Year in Review 2022_23

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING                                                    18 SEPTEMBER 2023


   •   Property works – land clearing and turf laid at the rear of the Butter Factory building, April
       2023.

Galleries
   •   Imaginate (25 JUNE TO 10 JUL 2022), a two-week interactive art exhibition and festival
       designed for kids where children of all ages can discover, play and create their own
       experience through art, saw more than 7,500 children and families attend Noosa Regional
       Gallery.


   •   First Lights (28 JUL TO 31 JUL 2022), delivered across Noosa Main Beach, Hastings Street,
       and Noosa Woods, with seven temporary new media works activating the precinct.
            1. Extending the ground-breaking solo exhibitions at Noosa Regional Gallery by leading
               First Nations artists, Fiona Foley and Michael Cook; the photographic and video work
               of some of the Australia’s most exciting Indigenous artists have been peppered
               amongst the natural and built environments of Hastings Street, with captivating and
               challenging works infiltrating a range of public spaces.


   •   Noosa Regional Gallery exhibition program delivered 13 exhibitions featuring 135 artists and
       an annual attendance of 32,349 people (up from 25,532 the previous financial year).


   •   Floating Land: Us and Them (24 JUNE TO 30 JULY 2023)launched, delivering more than
       40 installations, workshops and events across the entire Noosa Shire.
            1. $56,000 QASP funding from Arts Queensland secured to help deliver this.
            2. $10,000 Tourism & Events Queensland funding also secured.
            3. Runs for 5 weeks.




SPORTS AND ACTIVE LIFESTYLE

Noosa Aquatic Centre (NAC)
   •   The shade sail for the NAC 25M pool was erected providing much needed protection from
       the sun and wet weather throughout the year.
   •   The NAC 50M pool starting blocks and bulkheads were upgraded with new World Aquatics
       rated equipment, to provide better functional infrastructure for local swimmers and the
       community.