Panels are extraordinary opportunities to explore ideas with people who are currently working in the industry. It’s particularly compelling when group panels at conventions of this kind are presented and include panel members who are involved in various types of professions in the industry. The panels I like to create, tend to add another artist […]
Let’s reflect: On health and Indigenous Australian Peoples. #healthcareindustry
June 18, 2018 by
After reading, Educate yourself, then educate others: WAR, Invasion Day and treaty by Massimo Amerena, a powerful article indeed, I would like to add, yes educate yourself, but also engage in healthy self-reflection of your own attitudes and behaviours. Reflection can be very a powerful tool in identifying a person’s attitude, beliefs and biases. In […]
Creative chat: How do we deal with rejection and disappointment?
February 6, 2018 by
I’d like to provide some clarity on success and failure. I’ve received my first rejection for the year. See, I do receive rejections too! REJECTED I think it’s important that writers, creatives and artists view these situations as steps forward and not back. Myself, having studied counselling, community services and now social welfare, working both […]
Another year goes by! 2018 will be great. #GreatBeginnings #PositiveThoughts
December 29, 2017 by
I’ve had a great year! I’m very grateful to have experienced small personal progress artistically with my first play performed as a play reading with actors under the professional guidance of a director, then I had another poem published in an art and literature journal and I was lucky to see one of my microfiction […]
A writing project in #8words by Queensland Writers Centre #change #love #home #play
November 23, 2017 by
Do you have an #8wordstory busting to get out? What would you write about? Which category/prompt would you be writing about? #change #love #home or #play Southport I was very grateful to judge Nick Earls for selecting my story to be broadcast on the GOA digital billboards in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast. […]
Artistic Exploration #Aging the way we should or should not #HereAndNow
June 21, 2017 by
The famous Japanese painter Hokusai said that everything he did before he was 73 was quite worthless and that it was only after then, he had embarked on his true artistic career. Instincts or innate impulses. innate meaning – existing in you from birth. (e.g. innate musical talent) impulse – influence a particular feeling or […]
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