dempster in an exhibition titled Four Artists: four worlds.

Working in acrylics on canvas, Wendy’s landscapes of Maleny have luminous qualities, vast horizons, precipitous edges and intersection with the sky. She also draws upon the symbolic forces of nature the earth, sun and moon- looking to the landscape as a source of spirituality.

Wendy’s landscapes are not strictly representational but are about a sense of place and they demonstrate her attempt to adjust the landscape to her own highly original style. The Maleny landscape has a raw and urgent energy of its own, and Wendy’s paintings grow from that earth.

Maleny Artworks, Upstairs - 50 Maple Street. Wed-Sun 10am-4pm. (Closed Monday and Tuesday)

Steven Lang discusses new novel

Award-winning local author Steven Lang will discuss his new book 88 Lines About 44 Women when he speaks at libraries across the Sunshine Coast in the coming months.

The eagerly awaited second book from Lang, which has been described as “complex and riveting”, gives an insight into the male psyche and its capacity for love and shame.

The book is narrated by Lawrence Martin, a sometime keyboard player in one of Australia’s most successful rock bands who enjoyed a plentiful share of fame, money and women. Two decades on, Martin is living as a virtual recluse in the north-west of Scotland, fighting memories from his turbulent past and the accident that killed his wife and ended his career.

Lang is the author of the award-wining novel An Accidental Terrorist, as well as the play A Strong Brown God, performed at the Metro Arts Theatre in Brisbane.

Sunshine Coast Libraries will host the author on the following dates:

Maroochydore Library – 11 November at 2.30pm

Noosa Library – 2 December at 6.30pm

Nambour Library – 16 February at 10am

Coolum Library – 16 February at 2.30pm

This is a free event but bookings are essential. Contact your local library to book your place. Visit www.library.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au for more details.

Evgeniy Uhanov back to Parklands

Ukraine-born pianist, Evgeniy Uhanov re- visits Lucas Parklands in Montville on November 7 and 8 to play one of the most challenging pieces by Liszt for a concert pianist.

At Lucas Parklands Evgeniy will play the ‘infamous’ Liszt B minor sonata. This is a piece feared by most, played in public by few, difficult to memorise and, rarely performed in Queensland. Tickets are $40 each and include supper.

Contact Lucas Parklands, the Narrows, Montville.

Ph: 54 78 5667 or

E: lucasparklands@bigpond.com

Performing on November 28 is the delightful Ambre Hammond in the last concert for the year at Lucas Parklands. It will be a Christmas recital and this astonishing pianist is not to be missed. Ambre is both a concert pianist and a devotee of jazz.

She plays with James Morrison and has recorded her own CD of classics including Brahms, Chopin and Debussy. More details in next month’s edition of HT.

$2,500 Scholarship offered

The Caloundra Events Centre Scholarship for the Performing Arts is calling for applications for its 2010 bursary. The scholarship will assist deserving performing arts students with professional potential, who live and/or study in the Sunshine Coast Regional Council area. For full details on the scholarship including the selection criteria and application forms visit www.theeventscentre.com.au.

Half Gypsy … and not half bad!

The terrific triumvirate Diddakoi are appearing at the Upfront Club on November 26. This local threesome of violin, piano/drum and accordion trio, have an intriguing name that means ‘half gypsy’. They will entertain you with their special mix of traditional folk dances from Europe and the Middle East. From Klesmer haunting and frantic tunes to Celtic ballads, jigs and reels. There’s an 18th century French waltz , tangos, a touch of classical gypsy (J. Brahms), a whiff of Russian, even a Lebanese camel walk. This bright instrumental journey will have you toe tapping. Knowing the multicultural breadth of Diddakoi, you may well be brought back to the western hemisphere with a familiar Blues number or two as well.

Above left: Francoise the accordianist, Sybil the violinist and missing from the photo is keyboards / drummer, Tom..

Maleny-made films @ Events Centre

The November Movies and More screening will be held on Sunday November 8 at the Caloundra Events Centre from 4pm and will screen two documentaries made by local filmmakers, with the hinterland town of Maleny featuring as the subject of both.

A Peace of Green – Cornerstone of a Community will screen at 4pm. Jill Morris wrote, directed and produced this documentary which traces the history an 80 yearold building in Maleny, which over the years has had 13 different uses, meeting the changing needs of a hard- working community. The film uses original art and music to step through eight decades, interweaving narrative with interviews and quirky drama segments, with crisis moments in the building’s battle against the constant threat of demolition.

