Entertainment

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...

Heartspace present Red in the Hood

Nov 12, 2018 | Entertainment

By Gay Liddington Follow the Reds’ journey through the hood and deep into the wood, where sightings of wolf-like creatures have been reported. Will the Reds find their inner power and overcome the bullies (wolves)? What choice will the Reds make when the wolves are...

Four Flat Whites in Italy

Nov 8, 2018 | Entertainment, Performance

Adrian and Alison have been looking forward to their trip to Italy for a long time – the art, the culture, the history! When the couple they were going with drop out, their new neighbours invite themselves along. Loud, obnoxious Harry and his ‘trophy wife’ Judy are...

Marriage of Figaro

Nov 6, 2018 | Entertainment, Performance

Love and liaisons, lust and laughter, tricks and disguises - all these take place in the engaging and amusing Marriage of Figaro by Mozart. The Maleny Singers are performing this popular opera at the Maleny Community Centre on November 9, 10, 11 at 7pm, 4pm and 2pm...

Mozart and marriage in Maleny

Oct 29, 2018 | Entertainment, Performance

The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, is a very funny involved plot, encompassing love and liaisons, tricks and disguises, lust and laughter. The forthcoming production by The Maleny Singers will hold you in thrall. The main four characters are Figaro – personal valet to...