Bay Islands Cultural Centre & Info

Bay Islands Cultural Centre & Info RICCI was initiated by a group of community minded folk who wanted better facilites for communal creativity and a home for our existing Museum.

Russell Island Cultural Centre page is a source of information about cultural activities & info significant community interest around the Southern Moreton Bay Islands, also providing info that comes to hand.Created and administered by Jo Dickson With limited human resources the committee in 2016 decided to shelve the project. As president I continue to run this page as I find things of interest t

o the community. Below is the original concept of the organisation and the sought for venue. Russell Island is home to many creative and culturally diverse people. Russell Island Cultural Centre was a proposed space where people can meet and create, see and purchase each other's creations and get information about the island and see its history all in one place. With a café, gift shop and gallery locals and visitors alike can relax in a visually stimulating environment, and can support local artists and craftspeople. The information centre will provide advice to locals and visitors about how to get around and what's on. The museum will house the Southern Moreton Bay Island's (SMBI) museum collection. The gallery will be a commercial outlet for local artists to exhibit their work. The gift shop will be a commercial outlet for souvenirs and craft made by SMBI artists. The art studios will be available for art groups and individuals to hire for regular sessions or occasional workshops. The meeting room will be available for hire for small groups for meetings, interviews and information sessions. The grounds and sculpture garden will provide a pleasant area to stroll and enjoy outdoor art, with family friendly picnic facilities. Redland City Council had offered us the use of a site in principle. Funding for building and operating the centre was to be our responsibility and was expected to come through grants, sponsorship and fund-raising activities. Concept plans were drawn and designed in such a way that the centre could be built in stages as funding becomes available. It was proposed that the information centre and commercial areas including café, gift shop and gallery would be in stage one. The museum section is also a priority as the current site for the museum is inadequate to safely store its collection. Lastly the workshops will be built, providing much needed communal space where artists can work together for inspiration, sharing of ideas and knowledge, and the social benefits which result. Now that Kennedy Farm has been secured for the Arts group called RICARTS (Russell Island Community Arts), we at least are satisfied that some of our goals have been achieved. Please contact me on 0419107660 for more information

Thank-you very much. Jo Dickson
President

I hope everyone is coping well with the effects of the cyclone and power outage, has enough food and phone battery or ha...
12/03/2025

I hope everyone is coping well with the effects of the cyclone and power outage, has enough food and phone battery or has someone to ask for help. Make sure to check on friends and neighbours who may not think to ask you for help.

I hope you are all trying to be patient with staff of companies and agencies we depend on to get us up and running. Please try to be realistic and accept that it is simply not possible to accurately say when the power will be back on, shops back at capacity or the barges running normally etc.
We'd all like life to be predictable but it just isn't, so having unrealiatic expectations just causes yourself and others unnecessary grief.

Nobody is 100% reliable or predictable at the best of times, not even you. So why anyone is getting het up because the cyclone didn't behave as expected is frankly being ridiculous.

Please stop posting angry, poor-me vents online. This is not the time to be waving the 'nobody cares about us islanders' flag. The entire SE Qld region had been affected and it is still a rolling situation.

You simply can't reasonably expect Energex staff for example to have any answers about when we will have power back when every tree down brings its own unique complexities and dangers.

Emergency workers are literally putting their lives in danger for us.
We need to think a little more about them and a little less about ourselves. A week without power is not the end of the world for the vast majority of us.

While we are experiencing a bit of inconvenience, this is how life was for most of human existence. Modern conveniences have made many of us soft and lacking resilience and resourcefullness. We have become so dependent on the system that we don't even store a week's worth of supplies to survive in emergencies.

Then some get upset because the BOM staff said the cyclone was expected to be here in 3 days and turned out to take 5 or 6 and they only bought supplies for 3 because "they said..."! Whose fault is that really? Who has reached adulthood and not grasped the concept that
Extreme weather events are, by nature, unpredictable?
We must take more self-responsibility and drop the blame game.

On another note, as you may have noticed, I have hardly posted for a long while. I have bigger priorities these days and honestly, I am just not feeling it anymore.

So while you may find some useful info here, chances are it is out of date.
Edited 14 March to add pic of my studio's tiny bit of damage. Considering the forest around me, I am very grateful for this outcome.Hope you all fared well.

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