Reconstructing Peter will screen at 5.15pm. The documentary, by Jessica Begun, looks at the motivation of local filmmaker Peter Storm Erdmann, (below) who has captured 30 years and over 700 hours of the social history of Maleny with his video recorder. The film traces Peter’s amazing childhood in Shanghai under Japanese occupation and Communist rule until he was able to immigrate to Australia in 1959.

SHAG shows itself in public

Members of The Self Help Art Group (SHAG) are preparing for their final showing of the year. With over thirty members in the group from all walks of life and experience there is a diverse range of styles and media, from delicate watercolours to robust rocky landscapes, and from gentle portraits to wicked caricatures.

This final exhibition for 2009 will be in good time for those special or hard to find Xmas gifts. Opening times will be from 9.30 am to 4pm Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November in St Mary’s Church Hall Montville.

The group’s aim is to provide a friendly and encouraging opportunity for artists to get together to paint each week at the Mapleton Bowls Club and to exhibit five times per year.

The exhibitions are also major fundraisers for the maintenance of the heritage listed St Mary’s Church Hall, with all donations and commissions from the sale of paintings going to the church.

More details: Wendy Edmond - wmedmond@hotmail.com or 5478 6932.

Five of Queensland’s most promising musicians bring their sumptuous harmonies of strings and clarinet to the Hinterland when the Strahlend Quintet per form at Maleny’s Braeside B & B on Saturday October 17.

The Strahlend Quintet are the 2009 winners of the annual Gertrude Langer Ensemble Award which each year sends one of Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University’s finest ensembles on a debut regional tour. The Award is dedicated to the memory of Dr Gertrude Langer, founder of Queensland Arts Council and forceful advocate of arts access statewide.

Go along and be the first to hear Australian premieres of Gumboots by British-American composer David Bruce and Aires Tropicales by Grammy Award-winning Cuban jazz composer, Paquito D’Rivera. Violist Lachlan O’Donnell says the per formance offers a rare opportunity to experience accessible new music that is vibrant and engaging.

Tickets: The Maleny Bower Bird - Ph: 5494 3277

For credit card bookings only - Ph: 5494 3677

Evgeniy Uhanov back to Parklands

Ukraine-born pianist, Evgeniy Uhanov re-visits Lucas Parklands in Montville on November 7 and 8 to play one of the most challenging pieces by Liszt for a concert pianist.

From the age of 11 Evgeny has given concerts, both solo and with orchestras in Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Australia, France, England, Japan, Germany and the USA.

In 1998 Evgeny came to Australia on a music scholarship and he has played regularly with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Sinfonia, Sydney Youth Orchestra, SBS Orchestra and many others.

At Lucas Parklands Evgeniy will play the ‘infamous’ Liszt B minor sonata. This is a piece feared by most, played in public by few, difficult to memorise and rarely performed in Queensland.

Tickets are $40 each and include supper.

Contact Lucas Parklands, the Narrows, Montville.

Ph: 54 78 5667 or E: lucasparklands@bigpond.com

Performing on November 28 is the delightful Ambre Hammond in the last concert for the year at Lucas Parklands. It will be a Christmas recital and this astonishing pianist is not to be missed. Ambre is both a concert pianist and a devotee of jazz.

She plays with James Morrison and has recorded her own CD of classics including Brahms, Chopin and Debussy.

More details in next month’s edition of the Hinterland Times.

David’s ‘Bumble Bee’ at Caloundra

David Helfgott will be bringing his remarkable solo recital, comprised of an impressive program of romantic compositions, to Caloundra’s Events Centre on Friday, November 20.

Throughout the tour David received an extraordinary response from audiences everywhere. “It was truly a thrilling experience,” said Gillian Helfgott, wife of Australia’s most famous pianist.

David’s program will feature popular works by Fryderyk Chopin including the Etude in E Major, the Waltz No 7 and No 14, and the Ballade No 1 in G Minor.

David will also per form works by Liszt and works by Rachmaninov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s well known Flight of the Bumblebee which David famously per formed at the 1996 Academy Awards, the year in which Geoffrey Rush won an Oscar for his portrayal of David, thrusting him into the worldwide spotlight.

For tickets Ph: (07) 5491 4240 or www.etixdirect.com.au.

