FOR celebrated Bellingen-based artist Polly Wells the idea of the Bellingen Shire Arts Trail Weekend is, in a word, “brilliant”. “One intensive weekend focusing on the visual arts in all their glorious diversity!” Polly and 50 more artists are part of the event planned for November 10-12. She will be

WITH a dream of bringing people together to connect and uplift the community, the Atman Yoga Festival is coming to the Bellingen Showgrounds from 17 -19 November. “With over 20 different yoga teachers sharing their unique gifts, from Acro to Kundalini, Tantra and Vinyasa, Lyengar and Kirtan, there is something

COFFS City Rotary Club’s annual Wine and Beer Tasting Festival is back. This will be the twenty second year the club has presented this popular fundraising event, with locals returning year after year. Continuing as organiser responsible for the event since its launch in 2001, City of Coffs Harbour councillor George Cecato

LOCAL artists presented an outstanding standard of work for the Fine Arts Exhibition now showing at Coffs Harbour Creative Arts Group’s (CHCAG) Showground Gallery. In opening the exhibition CHCAG, President Sue Roberts welcomed everyone to the prize presentation and thanked the many local artists for submitting their works of art.

SPRING’S Coffs Coast Long Lunch is themed ‘Local Women In Food' and will be held on October 28 at Shearwater Restaurant in Coffs Harbour. This unique Coffs Coast event connects guest speakers from the local area with an engaged audience of food lovers who are locals and visitors from outside the

ALTHOUGH this year has been a very dry one with most days bright, dry and sunny, organisers of the Buskers Festival are always worried that wet or stormy weather can put a dampener on the event, particularly the ever-popular Kids Day scheduled for Park Beach Reserve next week on Thursday

ONE of the mainstays of Buskers Festivals over the past eight years has been adult comedy nights, with hundreds of locals and visitors eagerly looking forward to the program each year. This year will be no different when grand master of ceremonies Lindsay Webb hosts two spectacular two nights at the

AMY Bradney-George grew up in Bellingen and has returned with a goal to produce professional, dramatic works. “Bellingen is my home and nurtured my creativity, so it’s full circle to come back after years of performing all over the place,” she said. Amy and her husband, Seton Pollock, will

BUSKERS Festival organisers are very proud to announce they will be supporting up to nine community organisations through this year’s festival. ”In the lead up to the event, we get dozens of calls from individuals and community groups who want to be part of the show and while we can’t

THE Sunshine Club will hit the Jetty Theatre stage on Thursday 7 September from 7:30pm. First performed in 1999, The Sunshine Club is back in 2023 with a new cast telling the same important story of exclusion and prejudice in our recent history, and of the community resistance that would