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A Night of Bollywood
A singer dances within, a dancer sings within. Parvyn Singh is both, and exudes a seemingly effortless grace and purity in her movement and voice. A colourful and exotic end of year treat. A celebration of Indian culture both traditional and contemporary. This show offers traditional and contemporary. This show offers traditional Indian music featuring tabla, sitar and vocals as well as beautiful classical Indian dance contrasted by vibrant, energetic Bollywood dance routines.
Anh Do - SOLD OUT
**THIS PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT**
ANH DO - THE HAPPIEST REFUGEE LIVE!!
Anh Do’s bestselling book The Happiest Refugee has made readers laugh and cry, and was described by Russell Crowe as “the most surprising and inspiring read I have had in years.” Anh’s stage show takes it a step further, combining stand-up comedy with real life stories, photos and filmed pieces to retell his amazing story.
When one of Australia’s most talented comedians delves deep into his own life’s joys and sorrows, the result is an unforgettable night at the theatre that leaves an audience uplifted and quite simply experiencing... happiness.
“irrepressible good humour, infectious energy and bright optimism”…The Sydney Morning Herald
“the happiest audience experience I have ever had”…Arts Hub
“Two thumbs, five stars, show of the season” www.themusic.com.au
Like a Rhinestone Cowboy
Multi award winning performer, Darren Coggan, returns to his country roots 'Like A Rhinestone Cowboy', delivering the vocal authenticity and guitar prowess of the great Glen Campbell. In a personal reflection, Darren respectfully honours the indelible voice behind the golden hits of the 60’s and 70’s including Gentle On My Mind, Wichita Lineman, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Try A Little Kindness, Galveston, True Grit, Southern Nights, Rhinestone Cowboy and many more.
“Glen Campbell has always been an inspiration to me, from a very early age, he was the reason I wanted to be a country singer, in fact my parents have cassette tapes of me singing Rhinestone Cowboy at the age of about 4. I had the honour of touring with Glen on his Australian tour in 1997, opening up his show each night as a fresh faced, twenty-four-year-old from Wagga Wagga. Glen went out of his way to make me feel welcome, watching my performance from the wings each night and encouraging me to take the road less travelled and be myself.” Reflected Darren.
During a career that spanned six decades, Campbell sold over 45 million records. His guitar touched the landmark recordings of his time. That’s his rhythm line on Sinatra’s ‘Strangers in the Night’, he played bubble-gum riffs for the Monkees; his guitar rings out on the ‘Viva Las Vegas’ soundtrack album by Presley and, alongside his voice, his guitar playing grooved on the Beach Boys’ landmark album ‘Pet Sounds’.
He was a rare breed in the music business, a hybrid stylist at home in both country and pop music, a chart-topping singer and hit television host, a prime mover in the creation of the country crossover phenomenon that made the careers of Kenny Rogers and many other artists possible.
At the age of 81, following his long and courageous battle with Alzheimer's disease, Glen Campbell took his final bow, but the legacy he leaves behind is expansive, songs that the whole world sang along with, now, remarkably re-created live, by Darren Coggan.
Chamber Concert 3
Ensemble Liaison & Flinders Quartet
Chamber Concert 4
Daniel Dries Pipe Organ Recital
Festival Pass - Albury Chamber Music Festival
A Festival Pass gives access to all 7 performances over the course of the festival at a discounted rate!
Young at Heart - Mark Vincent
Australian Global Entertainment presents
Mark Vincent in concert
“Young At Heart” tour 2018
The #1 tenor in Australia and is the #1 highest selling tenor in the history of Australian music. What an achievement!. Mark Vincent, Australia's most loved 24 year old is bringing his stunning new show “Young At Heart” to venues around Australia in 2018.
Be mesmerized by the astonishing power and beauty of what is hailed as the best tenor voice in Australia.