Adults $59, Concession/Child/Student $55

Catch the 70s Finbar’s Fever…

Fun nights continue at Finbar ’s in Maleny’s Bicentenary Lane. On Saturday October 17 ‘Catch the 70s Fever’. There will be prizes for the best 70s outfit. In case you’ve forgotten, for boys you wore bell bottoms or three piece suits (a la John Travolta), and platform shoes. Girls were into hot pants, leotards and mules or platforms. No door price but a $5 donation to M.A.A.C.A for ‘ Toys for Tots’ Xmas fund. On Friday October 30 there is a Halloween Dance Night with prizes for the best costumes from ghouls to witches and pumpkins!

Live band: Atlantic Crossing which has one of the most authentic Rod Stewart tributes you will ever see. From the stylish suits and signature stage moves, to a voice that’s so close that you’ll swear it’s Rod himself.

Finbar ’s Ph: 54 94 3146 or 0418 189 347

James T joins Asa at Palmwoods

When Palmwoods Got The Blues kicks into overdrive again on Sat Oct 17, the lineup will feature 2 of the pubs favourite acts and a new lineup for one of Australia’s most accomplished bluesmen.

Asa Broomhall (below) will open the show with a rare solo appearance. In recent times, Asa has been rocking out with the Asa Broomhall band but the opportunity to have him play a solo show couldn’t be missed. The new album “Revelry Road” has been receiving rave reviews and Asa has been on the road constantly with his own shows and opening for Diesel.

Natural Ball are up next. Top notch exponents of the classic Chicago Blues era, expect material by Junior Wells, Big Walter Horton and Magic Sam played with fire, verve and enthusiasm driven by a love and passion for the music that spawned rock & roll.

When James T (top) first visited Australia with Canned Heat, that legendary band he fronted for 15 years, little did he know that ultimately, he would return to settle here, raise a family and raise the bar for music fans with his wonder fully original blues songwriting, whiskey soaked vocals, note per fect guitar wrangling and down in the alley harmonica. As he ventures to Palmwoods for the first time, James will be bringing his new band The Tomahawks, a new cd full of great original songs and that wonder ful James T groove that has taken him on numerous tours around the world with the worlds most legendary blues and boogie band, play every top festival in Australia and helped to put a new glide in the stride for real music fans across the country.

Sat Oct 17 Palmwoods Got The Blues - Palmwoods hotel Main St Palmwoods

James T & The Tomahawks Natural Ball Asa Broomhall 5.30 pm - free entry

Hot Ginger’s celebration of sound

Hot Ginger Chorus is gearing up for it’s annual concert, on Saturday October 10 from 7.30pm at the Buderim War Memorial Hall. The

 theme this year is “A Celebration of Sound”, and a celebration is in store for it’s audience!

Mark this exciting event in your diary and come along to experience real women singing real harmony and having real fun. Hot Ginger will be performing a colourful new repertoire and the concert will also feature the Sunshine Coast Senior Superstar 2008 winners “Quintessence” who are also Hot Ginger members, plus an exciting instrumental trio “Allusion”. Tickets are Adult $25 / Concession $20 / student (15 and over) $15, and under 15 years free. The cost includes refreshments, a glass of wine and light supper. Tickets are limited so we recommend purchasing early to avoid disappointment. For ticket enquiries phone Veronika 5445 5415 or see www.hotgingerchorus.org.au Linsey and pals play on bikes

Marine Artist to run workshop

Award-winning marine artist, Ian Hansen’s paintings portray a deep love of the sea (see right). Ian joined the Navy at fifteen and has continued close association with the sea. He now lives in Sydney painting full-time. Sailing still fills his leisure hours aboard his yacht Karalee.

Ian has won awards since 1987 at the Mystic International Art Exhibition, held in Connecticut USA.

Ian is holding a two day workshop for all skill levels for 15 students at Maleny Arts Retreat on October 17-18. With the ocean as the motivating feature Ian will cover the basics of painting water and the vessels, infrastructure and landscape associated with it. After a number of detailed demonstrations the class will work together as a group tackling set tasks in their own individual styles

Cost: $320 including GST. The tuition fee does not include materials. Students will receive a list of materials required upon enrolment. Ph: 54 999 801

Email: admin@malenyartsretreat.com.au

Duo’s Thoughtful Tale on Tallowood

Fiona Dempster (pictured) is a calligraphic artist and book artist on the Range who lives and works in Maleny. She and wood artisan, David Linton have joined forces to create a huge artwork made from Tallowood which stands outside David’s art gallery in Maple Street Maleny. Into the prepared timber Fiona has inscribed one of David’s favourite quotes: “Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…”. Already passersby have been intrigued by the thoughtful piece which Fiona and David regard as a small gift to the local community - with an uplifting message.

