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Art Trail

Floating Land will be hosting a walking Art Trail throughout to festival. This snap shot of Boreen Point’s residential artists is a unique opportunity for visitors to leisurely explore the leafy streets of Boreen Point and peek inside the world and the creations of the Artists that live here year round.
 
Artists
Michele Knightley
Susan Coburn
Sue Smith
Debra Willcocks 
Jan Sweet
Jenny Walters
 
When:             June 20-21 & June [...]

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Beautiful Words Writers & Photo Exhibition

Writers, photographers and visitors to Floating Land are invited to contribute to the Beautiful Words exhibition. Inspired by the surrounding artworks and community, writings and photography created during the festival will be exhibited to start wider conversations about climate change, art and the environment. Includes time-lapse photography of the shoreline sculptures as they are produced. [...]

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Boreen Point Photography Exhibition

Meet the community of Boreen Point that is hosting the festival. Look through their own personal camera lens at the majesty of the largest lake on Noosa River, Lake Cootharaba and the community that live there.
Floating Land photographers’ events
When: June 20-28, 10am to 4pm
Where: Lake Cootharaba Sailing Club, Lake Cootharaba Foreshore, Boreen Point
Cost: Free

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Children’s Sculpture Performance

Witness a one-off performance of sculptural forms from waste cardboard created by school students of the Sunshine Coast region in collaboration with acclaimed Queensland sculptor Terry Summers.
When: Friday June 26, 1.30pm
Where: Lake Cootharaba Foreshore, Boreen Point
Cost: Free

 

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Children’s Workshops

These workshops, co-hosted by Noosa Regional Gallery and CQUniversity, will guide children in exploring art in environment themes, using their hands and imagination to create their own Floating Land inspired works of art. The self-paced nature of the workshop means children are free to come and go as they like.
When: Saturday June 20 and Saturday June [...]

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Climate Change and Cultural Knowledge

When: Saturday June 20, 9.30am to 4.00pm
Where: The TopTent at the Apollonian Hotel, Boreen Point
Bookings: Noosa Regional Gallery - 5449 5340 
 
Climate Change and Cultural Knowledge will explore climate change and perceptions and responses to it by indigenous peoples from Pacific cultures. How do the mental models of indigenous culture leaders/thinkers provide additional and important sources [...]

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Culture Markets

Sunshine Coast artists and local marketeers bring to Boreen Point a unique market of local arts, crafts and culture.
When: Sunday June 28, 9am to 3pm
Where: The historic Apollonian Hotel, Boreen Point
Cost: Free
 
 

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Firings by the Lake

Firings by the Lake

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Gubbi Gubbi Dance

Gubbi Gubbi Dance is a group of indigenous artists & performers. In 1996 Lyndon Davis and Shannon Chilly, direct descendants of the Gubbi people, founded the troupe, bringing together family members and local young indigenous people to celebrate the dances of their homelands. They have gained a strong rapport throughout their community taking great pride [...]

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Opening at Noosa Regional Gallery

Opening Night at Noosa Regional Gallery

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Pacific Island Dancers

Experience the joy of the Pacific Island dancers and singers as they present traditional performances about their homeland and lifestyle.
When: Saturdays June 20 and  June 27, 12 noon
Where: The foreshore, Lake Cootharaba, Boreen Point
Cost: Free

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Photovoice

Can photos communicate a community or group’s thoughts and feelings about water, rising seas and climate change? Three different groups took on this challenge during the festival but did each group share the same ideas and views? Are there different ways of thinking about water and climate change? Can images help us to understand some [...]

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Sculptors OnSite

Sculptors OnSite

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Tuvaluan House - Fale Matagi

A bamboo Tuvaluan Fale will be built by Queensland University of Technology students guided by the Brisbane Tuvaluan community.
Tuvalu is a Pacific island nation threatened with extinction. They have a population density twice that of Singapore, are almost entirely dependent on imports for even basic needs, and inundation from rising sea levels is starting to make [...]

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