Dungog
Commencing Friday 3 September and running throughout Saturday 4 September at the historic James Theatre in Dungog, the 2010 AGOG! film festival features a feast of foreign films from Switzerland, Japan, Korea, France and Italy. Films include Quiet Chaos, the story of an oddly bereaved Italian executive, and Departures, about a cellist who gets into the funeral business...
Goulburn
Lieder Theatre Company presents an epic Australian adaptation of Tim Winton's classic novel Cloudstreet. Winton's moving tale tells of the fluctuating fortunes of two families who share a rambling old house in Perth after the Second World War. The play spans a twenty year period between 1943 and the early 1960s, exploring the intimate complexities of family life as a metaphor for Australian life and experience...
Nambucca Heads
The National Film and Sound Archive's Big Screen touring film festival returns to Nambucca Heads for the fifth year, bringing special guests and an array of great drama, romance and comedy films. This year's highlight event will be John Marsden's opening night launch of the new feature Tomorrow, When the War Began based on his popular and critically-acclaimed work...
Albury
The 2010 Write Around the Murray Festival has something for everyone whether you are a writer, a reader or have your own stories to tell. The festival will bring together an eclectic mix of writers and storytellers from every genre – environment, politics, travel, poetry, children's writing, food writing and more – bringing us stories that sustain and inspire...
Lismore
Innovations Dance Group brings Nina Jeftic's contemporary ballet version of Swan Lake to the Northern Rivers with inspiring visions of passion and betrayal. This community project encompasses local dancers aged 7-41 year old who have dedicated their time for the past year to rehearse and learn valuable skills...
On Thursday 3 December 2009 – International Day of People with a Disability (IDPWD) – the short film New Beginning was launched at the Albury LibraryMuseum. New Beginning is a culmination of a film mentorship project between Jared Younger, who has an acquired brain injury, and filmmaker Helen Newman, which allowed Jared to create, direct and produce his first short film...
‘6’ on tour for the Awakenings Festival In October 2009 23 dancers, staff and carers from the dis/assemble dance project departed Albury Wodonga to tour the work ‘6’ by Tim Podesta to Horsham in Western Victoria. The dis/assemble dance group were invited to perform ‘6’ at the Awakenings Festival – Australia’s only regional disability arts festival. The dis/assemble dance project is a partnership between Skills Innovative Training Enterprises (SITE); Artists Tim Podesta, Margot McCallum and Helen Newman; and Murray Arts. The project creates contemporary multimedia dance works for dancers with and without disabilities...
South East Arts Region (SEAR) and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service have produced a compelling new children’s book highlighting the plight of locally endangered species. Written by Cooma author Jane Carroll and illustrated by Melinda Perrin from Jindabyne, Missing is the story of Gang-gang the forest ranger who takes a journey through the region on a quest to find out why his friends are disappearing...
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On Wednesday 27 October at 7.00pm up to 1,000 diners will sit down to an al fresco degustation dinner on the water's edge at Sydney's historic Walsh Bay. The event will showcase the fine food of Walsh Bay restaurants with wines from the Canowindra region, accompanied by cool jazz. Palette on the Pier – An Arts Table for 1000 is a project of the Walsh Bay Precinct Partnership. All proceeds will support arts and cultural development in regional and remote communities across NSW. Read the media release HERE and click on the tab below for the invitation.
Regional Australians are coming together online to voice their concerns about rural and regional broadband. Now more than ever it is critical that the message about the fundamental importance of high speed broadband is heard loud and clear! Click HERE to create your own postcard via email and tell everyone why broadband is important in your community. View the map of all the Rural Broadband Postcards HERE. Join PLACESTORIES and the Rural Broadband Project. The Rural Broadband Campaign is a joint initiative of Feral Arts and the National RADO networks.
Country Arts SA is seeking applications from highly motivated and energetic people for the position of Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development Officer. The Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development Officer will be responsible for assisting Indigenous communities across regional South Australia in the achievement of their arts and cultural development aspirations. Essential requirements for this position include the ability to work regular out of hours work, regular intrastate travel and good knowledge of Indigenous arts and culture within South Australia. Closing 13 October.
On Wednesday 27 October 2010 up to 1000 diners will sit down to an al fresco degustation dinner on the water's edge of the historic shipping wharf at Sydney's Walsh Bay. The event will showcase the fine food of the Walsh Bay restaurants with wines from the Canowindra region, accompanied by cool jazz and an auction of exquisite regional art works. Regional Arts NSW is thrilled to be the beneficiary of funds raised by the inaugural Palette on the Pier, which is set to become a premier annual event on the Sydney arts calendar. Click on the Palette on the Pier tab on the home page for full event and ticketing details, and read the media release below.
The Chair of Regional Arts NSW, Meg Larkin, has welcomed the announcement by the NSW Arts Minister, Virginia Judge, to commit funding to establish a new regional arts board to service the communities of Griffith, Leeton and Narrandera in the Western Riverina area of NSW. “This board will fill a significant gap in the service delivery of arts and cultural development across the state. I am delighted that the NSW Government has listened to our submissions to fund this new board,” said Ms Larkin...
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