Linsey and pals play on bikes

Zany musical maestro Linsey Pollock and friends play music with three bicycles. Fresh from their triumphant tour to Austria, The Cycologists will perform at a concert in Kin Kin’s Bamboo Circle. Friday October 19 7.30pm. Tickets: $15, $10. With Linsey will be ArtEKK - 5 saxophones and a drumkit, who will play original and Balkan Gypsy-inspired music

Films in Review (Maleny Film Society)

Tulpan - October 10

Kazakhstan/Germany/Poland/Russia/ Switzerland. Drama 100min M

  Winner Un Certain Regard Cannes Film Festival 2008 Asa, a young man returning to his family on the harsh Kazakh steppe, has decided not to head for the city with his best friend, but to pursue a long-cherished dream to ownand tend his own flock of sheep. The herder’s life doesn’t come easily to Asa, nor courtship of the lovely Tulpan, and we empathise with him as he strives to become a man, but in his boyish eagerness, keeps tripping himself up! The director succeeds in making the sounds, smells and simple pleasures of the steppe palpable, from the dust and wide expanse of the landscape to the homeliness and warmth of the family’s traditional yurt home. This film offers us fascinating ethnographic detail, gentle humour and spectacular cinematography.

 

The Merchant of Venice - October 24

(US/UK/Italy) M drama 130 min

Four hundred years on, Shakespeare’s satirical nightmare retains its power to offend, to challenge, to subvert and to trigger debates on anti-Semitism. Michael Radford’s screen revival of The Merchant of Venice is fresh and lucid, enhanced by a brilliant performance from Al Pacino as Shylock, the grudge- bearing usurer who demands his pound of flesh from merchant Antonio. Jeremy Irons is impressive too, his sonorous languor beautifully suited to Antonio’s melancholy. The director takes full advantage of the film’s ability to elevate the setting of the play, one critic describing the Venice scenes as akin to “rich oil paintings that move”. This is a film for lovers of arthouse cinema, fine acting and good stories.

(USA) drama/romance 108 mins M September 12

Driven by Isabel Coixet’s visually assured and deeply observant direction, Elegycharts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilises him. However, this isn’t a conventional romance between an ageing man and a woman more than 30 years his junior, although the narrative does turn on those customary elements of jealousy, envy and suspicion. It is about social change in a troubled America, about ageing and physical deterioration, the desire that exceeds the possibilities of sexual performance.

With warmth, wry wit and erotic intensity, Elegy explores the power of beauty to blind, to reveal and to transform. Starring Oscar-nominee Penelope Cruz and Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, Elegyis based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Roth’s short novel The Dying Animal.

Tulpan

(Kazakhstan/Germany/Poland/Russia/Switzerland) drama 100min M September 26

Winner Un Certain Regard Cannes Film Festival 2008 Asa, a young man returning to his family on the harsh Kazakh steppe, has decided not to head for the city with his best friend, but to pursue a long-cherished dream to ownand tend his own flock of sheep. The herder’s life doesn’t come easily to Asa, nor courtship of the lovely Tulpan, and we empathise with him as he strives to become a man, but in his boyish eagerness, keeps tripping himself up! The director succeeds in making the sounds, smells and simple pleasures of the steppe palpable, from the dust and wide expanse of the landscape to the homeliness and warmth of the family’s traditional yurt home. This film offers us fascinating ethnographic detail, gentle humour and spectacular cinematography.

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Israel 106 minutes Drama Rating: G

The drama of the Arab-Israeli conflict is played out in microcosm through the fate of a lemon grove. Based on a true story, this touching Israeli film tells the tale of widowed Salma. Her lemon grove on the Israeli-West bank border is seen as a security threat when the Israeli Defence Minister builds a new house next to it. For her at lot is at stake – not only her livelihood, but also her sense of well-being and place. Salma finds an unlikely ally in the Minister’s wife with whom she forms an invisible bond. There are foes on both sides, and the battle to save her land becomes a powerful metaphor for the ongoing struggle in the Middle East.

*28th March
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont*

British Drama/Humour Rated PG 108 Mins

Set in a London residential hotel in the 1950’s this is a very enjoyable story of a chance encounter and developing deep rooted, enduring friendship between a widow (Joan Plowright at her best) and a young man (Rupert Friend, making an impressive debut) who she pretends to her fellow residents is her son, resulting in complications. It has a stellar cast including Anna Massey and others, who perform superbly. It is a gentle, sweet, quietly humorous and touching movie with a heart.