Emerging artists nurturing a burning desire to further their studies in the visual arts have help at hand with the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum Society Golding Bursary for Visual Arts.

Applications have now closed and the winning applicant will be announced Friday 12 February 2010, by Society President, Bruce Hunt.

The Bursary is made possible with the generous assistance of Mr Cyril

World class tutors from the awesome IZIT?!Entertainment are about to converge on Gladstone Regional Council's 2010 SUNfest, to present a rare opportunity for the region's youth.

Youth aged 12 - 17 years have the chance during the week, 18-22 January 2010, to experience all the excitement the stage has to offer with amazing IZIT?!Entertainment workshops in:

Street Theatre, Clowning &

Come along to the Gallery/Museum from 10.30am to 2.30pm, Saturday 16 January 2010 for a FREE family fun day full of exciting artist inspired activities.

The day coincides with a regional galleries event across Queensland to host the activities simultaneously with the Queensland Art Gallery, as part of the Kids? APT Summer Spectacular Festival.

Kids? APT on Tour features interactive activities

The Gladstone Region Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) is calling on local groups or individuals to submit applications for the upcoming funding round that closes 4pm Tuesday March 30.

The RADF Program, established in 1991, is a highly successful state and local government partnership that focuses on the development of quality art and arts practice and supports professional artists and arts

Take the opportunity to join Creative Regions? Director, Shelly Pisani as she presents three workshops and Culture Clinics in the Gladstone Region.

Creative Regions has been contracted by Arts Queensland to provide support to the regions? artists and cultural workers.

The workshops and Clinics are offered free-of-charge providing the opportunity for locals to gain valuable advice on areas such as

The 2010 SUNfest Activity Sheets are hot off Council's presses and on their way to 29,000 readers of the Gladstone Observer, today Thursday 26 November 2009 and soon to be arriving in your letter box with the Gladstone News this week and Council's monthly newsletter, the Council Connection.

You can also pick up your brochures from the Gallery/Museum, Council's offices, venues and

They've been much anticipated, they're here and they're fabulous!

Entry forms for the 2009 Rio Tinto Alcan Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards are now available and local artists are snapping up their opportunity to be a part of the biggest ever prize pool on offer.

This is the 34th year of these prestigious awards that now attract more than 300 submissions from all over Australia.

In a rare opportunity Peter Shaw, Senior Conservator, Preservation Services, National Archives of Australia will present an illustrated lecture Keeping Digital Images: Printing Storage and Retrieval, 5pm Friday 28 August 2009 at the Gallery/Museum.

If you've been part of the digital photography revolution over the last 5 years, this talk is for you to make sure your images last the next 5

Local artists are invited to submit an Expression of Interest to participate in the Gladstone Regional Council's annual youth holiday program, SUNfest 2010.

SUNfest was initiated in response to a Youth Needs Study conducted by the Gladstone City Council in 1997 and is now a major event on the regional calendar each year, providing over 100 activities for around 2500 participants in the

Presented by David Burnett, Curator, International Art, Queensland Art Gallery the illustrated lecture introduces the landmark exhibition from the Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

In conjunction with the Queensland Art Gallery Regional Services.

When: 6.30pm Friday 31 July 2009
Where: Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum
Cost: FREE
RSVP: Ph 4976 6766, email