SCCA Blog

What a terrific night - great presentations, inspiring material and a good turn out! Around 100 people attended the 'Create/Sustain' Pecha Kucha Night at The J on Tuesday March 23.  Phil Moran who is Deputy Chair of Noosa Biosphere opened the night, making it clear that human activity, the arts and culture are part of what makes our biosphere special.  If we want to protect and promote our precious environment we need to use culture and the arts to do so.  We also need to connect people to their community and this is what Pecha Kucha Night is all about.   More >>

The Great Noosa Campout is on next weekend and this year will run across the Easter Weekend Friday April 2, Saturday 3rd and Sunday April 4th. This year artists feature Colin Hay “Men at Work”, Daryl Braithwaite, GANGGajang, Dallas Frasca, Marshall & The Fro, Mason Rack, Asa Broomhall Band, Afro Dizzi Act, Chase The Sun, A French Butler Called Smith, Doc Span and Ross Williams, Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson, Dan England, Cleveland Blues and a host of others.  This week the Camp Out folk launched their double CD featuring artists from the 2009 event as well as the upcoming one.   More >>

Artmakers Noosa is opening their next exhibition on Friday April 9 at 6.30 pm at Peregian Beach Hotel.  The exhibition runs from 2– 29^th April. Artmakers Noosa is made up of a group of Noosa based artists who have been collaborating to stage exhibitions in a range of locations across the Sunshine Coast including Peregian Beach hotel, Madissons and the Maroochydore Library.  Members include:  More >>

What an amazing line-up of presenters:  Ellen Appleby, Stephanie Haslam, Nicole Voevodin-Cash, Linsey Pollak, Christina Kargillis, Richard Newport, Leah Barclay, Kay Palot & Jan Brown and Judy Barrass aka Juanita Deharo. We would like to sincerely thank our Pecha Kucha Vol 2 presenters and share a little information about them, with links to their websites.  Also thank you to our event sponsors, see details on the end of this posting. See the Press Release for more details.   More >>

The Noosa Integrated Catchment Association (NICA) is calling for entries to the Sunshine Coast Environment Community Film Festival, to be held at the popular Word Environment Day at the Sunshine Coast University on 6 June 2010. The film festival is possible by the Queensland Department of Environment and Natural Resource Management Awareness Grant 2010.  More >>

Expressions of interest are being called for five people or groups to be NeoGeoGraphers for 2010, with the base for the project being the new Cooroy Library and the Cooroy Butter Factory. This exciting oportunity is about all creative arts forms including writing.  More >>

There is significance overlap and allegiance between The Creative Alliance and other professional groups on the coast and we want to capitalise on that.  K E E N is one of these groups - and it stands for Knowledge Exporters and Entrepreneurs of Noosa.  This group is a business network connecting people who live locally but do business nationally and globally, and/or in niche markets, across a diverse range of sectors.  K E E N try to meet quarterly, and meetings are generally roundtable discussions.   More >>

How do passionate people talk about their work in Shanghai, Stuttgart, Santiago, Seoul, Sydney, Stockholm, San Francisco, Salzburg, Sofia, St Petersburg and over 260 other locations including the SUNSHINE COAST?  Through Pecha Kucha Night - a great format for the creative talent on the Sunshine Coast to see and be seen. We are about to host our second event, with a specific focus on environmental and cultural life with the theme being 'Create/Sustain'.    More >>