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Caroline Baum

Caroline Baum is a journalist, author and the ambassador for the Older Womens’ Network (OWN) in NSW. She lives in the Northern Illawarra.

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Hats off to Deborah Hutton’s cancer prevention work

Like many others, Deborah Hutton used the Covid moment to reassess: the former model turned media personality had been happily living in Bronte, in what she thought of as her “forever house”. “It was an easy reno, with a great view,” she...

Caroline Baum
August 2025
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Soundscapes at Clifton School of Arts

The experience of performing at Clifton School of Arts as a musician is unique: not just because of its famously good acoustics, well-suited to intimate concerts by solo instruments, but because the venue has such an active soundtrack of its own...

Caroline Baum
May 2025
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Power surge at Clifton Contemporary Art Fair 2025

It was a night of drama. A gale had been blowing all day, rain falling in horizontal squalls. It was impossible to put out the promotional banners and flags. Inside, a dedicated crew of professionals up ladders and on the ground had been battling to...

Caroline Baum
January 2025
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Art on the Edge at Clifton

Building on the success of the first Clifton School of Arts (CSA) Art Fair, held in 2022 as the community emerged from the Covid pandemic, the event is back for 2025. Organisers artist Vyvian Wilson and CSA president David Roach have tweaked the...

Caroline Baum
January 2025
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Barefoot Boho Queen: Gina Chick comes to Coledale book festival

The Alone Australia star features on the cover of the Flame’s November 2024 print edition. To read the magazine layout, click here, download a program here or find the text version below Even people who did not watch Alone Australia on SBS know Gin...

Caroline Baum
November 2024
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An ailing hospital

Recently, several friends have moved out of the area because they don’t feel the quality of health care available as they age is good enough. Which makes me wonder what it means for a community not to have confidence in its local hospital – in...

Caroline Baum
October 2024
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True Story: 2024 festival program reveals The State of Us

Book tickets via the South Coast Writers Centre

Caroline Baum
October 2024
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Local legend: Meet Judy Bourke of Barracks Art Studios Thirroul

It would be fair to say that Judy Bourke is having a moment. The colourful local identity, unmistakeable thanks to her distinctive pink hair (in a style that combines a fringe with a tail) and colourful vintage look, is so well-known to locals that she can’t move without being stopped in the street or at Austi pool, where she swims daily. It makes daily chores take much longer than they should, but Judy turns every occasion into a social encounter.

Caroline Baum
May 2024
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Skills of the star finder: Meet casting director Anousha Zarkesh

Chances are that if you have watched any Australian drama featuring First Nations actors, it was cast by Austinmer resident Anousha Zarkesh. Think of award-winning series like Total Control and Mystery Road: Anousha. Or films like The New Boy and...

Caroline Baum
April 2024
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Choir sings Alvarado’s praises

In conducting, timing is everything. But the appointment of Carlos Alvarado as Musical Director of the Illawarra Choral Society in 2019 meant the maestro had to skip a beat: the interruption of Covid delayed him showing audiences just how much of...

Caroline Baum
November 2023
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Back at Coledale – True Story!

This article is the Flame’s November 2023 cover story. Read the magazine layout here or the text below. I always swore I would never run a festival. I’d watched other festival directors lose sleep over variables from money to last-minute author...

Caroline Baum
November 2023
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Memories surface in TV drama ‘One Night’

It’s a subject close to Emily’s heart that she has been thinking about for more than three decades while building up a list of credits on shows like the TV adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap

Caroline Baum
September 2023
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Pianist Simon Tedeschi to perform at fundraising concert in Wollongong

In something of a musical coup, local violinist Cedar Newman has persuaded renowned Australian pianist Simon Tedeschi to join her for a one-night-only concert with the BlueScope Youth Orchestra to raise money for Médecins Sans Frontières at...

Caroline Baum
August 2023
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Yes 23 fundraiser ‘Art From Our Hearts’ comes to Clifton

A group of 29 Illawarra artists will donate their artwork for sale Art from our Hearts to support the Yes 23campaign for the 2023 Referendum to ensure an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the Australian Constitution. Initiated by Wombarra residents...

Caroline Baum
August 2023
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