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Women of Song

Dunoon and District Gazette
History & heritage
The Northern Rivers Conservatorium is pleased to host Women Of Song in its Concert Room ... Women of Song is an authentic show of conversations and songs, articulating First Nations cultural practice in the here and now, live on stage. It's an innovative new show, developed by the acclaimed Jessie Lloyd ...

Musicophilia with J Lowe

Dunoon and District Gazette
Arts
Dr Matt Hill (PhD, Music technology and composition) was a Dunoon identity for many years: a fixture of the Dunoon Football Club as a player and committee member, a member of the Dunoon Primary P&C and a music teacher at his home in James Street. He wrote a song about the Dunoon tornado which ripped through the village in 2007 ... He is a composer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

From village streets to major marathons: Bronwen’s running journey

Dunoon and District Gazette
Health
The Dunoon Run Club meets for social runs in the village of Dunoon ... Woody has unleashed his writing talent on a "Spotlight on a Runner" series of articles, starting with Bronwen who has been running for the last 4 years. At 61, Bronwen’s running journey has taken her from quiet village streets to the world’s most iconic marathon courses.

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Musicophilia

Dunoon and District Gazette
Arts
J Lowe. There are rare humans who… may lack the neural apparatus for appreciating tones or melodies. But for virtually all of us, music has great power, whether or not we seek it out or think of ourselves as particularly ‘musical’. This propensity to music – this ‘musicophilia’- shows itself in infancy, is manifest and central in every culture, and probably goes back to the very beginnings of our species…

Boatharbour Landcare Country Gardens 2024

Dunoon and District Gazette
Event
Spring has Sprung! Fairy Wren Day has been a Spring event for the past 5 years. Those interested in small bird habitat and garden lovers are invited to Boatharbour on a Sunday 8 September for Fairy Wren Day. With the numbers of attendees building each year, it was decided to share more gardens in our area.

The Fruity Farmer: Custard apples

Dunoon and District Gazette
Agriculture
"Custard apples come lumpy, Quite seedy and bumpy, When added to fruit salad, They rhyme like a ballad." In case anyone hasn’t noticed we are well into custard apple season until probably October when the Qld fruit fly will start to get active with the warmer weather and sting the fruit.
Alison Wilson

Dunoon Rural Fire Service

Dunoon and District Gazette
Fire
Mike Berry. It is with sadness that members of Dunoon RFS acknowledge the recent passing of past member Neville Watts age 98 ... In 2023, the brigade introduced a new annual training award posthumously named in honour of past member, Aline Feebrey. ... Our inaugural winner is Alison Wilson.

Resilient Lismore receives full ‘repair to return’ funding

Dunoon and District Gazette
Building & Construction
“After nearly two years of our home repair work being privately funded by local organisations and philanthropists we are very grateful that the NSW Reconstruction Authority is providing this additional funding so that we can continue to help people return to safe and secure homes”: Resilient Lismore Executive Director Elly Bird.
NORPA's Wildskin

NORPA to take audiences on a wild ride to Lismore Showgrounds with Wildskin: 12-28 September 2024

Dunoon and District Gazette
News
NORPA is taking audiences on an adventure outside the theatre once again, announcing it will stage its original work Wildskin in a warehouse space at the Lismore Showgrounds. A sensory, destination-theatre experience, Wildskin inhabits an outrageous and unpredictable world that’s part bush-thriller, part road-trip and a whole lot of NORPA’s signature theatrical style.

Jex Lopez

Dunoon and District Gazette
Arts
Jex Lopez is mostly known as a singer songwriting pianist. A vaudevillian cabaret noir artist, her music and style is intrinsically tied to her identity as a queer Latina Meztiça with Portuguese Indian heritage.

First published in December 2011, the Dunoon and District Gazette is an established, free gazette featuring news from community groups and items of local and general interest.

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