Sunday, April 20, 2025

Life & Arts

Tribute

Memorial for Sgt Doig

Chris Oldfield, Naracoorte Community News

Workshop

Watercolour workshop a wonderful evening

Ted Rogers, On Our Selection News
Arts
A watercolour workshop recently hosted by Heidi Jane Illustrations at the Wheatsheaf Store in East Greenmount proved to be a great evening for those in attendance. Organiser Heidi said the ladies enjoyed an evening of creativity and meeting new people plus a delicious meal served.

Letters from Home

Letters from Home: The queues of life move slowly

I am normally a peaceful sort of person. I like working in the garden, and taking life in general much as it comes. But the one thing that annoys me more than anything is having to wait in a queue.

Coming up

Dog trials

Music, trucks, fish, beef – Six big events coming to Richmond Valley

Contributor, indyNR.com

Heritage festival - Vic

At Australia’s largest heritage festival… Victorian stories unearthed

The Buloke Times
Event
Victoria’s biggest celebration of heritage returns on Friday, April 18, with the launch of the Australian Heritage Festival (Victoria) – presented by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and proudly supported by the Heritage Council Victoria and the Victorian Goldfields World Heritage Bid.

Heritage festival - Nimbin

After 52 years, what do we need now?

The Nimbin GoodTimes
Community
The Aquarius Foundation and friends have decided to hold an anniversary event each year that honours and celebrates the radical spirit created at the 1973 Aquarius Festival. The Aquarius Festival had the slogan 'You are the Festival', where people shared their skills, building domes and yurts, making food...

Rod Run

Forty out of forty for son of Rod Run founder

Narrandera Argus
Event
Steven Alldrick. Narrandera is a special place for me and my family not only going every year, being able to organise the run, but it is where I met my wife Kathleen and where I proposed to her. Kathleen and I met 24 years ago and have been together ever since ... Kathleen and I also share a passion for hot rods and custom cars ...

Music

From Tibet to Tamborine Mountain, singer-songwriter’s musical journey 

Contributor, ARR.News
Arts
Tibetan-Australian singer-songwriter Tenzin Choegyal is inviting music lovers to join his cultural journey in a one-night-only performance in the Scenic Rim. His Whispering Sky concert at the Vonda Youngman Community Centre ... 16 May, will showcase his extraordinary vocal ability and mastery of traditional instruments such as the lingbu (bamboo flute) and dranyen (three-stringed lute).

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Public art

“Kooka” has a new mate

The Buloke Times
Arts
Donald’s new kookaburra is the brainchild of Jodie Hollis, current chairperson of the Donald 2000 Committee. Jodie contacted the artist, Chris Fussell, who lives in Pokolbin, in the Hunter Valley ... The Donald kookaburra stands 5.5 metres tall, and took over two years to build.

Festival

Festival celebrates major milestone

Mark Collins, Corryong Courier
Festival
From humble beginnings on the banks of the Nariel Creek and in community halls throughout the district in 1995, the modern-day Man From Snowy River Bush Festival has grown to be the most successful event of its kind in Australia. The festival promises a weekend of rugged adventure and traditional Australian culture in the heart of the stunning Snowy Mountains.

Light Horse trail

Memorial ride rekindles memories and friendships

Mark Collins, Corryong Courier
Aging
Honor Auchinleck. As only a High Country town can, the people of Tumut turned out in force last week to welcome the Chauvel Australian Light Horse Memorial Ride to their war memorials in Richmond Park ... a small group of the Chauvel Australian Light Horse Memorial Ride returned with their horses to Tumut so that the oldies didn't miss out.

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Bush concert

Lawloit annual bush concert

Emily Gladdis, Nhill Free Press & Kaniva Times
Arts

Festival - harvest

Cane Harvest Festival reignites

Rodney Stevens, Clarence Valley Independent
Agriculture
The hottest place in the Clarence Valley on Saturday will be Maclean as the community comes together to celebrate the reignited Cane Harvest Festival. Harking back to yesteryear, the streets of Maclean will come alive on April 12 with activities, exhibitions, music, and people for the first time in more than 25 years.

Roses

Rosarian visits Hay

Contributor, The Riverine Grazier
Gardening
Rosarian, Kylie Dunn from the Orange Botanical Gardens Heritage Rose Garden visited Bishop's Lodge Heritage Garden last week as part of a wider garden tour. Travelling from Orange to Adelaide, Ms Dunn stopped in to visit with Anne Longworth and Coleen Houston...

New release

Who belongs to Lake Mungo?

