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Tara Tiba - photo by Rhett Kleine by Athena Zelandonii It’s hard to believe that Tara Tiba is banned from singing in public, in her home country of Iran. Despite laws banning women from recording or performing with their voices, Tara honed … [Read more...]
JADE MCGARRY Gold Coast band, LEMAIRE won the Gold Coast division of the Airlie Beach Festival of Music competition, “Passport to Airlie”, on the weekend, taking out top spot in the Gold Coast region. Passport to Airlie is set up as a … [Read more...]
SAMANTHA BALDRY It is not unusual for youth, and especially for multicultural youth, to feel as if their voices aren’t being heard, but a number of organisations in Brisbane are encouraging Australia’s multicultural youth not just to speak … [Read more...]
BRIDGETTE ALI Fortitude Valley’s The Brightside is inviting patrons to bring their dogs along to the venue’s new Heaps Good Sundays series. The free event, which launched yesterday, will run from 2pm till late on the second Sunday of … [Read more...]
MARY JO DOWSETT Brisbane’s Scandinavian Festival is back for its eighth consecutive year on Sunday and visitors to the event can look forward to a diverse range of cultural offerings including Estonian craft beer, Finnish cuisine, Danish folk … [Read more...]
LAUREN MARTIN Queensland’s Sing to Beat Aphasia choir held a special performance at the Logan City Library this week as a part of National Stroke Week. Singers in Sing to Beat Aphasia choir suffer from aphasia and other conditions … [Read more...]
MONICA ADAIR The streets of Main Beach will come alive this weekend as Gold Coast's first ever flower festival hits Tedder Avenue. In addition to beautiful floral arrangements, the Main Beach Spring Flower Festival will boast a range … [Read more...]
BRIDGETTE ALI Brisbane’s local music talent are set to have a brighter spotlight shining on them thanks to the latest addition to the city’s already stellar line-up of music venues, The Fortitude Music Hall. The Fortitude Music Hall … [Read more...]
BRITTINY EDWARDS The Greazefest Kustom Kulture Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary year in the Redlands area this weekend, showing that the Southeast’s love of 1950s rockabilly culture is still going strong. The festival, … [Read more...]
by Jade McGarry REMI drawing an enthusiastic crowd at the GrandePhoto cred: Dylan Crawford Finally, it feels like we can talk about mental illness and it’s about bloody time. The struggles faced by people silently enduring the pain of … [Read more...]
