Get creative with your social (distancing) life with these online ideas
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The ultimate virtual bucket list for curious kids in isolation
This is the ultimate isolation bucket list for kids. And I’m not stretching the truth. Due to, well, basically the entire world shutting down…
Huge live streamed festival: Gold Coast this weekend
Five past Gold Coast Music Awards winners, are joining forces with some of the city’s best emerging talent to bring you more than eight…
Gold Coast Film Festival announces two flagship events will go ahead online
All is not lost, film lovers! The Gold Coast Film Festival has announced they will move two of its principal events online, following the…
Wharves: Nothing left to say
With the release of latest single ‘Nothing Left To Say’ earlier last month, Lennox Heads based indie rock band Wharves should have been looking…
Twin Towns food to fill the Pantry
Following Twin Towns’ closure last Sunday night, Executive Chef Lloyd Cremer has today emptied the last of the food from the club’s fridges and…
HOTA announces first Rage Against the V(irus) fund recipients
HOTA has revealed the first recipients of its Rage Against the V(irus) Artist Fund announced earlier last month, who will receive up to $1000…
The 2020 Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition is open
Songwriters, rejoice! The 2020 Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition invites songwriters from around the world to enter their song for a chance at…
Mudgeeraba Show date has mooooved
In consideration of the current COVID-19 outbreak, The Mudgeeraba Show Committee has made the decision to postpone the June 2020 event to October. All…
Album review: This is not a future | These Four Walls
The perfect hard rock soundtrack for a community subdued by fear and uncertainty, These Four Walls new offering, ‘This Is Not A Future’, brings…
Album Review: Fallow | Fanny Lumsden
‘Fallow,’ Fanny Lumsden’s poetically penned title track is a synonym for hope or failure, accompanied by the strum of acoustic guitar strings with a…
Gold Coast Tool Library ready to launch
Use. Return. Repeat. That’s the motto for the city’s newest sustainability-focussed startup, and never has there been a more poignant time to get it…
Natura Pacific celebrates biodiversity with Back from the Brink
Local environmental consultancy business Natura Pacific is committed to spreading awareness about the Australian environment, and its short documentary series ‘Back from the Brink’,…
Sustainable Schools Network Launches 2020 Sustainability Symposium, online
Heading online to reach more people than ever before, the 2020 Sustainability Symposium is set to be an event of epic proportions. The Sustainable…
TAFE students build shelters for injured wildlife
TAFE Queensland carpentry students have spent several weeks cutting, sanding and nailing more than 40 wildlife boxes to help save injured possums from the…
Staying healthy? Here’s our dedicated Gold Coast poke round up
When you’re looking for food on the run, poke bowls are one of the healthiest, most convenient fast food meals in town. The name…
Lessons from the ice with Geoff Wilson
If you’re needing inspiration, if you want to do seemingly impossible things, go on mad expeditions, or just generally live life to the fullest,…
$100K in funding available for Northern Rivers not-for-profits
Northern Rivers not-for-profits have the chance apply for part of a $100,000 funding pool to boost social and environmental regeneration in the region, thanks…
Book review: Money School | Lacey Filipich
As the title suggests, Money School is a book to educate the reader about their finances. The disclaimer here is that its author, Lacey…
State of the Arts: Part 2 | What is the role of arts in our society?
The arts across all mediums play an influential role in our society and have done so across the centuries. Art can shape the way…
Miami High student takes home top prize in national writing competition
Gold Coast student Lani Gibson from Miami State High School, was recently announced as the 2020 national winner of Storyfest’s National Novella Writing Competition…