Wilcannia News
History & heritage
Western Heritage Group's new book, Country, Ancestors and Responsibility records information that Elders shared with us in the 1980s, showing that five Aboriginal Culture Groups have ancient cultural ties to the Willandra Lakes region. That's a unique way of belonging; but there's an outreach to non-Aboriginal people too.

Gardening

Working bee at the Warrali St garden

Wilcannia News
Community
Paddie and Cliodhna held a community working bee at the Warrali St garden. Adults and children planted out seedlings, weeded, built up the compost piles and celebrated the healthy soil that’s been created from the old compost piles ... we learnt how to create an Indigenous Microorganism soil trap ...

Craft

You’ve got until May 3 to see embroidery that is out of this world at gallery exhibition

Susanna Freymark, indyNR.com
Arts
Elizabeth James has her artwork featured in the first embroidery exhibition at Cassino Gallery, Casino. Elizabeth lives in Casino and is part of the Lismore Group – Embroiderers’ Guild NSW that meets regularly in Lismore.

Flora

Yorke Peninsula’s native orchids

Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Flora
Chris Davey. Through this semi-regular column, I hope to share insights into the beauty and rarity of our local orchids — some of which are found nowhere else. Four species exist only on YP and are classified as endangered, with fewer than 100 plants remaining.
Midge Orchid

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Sculpture

Sculpture launch precedes lunch

Mark Collins, Corryong Courier
Arts
Khancoban came alive on Saturday with the highly anticipated Khancoban Long Lunch event and the opening of the local leg of the Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail and Snowy Hydro monument. Held at the town's community hall, the event was an afternoon filled with fine food, live music and a warm community atmosphere.

Mural

That’s a wrap!

Contributor, The Koondrook and Barham Bridge Newspaper

Festival

Denmark’s Brave New Works set to continue its long run

One of Australia's oldest festivals, Brave New Works, is 31 years old and will run from April 3-6. Beginning in the late 80s, Denmark Arts has presented the event every year since.

Filmmakers

Jordan’s “Our Land” film debuted on Sunday

Narrandera Argus
Film
Debut in the UK on Channel 4 on Sunday night was former Narrandera woman Jordan Bryon's latest film Our Land ... The film is produced by the Emmy and BAFTA-winning Hardcash Productions, and made by the BAFTA-winning filmmaker Jordan Bryon for the ITV Exposure strand.

Lucy heading home to share her South American adventures

Denmark Bulletin
Charity
Serena Kirby. Surfer, activist, writer and filmmaker Lucy Small will return to Denmark this month for the screening of her new film, Ceibo. Lucy grew up in Denmark and says that even though she lives on the East Coast she still calls Denmark home.

Aviation history

Warbirds over Toowoomba: a spectacular weekend of aviation history in scale

Ted Rogers, On Our Selection News

New release

New release – Eyes in the Sky – The history of aerial fire detection in Western Australia

Roger Underwood. Eyes in the Sky is the latest in the BushFire Front's bushfire history series. It tells the story of the development of the bushfire detection system in the southwest, and of the incorporation of fire spotting aircraft into this system.

Motoring history

Go with the Flo

Michelle Dorian, Tarrangower Times
History & heritage
Spotted in Maldon on Saturday 29 March: this gloriously coloured Model-T Ford, on its way to participate in the Florence Thomson Tour, which celebrates "the pioneering spirit and contribution of women to Australian motoring."

Letters from Home

Loquat flower

Letters from Home: The lazy loquat

Fran Cleland, ARR.News
Gardening
Memories of my youth way back in time in the Riverina. Riding my pony bareback round the roads, one of my favourite things to do was to reach out from his back and raid a neighbour’s loquat tree. Loquats are a small fruit, golden in colour, and have a sweet tangy taste, a large seed and are delicious.

Motoring history

Kaniva to Nhill by horseless carriage

Emily Gladdis, Nhill Free Press & Kaniva Times
History & heritage
John Williams. In April 1904, a tailor, E. Thomas brought to Nhill a French car in which a reporter from the Nhill Free Press was given a ride from Kaniva to Nhill. The type of car has been questioned: Contemporary reports suggested it was a De Dion Bouton and that Thomas was a Nhill local.

Aviation history

Record breaking flight

Krista Schade, The Riverine Grazier
History & heritage
Hay has a link to a record-breaking flight - inspired by love - from England to Australia, in the early days of international air travel and aviation. Cecil Arthur Butler was born in England in 1902 but immigrated to Australia with his family in 1910, settling in Lithgow NSW.

Commemoration

Uniting with ‘Brothers-in-Arms’

A Riverland commemoration involving former servicemen from three different countries provided an opportunity to reflect on the challenges of the Vietnam War.

