Month: March 2016

Fitness makes a difference at Common Ground

Fitness makes a difference at Common Ground

Posted by | Mar 24, 2016 | , , , |

The tenants of Common Ground Brisbane are working up a sweat and getting fit thanks to a new health and fitness program being run with the help of local business Iridium Health in collaboration with Rise Industries. Common Ground Brisbane opened in 2012 and provides affordable and supportive housing solutions for people who are suffering, or at risk of homelessness or struggling with severe disability. At no cost to the tenants, trainers Tim and Alannah from Iridium Health run the 10 supervised PT sessions each week in Common Ground’s recently opened Fitness and Wellbeing Centre. They customise every session...

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WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE : Printmakers at QCA

WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE : Printmakers at QCA

Posted by | Mar 21, 2016 | , , |

WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE :  Printmakers at QCA.  Reviewed by Dr. Charles Zuber. International Women’s Day On Tuesday, 8th March was a chance for printmakers to gather together for an exhibition at the Queensland College of Art’s Whitebox Gallery. The printmakers were also celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Print Council of Australia. Women of Substance showed the work of 34 printmakers from Griffith University Print Club, Alumni, students and staff as well other invited artists from interstate and overseas. The title, Women of substance, allowed for a wide range of interpretations, but what the works on show had in...

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Tabla meets didgeroo at BEMAC

Tabla meets didgeroo at BEMAC

Posted by | Mar 16, 2016 | , , , |

The high-energy sounds of the didgeridoo and the spirituality of tabla will bring you to the present moment in a beat, at BEMAC’s World Music Series concert with Dheeraj Shrestha & Si Mullumby Si Mullumby, one of Australia’s leading contemporary exponents of the didgeridoo, meets one of the Australia’s most sought after tabla players, Dheeraj Shrestha. Together they blend Intricate Indian percussion with the raw, earthy power of the didgeridoo to transcend cultural boundaries and cross time zones, on a voyage that delves deep into the present moment. Dheeraj and Si Mullumby performed together for the first time at...

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A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails

A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails

Posted by | Mar 16, 2016 | , , , |

Noted US commentator and author Ellen Brown looks at the story behind the US intervention in Libya, and the overthrow of Muammar el-Qaddafi. Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton’s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty. The brief visit of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Libya in October 2011 was referred to by the media as a “victory lap.” “We came, we saw, he died!” she crowed in a CBS video interview on hearing...

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For lovers of everything French

For lovers of everything French

Posted by | Mar 15, 2016 | , , |

The Westender’s newest contributor, Minou Yuille, pays a visit to the Alliance-Francaise French Film Festival. Here’s what she saw. The Alliance-Francaise French Film Festival is here again, for its twenty-seventh year running, and with it a whole new host of the best French cinema had to offer in 2015. As a part of this, I recently attended an advance screening of writer-director-actor Clovis Corniliac’s Blind Date, a romantic comedy. I am possibly biased, given that I rarely see a French film I hate, but I enjoyed this charming, light comedy a lot. The plot concerns two neighbours with very...

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