The Sunshine Coast is a haven for creative enterprise but it’s not always easy going. Love, Luck and Loss – creative journeys to the here and now is the theme for presentations at the Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance’s next Pecha Kucha event at 5.30 pm on Tuesday March 29 at the Nambour Civic Centre.
Master of ceremonies for the evening is voice media supremo Ross Newth, who will add some of his own colour and style to the proceedings. Presenters include artist and graphic designer Evangeline Cachinero; music composer and producer Ralph Tyrrell, web designer Wayne McFetridge, cultural facilitator Zoe Scrogings, chef and now photographer Alain Bouvier, creativity and innovation coach Michael Doneman, flamenco guitarist Andrew Veivers, cultural facilitator/artist Walbira Murray and community artist Florence Tiellet.
The event is supported by Sunshine Coast Council’s SmartArts program.
Tickets are only $10 each or $5 for members of the Creative Alliance. You can book your seat online now. Tickets at the door. Check out our fantastic lineup!
1. Evangeline Cachinero - Artist/graphic designer
Evangeline Cachinero is a visual artist living on the Sunshine Coast of Australia. She was born in Wollongong, raised in Spain and grew up in America. Evangeline works primarily with painting, using mixed media to create layered pieces. Her exhibitions are always progressive in nature and each exhibition explores new, uncharted territory for her work. She has an insatiable appetite for experimenting with art and new techniques and believes that her work functions best when there is a perfect balance between intent and accident.
Evangeline’s Pecha Kucha presentation will be about the tumultuous relationship that she has with art. It will encapsulate the themes of love and hate toward her craft and touch on subjects such as falling in love, finding a passion, divorce and rejection. Evangeline has a solo exhibition at the Noosa Regional Gallery themed Monobrow, opening March 18 at 6pm and running until April 24. This exhibition includes a multimedia Twitter project that you can follow at @EVANGELINE_ART. She has also recently launched a creative agency called Monobrow Creative that serves as an umbrella for all of her creative ventures.
2. Florence Teillet - Community artist and facilitator
Florence Teillet is a French migrant, regional community artist, actor, director, workshop facilitator and teacher, specialising in clowning, pup
petry and street theatre. A Sunshine Coast resident since 1995, she has been teaching drama to people with disabilities mainly with the Sunshine Coast Institute of TAFE.
Since 2004, she has researched and collated stories from elderly migrants. It inspired her to talk to her Dad about his story during WW2, when at the age of 17 he was sent to concentration camps for being a resistance fighter. In 2005 she retraced his journey of escape from Germany back home to France. Since 2009 she has been involved in the writing and creative development of a theatre play, with dramaturge Therese Collie, based on her dad’s story (“She Walks Beside His Shoes”).
3. Ralph Tyrrell - Composer, producer
Ralph Tyrrell is established in the creative industries as a writer, producer and composer/sound designer for stage, film, television and multimedia. His stage credits include works created with Bryan Nason, William Yang and Dorothy Hewett. He has served on the Australia Council Music Board; Arts Queensland's Arts Advisory Committee and the board of the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra.
HE operates from his new media studio, VIDEOLA, in Montville on the Sunshine Coast. His credits include many nationally screened projects including over 48 titles for Network 7’s ‘World Around Us’ documentary series, and work for Network 9. He produced and scored work for corporate DVDs, local documentaries, 'Chooks-Their Lives & Their Lovers' (SBS TV), 'The Gatekeepers' (ABC TV), 'Secretions', 'Swanshift', 'Lilygod' and 'Trans' (with performance artist Maree Cunnington).
As an Adjunct Teaching Fellow and Sessional Lecturer, he has taught practical screen based studies at the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS), Griffith University's Seven Hills campus, Bond University Centre for Film, Television & Interactive Media (FITV), UCQ and USC. He is a member of the Australian Writers Guild and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers.
4. Wayne McFetridge - Digital designer
Wayne McFetridge is the digital developer at The Various Artists creative agency in Maroochydore. Previous to VA he was a freelance web developer working for some of the coasts and Queensland’s biggest agencies on projects for Sunshine Coast Regional Council, Origin Energy and Virgin Blue and USC. Currently VA are working hard for brands such as Elenbi, Gj Gardner, Weber BBQ and World Surfaris and USC.
Wayne is the manager of the Sunshine Coast Adobe Web User Group - a monthly meeting of the best local designers and developers to talk shop and keep abreast of the fast paced online space (and have a beer and some Pizza). He has also been invited to speak twice at O'Reilly's Refresh events in Brisbane.
