Classic cars on show
The Arthur Street Country Market is hosting a display of classic cars from the Blackall Range Horseless Carriage Club Inc., based in Maleny. It is expected more than 20 cars will be on site from the 50s, 60s and 70s with a few old timers – MG, Jaguar, Mustang, Triumph, Morgan and more. The Arthur Street Country Market is a friendly, traditional, weekly community market featuring local general goods and fresh produce, plants, jewellery, Reflexology, soap, bric a brac, coins, vintage records, breakfast BBQ and great coffee.
When: Sunday the 11th of April, 7am to 12 noon.
Where: Arthur Street Country Market, 145 Arthur Street Caloundra.
Tickets: Entry is free no booking required.
Jazz and Blues Collective Maroochydore
The Aaron Jansz Band presents: The Songbook of Rodgers & Hart. This performance celebrates the prolific songwriting partnership of the incomparable Rodgers & Hart. The pair worked together for 23 years writing for 28 stage musicals and resulting in more than 500 songs. The timeless nature of the Rodgers & Hart songbook has been displayed by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Peggy Lee, and Tony Bennet right through to contemporaries Dianna Krall, Harry Connick Jnr and more.
Band members: Jess Spina: Voice, Shannon Marshall: Trumpet, Damian Sim: Piano, Luke McIntosh: Double Bass & Aaron Jansz: Drum Set.
When: Sunday March 28, 1pm-4pm
Where: Millwell Road Community Centre, 11 Millwell Road East Maroochydore
Tickets: $25. Seniors, $23. Book via ticketebo.com.au/jazz-blues-collective/
Vera Blue with Jarryd James
Vera Blue is coming back to the Sunshine Coast, joined by very special guest Jarryd James. The electro-pop powerhouse and her band will play fan favourites including multi-platinum single ‘Regular Touch’, globally penetrating Flume collab ‘Rushing Back’, and latest release ‘Lie To Me’, which was voted #68 in this year’s triple j Hottest 100 countdown. Joining the show will be Queensland singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jarryd James. His second album ‘PM’ was released to critical acclaim last month.
When: Sunday March 28, 5pm-10pm
Where: NightQuarter, 8 the Avenue Birtinya
Tickets: $74.90, via tix.nightquarter.com.au/events
The Mind of Plants Symposium
The idea that plants have a mind of their own has been a prominent feature of some Indigenous narratives, literary works and philosophical discourses. Recent scientific research in the field of plant cognition also highlights the capacity of botanical life to discern between options and learn from prior experiences or, in other words, to think. This online symposium brings the Mind of Plants book contributors together to share their reflections and various approaches to plants. Stories, poetry and sound across a diversity of human languages and geographical landscapes.
When: Friday April 9, 7:50am-6pm.
Where: Online Symposium.
Tickets: Free event, register via tinyurl.com/2dtm94rn.
Sunshine Coast Collective Markets Coolum Beach
Whether you are shopping for a gift, or for yourself, or simply looking for a location to meet up with a friend, Sunshine Coast Collective Markets are a great addition to your weekend plans. Parking? They have lots of parking options along Barns Lane, but if you arrive when it’s pumping, there is also parking on the other side of the school on ‘School Road’.
When: Sunday March 28, 8am-12pm.
Where: Coolum Primary School Oval, School Road Coolum Beach.
Tickets: Entry is free.
Open Studio – Art Workshops
The Pressed Metal workshop with Anita Baills covers the basics and safety aspects of working with metal and how to use readily available supplies and tools to create fabulous pieces. Students will learn the basics of cutting, filing and pressing designs into aluminium. They will create a bookmark or wrist cuff and a pair of earrings. Anita has eight years of workshop tutor experience in resin, resin art, jewellery, metalwork and wearable art workshops. Workshops have been conducted at Cobb and Co Museum and a number of other local and regional events including Woodford Folk Festival, the Planting Festival and Carnival of Flowers.
When: Friday, March 26, 1pm to 3pm
Where: Sunshine Coast Art Group. 1 William Parker place, Buderim
Cost: $75.00. Info: openstudiossunshine.com.au
Raft Building – PCYC Holiday Programs
Wildlings Forest School Holiday Programs give children the freedom to play, explore and learn in a wild, bush & beach environment. During any of their sessions you are likely to find children climbing trees, playing in the creek and using hand tools. Will you sink or will you float? This raft building challenge will have children using hand tools (fully supervised) to build a raft to float in the creek. There are no instructions, the children will need to work together to figure out how to make their raft float. A fun (and wet) workshop where half the fun is failing.
When: Tuesday April 6, 9am. Friday April 9, 9am. Tuesday April 13, 1pm.
Where: 3 Youth Avenue, Burnside.
Tickets: $45, via wildlingsforestschool.com/bookings