Mark’s career is going from strength to strength. He has released 6 studio albums and a Greatest Hits collection by the time he was 20 and sold a half a million albums. Mark’s 8th Album was released in 2017, A Tribute to Mario Lanza, with a duet with Mario as it’s main feature. In 2017 legendary star Julie Andrews chose Mark to play the role of Freddy, Eliza Doolittle’s love interest, in her production of My Fair Lady throughout Australia, to which Mark received rave reviews. In December, Mark completed a sold out tour of the United Kingdom with world famous soprano Katherine Jenkins OBE. Performing at iconic venues such as London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Repertoire in his “Young At Heart Tour” will include Granada, Young At Heart, On The Street Where You Live, Music Of The Night, Nessun Dorma and marvelous duets such as All I Ask of You and many more beautiful songs...
Backed by The Serenade Orchestra and guest soprano Opera Australia’s Clarissa Spata.
Quotes
Dame Julie Andrews – My Fair lady - 2016 “As soon as I heard Mark’s voice, I know I had found my Freddie!”
5 ACE Awards (Best male vocal + Performer of the Year)
Marina Prior & David Hobson 'The Two of Us' - Encore Show
After selling out their 2018 show well in advance, Soprano and Tenor powerhouse legends of Musical Theatre & Opera, Marina Prior & David Hobson, announce their 2019 ENCORE SHOW at the Albury Entertainment Centre. Such is their vast repertoire and careers’, there will be new songs and stories, so best you come along.
‘The 2 Of Us’, ‘Up Close & Personal ‘ is accompanied by renowned pianist David Cameron, in a two-hour intimate performance. Marina and David will perform their classics from productions such as The Phantom of The Opera, Les Miserables, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and La Boheme, to name but a few - as well as favourites from their award-winning albums.
“It’s great that we have the opportunity to take the show to the people in areas around the country that we may not have otherwise been able to get to with some of the bigger productions we perform in.’ - Marina.
‘With the Up Close & Personal show, its like you’re in our living room and we’re in yours, singing both yours and our favourite songs with a few funny career stories thrown in.' - David.
David Hobson is one of Australia’s best-known operatic tenors, musical theatre performers and recording artists. He has sung many roles for Opera Australia, performed lead roles in musical theatre, sung for the Queen, featured at the AFL Grand Final, Carols by Candlelight, Spicks and Specks, Dancing with the Stars, It Takes Two and has been a presenter on Foxtel’s Arts Channel, Studio.
Marina Prior is regarded as Australia’s leading lady of musical theatre. She is best known for her lead role in The Phantom of the Opera. She has also performed with international stars including Richard Harris and Jose Carreras. Well known for her Carols by Candlelight performance each year, she was recently seen on the ABC TV series The Divorce. In 2006, Marina was honoured with an induction into Australia’s 100 Entertainers of the Century.
Hear the classics, their recorded favourites and a hint of humour thrown in! Definitely a show not to be missed!
Click here to view a brilliant new promo video of Marina & David 'The 2 Of Us' 2019 Tour.
Peter Williams Psychic Medium
Bookings: 16+ only, no babies
After a string of sell-out performances across Australia, hugely popular psychic-medium Peter Williams is coming back to Albury!
For one night only Peter Williams will demonstrate his amazing ability as he contacts and communicates with loved ones on the other side and will be delivering their messages to the audience live on the night.
Peter Williams is internationally known for his heartfelt and accurate insights and continues to amaze audiences with his ability to communicate with loved ones in the Spirit world. Peter has been reading for clients in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Japan for over 10 years. During a live event Peter uses his special ability to connect with souls that have passed over and help bring closure to those in need.
"Amazing! Last night was my first experience to see Peter live and I'm so glad I did. If you get a chance to go to an event you won’t be disappointed but don’t forget your tissues some connections turn on the waterworks others connections are so hilarious you will cry from laughing so much. Recommend Peter 110%"
“You’re amazing, I was expecting so much sadness as this was my first show but your ability to turn sad and even horrible things into a positive through your guidance is spectacular! Looking forward to seeing you again “
Peter is highly popular and is booked out months in advance. He also publishes his online monthly newsletter ‘Insights’ where people who have subscribed can gain understanding of the current energy patterns, be updated on the latest events and blogs as well as be in the running to win a free reading.
