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Five things you need to know ahead of Culture Mix

A dedicated accessible drop off and pick up zone will be available on Burelli Street, adjacent to the Arts Precinct and in front of the Wollongong Art Gallery. There are also accessible parking bays in the precinct. No bookings are required and are...

Wollongong City Council

Local trio to present new works at Clifton School of Arts

Clifton School of Arts will be brimming with lovely artworks by three local artists this month, as Christine Hill, Tess McMaugh and Leonora Heaven display a wide-ranging collection of recent works. The exhibition will be open every day from Friday...

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Murder, music and mayhem ahead at Kiama Library

By Perrie Croshaw, president of The Friends of Kiama Library On Friday, October 17 at 6pm, The Friends of Kiama Library are thrilled to present two well-known and well-published authors together to talk about how two “Kings of the Cross”...

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Watch local filmmaker’s documentary series about music label Bird’s Robe

Illawarra filmmaker James O’Connor is celebrating a creative project that has been a decade in the making – charting the rise of Bird’s Robe from artists’ collective to record label and management company. “I have been working with the...

Genevieve Swart

New street festival coming to Thirroul, because ‘who doesn’t like a good party?’

Thirroul has reason to celebrate, with an announcement that a new street festival will bring live music, family fun and an influx of visitors to King Street on November 29-30.

Genevieve Swart

New True Story podcast launches ahead of 2025’s festival of non-fiction at Coledale

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Sarah Nicholson

Bush brings artists back together

The Illawarra’s beautiful escarpment was the inspiration and the star when two artists with a history going back more than a quarter of a century opened their fourth joint exhibition in Clifton.

Tyneesha Williams

Behind the Curtain with Roo Theatre’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’

‘‘Mr Darcy!’’ “Miss Bennett!’’ Shellharbour will come alive with Regency-era romance and all its wonderfully suppressed emotions with Roo Theatre’s September celebration of Pride and Prejudice. An enduring piece, Jane Austen’s 1813 novel remains...

Celebrate 50 years of Korimul Gang Show in the Illawarra

8 Sept 2025: Media release from Scouts NSW Korimul Gang Show is celebrating 50 years of treading the boards with a special season paying tribute to its greatest hits. Featuring variety theatre at its best, Korimul Gang Show is produced by Scouts and...

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The Steel City Strings present ‘Forest Bathing’

Shinrin-yoku, also known as Forest bathing is the Japanese practice of spending time in nature for the mental and physical health benefits, for the renewal and for the reconnection that it provides. It’s this restorative healing power of nature...

Amanda De George

Helensburgh is a muse for singing star Darren Coggan

Local country musician Darren Coggan is set to headline the Folk By The Sea Festival in Kiama on September 12-14. Festival-goers will have the chance to hear original songs from his upcoming album, including a special track dedicated to Helensburgh...

Tyneesha Williams

Art from the Arid Zone comes to Clifton

By Thirroul artist and art teacher Ashley Frost The Fowlers Gap Tour 2025 exhibition features the work of 15 artists from around Australia who were a part of an art expedition in July to Fowlers Gap in Western NSW. Of the 15 participants, 11 were...

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After Peter and the Wolf, it’s panto audition time at SPAT

SPAT’s next show is a dazzling production of Sergei Prokofiev’s classic tale combining a live chamber orchestra with theatre, puppetry and storytelling, and for the two evening performances, this will be followed by a 1940’s radio play...

Our queens of the Edinburgh Fringe are set for two special homecoming shows

After a sold-out season at their first Edinburgh Fringe Festival, two Illawarra-based performers are now home and ready to bring their show to local audiences. It’s a very limited two-show season at Coniston’s Phoenix Theatre later this month and...

New children’s book encourages bravery at bedtime

Vesper Jones & Marshmallow is an empowering new tale about confronting your fears by Shellharbour children’s author Karen Hendriks.

Lesley Roulston

As ‘Julia’ opens at IPAC, the legacy of misogyny speech shines on

“Do you remember when you first heard that refrain from Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech? I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man; I will not.” This was the question ABC Illawarra journalist Melinda James posed to an...

Genevieve Swart

Town Hall to host free Strange Folds Zine Fair this Saturday

Across the coast of NSW this week, printers are humming, ink is drying, work copiers are secretly being utilised, and staples are not quite landing evenly until after the third try and a bunch of swearing, as zine-makers from all over (within...

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Mt Kembla disaster victim immortalised in new song

By Illawarra Folk Club’s honorary festival publicity officer, Nick Hartgerink A song about a tragic young victim of the 1902 Mt Kembla coal mine explosion will get its first public airing when Kiama’s favourite folk band The Water Runners showcase...

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‘Terra Motion’ to showcase landscape forever on the move

When you prepare to land in Central Australia what strikes you first is the red earth. On the ground you observe all the subtle variations of red in the desert landscape, the browns, the pinks and the purples. Surprisingly, 40 percent of Australi...

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Time to sing with Thirroul’s Slap Dash Choir

Janice Creenaune meets Andrew Pedrana, who had various occupations before becoming a high school teacher and moving to the Illawarra. Andrew Pedrana only began singing fairly recently with The Slap Dash Choir. “A friend recommended the choir when...

Janice Creenaune

Music4Medicine: Variety shines in concert to help kids

A little bit of something for every taste is coming the audience’s way when Wollongong Town Hall hosts a fundraising concert featuring pianist Simon Tedeschi next Thursday, August 28.

Tyneesha Williams

See ‘Where Art Meets Life’: New contemporary work by 19 IAVA artists on show

Until 24 August, local art lovers can visit Project Contemporary Artpace to see the ‘Where Art Meets Life’ exhibition by Illawarra the Association for the Visual Arts (IAVA). Artists and their loved ones came together for opening night on 15...

Tyneesha Williams

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