Our Zines are now on Issuu

Some of the zines from the August workshop are now up on our Issuu site. You can read them HERE.
I'll be putting the rest up in batches over the next week. Some great zines there!

More Postcards - Seeking the Sunshine Coast

The postcards are starting to roll in, some from as far away as Indonesia.
So far the northern end of the coast is over represented, and there's a heavy emphasis on sand, sea, beach and........good food! Sunshine Coast - land of endless holiday and indulgence?

This card has so much to say, and in such a creative way, it's one of our favourites, and we've included some detail shots on the Flickr site so none of the text is lost.
See all the new cards on Seeking the Sunshine Coast Flickr

New Additions to Sunshine Coast Stories

There's a heap of great new postcard stories on the Sunshine Coast Placestories site.  Looks like Sue's workshops are really successful.

I've also done a little story on our local community radio station 101.3 FM- check it out HERE.

Seeking the Sunshine Coast

I've just uploaded a heap more postcards to our Fickr site.Some of them are funny, some just have something to say and some are quite beautiful. There are some with original artworks, including two with etchings. The  card below is from Celeste  Brignac, a Louisiana-born photographer who now lives at Sunshine Beach. Celeste has sent us a selection of images of Sunshine Beach taken with a pinhole camera. You can read about her work here. 

Seeking the Sunshine Coast is a postcard project. We invite you to send us a postcard telling us about the Sunshine Coast. Send to PO Box 40 Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia 4567.

Place Stories for Kids

Sue Davis has been out at Cooroy Library again introducing more people to the possibilities of telling their stories with PlaceStories, this time with kids workshops. These are just some of the cute characters that have come out of the first workshop. We can't wait to see their stories added to the Sunshine Coast Stories project in PlaceStories

Slam Poetry on Audioboo

Listen to Sunshine Coast poet Danksta Downunder reciting his poetry on our audioboo site. Danksta is a performance poet who will represent the Sunshine Coast in the Australian Poetry Slam 10 in Brisbane in September. Good luck to him! Danksta is helping us to explore the many ways poetry might be published out side the conventional anthology.
http://audioboo.fm/SCRAPS

Zines Workshop- Cooroy Library August 7th 2010

Zines are quirky, personal, cheeky, easy to make publications that allow anyone to have a say, publish and distribute their work. There's a great tradition of poking fun, laughter, satire, underground ideas and getting away from the constraints of society and expectations. Anything goes with zines, and that was certainly the case at our workshop in Cooroy library where 14 of us spent the day making a BIG mess in the brand new, pristine library meeting rooms. Some   braved the computer room to use  technology to set up a publication, but it seemed more fun to just use scissors and paste. The zines from the workshop will be up on our issuu site soon, and will be shown in the NeoGeography exhibition at Cooroy precinct in November.

Place Stories Workshops - Cooroy Library August 2010

As part of the NeoGeography project, Sue Davis, a lectuer and professional learning consultant at Central Queensland University,  has been holding workshops and encouraging Sunshine Coast communities to become part of the Place Stories project, which is an on-line community where people can upload and share stories with text, music, images and sounds. Stories are created on your own PC using the free PlaceStories software. They combine images, text, audio, narration. When published and uploaded , a story is given a map location in Google maps.

The stories and postcards from Sue Davis's NeoGeography workshop can be found here on the Sunshine Coast Stories project in Place Stories. We are also using Place Stories to experiment with instructions and publishing poetry at our Alternative Publishing project in Place Stories.

 

SCRAPS - Sunshine Coast Regional Publishing Service

SCRAPS is our local alternative publishing project on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. We are working with the local community in a series of free workshops in digital storytelling and making zines and chapbooks, as well as encouraging local organisations and individuals to have a go at publishing their work.
 You can find find out about the SCRAPS workshops on our website, and if you are a Sunshine Coast writer or community organisation  interested  in getting involved please contact us.

Neogeography, the Sunshsine Coast, the 3 C's and More.

Alternative Publishing is part of the NeoGeography project on the beautiful Sunshine Coast, in sunny Queensland, Australia (except this year it has rained a lot). The website and blog are maintained by Australian artist Judy Barrass but there are four other very fine artists involved in the project. They are sound artist Leah Barclay, author Steven Lang, cyberdramatist and all round inspirational  storyteller Sue Davis, and indigenous artist Lyndon Davis. Our aim is to have a lot of fun and we are aided and abetted by our project support person, Megan Marks and a lot of other very creative and inspiring people. More on this later.

Alternative Publishing  is about exploring all the ways people have available  to them to publish their ideas, sounds, poetry, words, writing and stories. We aim to support and encourage people on the Sunshine Coast to make their voices known but we also want to establish a worldwide community of people interested in exploring  ways people can  make themselves heard by publishing. Please join us. Follow us on Twitter or this blog for ongoing notices of our journey of discovery.

Here's the intro to the NeoGeo project from the Queensland Writers Centre site.


"NeoGeoGraphy is a project which brings together creative practice and new technologies to capture the community’s connection with where they live.It is a project of the Sunshine Coast Regional Council and Queensland Writers Centre with funding support from Arts Queensland and the Australia Council. NeoGeoGraphy falls under the 3C's Project, or Three Communities, led by Queensland Writers Centre and in partnership with regional councils. Over three years, the Sunshine Coast, Rockhampton and Bundaberg will use digital media and writing to explore environmental themes and regional identity.On the Sunshine Coast, NeoGeoGraphy will ask creative thinkers to explore and document how the Sunshine Coast community defines itself through place, interaction and time. The project is open to all forms of creative practice and thinking, with an emphasis on innovation."

If we haven't put you to sleep already, with all these projects within projects, you might like to read about the background to NeoGeo, which is Jock McQueeny's 3 C's concept.

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