This year’s JSP Women’s Awards was a night of regional storytelling and celebrating the women and men across the Greater Whitsunday region.
Now in its third year the JSP Women’s Awards created by The Just Saying Project’s founder Fallon Drewett, is an event to celebrate the magic making women who bring joy, strength, and passion to the Greater Whitsunday region.
Read MoreWhat a night!
The JSP Women’s Awards was the vibe.
Such a fabulous evening celebrating the magic making women in our community.
Congratulations to our 2023 winners:
Magic Maker- Tina Burger
Resilient Rebel- Sonya Oliver Scoble
Health & Well-being Warrior: Dr Sarah McLay
Mother of All Mothers- Danielle Jesser
Modern Muse- Jo Sainsbury
Rising Star- Rachel McLean
The Visionary- Margaret Burgess
Read MoreT’S a show about sex, taboos, female pleasure, speaking out and the sharing of women’s stories.
BARE, a live cabaret show by The Just Saying Project, was performed at the MECC North Foyer as part of The Mackay Festival of Arts, 2022.
Read MoreJSP Women's Awards was a wonderful evening celebrating the women in the Greater Whitsunday region. The stories of the finalists and our winners inspired and captivated those who attended.
It was a moment in time to celebrate the joy, strength and passion of women as part of International Women’s Day 2022.
Read MoreThese raw and beautiful photos were taken by photographers Amanda Ward and Melissa Cooney, as part of our BARE project last year.
Each woman, decided to BARE IT ALL and show their beauty amongst the natural surroundings of Mackay. More than 20 women, shared their vulnerability and embraced their beauty for the world to see.
Read MoreCan You See Me?
A question we have all asked, when we have lost our way and we are trying to find out who we are.
As men and women one of the biggest longings is to be seen. To be seen for who we are.
To be seen is to feel less alone, to be appreciated and have our stories heard.
Read MoreTrailblazers and Modern Muses
JSP’s annual Leading Ladies event in 2019 featured keynote speaker Chelsea Bonner, author body positivity advocate and Chief Executive of Bella Management.
Leading Ladies theme was about trailblazing women who have led the way, who have become modern muses, role models for women and girls alike, by making a change, looking adversity right in the eye and are not afraid of having those difficult conversations to uplift others.
Read MoreThe Real Body Runway with the help of more than 70 Mackay women shone a light on self –acceptance and body love. More than 300 women attended the event, making it one of JSP’s biggest events to date.
This body positive event celebrated the beauty of every woman at The MECC in February 2019.
Read MoreLove letters & writing from the heart
This event was all about the art of letter writing and storytelling from the heart. Along with speakers who had written a love letter to who they are, audiences were inspired and motivated by their stories to help build self-esteem, find passion, faith and the power of resilience and rebellion. The event included a letter writing workshop, hosted by JSP founder Fallon Drewett. Guests had the opportunity to pen their own letter to uplift and unlock the big magic within. The event focused on building confidence, clarity and connection.
Read MoreBeyond the Fairytale
All women are the Leading Ladies of their lives. It is the beauty of female stories, the resilience, honesty, vulnerability and inspiration that has the power to bring about change and hope to the lives of many women living in our community. Life isn’t always a fairytale or a filter on social media, it is real, raw and what we make it. We have the strength to move through adversity and create our own happy endings. The even included stories form the sisterhood, re-imagined, modern fairytales with a dash of inspiration and a self-esteem boost.
Read MoreThis new vision is about rebuilding the foundations of women’s self-belief system, by accepting their unique features and being proud of who they are. It is about the strength and vulnerability that comes with sharing our stories and being brave enough to show the world who we are, scars and all.
Read MoreThe Just Saying Project’s Stories from the Sisterhood was an afternoon of inspirational stories from several fabulous female speakers. Each woman spoke about many different topics and how those stories made who they are. Stories included a letter to their 21-year-old self, their turning points in life, their first loves, the moments that changed their lives, following their hearts, finding inner bravery and how they never gave up.
Read MorePart of these exhibitions was to express the affect negative and positive words, the stories of who we are have on our self-esteem. These exhibitions were created to breakdown the stereotypes of what beauty is and rebuild a new vision of female beauty.
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