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The Creative Scene
JANUARY
The Australian Ballet pres-
ents Storytime Ballet: The
Sleeping Beauty
A beautiful princess must sleep for
100 years – until woken by true
love’s kiss.
Experience all the dazzling wonder of
The Sleeping Beauty in a live, inter-
active production created especially
for children aged 3 and up. Fairies in
glittering tutus, storybook characters,
and a prince’s quest – all set to
Tchaikovsky’s hum-along score.
Running for under an hour, and
packed with favorite characters like
DECEMBER Red Riding Hood and Cinderella,
this narrated version of The Sleeping
The Newsmakers Exhibition The festival programme features Beauty will have both boys and girls
concerts, dances, street theatre, dancing all the way home. Don’t
This is an exhibition that celebrates writers’ panels, film festival, comedy forget to dress up in your favorite
the 50th anniversary of the naming sessions, acoustic jams, social ballet-inspired outfit!
of the Sunshine Coast, by highlight- dialogue and debate, folk medicine,
ing some of the many, many head- an entire children’s festival, an 10 – 11 January, 2018.
lines and stories that have appeared environmental programme featuring
in the local and national newspapers talks, debates and films, art and craft www.queensland.com/en-us/
event/the-australian-bal-
over those 50 years. workshops, circus performances and let-presents-storytime-bal-
workshops, late night cabarets, pa- let-the-sleeping-beauty
Landsborough Museum, 4 Maleny rades, and special events including a
Street, Landsborough. spectacular fire event.
www.landsboroughmuseum.org.au Within the festival village you can Sunnyboys – special guests
find 35 performance venues, of 4HEÒ#ELIBATEÒ2I¹ES
which 18 are all weather. The festival
streets are lined with restaurants, ‘To think we have now been together
Woodford Folk Festival again as a band longer than the
cafes, stalls, bars, street theatre and
The Woodford Folk Festival, an parades. Tree-filled campgrounds, early days, is amazing. We did not
event of international standing, is butterfly walks, ponds and wildlife set out to do this of course, it just
held annually over six days and six complete the picturesque site. happened!’ - Peter Oxley.
nights from 27 December through It’s remarkable to believe that
to 1 January. More than 2000 27 December, 2017 – 1 Janu- the 2017 edition of Sunnyboys
performers and 438 events are ary, 2018. (featuring all original members) have
programmed featuring local, national www.woodfordfolkfestival.com/ existed longer than the bright-
and international guests. This year the-festival/about/ eyed young men who burned so
will be the 31st Woodford Folk Festi- brightly back in the eighties, but also
val and the 23rd held at Woodfordia. burned-out so fast. This time around,
