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From Waste to Wonder: Cynthia Nudel’s biopainting turns scraps into luminous art

Argentinean-born artist Cynthia Nudel paints without paint. Using textile waste dyed with organic scraps, her ‘biopainting’ transforms discarded materials into textured portraits that invite us to rethink beauty, waste and our connection to nature.
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You Can Sit With Us: Feast for Freedom returns!

Imagine a table big enough for everyone, breaking bread and finding common ground with those we may see as ‘different’, but are at heart the same. Enter Feast for Freedom: a call for connection across cultures, and to say, ‘you are welcome here’.
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Festival Forecast: High creativity with a chance of radical hope on the Horizon

Salt air, good vibes and bold ideas will soon collide at the Sunshine Coast’s annual Horizon Festival. Celebrating ten years of creativity this May, Horizon brings art, music, performance and radical imagination to Kabi Kabi and Jinibara Country.
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Glitter and grit: celebrating Sydney Mardi Gras then – and now

🎵 I’m coming out! I want the world to know, I’ve got to let it show… 🎵 The Sydney Mardi Gras isn’t just a celebration of glamour, grit and queer pride, it’s an act of defiance built on a background of activism and ongoing discrimination.
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Colour with Care: Marlena Taylor on creativity, craft and Ruco Paints

Handcrafted on the NSW North Coast, Ruco Paints brings sustainability and artistry together through vegan paints, refillable ceramic pots and small-batch colour runs. Founder Marlena Taylor shares why ‘living a making’ matters.
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Merry and meaningful: Feel-good, planet-friendly ways to give this year

Keen to skip the last-minute panic buying trip to the mall? Choose gifts that are thoughtful and better for people and the planet instead!
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Stories You Wear: Inside the Magpie Goose Exhibition with Amanda Hayman

When you hang a painting on a wall, the story stays put. But when you wear a beautifully made garment that may as well be…

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Creativity and Culture: Museum of Brisbane’s Walking Art Tour

Time-travelling lungfish floating in a mosaic of glass tiles, a four-breasted female empowerment goddess cast in bronze, and a striking botanical sculpture spanning 15 metres,…

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“We’re all stardust”: pianist Rose Riebl on the power of silence and creating from loss – and life

Some kinds of wisdom only arrive through transformation – the sort that comes from holding both an ending and a beginning in your hands at…

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