Your will won’t matter much to you but it will mean a lot to your family
None of us really want to think about dying, so it may not surprise you that over 40 percent of Aussies die without making a will.
Of course, squabbling over the family home is hardly an edifying experience and so a bunch of researchers at University of Queensland have set out to explore our attitudes to laying down the law about what happens to our stuff when we are no longer here to watch over it.
Professor Cheryl Tilse wants to talk to people over 45 who do not have a will, or have complicated circumstances. The research carried out by UQ’s School of Social Work and Human Services Associate will help farmers, people with blended families, the very wealthy and people with assets in different countries.
There’s just one little catch. Not many people are putting up their hand to talk about the will they do not have, or the assets they don’t know how best to organise.
If you have complicated assets, or have not got around to making a will yet call Rachel at UQ and have a chat about how you can help them help all of us. They’d certainly appreciate the effort. Rachel can be reached on 3346 9090 or r.feeney@uq.edu.au
The Joynt went off over the weekend with a three day party to say goodbye to West End.
Friday night merged into Saturday night with the Grimm Brothers, Frank Sultana and Mojo Juju on stage in the evenings and in the jacuzzi for much of the time in-between.
All performers spoke eloquently about the role that Jodi Craig has played in nurturing the local music scene and musicians such as themselves. Jodi presided over proceedings for a large part of the evening from her high perch overlooking the band.
Nostalgic, sad and poignant, the weekend was a celebration of West End culture and an affirmation that we will find a way to build on the great work that Jodi has done at the Joynt.
The affable Professor Steffens shares his expertise on entrepreneurship
We all know that innovation is the one sustainable way to build business growth. Competing on price, exploiting staff or resources and cutting corners might gain you short term advantage, but inevitably lead to decline.
Associate Professor of Management at QUT Business School, Professor Paul Steffens, is the guest speaker at the SW Chamber breakfast next Thur 10th July. Head on down to the Robertson Gardens complex on Kessels Rd at 6:45am to hear Professor Steffens discuss methods for diffusing innovation through your organisation as part of a future proofing campaign.
Regulars beware, this is the second Thursday of the month, not the first.
Professor Steffens is also Deputy Director of The Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACE). His core areas of expertise are entrepreneurship and diffusion of innovations. Paul has been a lead investigator for research projects totalling more than AUD 1.5 million and has published over fifty academic publications, including journal articles in leading entrepreneurship, marketing and technology management journals.
Professor Steffens will be discussing entrepreneurship in today’s economy.
The Australian Internet Book sold over 64,000 copies in four editions
Many business models have suffered from change at the hands of the internet. Bookstores, travel agents, newspapers like this one as well as video and record stores.
In some cases the money has moved offshore to international corporates like Amazon. In other cases, though, the Internet has allowed small businesses to punch well above their weight.
Bookstores that specialise in military history, for example, are thriving in the new era because they can deliver their expertise to a broader audience.
Identifying your unique contribution to the value chain is the key to thriving in the networked age.
Urban Voice, the publishers of Westender, work with our advertisers and other clients to maximise the advantage the Internet offers your business.
We have built the Westender online business from a base of 800 subscribers to over 14,000 in the last six months. We have over 13,500 unique visitors to the website every month, each visiting between two and three times. They generally view around four pages each visit.
Over 2,000 people now susbscribe to one of our weekly eNewsletters and our advertisers know exactly who sees their ads, who clicks on them and, in most cases, what happens next.
Contact us on contentmarketing@westender.com.au or 0402 779 375 to find out more.
Colour was an important aspect to Hendrix’ writing
Blue walks in and establishes authority
Black doesn’t care
Brown is down
Green is keen
Pink is perky
Yellow relaxed
Red erupts in a volcanic passion and slaughters the innocent
TERRY HOLIDAY
The links between colour and emotion are the source of a number of disciplines and approach to therapies that calm the spirit and help troubled souls. It is unsurprising, then, that Terry’s rendering of colours should have some similarities with Mr Jimi Hendrix’ Bold as Love. We provide those lyrics here for your comparison.
We note that Terry’s piece is far more succinct, pithy and not at all derivative. It delivers a post-modern simplicity of naming the connections between colour and emotion and breaking expectations with a dramatic action that offsets the satire of the opening line.
By contrast, Hendrix was writing at the height of the LSD inspired emergence of light shows as an integral part of pop performance – the term rock had not emerged then, and Hendrix toured with Humperdink and other middle of the road performers – as part of a pop spectacular.
Bold as Love
Jimi Hendrix
Anger, he smiles, Towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground
Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted,
They quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
But wonder why the fight is on
But they’re all bold as love, yeah, they’re all bold as love Yeah, they’re all bold as love Just ask the axis
My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war, And ribbons of euphoria Orange is young, full of daring, But very unsteady for the first go round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow In fact I’m trying to say it’s frightened like me And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from, eh, Giving my life to a rainbow like you But, I’m bold as love, yeah, I’m bold as love
Shadowland sails us across a dreamscape that is familiar, challenging and beautiful
Truly exquisite.
Fans of the illustrated novel and cartoon love the imaginative freedom of the line to draw anything the mind can imagine.
Imagine, then, that a group of dancers decide to use their bodies as ink and the freedom of perspective provided by light and shadow to free that ink from the constraints of size and gravity. These eight dancers, then, have the power to fly, to grow and shrink – to become taxis, animals, aeroplanes, castles and opera houses.
Imagine that this imagining travelled the world and came to Brisbane and you will be somewhat prepared for Shadowland now playing at QPAC for ten (now nine) short days.
Many of us have seen shadow play at camps or country halls, sausages being hauled out of the innards of an authority figure held up to ridicule. With international travel almost more common than local entertainment the shadow puppets of Bali and northern India may be more familiar.
Shadowlands takes these traditions of storytelling and weaves them into a contemporary dance piece that is savvy, sassy and clever but, above all, beautiful – achingly beautiful.
The play opens with three actors flying through the air, lightly leaping from knee to shoulder to extended hand of the supporting members of the company, as they are dressed, in front of us, in mid-air, as they move. We step through a range of theatrical devices familiarising us with the power of shadow to bend perspective and, more importantly, establishing the relationship between the monochrome, dream world of silhouettes behind the screen and the real, coloured and fleshy world on our side.
We are prepared, now, to believe that the hand of fate can shape a beautiful woman into a travelling dog, two men into a satyr or three dancers into a jellyfish that can consume the beautiful woman/dog floating in the ocean and we can watch her being digested inside the jelly fish.
We are so completely transported that we can move seamlessly from the simple pathos of a stray dog enjoying a car ride, head out the window and all, to one of the most moving sensual love scenes ever portrayed on stage.
Shadowlands is magnificent on many levels. It is a celebration of being human, of the human body and our creative spirit. It combines physical theatre, ballet, comedy and shadow puppetry in a soaring performance that lifts you so far from the everyday that you cannot help being improved as a person. A transcendental experience. Truly exquisite.
