Arts
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Art exhibition showcases the “beauty that most people don’t notice”
Artists, Tom and Lyn Mason are opening their ‘first’ painting exhibition on Saturday. Tom, originally from Eumundi and Lyn, considered a “Pine Mountain girl,” met…
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Art Showcase funding is up for grabs again
“Fantastic” is how Robyn Harm described the possibility of the Ipswich Little Theatre winning a grant through the latest round of the Queensland Arts Showcase…
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Ipswich festival gets new date after border closure
Organisers of the music festival Trip the Switch have been forced to postpone the event at the 11th hour after Queensland Government border restrictions meant…
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Ipswich Little Theatre is ‘back on the boards’ in March
The year 2021 marks the 75th anniversary of the Ipswich Little Theatre and the amateur company are hoping it will also mark a season of…
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Gracing the big stage in Ballet Theatre productions
As Grace Cruwys poses for a photo outside the reception rooms at the Ipswich Grammar Girls School she dances a playful pas de deux with…
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Music is life and life is music for Ipswich’s Tamaryn
Hope, passion and sentiment. These are the three words Tamaryn Heck uses to describe the feeling she gets when she picks up her instrument, the…
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DJ Dameeeela on ‘The Switch’ and the streets that shaped her music
In July 2019, at one of Australia’s biggest music festivals, Splendour in the Grass, Ipswich girl Damelia Thompson danced in the crowd with hundreds of…
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Three Scenic Rim schools to workshop with noted music composers
Students from three local secondary schools will be composers for a day next week. Canungra State School, Tamborine Mountain College and Beaudesert State High School…
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Colours and landscapes of the Scenic Rim are an artist’s inspiration
Ancient trees, rich-volcanic soil, heavy branches, lush vegetation and the vistas across the landscape are the inspiration behind the art of Sam Suttie. Sam is…
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A woman and her father’s journey to build a guitar
Musician Ross Wohling believes music comes from the heart, and from the soul. It’s a belief that is underpinned by an unusual hobby – crafting…
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Anywhere Festival: Tapping into Ipswich’s artistic potential
A career in the arts was a long-held ambition of theatre director and artistic producer of THAT Production Company, Timothy Wynn. “I have known I…
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Valerie Dawson OAM tells history through song
Writing poetry has always come naturally for Blackstone resident, Valerie Dawson. “I started writing poetry in the 1960’s,” she said. “I’ve always dabbled in it.…












