Imagination

Woodford Folk Festival fashions, 2009. The fashion espoused by the attendants of the Woodford Folk Festival is especially distinctive. Dreadlocks, henna, kaftans, tie-dye and beads are typical, while eye-catching colour is a predominant feature of the peopled festival landscape. The alternative fashion sense becomes infectious over the course of the festival: South American seed pod hats, Thai fishermen’s pants or Arabian harem pants and Muslim elfin leather shoes are often key purchases for first-time festival goers.

Collection of Ana Stevenson

The Woodford township, 2009. With a population of around 5000 people, the township of Woodford is very welcoming to the thousands of campers and day visitors who make their annual pilgrimage to the Woodford Folk Festival. Perhaps the quirkiest town highlight is the greengrocers, ‘Elvis Parsley’s Grapelands’ whose costumed proprietor sings to customers as they shop. Moreover, the op-shop has diversified its merchandise to be able to supply campers with all manner of necessities.

Collection of Ana Stevenson

Woodford Folk Festival, 2009

Woodford, QLD

Australia

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1 January 2009

7 October 2010

Location

Woodford, QLD

Australia

See map: Google Maps

7 October 2010

Woodford Folk Festival, 2009. The festival on its Woodford site, is situated on the side of a moderate incline. For day visitors a lengthy nature trek from the car park is necessary before reaching the festival gates. Collection of Ana Stevenson

People’s Republic of Woodford

The Woodford Folk Festival is an annual celebration of culture: the arts, the environment and the carnivalesque. According to Neil Cameron in 1995,

Brisbane River and Moreton Bay: Thomas Welsby

Writer Thomas Welsby fell in love with Moreton Bay from his first sighting of it at age nineteen. Thus began, too, his love of the water, of sailing and of fishing and from that time accordin

The Golden Circle Cannery, Northgate, Brisbane - as seen from the air. Thousands of visitors from all states have toured the Cannery with Golden Circle Hostesses. From Golden Circle tropical recipe book, c1961. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

How to save at the supermarket, c1961. From Golden Circle tropical recipe book, c1961.

John Nicholson's daughter with part of their pineapple crop at Grovely, Brisbane, Queensland, 1864. 'Grovely is situated in the valley between the Taylor Range and Arana Hills.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 189935

'Sweet Potato Casserole' c1961, a recipe found in Angel Rendle-Short’s notebooks, 2006. Collection of Francesca Rendle-Short. 'Sweet Potato Casserole', from Golden Circle tropical recipe book, c1960.