To sign up, read more information, watch videos of Peter in action live on stage or to book a session visit Peter William's Website here
Cosi
Albury Wodonga Theatre Company present
Cosi by Louis Nowra
One of the most famous modern Australian plays and movies, Cosi is set in 1971 in a burnt-out theatre adjoining a mental institution in Melbourne, and tells the story of an unconventional production of Mozart’s opera CosìFan Tutte. Lewis, a recent University graduate, finds himself employed to direct a play with a group of patients in a mental institution. Lewis’ University education has not prepared him for such a demanding task; a challenge increased by the explosive blend of personalities within the group. The characters’ relationships are the basis for the tensions and conflicts of the play but are also responsible for much of Così’s humour.
John Coghlan's Quo & Ted Mulry Gang
This will take you back to the heady days of Countdown when denim was interlaced with satin.
Featuring more than an hour of songs from the classic era of “Status Quo”, who had a string of chart-topping albums, and an almost endless stream of hits which included “Pictures of Matchstick Men”, “In My Chair”, “Paper Plane”, “Caroline”, “Down Down”, “Rain", “Wild Side Of Life”, “Rockin' All over the World”, and many more, performed by John Coghlan’s Quo.
Add to this, a full set of songs from the Ted Mulry Gang (TMG), a band heavily influenced by Status Quo, performing all their greatest hits “Jump In My Car”, “Dark Town Strutters Ball”, “Crazy”, “Jamaica Rum”, “My Little Girl”, “Heart Of Stone”, and many others from the mid 1970s when they dominated the Australian Radio Charts.
The Robertson Brothers 60's Variety Show
Relive the good old days the The Robertson Brothers 60s Variety Show featuring direct from Jersey Boys, Simon Brook McLachlan. An amazing interactive live Variety TV style show, featuring hits from The Bee Gees, Frankie Valli, and The Four Seasons, The Everly Brothers and The Hollies.
Take a trip down memory lane with hit after hit that will have you singing, dancing, laughing and crying! With half a million record sales, 22 MO and ACE Awards, along with two ARIA and Golden Guitar nominations, The Robertson Brothers are unquestionably Australia's leading vocal duo.
Oh What A Night... You'll have!
2018 NSW Seniors Christmas Concerts
Come along and attend the free NSW Seniors Christmas Concerts which will be touring Albury on Wednesday 28 November.
Sing your way into Christmas with the multi-talented Damien Leith, who has recorded platinum-selling albums and been nominated for multiple awards including ARIAs, Golden Guitar and MTV Australia video music awards. He will be joined on stage by Charlotte Rhiane and Nicholas Gentile, graduates of the NSW Schools Spectacular.
The NSW Seniors Christmas Concerts are presented by the Department of Family and Community Services.
TRIAGE! A Nursing Cabaret
Ever used an IV pole as a stand-in microphone while belting out Beyoncé in the ICU?
Welcome to the curious world of Triage! A Nursing Cabaret, A show that explores the sometimes cruel, occasionally pleasant, always stressful world of in your face hospital medicine, as seen through the eyes of Zuleika Khan - Greenroom & Broadway World Award winner, Division 1 Registered Nurse and Soul Diva! It will leave you with your heart rate elevated, pupils fully dilated and an insatiable urge to laugh incontinently! Don't miss out on your tickets!
