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Indigenising architecture
APAF
Asia Pacific Architecture Festival partners each year with State Library of Queensland to present a range of events and activities.
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A couple making miniature book nooks at The Edge
Open lab
Get creative during our Open lab sessions at The Edge, and engage with a community of like-minded creators.
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Hack the evening
Hack the Evening
Hack the Evening is State Library of Queensland's Thursday evening meetup of makers, tinkers and technologists. A great way to access The Edge resources and meet other like-minded creatives.
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Entry hall of the Great & Grand Rumpus
The Great and Grand Rumpus
The Great and Grand Rumpus is a community engagement project inviting children from around Brisbane to expand their imaginations to create fantastical stories which take life as huge cardboard sculptures.
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A man and a woman participating in the 2019 Siganto Digital Learning Workshops, rebuilding a computer.
Siganto Digital Learning Workshops
The Siganto Digital Learning Workshop program aims to equip recently arrived communities with a personal computer, and the skills needed to use and maintain these.
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Dancer troupes perform at Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival 2013
CitizenJ
Hosted by The Edge at the State Library of Queensland, CitizenJ was a philanthropically funded, pioneering new-media journalism project that offered support, training & publication opportunities.
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Children inspecting the cardboard fort during Fun palace
Fun Palace
Fun Palace is a movement focused on empowering everyone to be an artist or a scientist or both in their community. State Library of Queensland has hosted Fun Palaces for a number of years.
Fun Palace 2018
Zombie in wedding dress
Games, Zombies and Cardboard Kaiju
Many of the programs at The Edge focus on empowering community to create play based experience through the development of computer games, (life size) boardgames and role playing experience.
Zombie Apocalypse