The Just Saying Project: Home of Women’s Stories opens doors Saturday 25 July
The Just Saying Project is opening the door to its next chapter, with founder Fallon Drewett joining creative forces with her sisters, Breeanna Poxon and Georgia Holden, to create a new home for women’s stories at Shop 5, 31 Wood Street, Mackay.
The new space will be an art gallery, events space, retail store and gathering place for women to connect, create, share stories and host their own conversations.
The community is invited to attend The Just Saying Project Open Day on 25 July, with an opportunity to explore the space, shop the retail store, meet the team and be inspired by what is coming next.
In September, JSP will present its first exhibition in the new space, Behind the Figures, featuring artists from across the Greater Whitsunday region responding to data and stories gathered through JSP’s Behind the Figures survey.
The new Wood Street space will see JSP bring back some of its most loved events, including Leading Ladies, alongside new event series that will spill the tea on women’s issues, and joy-centred gatherings designed to bring women, creativity and life back into the Mackay CBD.
Led by three sisters bringing together storytelling, visual art, decorative art, health, education and community connection, the space marks a powerful evolution for JSP and its mission to celebrate women through joy, strength and purpose. JSP will also continue its JSP Women’s Awards as its major annual event.
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Stop following the script. Become the leading lady in your own story.
After our last Leading Ladies event back in 2019, this much-loved JSP series returns for our very first weekend of events at JSP Home of Women’s Stories.
Leading Ladies: Heroine’s Journey is an afternoon of storytelling, reflection and real conversation for women ready to find their voice, trust their story and step into the next chapter on their own terms.
Featuring guest speakers Anne Baker, Kim Kleidon and Jody Euler, this event explores the moments that shape us — service, setbacks, self-belief, storytelling, belonging, challenging convention, courage and the quiet decisions to begin again.
This is an invitation to stop waiting for permission, own your story and remember that you were never meant to be a background character in your own life.
SATURDAY 1 AUGUST
2:00PM to 5:00PM
Light refreshments
Hot Flushes & Holy Shifts
One minute you’re fine.
The next you’re sweating through your bra, rage-cleaning the kitchen and Googling, “Am I dying or is this perimenopause?”
Spill the Tea: Hot Flushes & Holy Shifts is a funny, honest and slightly unfiltered evening about menopause, midlife, hormones and the holy shift that happens when women start telling the truth.
Hosted by JSP Founder Fallon Drewett, with special guest speaker CJ Fitos, founder of the FEMO Menopause App, menopause coach and sports nutritionist, this conversation will bring humour, honesty and heart to the midlife moments we do not talk about enough.
We’ll talk hot flushes, brain fog, mood swings, mystery symptoms, body changes, rage, exhaustion — and the magic hiding underneath the mess.
Because midlife is not an ending.
It’s a reset.
Come as you are — sweaty, spicy, tender, tired, curious, confused, powerful, all of it.
Leave feeling seen, supported and very reassured it is not just you.
FRIDAY 31 July
7PM to 9PM
Tickets $40
Tea included, obviously.