Gretel Killeen is a household name in Australia, famous to some for her hosting of one of the nation’s most controversial TV shows, famous to others for her massively popular books, her work as a journalist, humorist and film director, her travel writings in Antarctic, Lebanon and Namibia or her intrepid activities in Zambia, Afghanistan, [...]
Friends of the ABC (Armidale), held a movie fundraiser in March this year. The film chosen was Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy based on John Le Carre’s renowned book by the same name; and the International Film Festival was the recipient of a donation of $1075 (after expenses) from the proceeds. The Armidale community rose to [...]
Alec Gill, a grazier from Walcha, is one of the inspirational artists currently exhibiting in ‘Crossing New England IV’ at Armidale Art Gallery in the Mall. Several years ago, while working on his sheep and cattle property, Gill began to collect pieces of mature timber, scrap metal and second hand wire, and to piece them [...]
The RSPCA’s annual Million Paws Walk will be held on Sunday, May 20 at the Armidale Creeklands near the Tourist Information Centre. The Walk starts at 10.00am, however, registrations for you and your pet start from 8.30am. The walk will be officially opened by Richard Torbay and will be about three kilometres in length, along [...]
A new exhibition opening on Friday, May 11 at NERAM features stunning colour photographs of rural and remote Australia by Martin Mischkulnig, together with text written by award-winning author Tim Winton. Inspired by growing up in a series of roadside motels run by his parents, photographer Martin Mischkulnig travelled to out-of-the-way places around the country [...]
The New England Bach Festival is not only about authentic baroque performances.Two late night concerts extend Bach’s music into new realms that should appeal to a wide audience. Bach Jazz (10pm, Thursday May 3 at the Uniting Church) includes two of Jacques Loussier’s reworkings of Bach, some jazzed up versions of Bach pieces by the [...]
Progressive Cinema will be screening Bimblebox, a documentary depicting stories from the front lines of the battle of rural Australians against coal and gas extraction on their land, at the Armidale Club at 7:30pm on Wednesday, May 9. Turntables Restaurant will be open for dinner from 6pm. “This month’s film follows on from the Coal [...]
The latest production for 2012 by the Armidale Drama & Musical Society is The Hatpin which opens at the Michael Hoskins Centre TAS on May 11, 2012 and is directed by George Torbay with musical direction by Bruce Menzies and produced by Neil Horton, the team responsible for previous sell-out productions Titanic and Urinetown. The [...]
Sunday, April 29, marks the beginning of Armidale Symphony’s concert season for 2012, conducted by Bruce Menzies. There are two special reasons for this concert; the first being the celebration of the life of French hornist Kerry Hawkins who sadly past away recently. Kerry was a regular member of the orchestra for the last 35 [...]
After a week of intensive musical training with some of Australia’s top musicians the regions young chamber musicians performed a series of free concerts on Saturday at the Armidale Town Hall showcasing skills gained at the New England Conservatorium of Music (NECOM) inaugural Chamber Music Festival. NECOM Director Susanne James was thrilled to see over [...]
