9 Nov
2016

RAG Road Trip – Day Two

Regional Engagement

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A busy day in Gladstone today, with Sam Wheeler doing 2 sessions with 130 year 3&4s at Gladstone Central State School, and Lance Balchin doing 3 sessions with 240 year 7&8s at Gladstone State High School. It’s incredible to see these two wonderful authors in action, tailoring each presentation to match the needs and interests of different student groups, and answering all sorts of questions. After one…

9 Nov
2016

RAG Road Trip – Day One

Regional Engagement

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Gladstone South State School is a humble, hardworking school that includes students with a range of learning and socio-economic challenges, and creates a calm and flourishing culture. As our first school visit on this, the final tour of Read Around Gladstone, Gladstone South was perfect. The great impact of the author visits was readily apparent, and clearly important. When Samantha Wheeler read an excerpt of…

24 Oct
2016

Cassowaries, computers and creatures of all kinds

Regional Engagement

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Two of our most popular Brisbane Writers Festival 2016 artists Lance Balchin and Samantha Wheeler are heading to Gladstone next week, and you’ll be able to follow along all their adventures here on our blog. Lance and Samantha’s tour will round out ‘Read Around Gladstone’, a three-year partnership project between UPLIT and Gladstone Regional Council designed to promote and…

28 Sep
2016

The Secret Life of Pets – Short Story Winner

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Earlier this year, along with our friends at Dendy Cinema, we hosted a ‘Secret Life of Pets’ competition, with young storytellers sending in their short stories, all about what their pets get up to when they’re alone. The winner of the competition was Arianne Ruth. Arianne and her family attended the special preview screening of Secret Life of Pets at Dendy Portside, and joined us at Word Play to see Katherine…

11 Sep
2016

Thank you and good night.

Brisbane Writers Festival

The 54th Brisbane Writers Festival has now officially come to a close and, boy, was it all shades of wonderful. Over the past five days, we welcomed tens of thousands of curious minds to more than 300 events at the State Library of Queensland precinct, The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus and the Brisbane City Council library network. The beauty of our event is always…