History & heritage

104 year old May Craig guest speaker at Legacy in Horsham

Emily Gladdis, Nhill Free Press & Kaniva Times
Aging
Even today, at 104 years of age, 16 years later, May Craig still stands straight with her sense of humour still firmly in place and her national pride still unquestioned ... "When war was declared in 1939, our population was just over 6 million ..."

Festival

A celestial celebration comes to Lord Howe Island – Dark Sky Festival

Stephen Sia, The Lord Howe Island Signal
Festival
Lord Howe Island residents are invited to experience an unforgettable week of stargazing, unique dining and immersive science experiences at the inaugural Dark Sky Festival, running from 26th April to 1st May, 2025.

Festival

Stars & Bars Festival returns to Heathcote this April!

Contributor, ARR.News

Car club

Vintage cars at Wooroonook

The Buloke Times
History & heritage
On Sunday, March 30, a number of the North Central Vintage Car Club could be found on the banks of Lake Wooroonook, enjoying a meeting, lunch and celebrating an 80th birthday anniversary of one of its founding members.

History & heritage

St. Andrew’s honours century in Donald

The Buloke Times
Community
Isabelle Flett. Today as we celebrate the official opening of this building 100 years ago on the 19th of March, 1925, we give thanks for the faith and foresight of that early Presbyterian congregation. But, more than that, we celebrate the early settlers who saw the need 52 years before, to call the Rev. Hugh McKail in 1862 to minister to the pastoralists and their employees of the St. Arnaud-Richardson River area.
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Exhibition

The nature of art

Michelle Dorian, Tarrangower Times
Arts

Exhibition

Superb native orchid paintings exhibition

Contributor, Naracoorte Community News
Arts
Adair Dunsford. Edenhope artist, Meagan Lonsdale is currently exhibiting stunning pictures of the region’s native orchids at the Naracoorte Regional Art Gallery. Running alongside the “Recognition” exhibition of portraits by Harrow artist Ron Penrose, Meagan has presented highly detailed paintings showcasing the region’s orchids.

Photography

Theatre Stairway

Photos photos photos – repetition was the topic

Mim Rogers, Allora Advertiser
Community
Glenda Guy. Allora Photography Group met in Allora ... to have their February topic photos, Repetition, judged by PSQ Judge, John Stewart. Our members found they needed to look outside the usual for this subject, but the results have been most effective.

TV

Loxton’s Ben going it Alone

Murray Pioneer
Life
Sebastian Calderon. A well-known Riverlander will test his mental and physical limits as part of a popular reality TV series, premiering today ... “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to really find your limits and we don’t get that opportunity often": Ben Grieger.
Ben Grieger

Commemoration

Brothers in Arms Commemoration, 29 March 2025

Contributor, ARR.News
Event

Public art

RM Williams mural

Yates mural to become local Riverland attraction

Murray Pioneer
Arts
Sebastian Calderon. A large mural was recently completed at Yates Menswear, in Renmark, painted by local artist Jarrod Loxton, and portraying SA entrepreneur R.M. Williams.

History & heritage

‘Clarkie’ Memorial Statue officially unveiled at Ganmain

Narrandera Argus
Arts
The official opening of the ‘Clarkie" statue in Ganmain was held last Saturday in conjunction with the Ganmain Historical Museum’s open day. Renowned artist Andrew Whitehead designed and constructed the statue, which is named after Ganmain identity the late Kelvin ‘Clarkie’ Clarke as a tribute to the farmers and farm labourers who worked in Ganmain’s sheath hay industry.

Music

Leading the stray back into the game

Lorraine Dutton aka Lawless is a Barkandji woman, born in Broken Hill, raised in Bourke with a deep connection to Wilcannia. Back in 2017, Lorraine teamed up with Desert Pea Media (DPM) ... Lorraine has continued her work with DPM and is now being paid to improve her skills as a singer/ songwriter.

Art

Trinity’s board gains global recognition

Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Arts
Austinn Lane. A Wallaroo student has received world recognition for her hand-painted surfboard. With help from her neighbour, who had experience in fibreglassing, 11-year-old Trinity spent six months painting her board during the 2024 season in preparation for 2025.

Review

Review – Soaring with the Sugarbird Lady: The Robin Miller Story

Dianne Wolfer’s latest book about gutsy pioneering nurse and pilot Robin Miller offers such an inspiring, interesting and delightful read. "Soaring with the Sugarbird Lady: The Robin Miller Story" is a work of historical fiction based on the true story of Robin who, in the late 1960s, flew nearly 70,000km to administer polio vaccines to remote communities in WA’s north-west.

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