The striking image on the cover of the August 2022 issue of Limelight features proud Trawlwoolway man David mangenner Gough, performing on the Burnie foreshore as part of mapali – Dawn Gathering at the 2021 Ten Days on the Island festival, directed by Lindy Hume.

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Cover of Limelight’s August 2022 issue

Hume has written this month’s in-depth cover story Big Ideas from Small Places, in which she discusses the surge in hyper-local and socially engaged creativity that happened during COVID and asks if the time has come to re-evaluate Australian culture through a regional lens.

Learning music as a child has untold benefits, yet music education is currently contracting in Australia. In an opinion piece called A Gift for Life, Anita Collins explores the many ways you can invest in music education across a number of different schools and the profound impact that it can have for each and every student.

In an unusual twist of fate, there are two stage adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde running concurrently in Sydney during August – and they could hardly be more different....