If only every visit to the Emergency Room could be so entertaining - Theatre press 2017
Fearlessly Energetic ***** - Glam Adelaide 2017
A Magician on the Piano **** - Out in Perth 2017
Multi-talented--- each musical number is a treat! **** - In Daily 2017
Recommended children 16+ with adult supervision
Land & Title
The collection of the Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) consists of over 2000 objects and works of art. It is a collection of diversity and strength, and like any sustained collection, it wears its history proudly. The careful examination of any such collection is an act of cultural archaeology that variously reveals through-lines of focus, moments of great achievement or generosity, curiosities, spasms of eccentricity, maligned histories, and reasons for deserved civic, personal or institutional pride. The MAMA collection is no different in this regard.
This spectrum of inquiry and endeavour is no easy thing to map. As such, the current hang of the MAMA art collection, under the banner of Land and Title, does not attempt a comprehensive survey. Rather, it seeks moments of connection between art works that bridge divides of time, style, medium and origin.
Land & Title is an exclusively Australian exhibition, and takes its title from Albury’s Land and Title Building, which was renovated to form part of the MAMA redevelopment, and now contains the Joss Family Galleries that house the exhibition.
Artworks that relate directly to artist’s experience of the local area are included, with Russell Drysdale’s Convoy on a road near Albury, and Mary Jane Griggs Arboreta series, featuring prominently. These sit within an exchange between artworks that consider the complex history of Australia more broadly. Gordon Bennett’s print works Poem and Penetration explicitly address the violent colonisation of this land by British forces, Yorta Yorta artist Uncle Phil Murray’s collection of spears signposts Aboriginal resilience whilst celebrating traditional practices of object making, whilst Gloria Petyarre’s Leaves provides a modest, yet beautiful example of the artist’s defining painterly motif, elongated daubs of paint that suggest the dynamism of nature and speak to practices of bush medicine. Also included are works by Tom Roberts, Fred Williams and Ian Fairweather, three male artists who, although separated in time and celebrated in their own unique ways, present markers of colonial histories of Australia that inform an understanding of the ongoing centrality of land to Australian cultural sensibilities.
These works of art provide a frame upon which ideas that relate more closely to subjective inspection, material exploration and the nature of narrative and storytelling can be supported. Artists in this section of Land and Title include Bea Maddock, Aida Tomescu and Mike Parr, three artists who have greatly informed recent histories of Australian printmaking, photographers Olive Cotton, Tracey Moffatt, Bill Henson and Justine Varga, as well as Asher Bilu and Gunter Christmann, John Coburn and Jimmy Njiminjuma.
The works of the nineteen artists presented in Land and Title collectively offer a story of the complexity, difference and strength of recent Australian art practice, and the relationship between the art and the environment in which it was made.
Mechelle Bounpraseuth: Westside Story
Peek inside the cupboards of suburban Australia in Westside Story. Sydney artist Mechelle Bounpraseuth creates unique still life scenes in ceramics, as she reminisces on her own childhood growing up as a first generation Australian in the south west of Sydney.
One might imagine opening a cupboard in the artists' family home, finding condiments like soy sauce, fish sauce, her dad’s empty Nescafe jars filled with MSG, garlic and oil, along with ‘typical’ Australian condiments like Heinz tomato sauce, Vegemite and Gravox. The cupboards represent part of the artists story, growing up in public housing with Laotian refugee and migrant parents.
Bounspraseuth uses these iconic objects and scenes to highlight the cultural connections that are shared in the mundane and banal details of everyday Australian life.
Bounspraseuth completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School, and is currently undertaking a Masters of Fine Arts. Although primarily working with ceramics, her practice also includes drawing, photography, artist books and zines. She has exhibited at the National Gallery of Australia, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Craft Victoria and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Immortality
Humans love telling stories, and need to tell stories.
Stories can persist long after the humans and environments that shaped that story are long gone and forgotten.
After we, ourselves, are gone from this earth - how will we (our lives, our culture) be remembered?
Can we keep the parts of ourselves and our culture that we deem precious alive?
Can we rely on humans in the future continuing our story? Whose version will be told?
What resources will future humans draw upon to understand and interpret our present moment?
