Toowoomba's Place for Creativity
Our goal is for every child in Australia can read,
write, and create with confidence!
Read books | Make books | See books
We acknowledge the power of words. We are inspired by the First Nations peoples Traditional ways of knowing through visual art, dance and storytelling. We acknowledge the millions of stories that consistently inspire each writer and storyteller passed down to the next generation from their Ancestors and Elders. From the sea to the mountains, we acknowledge the Songlines that carry the stories of the Dreamtime.
May the future be written in the universal language of English to be told in truth and kept sacred for all to cherish.
Regular events include:
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Twinkles Book Club Friday 9:30am to 10:30am (during the school term)
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Twinkles Outreach Reading Program Weeks 2 to 8 each term at schools around the region
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The Write Gallery - FREE experiential exhibitions especially for children
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Write Fridays - Queensland Writers Centre initiative- Fridays 10am - 2pm (during the school term)
The Lighthouse Toowoomba supports our vibrant community's existing organisations and schools
working with children in crisis by offering FREE wildly inventive literacy-based workshops, volunteer readers, free books, and gallery tours.
Located in the CBD, it is a place for creativity with a dedicated children's writing centre for children
to learn how to make books; the One-Way Library and the Twinkles Reading Program so children can read books;
and The Write Gallery - a children's gallery for children to see books.
What DO you do?
Look at our book
'A Beautiful Book of Non-Negotiables' and we can show you!
Did you know
The Lighthouse Toowoomba is supported by The Child Writes Fund,
a registered charity!
Your tax deductible gift means we can continue to give children in our community free wildly inventive literacy based workshops to inspire and ignite their imaginations. We also make up bundles of books to give to children who may not have books at home, and support an outreach program ensuring we certainly do reach the most vulnerable children in the Toowoomba region.
From our governance perspective, the company’s objective, as outlined in our constitution, is to pursue the following charitable purpose:
(a) To promote literature and the visual arts as the eloquent link to creative storytelling, to incorporate the arts of Indigenous persons and the cultural heritage belonging to the rich tapestry of communities within the Toowoomba region. These undertakings are aligned with community cultural activities (such as art exhibitions, music concerts, festivals) and creative workshops;
(b) To specifically promote children’s literature and the visual arts by engaging children as creators of storytelling in purposeful programs such as “Child Writes – Create a Children’s Picture Book” program, with the distribution of books in print and digital editions to locations where children are in crisis.