One of Our World Art Fest 2018 highlights will be a showcase of local music talents through the “Calling Local Musos for Sounds of Our World” competition.  Performers with 1-5 musicians will perform acoustic music acts or performance with just basic sound requirements (bringing their own instrument).

Visitors will get to vote for their favourite act. The artist or band with the most votes will win $100 and one voter will win $50. There will be seven time-slots, with 10-15 minutes each, available for hourly performances.

Our World Art Fest Featured Activities

• Own the art, a silent auction with art bid starting at $25 per item.
• “Sounds of Our World” opening concert on 7 September. This will be a public concert featuring local and indigenous talents. Key community representatives will be gracing the event as well.
• “Sounds of Our World” Music Fest featuring local and indigenous talents performing in the church hourly. The winner stands to receive a $100 prize.
• First Nation’s Indigenous Cultural activities. Fun activities of learning and experiencing for all ages, around the big tree on the corner of Oxley Rd and Verney Rd East. Activities include storytelling, music, dance, ochre painting.
• Help Asylum Seekers Resource Centre with a gold coin donation on entry.

Read:  Queensland Multicultural Month Features Global Adventures Inala

Graceville Uniting Church is a heritage listed Cathedral located on Oxley Rd, Graceville. Milpera State High School, on the hand, offers education to newly arrived migrants and refugees who need to develop their English language skills.

Our World Art Fest is a cultural experience celebrating diversity and fostering unity among members of the community through art and music.

For information about this event, check out Graceville Uniting Church website, Facebook page, or call (07) 3379-6372.

215 Oxley Rd Graceville

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FREE Open House Tour

Mr Taylor’s heritage-listed church, one of Brisbane’s beloved structures at present, will be included in the Brisbane Open House scheme this 7th (Saturday) and 8th (Sunday) October 2017. In 2016, about 100 best buildings in Brisbane were open for public exploration. Among them are famous structures like the Masonic Memorial Temple, St John’s Cathedral, Ecosciences Precinct, Fort Lytton Historic Military Precinct, Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium, and Walter Taylor Bridge. Click here for the full list.

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The Brisbane Open House is a FREE annual event successfully launched in 2010. It provides residents and tourists with “the rare opportunity to discover the hidden wealth of architecture, engineering and history in buildings and places” all around Brisbane. Basically, it gives everyone a “behind-the-scenes” to some of the most beautiful structures in Brisbane. Open House Ambassador Darren Lockyer, along with his team, believes events such as this would “foster civic engagement and civic pride.”

Click here to contact the Open House team for inquiries.

Walter Taylor’s Structure of Hope

Now proudly standing in Graceville’s 215 Oxley Road, the beautiful church made by Mr Taylor was once an ongoing structure seemingly built for hope. It was generously constructed by voluntary labour, along with donated cash and materials, in the period of the country’s “Great Depression”. Despite the hard times, Mr Taylor’s heartfelt desire to build the church was deeply supported by the community.

A devoted Methodist during his time, Mr Taylor incorporated bits of his faith in the church’s design. There are 33 buttresses outside the church recognising Jesus’ 33 years of mortal life on earth before he was crucified. The three candle-shaped windows between each buttress represent the Holy Trinity – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Four panels separate these windows, each representing the Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The 12 windows that run down the sides of the church stand for the apostles.

One notable issue during the church’s construction was that it was built over a naturally passing spring. The original timber flooring was eventually replaced when it was easily rotted by the water. A pump was then placed in the basement to keep the water out and the flooring was made into raked concrete covered in tiles. At first, many resented the idea of building the church in its current location given the natural spring below it. Many years later, however, the remarkably well-engineered Graceville Uniting Church still stands proud and beautiful.

Click here for service times in the Graceville Uniting Church.

Mr Taylor’s innovative ways and incomparable Gothic designs were breakthroughs on the Methodist architecture in the interwar years. He never had any formal training in his chosen industry. He learned all about architecture, construction, and engineering “on the job” at his father’s construction business. Powered by nothing but passion and experience, he inspired many by making people’s lives easier with his useful projects.  Those impressive structures he built during his lifetime have been so well-appreciated by everyone, even until today.

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