Immortality investigates the role artists play in forming these artefacts for the future. Through objects, photography, wall sculpture, etchings, multimedia installations and film, Immortality presents the work by seven living artists as well as works by no longer known artists from the southern Asia-Pacific region. Immortality poses a reflection on ideas of truth, relativism, the archive, and a speculative role for contemporary objects presented to the future.
et al. is an artists’ collective that investigates ideas which relate to group culture and behaviour. In their installations, scientific experiments, political ideologies, the classroom and the most extreme of religious rituals are dismantled and exposed as mind-control mechanisms. Their work, tran-scryption (2011), will be presented in Immortality in its third iteration.
Newell Harry’s work stems from the experiences and observances of travelling between Australia, Vanuatu and South Africa, and is caught up in the vernacular words, phrases and textures of these distinct places. With a mischievous and subversive sense of humour, Harry works across a wide variety of media, including installation, drawing, printing, sculpture, photography and neon, picking over the artefacts of colonial exoticism and the slippages of language that occur between different cultural contexts. Immortality presents Newell's series (Untitled) Nimoa and Me: Kiriwina Notations, 2014-2015, made whilst in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea.
Susan Hiller excavates the overlooked, ignored, or rejected aspects of our shared cultural production, with influences from Minimalism, Fluxus, Surrealism, and anthropology. Her varied projects collectively have been described as investigations into the 'unconscious' of culture. Hiller's The Last Silent Movie (2007 / 2008) presents recordings of extinct and endangered languages spoken by now deceased men and women.
Andrew Liversidge makes conceptual objects and videos. He is interested in the romantic quality of the conceptual gesture. Recurrent themes include abstraction and the collapse of finite models, the infinite and its relation to metaphysics and epistemology, limit, order, repetition and paradox. Immortality includes Liversidge's 2017 series of 15 plaques entitled Death.
Born in Auckland, Dr Fiona Pardington is of Maori and Scottish descent. Her artistic practice illuminates traditional and forgotten objects such as the Māori ancestral treasures in Taonga Māori (Rotorua Museum) and other historic objects such as hei tiki (greenstone pendants) and the now extinct huia bird. Immortality includes two of Pardington's life cast photographs from the series Ᾱhua: a beautiful hesitation (2010).
Tobi Wanik is from Korkor Village, Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea and was known to be active in the 1990s. Tobi's metal Wahgi shield Fantom (c.1998) was used after its production in inter-tribal fighting, with the enamel painted image of the Phantom adding a contemporary symbol of invincibility, with the glossy enamel paint adding further indications of strength and vigour.
Unknown artists (Asmat)
The Asmat live along the vast system of rivers that flow into the Arafura Sea in southwestern New Guinea. In Asmat culture, there is a close relationship between humans and trees, with wood considered as the source of life. Wood carving is held in high esteem among the Asmat, a tradition that has continued to the present day. The wooden Asmat war shields presented in Immortality carry figurative carvings and painted detail that calls upon ancestral imagery, endowing the shields with both the power and protection of the ancestors.
John Gillies is well-known for his multi layered and complex video works and installations. Gillies is interested in stories that can affect the future, as the future is in the act of being made from fragments of the past. Immortality includes his cinematic work Witkacy & Malinowski: a cinematic séance in 23 scenes in which he brings to screen an imagination of an actual exchange between the Polish artist Witkacy and the anthropologist Malinowski on a train from Brisbane to Toowomba.
Spring Thursdays
Bringing live music and art happenings to you each and every Thursday evening this Spring at MAMA. We're open until 7pm every Thursday, refresh this page for the latest updates on the weekly program.
Thursday 4 October
Tonight we celebrate the final week of Leon deMontignie: The Life and Death of an Unknown Artist with live music from double bassist Angus Johnson. The Spring Bar will be open with an offering of local wine & beer, from 5.30pm until museum close.
