Partnership Projects

Nestled in the heart of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Writers Festival celebrates storytelling amid stunning natural beauty. With inspiring workshops, lively panel discussions, book launches and signings, the festival fosters connection and ignites imagination. 2-4 MAY 2026: A Constellation of Stories Every voice a star. Every story a light. We all live beneath the same sky, yet our stories are shaped by different places, cultures, histories, and imaginations. At SCHWF, writers from diverse backgrounds gather to

Horizon Festival is an annual arts and cultural festival exploring the intersections of art, people and place on Kabi Kabi and Jinibara Country, Sunshine Coast. Horizon Festival is more than a program of events. It is the feeling of salt air and sunset light. It is live music spilling into the street. It is artists and storytellers, dancers and chefs, musicians and performers bringing fresh energy to familiar places. It is laughter in local streets, late nights at gigs, and

RED CHAIR, a Sunshine Coast performing arts company dedicated to community engagement, is bringing its celebrated, socially engaged live art project, The Keeper Project, to Maroochydore on Gubbi Gubbi country in 2026. Following successful iterations in Coolum, Nambour and Caloundra, your generous support will see this ambitious project engage ten local artists to serve as ‘Keepers,’ each performing a unique three-week creative ritual in a public space. Running over 30 weeks, The Keeper Project is an inherently participatory experience designed

Help Cope Creative bring professional musical theatre to the Sunshine Coast. Make a tax-deductible donation today to support local performing arts! From auditions to curtain calls, theatre builds community, culture, and connection. For over 15 years, local creative Riley Cope has been a driving force behind the expanding Sunshine Coast arts scene. Through Cope Creative, Riley is passionate about bringing high-quality, full-scale musicals to local stages. His mission is twofold: deliver professional-standard performing arts to Coast audiences and provide a

Based on the Sunshine Coast (Kabi Kabi Country), artist Shikani Sargent explores the connections between memory, home, and place through collage, drawing, text, and paint. Inspired by personal narratives, Shikani’s mixed media works reflect experiences of an itinerant home life, shaped by frequent moves across rural towns in regional Queensland. This exploration of home and place—of location and dislocation—is expressed materially, with torn, cut, and rearranged collages that often seek solace in painterly representations of nature. Shikani has exhibited widely

Dancelab is a multilayered platform designed to support and provide training, mentorship and performance opportunities to emerging dance artists on the Sunshine Coast. Artistic Director, Michelle Bucci is a passionate creative leader with a career spanning over 30 years in choreography, coaching, and artistic direction. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts with qualifications in Dance, Design and Training & Assessment, Michelle brings a unique blend of expertise to every project and strives to inspire and nurture the next generation

Melissa is the founder of LJ Projects, a dance/theatre company specialising in immersive theatre, education and outreach programs. Melissa is a contemporary dance theatre artist with a career spanning 27 years working extensively in Australia and the U.K. She has worked on many social inclusion projects and main stream dance company productions as a dancer herself, then fulfilling roles such as dance development artist for (DanceEastBritish Arts Council), community dance artist/ teacher on independent projects and ultimately as a choreographer.

An award-winning musical by Aleathea Monsour and Katy Forde A Surprise Smash Hit – Fuel the Momentum! Dear You! Thank you for being here! We’re Aleathea Monsour and Katy Forde. We wrote the musical “A Girl’s Guide to World War”. We are passionate about sharing this incredible true story. To our surprise and delight, our heartfelt show has become a runaway success. It has played to sell-out crowds and standing ovations across the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane. The musical also