5. Zoe Scrogings - Cultural facilitator
Zoe Scrogings’ heart has been captivated by Thailand, since travelling with the local Makhampom Theatre Co. amost 8 years ago. Zoe followed this with an Australia Council arts residency working with The Mirror Arts Group based in Chiang Rai on the Thai/Burmese border in 2004. Here she developed a mobile theatre project with Ahka Hilltribe women and children. Drawing directly from her love of cross-cultural collaboration, Zoe returned to Australia to apply her passion for social justice, focusing on young people from Indigenous and non Indigenous backbrounds, as Artistic Director/CEO Contact Inc a ground breaking company that produces art with a social change agenda based in Brisbane . More recently Zoe has been working as an arts consultant,and is currently a Development Officer within Creative Communities Sunshine Coast Council developing smartArts+ a professional development and capacity building program for creative practitioners in the region. Zoe's heart and soul will return to Thailand later this year working once again with the Makhampom Theatre Co on an Asialink Arts Management Residency.
6. Alain Bouvier – Photographer
Born and raised in South of France, Marseille, Alain chef by trade and photographer by love brings to us a collection of his portraits while enjoy¬ing living and working on our Sunshine Coast. Visionary and aware Alain likes observing his social environment and his delightful intrigue in the play of life has been represented in this collection of portraits. Those images are special in the way they can capture the beautiful truth of a person, in a contem¬plative, alluring way but also show his mood or what he can’t express with his words. His work placed together or separately, tells a story - but not quite. The story is in your, the viewer’s mind, he merely provides the wordless story board with a lot of soul and intentionally leaves out some clues.
7. Michael Doneman - Creativity and innovation coach
Michael Doneman is founding director of Edgeware Creative Entrepreneurship. He has 20 years of experience in education and community cultural development, which inspired work in communities (including Indigenous and rural-remote communities) in enterprise development, vocational education and training, and information technology. Michael brings focus to the generic value of creativity in the development of entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, management and leadership.
8. Andrew Veivers - Flamenco guitarist
One of Australia’s finest Spanish Guitarists, Andrew Veivers draws on a wide range of musical influences to evoke the sensual and mesmerising sounds of the Spanish guitar in all of its guises. From the beginning, Andrew combined the traditional study of flamenco with the formal training of the classical guitar. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music in 1993 from the University of Queensland (St Lucia) Andrew spent 3 years studying, teaching and performing in London, Madrid and Amsterdam. At venues ranging from Blenhiem Palace (UK) to The Dillington Classical Guitar Festival (UK) to chamber music series' in Amsterdam to concerts at many of Australia's leading festivals, Andrew has appeared as a soloist as well as with his various groups (Flamenco Fire, The Saruzu Quartet, Jaleos Flamenco) to great critical acclaim. Alongside his performance schedule Andrew has continued his dedication to the teaching of the Spanish Guitar. After being on the teaching staff for many years at the Classical Guitar School in Brisbane and The Spanish Guitar Centre in London, Andrew opened The Spanish Guitar Studio in Brisbane in 1997. Now in its 13th year of operation, The Spanish Guitar Studio has teaching studios in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. Andrew launched his teaching manual and DVD – The Rhythm Method: An Introduction to Flamenco Guitar in December 2010 at the Woodford Folk Festival.
9. Walbira Murray - Cultural facilitator/artist
Walbira is a Gumillaroi woman, from Dirranbandi. Walbira's earliest memories are of living in the fringe dwellers camp on the banks of the Ballone River in a shack her father had built. Walbira is a trainer, traditional dancer, Artistic Director, Arts Facilitator, Art Maker and Events Coordinator. Walbira is committed to building capacity in the Indigenous community through innovative and creative opportunities. In her art she combines traditional and contemporary practices, crafting spaces and experiences that reflect a connection to spirituality and allow for an interface between Indigenous and non Indigenous people. She has worked on a local, state, national and international level. She has toured internationally to Europe, North America, and Asia numerous times to showcase Indigenous arts and culture through performance and exhibitions. Her work is influenced by connection to country and her culture. The colours and textures of the ghost gums, flat plains, slow rivers and deep earth colours of her country are often experienced in her work. This connection to country drives her to create spaces and experiences where Indigenous and non Indigenous people can interface on a level that encourages exploring mutual connection to place and the spiritual base of country.