Thursday 11 October
Take a personalised tour with MAMA Curator Michael Moran as we delve deeper into Immortality: artefacts for the future. The tour will commence at 6.00pm in the MAMA Foyer, and provide opportunities for questions and a deeper dive into several of the works. Afterwards, enjoy the atmosphere outdoors in QEII Square with the first Twilight Markets for the season. MAMA's Spring Bar will be open from 5.30pm until museum close at 7.00pm.
Thursday 18 October
An evening with Ruth Little, Murray Conservatorium pianist, as we enjoy the first day of Nghadi Ngurang: My Home, a collaborative student project exploring Wiradjuri art and artists.
Thursday 25 October
Join us for a special evening edition of ARTCHAT, a monthly art conversation hosted by the members of MAMA (moMAMA).
ARTCHAT's special guest this evening will be Michael Moran, MAMA Curator. Michael will share insight into his career as an artist and now curator, and also his plans for the future.
Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline: The Visitors
Murray Art Museum Albury presents The Visitors (An exercise in Plant Agency), an artistic exploration of human being’s relationship with plants. Multidisciplinary artists Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline invite us to reconsider how we interact with the plant world - instead of using plants for our own gain; they propose practical ways in which we can prioritise the needs of plants above our own.
Instead of just doing things to plants could we do things for them, or even with them? Could we become agents for plants? Real estate agents? Travel agents? Secret agents?
The installation presents a kind of mobile training camp containing various devices and props to assist in the practice of ‘plant agency’, together with a video projection of the artists using these plant-empowering devices and acting as plant agents.
The artists will undertake a residency at the Albury Botanic Gardens as part of this exhibition and lead workshops with high school students to produce a Plant Agency Manual that will help the rest of us experiment with these techniques outside the Museum.
Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline
The Visitors ( An exercise in Plant Agency), 2017
Cypress & gum trees, biodegradable plastic, soil, plant seeds, steel, leather, construction scrim, video.
Installation view, Blue Mountains City Art Gallery
Photo: silversalt photography
Image courtesy the artists
About the Artists
Multidisciplinary artists Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline work across architecture, installation, social process and situated public art. Through an interest in modes of mobility, occupation and ownership, their work engages with specific places and asks if the social, political and ecological relationships could be re-framed or re-arranged. They make objects, shelters, vehicles, tools and devices not as end products in themselves but as ‘props’ to catalyse the formation of new relationships within a particular place or process.
Sentient : Redfin BBQ and Panel Conversation
Sentient is a research project exploring cultural and environmental issues concerning the Murray River, and its place in our local culture and history. Artist James Nguyen and curator Abigail Moncrieff have spent the past 12 months having conversations with the local community exploring ideas around migration, borders, history and the environment in the Murray Region.
The project is culminating in an exhibition in MAMA's Foyer, launching with a celebration on Saturday 10 November.
Redfin BBQ, 12.00pm
James and Abigail invite you to join them for a Redfin BBQ in QEII Square from 12pm. The redfin has been sourced from Lake Hume with the assistance of local fishing groups. While delicious, redfin is an introduced species that is threatening the native fish population. By sharing this meal, we will assist the vulnerable ecology of the Murray River, and also create an opportunity for a conversation about the project.
Sentient Panel Conversation, 1.00pm
Following the BBQ, a panel conversation will be held within the Sentient exhibition in MAMA's Foyer. The panel will be moderated by Sentient curator Abigail Moncrieff and will track the development of the Sentient project and the conversations it has generated around the Murray River in the Albury/Wodonga region.
The panel members are artist James Nguyen, MAMA Director Bree Pickering, acclaimed Australian artist and Wiradjuri woman Lorraine Connelly-Northey and a representative from Bonegilla Migrant community.
This event forms part of the Albury Wodonga Sustainable Living Festival 2018.
The Immortals: Halloween Party
'Tis the season of the undead, as we open our doors after hours to celebrate an evening of ghoulish glamour.
