Theme: POSSIBILITIES

Join us as we explore ideas worth spreading at the Dust Temple in Currumbin.
Registration from 3.30pm

Dust Temple
54 Currumbin Creek Rd
Currumbin, Queensland, 4223
Australia

Amanda Gorman

Artist / Co-founder GC music awards & Blank Magazine

Amanda Gorman is an Australian Multidisciplinary Artist hailing from the Gold Coast, who creates works of art from contemporary ink pieces, along with illustrations to fine art sketches. Amanda has always been endlessly creative and draws inspiration constantly from the world around her. Amanda is one of the directors of the Gold Coast Music Awards and heads up the partnerships of Blank Street press. She has recently founded a community organisation called DISTRACTD to connect communities, deliver information via professional panel discussions, education, mingles, meet-ups, apparel, and advocacy for the often-misunderstood condition of ADHD.

Beckah Amani

Storyteller/Singer/Songwriter

Beckah Amani. The fact that Beckah Amani, who's been releasing music on the Gold Coast since 2018, is so early in her career makes 'STANDARDS' all the more remarkable. With a pulled-back delivery, Amani gives her message the space it deserves. There's nothing but a finger-picked guitar and her reverb-heavy voice. And what a voice — the tone rich and urgent, as if that message were just rushing to get out of her. For her newest listeners — and they are bound to keep coming — she has a simple hope: that you "take a minute to reflect on the lyrics and the meaning I’m conveying in the song".

Brooke Hanson

Olympic Gold Medalist / Former World Record Holder

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Brooke won a gold medal as part of the Australian 4×100-metre medley relay team. Several weeks later she competed at the 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships in Indianapolis where she won six gold medals, five of which were for individual events. In 2006, she joined the health and lifestyle program What's Good For You team and was a presenter in the second series of the show. At the 2007 Logies, she was nominated for Most Popular Female New Talent for her role in the show.

Cocoloco Alice & Alice

Entertainer

Cocoloco believes in a multitude of things theatrical, essentially, that difficult ideas and complex problems can be expressed in accessible ways for everybody to enjoy in street performance and entertainment. All art contains keys to the doors of perception, existentialism, the life behind the mask and often, innuendo. Cocoloco loves to present events that flood the audience with imagery and crazy ideas which you can take home and even mull over in your sleep. Cocoloco has performed all over Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Japan, China, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand…

Courtney Hancock

Iron Woman

Champion Ironwoman, three-time Coolangatta Gold winner and first person in Australian Surf Sports history to win the triple crown of elite events in the same year. Courtney Hancock is also a mentor and coach with a passion for sharing her experience and knowledge to help others reach their potential! “I help others unlock their potential to live a better balanced and happy life, defined by their own strength.”

Dr Geoff Wilson

Explorer / Adventurer / Vet

Dr. Geoff Wilson is a world-class polar explorer, dynamic keynote speaker and entrepreneur. He’s living a vast and varied life split between being a family man, veterinary surgeon and expeditionist - constantly squeezing every drop out of life. Geoff has developed an intense resilience, gathered by a lifetime of pushing his mind and body through the harshest wilderness. This steel-trap mindset has equipped him with the fervour to pursue audacious challenges all over the globe, inspiring men and women along the way to abandon the perils of complacency and discover their greater purpose.

Dr Libby Weaver

Nutritional Biochemist

Nutritional biochemist, Dr Libby Weaver (PhD), is a thirteen-times bestselling author and speaker. With a natural ability to break complex concepts into layman’s terms, Libby’s work brings to life her unique three-pillared approach that explore the interplay between our biochemistry, nutrition, and emotions. Early on in her working life, Libby observed that knowledge alone wasn’t always enough to help people make choices that support their health. This led her to pursue an answer to the question “why do we do what we do, even though we know what we know?”. Tonight, she will share with us the insights she’s uncovered to date.

Isla Freer

Youth Advocate

Isla Freer is thirteen years old and in grade eight. She’s always smiling and loves playing soccer. Her dream… to become a successful songwriter and musician, a screenwriter, activist and in later life she aspires to become a Midwife or work within the NDIS. Becoming School Captain and Dux in her primary school is her proudest achievement – equal to her TED talk – and she hopes she can communicate her perspective, provide insight, and inspire change, all whilst engaging and entertaining people. Life truly excites her, and she believes in passion, putting in hard work for all dreams, and allowing people to guide you. “Love everyone, have fun and try not worry what people think!”

Kimberly Spencer

Warrior / Coach

Kimberly Spencer. A born-n-raised Valley Girl, powered by green juice, Italian espresso, and gallons of glitter, I am proud to have helped hundreds of leaders build their empire, breakthrough their body barriers, revolutionize their relationships, and rewrite their stories of self-sabotage into a story of success, in all areas of their life. For as long as I can remember I’ve been obsessed with stories of women who go from rags to riches, from fear to success, and vice versa. What separates those who cave into their circumstances while others climb to the top?

Margo Knox

Slam Poet

Margo Knox has spent many years in the helping professions Though an incident for which she is eternally grateful she was catapulted into a new way of thinking. Margo used A Course in Miracles as a guide through much of her transformation.

Reuben Kaye

Performance Artist & Activist

Reuben Kaye. After appearances on Channel 4 and on BBC’s You’re Fired, multi-award winning, Australian comedian, singer and self proclaimed part-time hood ornament Reuben Kaye is the danger man to watch. With an acid wit and casual sensationalism that is simply delicious, Kaye is fast, on the edge and brutally funny. A dazzling phantasm of anachronistic showbiz – an explosion of sequins, lashes and teeth, a much needed, hysterically funny, swarovski studded revolt against the ever narrowing views of an increasingly conservative world.

Timothy Buxton

Founder - You Belong

Tim has dedicated his life to serving the marginalized and displaced. He has almost 20 years’ experience in international humanitarian work, and a post-graduate degree in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (QUT). Back in 2014, Tim moved his young family from New York City to the frontlines of Northern Iraq, serving refugees that fled ISIS. There, he co-founded “The Refuge Initiative”, a refugee initiative building communities of hope by providing both homes and holistic care to refugees and displaced people. In 2017, Tim and his family moved back to Australia, where he founded “You Belong”, a charity that empowers refugees to belong and thrive. Tim is also the host of “Justice Matters”, a podcast inspiring the fight for a world where everyone belongs.

William Barton

Composer / Multi Instrumentalist

For two decades, William Barton has forged a peerless profile as a performer and composer in the classical musical world, from the Philharmonic Orchestras of London and Berlin to historic events at Westminster Abbey for Commonwealth Day 2019, Anzac Cove and the Beijing Olympics. His awards include Winner of Best Original Score for a Mainstage Production at the 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards and Winner of Best Classical Album with ARIA for Birdsong At Dusk in 2012. With his prodigious musicality and the quiet conviction of his Kalkadunga heritage, he has vastly expanded the horizons of the didgeridoo — and the culture and landscape that it represents.