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River Festival lineup released

May 30, 2018 by Jodie van de Wetering in Gigs & Festivals, Music

Blues, roots, folk, and family harmonies - the lineup is out for the 2018 Rockhampton River Festival.

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May 30, 2018 /Jodie van de Wetering
Gigs & Festivals, Music
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Choirs, quilters and the CWA benefit from RADF grants

May 24, 2018 by Jodie van de Wetering in Gigs & Festivals, Lifestyle, Local history, Music, Photography, Theatre, Visual art

The Central Highlands and Isaac councils have announced the latest Regional Arts Development Fund recipients, with a Heinz Variety of projects getting support including choral singing, quilting, children's literature, and the Country Women's Association.

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May 24, 2018 /Jodie van de Wetering
RADF, Queensland Music Festival, Clermont Artslink, Flaggy Rock Quilters, Stephanie Allen, Mary-Ellen McEvoy, Frances Underhill, Helen Killian, Emerald Art Group, Erin Dunne, Emerald Photographic Club, Emerald Patchwork Club
Gigs & Festivals, Lifestyle, Local history, Music, Photography, Theatre, Visual art
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News in brief

May 21, 2018 by Jodie van de Wetering in Art, Film, Gigs & Festivals, Theatre, Visual art

New books, more art bull drama, art student’s talent recognised, and lots of news from the Capricorn Film Festival.

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May 21, 2018 /Jodie van de Wetering
CQUniversity, Kimberley Evans-Barlow, Specul8, MC Melton, Beef Australia, InspirexArt, Rockhampton Musical Union, Capricorn Film Festival
Art, Film, Gigs & Festivals, Theatre, Visual art
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New Marlborough Library opens Monday

May 20, 2018 by Jodie van de Wetering in Lifestyle

Good news, book lovers of Marlborough: the new library opens on Monday, May 21.

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May 20, 2018 /Jodie van de Wetering
Livingstone Shire Council, Marlborough Library
Lifestyle
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Ironing Maidens bringing phlat beats to Rocky laundromat

May 20, 2018 by Jodie van de Wetering in Gigs & Festivals, Music, Theatre

Byron Bay-based electronic music duo Patty Preece and Melania Jack are bringing laundry-inspired beats to an actual laundromat in North Rocky next month, with their live show The Ironing Maidens.

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May 20, 2018 /Jodie van de Wetering
Ironing Maidens, electronic music, Patty Preece, Melania Jack
Gigs & Festivals, Music, Theatre
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Updated: Rocky kids' art project censored to comply with "One China" policy

May 08, 2018 by Jodie van de Wetering in Visual art, Festivals

How foreign trade, international politics, and the Confucian philosophy of language resulted in the editing of a local high school’s art project.

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May 08, 2018 /Jodie van de Wetering
Beef Australia
Visual art, Festivals
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Rocky local? You might have an ancestral portrait on show

May 04, 2018 by Jodie van de Wetering in Visual art

If you're a Rocky local and have Petersens, Morgans, Olives or Olivers in your family tree, you might have an ancestral portrait and not even know it.

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May 04, 2018 /Jodie van de Wetering
ReCollection
Visual art
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Nothing muddy about artist's vision for exhibition

May 03, 2018 by Jodie van de Wetering in Art, Visual art

You've heard of making art with oils and watercolour, with pastels and ink or maybe even collage – but what about mud?

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May 03, 2018 /Jodie van de Wetering
Michelle Black, ReCollection
Art, Visual art
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Specul8 announces who'll be scaring us in 2018

April 29, 2018 by Jodie van de Wetering in Writing

Specul8 Publishing has announced the authors bringing the scares to the Central Queensland Journal of Speculative Fiction's Halloween special later this year.

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April 29, 2018 /Jodie van de Wetering
Specul8, Behold the Nightmare
Writing
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Film Review: Avengers: Infinity War (spoiler free)

April 27, 2018 by Jodie van de Wetering in Film reviews

After ten years, eighteen other movies, and our own five-part guide, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has released the first half of their climatic showdown with Thanos, the Mad Titan. But how much can we say?

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April 27, 2018 /Jodie van de Wetering
Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel, TC Phillips
Film reviews
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Harold Livingstone Fraser: Meet a local ANZAC

April 25, 2018 by Jodie van de Wetering in Local history

Meet Rockhampton-born ANZAC and aviation pioneer Harold Livingstone Fraser.

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April 25, 2018 /Jodie van de Wetering
ANZAC, military history
Local history
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News in brief: visual art

April 24, 2018 by Jodie van de Wetering

News in brief from CQ’s visual artists: ghoulish horrors, delicate natural history prints, and jetting off to Greece.

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April 24, 2018 /Jodie van de Wetering
Greg Chapman, Lyn Diefenbach, Emily Szilveszter, Horror Writers Association, A Life in theMaking, Queensland Regional Art Awards
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Rocky Street Press acknowledges the Darumbal people, Traditional Custodians of the Central Queensland region where we live and work.  We pay our respects to Elders past and present and to Indigenous nations’ rich cultures of art and storytelling. We welcome Indigenous readers and contributors.

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