Come dressed in your immortal best, as we present an evening of dark arts and live music from the Spooky Ukies and The Red Empire.
The Immortals Bar will host an offering of deadly mocktails to complement our adult beverages.
An alternative way to spend Halloween, in the final week of our current major exhibition, Immortality.
Please book your free ticket online, places are limited.
Note for families:
This event contains slightly spooky themes, but is designed to be family friendly, particularly the first half.
The first act, The Spooky Ukies, is a group of kids and teens and will perform from 6.15pm - 6.45pm.
The evening will get progressively darker and the music a little heavier when The Red Empire take the stage at 7.00pm.
Its a little dark and a little alternative, but not too scary for little people.
Nghadi Ngurang: My Home
Nghadi Ngurang: My Home is an exhibition of work created by students from Brocklesby Public School, Gerogery Public School, Jindera Public School, Table Top Public School, Tumbarumba Public School, Yerong Creek Public School and Wewak Street School who participated in the Nghadi Ngurang arts & language education program. Nghadi Ngurang is a successful partnership between MAMA, the Art Gallery of NSW and the NSW Department of Education's Arts Unit.
The exhibition forms part of the broader Nghadi Ngurang program that builds on the education resource Home produced by the Art Gallery of NSW.
Students have been encouraged to learn about nationally recognised Wiradjuri artists, as well as given opportunities to engage locally with arts, language & culture.
Some of the works in the exhibition are the result of a workshop with local artist Brendon Kennedy. Students created eel traps, weaving, and drawings inspired by the artists.
Nghadi Ngurang students also explored the works of Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Jonathan Jones and Tommy McRae, by exploring through the MAMA collection and the Home education resource. Students enjoyed a virtual tour of The Art Gallery of NSW and participated in a virtual workshop with Jonathan Jones. Wiradjuri language lessons were also held as part of the program, led by Ruth Davys and Dr Pettina Love.
Nghadi Ngurang will continue to be offered to interested schools in the Wiradjuri language area next year, hosted by MAMA in partnership with The Art Gallery of NSW and the NSW Department of Education's Arts Unit.
Sidney Nolan: Ned Kelly Series
Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series depicts the story of Australia’s most infamous outlaw in a sequence of 26 paintings.
Nolan’s starkly simplified silhouette and vibrant colour strokes brought this early colonial mythology to life, with Nolan’s depiction quickly forming part of Australia’s shared iconography.
The series is a masterclass on Australian history and the development of a new figuration and landscape depiction in Australian art.
Sidney Nolan
Ned Kelly, 1946
from the Ned Kelly series 1946 - 1947
enamel paint on composition board
90.80 x 121.50 cm
Gift of Sunday Reed 1977
Sidney Nolan
The Trial, 1947
from the Ned Kelly series 1946 - 1947
enamel paint on composition board
90.70 x 121.20 cm
Gift of Sunday Reed 1977
Ned Kelly series is on tour from the National Gallery of Australia.
Take a Guided Tour of the MAMA Collection
Take a free one-hour guided tour of the MAMA Collection with one of our knowledgeable guides.
Groups of five or more, bookings essential. Please call (02) 6043 5800 to arrange a suitable time.
Mini MAMA's Messy Mornings
Want to develop your little one's artistic eye from a young age? Join this relaxed morning program with our professional arts educators!
Enjoy age-appropriate tours of current exhibitions, hand-on art workshops, and an opportunity to interact with other art-loving families. Children will also enjoy art-based play, stories, and songs.
Running weekly on Wednesdays during NSW school terms, this workshop is suitable for pre-schoolers (aged 2-5 years) accompanied by an adult.
Maximum of 10 children per session
Tech Talks
Drop in with your tech issues and our friendly staff with assist you.
Tech Talks
Drop in with your tech issues and our friendly staff with assist you.
Handcrafting
Join the Handcrafting group at the Lavington Library. Bring along your current projects and get help or give advice to other handcrafters with their projects. Dip into our swap basket and donate your unused handicraft bits and bobs.
