Entertainment

Maleny Hotel hosts Col Finley

Dec 6, 2018 | Entertainment, Music

By Gay LiddingtonThere’s not much that can’t be said about singer-songwriter Col Finley. After notching up 25 years of writing, recording and performing, Col recently released his sixth album, The Collective, a celebration of songs written over his illustrious career....

Mindful of Beauty, with Maleny artist Lara Cooper

Dec 6, 2018 | Hinterland Life, Visual Arts

By Gay LiddingtonLara Cooper paints in all mediums, with a unique vision for artistic storytelling. As a result her work is unique, fresh and meaningful, both in subject and technique. Almost 12 years ago, Lara began painting under the tutelage of renowned watercolour...

Outspoken conversation

Nov 26, 2018 | Entertainment, Literature

By Gay LiddingtonOn November 29, 5.45pm for 6.30pm, Outspoken will host a conversation with the outstanding and universally respected journalist Kerry O’Brien, talking about his self-titled memoir. In this intimate groundbreaking account, told with wit and insight,...

Get your groove on!

Nov 20, 2018 | Entertainment, Hinterland Life, Performance

By Gay Liddington The Ryan Giles Band are a four-piece explosion of funk, soul, reggae and hip hop, based on the Sunshine Coast. Groove-heavy beats, infectious melodies, together with intelligent, positive and conscious songcraft make it impossible for anyone to stand...

A Girl’s Guide to World War

Nov 19, 2018 | Entertainment, Performance

By Gay LiddingtonThe astonishing new musical A Girl's Guide to World War comes to the Sunshine Coast this November. Based on true events, it follows the adventures of ‘lady doctors’ during World War 1. The show promises an unforgettable night of music, tears and...

Dancing from Forest Glen to Paris

Nov 19, 2018 | Entertainment, Features, Performance

By Gay Liddington Visions of dancing in the romantic city of Paris, in some of the world’s most treasured ballets, is a whimsical dream for most young girls that take that first ballet class. For Forest Glen’s Kadelle Smith, this dream could become a reality. Writer...

Time to reflect

Nov 16, 2018 | Entertainment, Hinterland Life, Visual Arts

By Gay Liddington Brooke Smith, together with her father Gregg Nowell, currently has paintings on display at the Reflection Gallery, Montville Uniting Church. Brooke’s sister, Haylee Freudigmann, is also involved with framed presentations of some of her writings. The...

Poets’ Corner

Nov 16, 2018 | Entertainment, Poets Corner

By Gay Liddington Poetry is an arrangement of language, artistic word pictures that attempt to inspire imagination, evoke emotion and provoke humour. A poet is an illustrator of words that creates beauty and intensity. It is time poets had a platform in the Hinterland...

Being Lucy at Rosetta’s

Nov 15, 2018 | Entertainment, Literature

By Gay LiddingtonIn 2005 writer Dale Lorna Jacobsen stood among dangling cobwebs and collapsing walls of a hut in the Victorian High Country, trying to imagine what it must have been like living in this dim, smoke-blackened place. It had been the home of Lucy...

Sunshine Coast Spoken Word

Nov 15, 2018 | Community, Entertainment, Performance

By Gay LiddingtonSunshine Coast Spoken Word (SCSW) was founded by award-winning performance poet and writer, Robin Archbold aka Archie, in 2013, and has been involved in Sunshine Coast festivals and other events ever since. Archie hosts a gathering of poets,...

Lost in Paris

Nov 15, 2018 | Entertainment, Performance

By Gay LiddingtonThe Maleny Film Society brings a madcap comedy this month. Fiona is a small town librarian in Canada who receives a distressed letter from her elderly aunt in Paris and races to her aid, only to find she has disappeared. There follows a fast-paced...

Nordic Flux

Nov 15, 2018 | Entertainment, Music

By Gay Liddington Nordic Flux is the resident DJ at the Crystal Waters Chill Sesh and he specialises in chill, down-tempo, worldly beats that makes you feel good. Jory Freyee aka Nordic Flux grew up in Crystal Waters and when he moved back to the area he realised...