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Category: Arts and Culture

Oct 14
SET THE MUSIC FREE | 13 October 2024

Yesterday, on Sunday 13 October, the Noosa and Sunshine Coast communities united for a powerful and moving protest, Set The Music Free led by Jay Bishoff & Oz Bayldon 🎶💪 With locals gathering at Noosa Junction, the streets were alive with music, joy, and solidarity as performers and supporters alike came together to stand up […]

Oct 02
Maleny Botanic Gardens launches new Bush Tucker gardens to inspire visitors about Indigenous culture and heritage

The Sunshine Coast Hinterland’s premier attraction, Maleny Botanic Gardens & Bird World, has partnered with the region’s traditional owners, the Jinibara People Aboriginal Corporation, and local cultivators, Brush Turkey Enterprises, to create new Bush Tucker gardens. Two separate areas of the expansive gardens have been planted with Indigenous plants used traditionally in cooking and medicine by the Jinibara […]

Jul 23
Sunshine Coast’s premier culinary festival – The Curated Plate – ready for plating from this weekend

The tables are being prepared, produce selected and kitchens fired up in advance of The Curated Plate launching this Friday, 26 July, with over 90 delicious events being scheduled for the premier Sunshine Coast culinary event. The Curated Plate brings together the Sunshine Coast’s renowned chefs and famed local produce in a feast for the palate and the senses. […]

Mar 11
Gympie passes ‘GO’ with its own dedicated MONOPOLY Board

11 March 2023: For a town built on the profits of gold, there was probably never a better destination selected by the makers of MONOPOLY for its own dedicated board game. Gympie is known the “the town that saved Queensland” – because of the contribution to the State’s economy through its gold production –  and […]

Feb 25
In Depth with Alan Kelly (Irish-Australian folk music champion / leader of The Barleyshakes)

Sienna: What was your inspiration for getting into music? Alan: I suppose it’s a cultural thing in Ireland.  It’s a big part of family there, in my case, especially on my mother’s side of the family.  We went to mass every Sunday, and then we’d go back to my grandmother’s house, just down the road. There would always be music, […]