On Wednesday 3 April between 11am - 12pm Art Factory artist Brae Tye will launch his first solo exhibition No Limits, followed by The Art Factory in Conversation at the Riverina Community College Gallery. Read more
Minister for the Arts Don Harwin is urging the people of NSW to submit their views to inform a renewed National Arts and Disability Strategy to help improve access and participation in the arts, screen and culture sector by people with disability. Read more
With high acclaim for the selection and quality of films that made up the Official Selection for the 12th Byron Bay Film Festival, Director J’aimee Skippon-Volke released the full line-up of winning films taking home the coveted awards. Read more
An important piece of local and television history will return to the screen, thanks to lobbying from the Tweed Regional Museum and passionate community members. The museum has been collaborating with the ABC to secure the re-release of a local classic - the iconic and nationally significant 1969 ABC TV mini series; Pastures of the Blue Crane. This finally happened last month. Read more
Screenwave International Film Festival (SWIFF) has announced that tickets are now on sale for its 2019 event. Created in 2015, SWIFF has quickly established itself as Australia’s largest regional feature film festival, screening over 65 cutting edge Australian and international films. Read more
At Mullum Music Festival patrons are encouraged to participate in positive actions for sustainable change. The festival is once again partnering with Renew Fest to present an inspiring program of free activities for festival goers. Don’t just nourish your soul with music; engage in workshops, walks and talks and learn about being an agent for positive change. Read more
Tweed Regional Museum's Director, Judy Kean and her staff have been recognised by Dementia Australia for their efforts to make the museum a more accessible place for people with dementia. The Tweed Dementia Action Group recently presented Ms Kean with a certificate of recognition. Read more
Australia’s premier regional sculpture exhibition, Sculptures in the Garden, was held at Rosby winery in Mudgee over the weekend with over 3,500 people attending the much-anticipated annual event, up a thousand people from last year. Special guest and revered patron of Australian art, Wendy Whiteley opened the exhibition, which showcased the largest ever collection of works with nearly 50% sold throughout the weekend. Read more
James Crabb, Four Winds Artistic Director, has launched the Four Winds 2019 Easter Festival promising a full Program which will take you on a journey to Discover Music in Nature, , different musical cultures and traditions as well as great classical works. Read more
The Big Skies Collaboration are now accepting submissions to the Skywriters Anthology, a royalty title in print and eBook formats (pdf, ePub and Kindle versions). It will be distributed under a global license held by the publisher, Interactive Publications Pty Ltd (IP). Creative writers and aspiring writers are invited to submit skystories about their own or other people’s (or other beings?) relationships with celestial phenomena, as experienced from within the fuzzy borders of the region defined as the 700 Kilometre Array (700KA) of inland New South Wales. Read more
Most film-lovers would be familiar with Weta Workshop, New Zealand’s world-leading design and effects facility behind the ground-breaking other-world settings and characters in films including Avatar, King Kong and Lord of the Rings. Weta have also been deeply involved in developing content for the Magic Leap One, the upcoming Mixed Reality headset from one of the most well-funded start-ups in history, a technology that until now has been veiled in secrecy – and that most people know from the social media video of a whale breaching inside a basketball court. Read more
Regional sculpture exhibition, Sculptures in the Garden has announced that this year will see an unprecedented amount of artists enter the exhibition. The annual two-day exhibition, being held at Rosby winery in Mudgee on the 6th and 7th of October, will have over 250 works for sale from exhibiting artists from right across Australia. Read more
