The four-year wait for the $20 million iAccelerate building at Wollongong University’s Innovation Campus is almost over. With only a few weeks until it opens, the building and the iAccelerate program have already been hailed as landmark achievements by its early-adopters. The business incubator, funded by the Restart the Illawarra Infrastructure fund, will house more than 280 entrepreneurs, start-ups, and fast-growth businesses. Since its launch in 2012, iAccelerate programs and network connections have helped establish and expand more than 50 businesses. Video footage shot with a drone of the iAccelerate construction process in December 2015. James Moore, founder of start-up company Zest…
Author: Remy Taylor
The story of the Illawarra is being told by Circa and Merrigong Theatre Company in a circus co-production called Landscape with Monsters. The show is the first project Circa has made for, about and in another city other than its hometown, Brisbane. Landscapes with Monsters explores the meeting between humans and the environment. “Illawarra’s an interesting place because it has great beauty, a post industrial landscape and an industry that’s in the process of leaving and depopulating,” Director Yaron Lifschitz said. This idea has been developed over the last 12 months, and the production includes multiple industrial props to create…