- Competitions for students and adults
- $2,000 in prize money
- Photography workshops
3 amazing events with nature photography icon, Steve Parish!
4 August - The art of seeing photographs: a photography workshop for students aged 12-18 - $10 per person, paid at the door. Book through your school.
4 August - An evening with Steve Parish - free admission. Lodge booking request here.
5 August - The Joy of Photographic Storytelling: a special, one-day photographic seminar - $50 per person, paid at the door. Lodge booking request here.
4 August - An evening with Steve Parish - free admission. Lodge booking request here.
5 August - The Joy of Photographic Storytelling: a special, one-day photographic seminar - $50 per person, paid at the door. Lodge booking request here.
Cash prizes for 24 sections across 9 categories!
- Primary Schools - sponsored by St John’s Lutheran School (links to curriculum)
- Secondary Schools - sponsored by Swickers
- Open Photography - sponsored by Em’s Photography Phactory
- Open Photography - sponsored by Kingaroy Observatory
- Open Art - sponsored by S and J Reeves
- Open Art - sponsored by Kingaroy Observatory
- Various Art Form - sponsored by Bethany Cottages
- Feature Prize - sponsored by G Crumpton and Sons & Peanut Company of Australia
- Feature Prize - sponsored by Kingaroy Concerned Citizens Group
Open Farm Day on 385!
13 August - a growing list of local farmers open their properties to artists, writers and photographers.
Exhibition of Works and Awards Ceremony
1 October - Exhibition of works (1:00 pm - 4:00 pm) Saint Mary's Catholic College
1 October - Presentation of awards (4:00 pm - 5:00 pm) Saint Mary's Catholic College
1 October - Presentation of awards (4:00 pm - 5:00 pm) Saint Mary's Catholic College
385 Alive! is an exciting, all inclusive, art, photography and writing project to celebrate and capture what might be the final spring… the final spring before a massive coal mine destroys so much prime farmland.
Join celebrated nature photographer, Steve Parish, at a number of exclusive 385 Alive! events proudly sponsored by: Arts Queensland through the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF).
385 Alive! will conclude with a display of the work of all participants, announcement of the competition winners, and the compilation of selected pieces to be included in a publication that preserves and records the visual images and associated story lines.
Join celebrated nature photographer, Steve Parish, at a number of exclusive 385 Alive! events proudly sponsored by: Arts Queensland through the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF).
385 Alive! will conclude with a display of the work of all participants, announcement of the competition winners, and the compilation of selected pieces to be included in a publication that preserves and records the visual images and associated story lines.
Celebrating and recording, through art, words and photography,
the land and people impacted by the proposed
Kingaroy Coal Mine.
MDL 385 is a Mineral Development Lease straddling a swath of highly productive agricultural land and natural habitat 5 kilometres south of Kingaroy.
A coal mine on this lease is scheduled for approval in 2018. Should that happen, this mine will see farmland and habitat destroyed, families displaced, and the people of Kingaroy staring at a coal mine instead of gazing at the Bunya Mountains.
385 Alive! will bring this issues more firmly under public scrutiny.
We’re doing all we can to ensure this mine doesn’t go ahead. But, one way or another, we’re going to preserve our beautiful landscape and farmland.
385 Alive! is an invitation to all comers to join the people of Kingaroy in celebrating the natural and cultural history of the MDL 385 area through art, photography and words. If the worst comes to the worst, we will have captured the final wheat crop and the last spring-time awakening of nature. And we will have borne poignant witness to farmers already grieving their loss.
Join us. Help us make 385 Alive! a vibrant record of this irreplaceable corner of Australia for future generations.
A coal mine on this lease is scheduled for approval in 2018. Should that happen, this mine will see farmland and habitat destroyed, families displaced, and the people of Kingaroy staring at a coal mine instead of gazing at the Bunya Mountains.
385 Alive! will bring this issues more firmly under public scrutiny.
We’re doing all we can to ensure this mine doesn’t go ahead. But, one way or another, we’re going to preserve our beautiful landscape and farmland.
385 Alive! is an invitation to all comers to join the people of Kingaroy in celebrating the natural and cultural history of the MDL 385 area through art, photography and words. If the worst comes to the worst, we will have captured the final wheat crop and the last spring-time awakening of nature. And we will have borne poignant witness to farmers already grieving their loss.
Join us. Help us make 385 Alive! a vibrant record of this irreplaceable corner of Australia for future generations.