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For graphic designer Tracy Hall, street art is lik

For graphic designer Tracy Hall, street art is like any artwork, her canvas has been swapped out for fences and plywood, her medium changing from watercolours to spray paint.

A Canberra resident for 13 years, Tracy has been a street and mural artist for the past five.

Her first exploration into grand-scale painting was at the Point Hut toilets in Banks five years ago. “They had just finished doing up the playground area for all the little kids and the words [of graffiti] that were coming up weren’t family friendly,” she says.

“So I ended up drawing this design and I got approval for the artwork.”

Many of Tracy’s time-consuming artworks are free, with thousands of her own dollars put into paint.

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DAVID TURNBULL continues his series of profiles of

DAVID TURNBULL continues his series of profiles of Canberrans with a story. This edition, the focus is on a remarkable Dutch migrant who has built bridges between the country he grew up in and the country he now calls home.

Pick up your copy of this week’s magazine from around Canberra, or visit citynews.com.au for more!

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Affecting four to 16 per cent of Australians, eati

Affecting four to 16 per cent of Australians, eating disorders are a serious mental health condition that involves an unhealthy obsession with eating, exercising or dieting.

Following a similar 12-step recovery plan as Alcoholics Anonymous groups do, Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a fellowship of members who wish to put an end to compulsive overeating or dangerous dieting and exercising practices.

Founded in 1960 in America by the anonymous Rozanne S, the OA fellowship was established to combat addiction to food.

“It’s not about dieting or coming in and saying ‘oh, you can’t do this and you can’t do that’, or getting on the scales,” says a member from the Canberra group, we’ll call Sam.

“Most of us have spent years trying all of those things before we came in after suddenly realising one day that it isn’t working.”

To read on, please visit our website at citynews.com.au or tap the link in our bio!

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Diversity may be a dirty word in some parts of the

Diversity may be a dirty word in some parts of the world, but not here and certainly not at the National Folk Festival, coming to Exhibition Park in Canberra over Easter.

With its companion, quirkiness, diversity will be front and centre in this year’s gathering at EPIC if artistic directors Chris Stone, Michael Sollis, and Holly Downes have anything to do with it.

“It’s traditional but innovation takes place,” president of the National Folk Festival, David Gilks says.

Following the top national cultural policy principle, they’ve programmed in a fun “First Nations First” line-up of artists, including Stiff Gins, poet Sassi Spirit, local writing group Us Mob, Wiradjuri Echoes, Ngunnawal custodian Richie Allan and self-described Blak women’s trio, Suga Cane Mamas.

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In the lead-up to the highly anticipated 2025 Folk Festival, read the rest of Helen's story on our website at citynews.com.au or tap the link in our bio!

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Gardening columnist JACKIE WARBURTON has a hero pl

Gardening columnist JACKIE WARBURTON has a hero plant this week – the Chinese plumbago with its blue flowers and red autumnal foliage.

My hero plant this week is Chinese plumbago, she says, a deciduous shrub that grows well in our region.

Its flowers are in bloom now. They are the most amazing cobalt blue colour and once the autumnal foliage begins to turn red, the contrast is really lovely and has a long-lasting summer and autumn display.

Chinese plumbago (ceratostigma plumbaginoides) can be used as a small hedge. It has a slow suckering habit that can be clipped into shape. It grows best in full sun, where it flowers well.

There is a new, smaller, powder-blue flowering variety available called Summer Sky, which grows under a metre tall.

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