Events in 2016
A night featuring: Sholeh Wople; Belza Lowah, Ingrid James and trio - Louise Denson, Andrew Shaw & Sacha Kloostra!
Process Oriented Psychology (also Process Work) is a comprehensive psychotherapeutic approach to life that has been developed by Dr Arnold Mindell, a physicist and Jungian analyst. Process Work is based on the belief that everything is part of change and has potential meaning. By unfolding a persons unique experiential process messages can be found within the very problem someone is suffering from. By living these meaningful messages, we can enrich our lives.
"Folk At Magda's" returns one last time for 2016 with: Tin Star and Nadia Sunde.
CD launch: " Full Circle" - 1 concert only: visiting from Sydney: Miriam Lieberman, Lara Goodridge and Kate Adams.
artyn Wyndham-Read - one of the doyens of the Anglo folk world in his only performance in Brisbane. Martyn has called this tour" Down the Track", an expression he undoubtedly learned from his time in Oz through the 60's.
Dr June Perkins, children's author with Helene Magisson have created magic!
Award-winning Australian singer-songwriter, storyteller and multi-instrumentalist Alesa Lajana will be at Magda Community Artz on Saturday 29th October for her only Brisbane concert for the release of her new EP "Frontier Lullaby" .
Magda Community Artz, in conjunction with the Harp Society of Queensland, and facilitated by Queensland's foremost professional harpist, we are delighted to be presenting a programme of scintillating harp music from around the world!
In a beautiful and brutal land, where everything and nothing is black and white, a storyteller tracks the greatest yarnspinner of them all, the “expert’ on Aborigines - W.E. (Bill) Harney (1895-1962).
Bilarni (full description below) is storytelling theatre from renowned storyteller musician Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky (bio below). A founder of The Bushwackers, Jan has gone on to create many wonderful story and music shows and BILARNI, his latest, has been described as "a masterpiece" by the likes of award-winning writers Barry Hill and Cate Kennedy and award-winning musician Kavisha Mazzella (see reviews below).
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. "Bronny" may have been ejected from her seat, but she's not going quietly.
She still has her handle on the joystick, and the blades are turning. Sharp blades, hovering above anxious heads. And at Magda's, we're building our new - you-beaut! - helipad!!!
As with all "Bronny" does, the bloodletting will be dignified.
But few will emerge unscathed, no sacred cow remains un-turned.
Instead of crying over the chaos of Australian politics, laugh instead.
" Folk at Magda's" follows up our wonderful and almost instantaneous tradition of superb performers and evenings of local and talented musos.
For so many of us, the singing of Joan Baez, has been a potent and life-long impetus in our personal and artistic lives - challenging us, nudging us, charming us all to be more aware of what we might achieve:
"I would just say that in my life, what gave my life meaning and where I was always the most complete... [it did not] come through money or fame, it was always when I was... standing with those whose voice was not heard and I was able to do something about that." - Joan Baez
Advance notice.... diarise it! More details available soon! Participants for the Master Class really should book asap, to Margaret Calley: emsqueensland@gmail.com
Magda Community Artz is delighted to have 2 of south-east Queensland's most dynamic groups - The Delphics and Sadie & Jay - to kick start an exciting series called " Folk at Magda's".
We could conjure up all sorts of reasons for celebrating St Valentine’s Day!
Western mythology abounds with references: from early christian mythology (Apparently there were a couple of fellas called “Valentine”, after whom the shebang was named! They each met unfortunate fates, standing up for their beliefs. Fortunately stuff like that couldn’t happen in today’s enlightened times!); to a reference in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” (No, we won’t be screening Pier Pasolini’s 1972 film version!); and even pre-dating both of these: the fabled Roman Lupercalia festivals.
"Uncle Jack" - an absurdly loveable and quintessential Aussie satire - is the first production celebrating the official knot-tying of these 2 well established amateur theatre groups.
It's just as well we laugh so loudly at ourselves - perhaps it saves the embarrassment of hearing other people laughing at us?
"Uncle Jack" uses the simple but very effective setting of a family celebration, along the lines of the ever popular and enduring Jack Hibbard play, " Dimboola".