Poetry Week in Cardwell

Local writing group, Licuala Writers, are planning their first open public reading for Saturday 19th of September at 10.00am. To be held at the Dorothy Jones Library in Tully, they are inviting all members of the community to participate by way of reading their own original work or coming along to listen and enjoy. [...]

Our new project for 2009  is into Orbit.  Go to this site to find out more  Into Orbit.

Unity Feet- installation at the enviro centre C4

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From November 10th to December 7th 2007 parts of the Ripple poetry wall will be featured at the c4 Enviro Centre at Mission Beach, the Mission Beach library and the Tully Tourism Information [...]

gift of poet tree
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This is a not for profit tribute – a poet-tree collaged from portraits. Do you like it!
Here is the poet-tree in the library filled with poets long gone, and poets of today, poets of our project and poets from around the world.
As we have poets also passed away here [...]

longviewlibrary

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This is one view of the library display for Ripple. You can see the feet and leaves, the poet’s tree, and the heart ripple butterfly picture. I am working on some collages of all our events and you’ll see some [...]

Entering the exhibition 3
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Another view of the poetry wall- just one of many sections to our wall.
Young poets are here but we have more of our poets of all ages on the poet’s tree. You’ll see what at the local library until the 18th of September. Some of the exhibit might be [...]

entering the exhibition1
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Well there are just a few more days for people to come and see the Poetry wall at the Gallery. It may be finding other homes though and I’ll keep you posted.
We’ve had lots of people through the library exhibition, with many schools visiting the library last week but the [...]

Ripple at the library

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Here are a few images of the library recital. This collage features Owen Allen performing Tropical man, and organising his audience to play their role in the performance.
More images coming soon! Watch this space.

Launch of Ripple

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A collage of some of the participants dring the launch of ripple- more pictures coming soon courtesy of other photographers.
We were nourished by poetry, music, food, and the energy of many creative people who had contributed to the [...]

generations (2)bw- taken by Pam.

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It was simply inspiring to see the different age groups coming to celebrate poetry at the library in Tully on Friday.
We had two writers from the Licuala writer’s group , the Indigenous Education Officer from the Highschool and [...]