Art Farm Blog

Yes, yes, Halloween and the Pumpkin Spiral Walk has come and gone - and what a weekend it was! Pumpkin carvers showed up in numbers at the Arts Building on Saturday afternoon and dug in. Others showed up earlier in the week at the art farm with their works of art. Meanwhile, artfarmers Sandy Buck, William Christiansen and Scott Tilley set to work on the spiral walk itself. Sandy and William staked the laurel spiral with bamboo sculpture, metal artwork and pumpkin altars while Scott put together the light display for the event (video projector and all!). Our community donors (Greenroom Organics, Coastal Creativity, IGA, Starbucks, Soundwerks) stepped up with prizes, refreshments and pumpkins while the rest of our volunteers jumped in to light the candles, serve up the hot chocolate and decorate the hub. This was truly a community event powered by the community and for the community and we are grateful to live in such a place. Thank you to everyone who pitched in, carved out and showed up - here's to the start of a great Sunshine Coast tradition!

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The skies graced us with a sudden deluge this weekend but that didn’t bother us as everything felt like sunny skies on the art farm during our Synchronicity festival Aug 7^th & 8^th .  The week ramping up to Synchronicity was hotter then a bakers oven so who were we to guess the weather would turn at the last second. We had a beautiful sunset on the Friday marking our Gala event where over 50 invited guests showed up.  They were the first people to see the artistic collaboration in it’s final…ready or not.  And just as we were about to open the gates and invite the guests through one of the actors got stung by an aggressive wasp. We held the show for 15 minutes to make sure all was ok and then the show went on.  The audience was invited to put on masks and follow the beautiful minstrel around the laurel spiral where the action began. The main character came running in following the sound of wings. The audience was then lead to the 2^nd performance space and introduced to another character whose job was to terrorize him and then she promptly sang her heart out…literally. The audience then made their way to the final performance space in the old growth forest where they searched for the bird and her heart. The final moment was when a rising spirit appeared on the hill above the audience and all was revealed.