Coonamble
A two-day festival for young Australians of all backgrounds who like to dance, sing, paint and play sport. As part of a team, students get the chance to compete in a variety of challenges. Vibe Alive is about celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and being a proud Aussie. It’s also the perfect chance to meet some new mates!...
Moruya
Risky, challenging, confronting, thought provoking and touching. With a cast of 62 performers aged between 8 and 78 years, Awake presents a live performance of an original score by two of the region’s most talented composers. The show encompasses mixed metaphors of crossing generations, life, death and memory - with a little bit of cricket and a tango thrown in. Performances by fLiNG Physical Theatre and members of the community, with musicians Steve Clark, Heath Cullen, Helen Gill and Pete Wild. Directed by Lee Pemberton, with Don Asker as Animatuer...
Cootamundra
Do you think ordinary fencing or telegraph wires can be musical instruments? Alan Lamb does! Alan has been making 'wire' music in outback Australia and remote locations around the world since the 1970's. He has earnt international acclaim for his musical compositions and sculptural installations that span hundreds of metres across the open landscape. Lamb has built his latest wire instrument on a farm in the Muttama area of NSW...
Bellingen
Three days of live jazz and blues music performed by the best. With Bellingen's pristine river and historic streetscape as the setting, the festival presents 35 performances in 13 venues. There will be jazz on the pavement by the pub and in the park beside the council chambers, intimate jams in small cafés, a big band dance, cocktail party, and late night grooves in clubs..
Lismore
A new work created by NORPA, this is a tale of jealousy, love, marriage and death. Young Lismore couple Cassie and Darren become drawn into the seductive world of Leo, an Irish traveller, living in a caravan on the outskirts of Lismore. Leo’s charm and worldliness intoxicate Cassie and her relationship with Darren is slowly poisoned...
A kids day attended by almost 200 local primary and pre-school children was a fitting finale for a fabulous week of NAIDOC celebrations at Southern Cross University. A week-long program was held across the University’s campuses at Lismore, Tweed Gold Coast and Coffs Harbour with workshops including dance, bush tucker, art and traditional cooking...
Our Creeks, Rocky, Terania and TuntableThe Channon Cultural Collective created a public art project bringing their community together to create a mosaic in Coronation Park. Art materials and recycled goods were donated by local businesses, and used to transform a public space...
The Women’s circus group of ‘complete novices’ was formed in late 2007 with the focus on social circus and its health benefits rather than a professional performing circus. In early May, four members of the group as well as Jane Davis from Circus Monoxide performed in front of approximately 150 people at Cabaret Kite held at the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre...
South West Arts and the Deniliquin Play on the Plains Festival are excited to announce the start of the Muster Gateway Sculpture Project. Further to the successful Festivals Australia application late last year, South West Arts will work in partnership with the festival to implement the exciting project...
Parliamentary Secretary Steve Whan has announced a $15,000 grant to help artists
and arts volunteers from country NSW attend the sixth biennial Regional Arts Australia
national conference to be held in Alice Springs this year.
Steve Whan said the grant to Regional Arts NSW would help approximately 30 people,
representing the State’s Regional Arts Boards, attend the art at the heart conference
in October...
Arts Minister, Peter Garrett and Indigenous Affairs Minister, Jenny Macklin have announced more than $37 million in funding for Indigenous arts, cultural, languages and broadcasting programs across Australia in 2008–09. Visiting the Kurruru Youth Performing Arts Centre in Port Adelaide Mr Garrett said the funding, through four Government programs, would support the activities of almost 250 organisations providing invaluable support, services and programs to Indigenous Australians ...
Carol Mills, Director-General for the Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation has announced that the Cultural Grants Program released earlier this year recommended reforms covering all aspects of the Program from its strategic framework, to application and assessment processes...
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