Arts News | Aug 20th 2010
While teeth may be gnashing over tomorrow's election there is good news ahead. It comes in the form of the Great Tropical Jazz Party on Magnetic Island from 27 to 29th August at All Seasons hotel on Mandalay Avenue in Nelly Bay and for locals who can organise themselves into a party of eight there's a great deal to be had.
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Arts News | Jul 2nd 2010
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Tony Cuthbertsons remade Bottigers Hut
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Anybody who recalls the very curious sight of a small thatched hut floating on Nelly Bay Harbour back in 2008 will want to see the final exhibition, Water's Edge, for which that art installation, by Magnetic Island artist, Tony Cuthbertson, who collaborated with landscape artist Jill Chism and others, was intended. It opens tonight at the Pinnacles Gallery in Thuringowa
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Arts News | May 27th 2010
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Kristin Berardi with bassist Georgia Weber
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If you are planning your Magnetic Island winter escape then late August sounds great, literally, because that's when the Great Tropical Jazz festival returns to Magnetic Island.
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Arts News | May 20th 2010
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Elena and Tash from Indigie Femme
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International musician and former resident of Magnetic Island, Elena Higgins will return to Magnetic Island to perform with her band "Indigie Femme".
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Arts News | May 10th 2010
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Matt Whitton in action at MI Musos Club
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Anybody who has been to recent Musos Club nights on Magnetic Island will have seen and heard guitarist and singer, Matt Whitton who has brought a very experienced and professional sound and style to the gigs along with a talent for including others onstage in great-sounding, impromptu, jamming. Now, with the help of a number of other creative Islanders, Matt is planning the Magnetic Youth Arts Project, an Xstrata Community Partnership Program initiative with Lifeline Community Care North Queensland aimed at 13 to 16 year olds that is designed to help them learn and expand their artistic and creative interests then put those ideas into action with the medium of their choice. Registration for the project is this Sunday.
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Arts News | Mar 25th 2010
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Wendy Tubman is ready for the Carbon Cuts comp
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A short-film competition, titled "Carbon Cuts", being run by Magnetic Island Nature Care Association, is creating intense interest and enthusiasm according to MINCA’s President Wendy Tubman. ‘There’s a definite buzz around’ she said.
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Arts News | Feb 19th 2010
May signals the beginning of winter and in the southern part of the country people are thinking about cosy fires and hot drinks. Meanwhile up in the tropical North, after the drenching wet and the sweltering heat of a tropical summer, May brings perfect dry sunny days with pleasant night-time temperatures. Pretty surprising then that May can be a quiet time for festivals and gigs in Australia. That is, until now. May is now the time to head up to tropical Magnetic Island for some musical fun and excitement and a bit of sunshine.
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Arts News | Jan 13th 2010
If you can think of a someone who made an outstanding contribution to the arts in 2009 then you might wish to see that he or she are recognised for their efforts by nominating them for one of the 2010 Townsville City Council Arts Awards.
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Arts News | Dec 4th 2009
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MIB
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Tomorrow evening at 6pm two Magnetic Island teenage brothers, Sascha and Dylan Rankin who go by the name MIB (Magnetic Island Boys - of course) will launch their first CD - a very impressive rap offering - at Picnic Bay and are hoping that lots of locals show up at the Picnic Bay Mall to hear them rap their stuff and join them to help celebrate the event afterwards.
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Island playwrighting program: final call
We had overlooked this exciting opportunity for people interested in playwrighting but, for any locals who have the time, an intensive playwriting program is being conducted on the Island next week [ read more ] |
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The Crown Vs Killer Quayle this weekend
Magnetic Island resident, writer, and theatrical professional Suzy Gilmour is having “The Crown VS Killer Quayle”, a play she developed for Q150 from her interest in finding out more about the Old Magistrate's Court, presented this weekend at the old court building in Townsville [ read more ] |
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A diva on Magnetic
Magnetic Times encourages reader's contributions and although the following piece by Bob Perry has a promotional slant, because it is about an Island resident of "note" and gives us an insight into this artist's musical background, we decided to share an abridged version with our readers [ read more ] |
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An evening on the Island with Brian Kneipp
Townsville muso, writer, composer, Barramundi Brother and all round funny man, Brian Kneipp will be presenting “An Evening on the Island with Brian Kneipp” tomorrow night (Saturday 24 October) at the Magnetic Island RSL Hall in Hayles Ave Arcadia in an event that should not be missed [ read more ] |
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A great idea in a community like ours
Mission Beach, a community to our north and one with much in common with Magnetic Island, where coastal development and superb natural values are often at odds with eachother, is mounting what organizers believe is the first Film Festival dedicated to the theme of sustainability [ read more ] |
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Marie makes "Ripples"
Former Island resident and watercolour artist, Marie Warneke is back in the north with a new exhibition of "panoramic miniatures" about to open at Perc Tucker Regioanl Gallery in Townsville [ read more ] |
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Harbour artwork: you can still see the artist's plans
Over the last weekend, at the Friday night Market and at the Bay Days Mega Market at Horseshoe Bay, two competing concept plans for a major public artwork commemorating Magnetic Island's involvement in the Solar Cities project - to be installed at Nelly Bay Harbour - were revealed [ read more ] |
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Townsville calendar photo comp
In a message we have just received from Townsville City Council we hear that a photographic competition, with prize money of $100 per image, is being conducted by the Rotaract Club of Thuringowa Central who are developing a calendar of Townsville for 2010 [ read more ] |
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Strand Ephemera starts tonight
Magnetic Island artist Tony Cuthbertson's floating homage to old Otto Bottiger's "stranded" home on Nelly Bay beach circa 1915, a giant crayfish, a piano painted pink, a Hilux glued with 4000 clear vinyl leaves, and Magnetic's full-tilt post punk band, "Shed9" will feature tonight with various other ‘ephemera’ on The Strand for the opening of one of Australia’s biggest outdoor sculpture exhibitions [ read more ] |
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Island boys in feature film
While their sister Olivia has been in the public spotlight with a petition to ban plastic bags on Magnetic Island, Fletcher and Morgan Evans-Illidge, Olivia's two younger brothers, identical twins in fact, are likely to be seen by a far larger audience after having finished their roles in the movie, presently being made in Townsville, “Beneath Hill 60” [ read more ] |
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