Enjoy the social environment and a cuppa while you work on your masterpieces.
Handcrafting group meets on the Third Monday of the Month from 1.30 pm to 3.00 pm at the Lavington Library
Creative Colouring for Adults
Relax and chat with new friends and old as you enjoy the much loved pastime of colouring in.
Creative Colouring for Adults
Relax and chat with new friends and old as you enjoy the much loved pastime of colouring in.
Preschool Storytime
For ages: For children aged 3 - 5 years
It's never too early to start enjoying books and stories. Bring your little ones along to share songs, rhymes and all the fun of a great story.
Preschool Storytime
For ages: For children aged 3 - 5 years
It's never too early to start enjoying books and stories. Bring your little ones along to share songs, rhymes and all the fun of a great story.
Tiny Tots Storytime
For ages: For the under 3 year olds
It's never too early to start enjoying books and stories. Bring your little ones along to share songs, rhymes and all the fun of a great story.
Preschool Storytime
For ages: For children aged 3 - 5 years
It's never too early to start enjoying books and stories. Bring your little ones along to share songs, rhymes and all the fun of a great story.
Preschool Storytime
For ages: For children aged 3 - 5 years
It's never too early to start enjoying books and stories. Bring your little ones along to share songs, rhymes and all the fun of a great story.
Baby Bounce
For ages: For littlies aged 0 - 12 months
It's never too early to start enjoying books and stories. Bring your little ones along to share songs, rhymes and all the fun of a great story.
Baby Bounce
For ages: For littlies aged 0 - 12 months
It's never too early to start enjoying books and stories. Bring your little ones along to share songs, rhymes and all the fun of a great story.
Homework Help: Multicultural Program
Are you from the CALD community and needing some help with schoolwork? Bring your reader, maths homework, projects you’re working on or anything that you need help with for school. Each session has qualified volunteers to help CALD students with homework and assignments.
Weekly during NSW School Terms.
Bookings for all programs: 0429 117 949 or email awce@vrb.org.au
Albury Wodonga Cultural Exchange
AWCE initiates and supports activities and events in our libraries that have mutual benefit for new community members from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, their cultural groups and for the wider Albury Wodonga community.
Friends of the LibraryMuseum Book Sale
Browse through our selection of pre-loved books and find a treasure.
All funds raised help the Friends of the Libraries and Museum purchase new items for the collection.
A Few of Our Favourite Things: Highlights from the AlburyCity Collection
AlburyCity’s Museum and Social History Collection documents the unique identity and heritage of Albury and surrounding communities. To celebrate our diverse collection and the theme of Local Government Week 2018, ‘the power of community’, this display showcases objects selected by members of the Albury and District Historical Society. It highlights both the power of community and the curators’ own interests and passions. Visit this exhibition of favourite objects and perhaps you’ll find your own.
Unearthed: What lay beneath QEII
QEII Square has always been a busy part of Albury’s centre. Public buildings, businesses and offices have been built, used, demolished and replaced over and over again, and they always leave traces in the earth. This exhibition showcases some of the significant and interesting material from recent excavations in the QEII cultural precinct.
Join us for the exhibition launch and refreshments on Saturday 18 August at 2.00pm. RSVP 6023 8333.
Featuring special guest speaker, Sarah Myers, director of ArchLink, and lead cultural Heritage adviser for the MAMA archaeology excavation.
Image credit: Raised time ball in front of the Albury Telegraph Station, c.1862–1868, AlburyCity Collection, ARM 15.843
Billet Doux: Art Prize and Exhibition
Proudly presented by Murray Arts, Billet Doux is the region’s only open-entry small works art prize and exhibition.
With the opportunity to showcase their work though a “Sweet Note” measuring no more than 8x10”, Billet Doux attracts artists across the entire Murray Arts footprint and at every stage of their career.
Immerse yourself in the awe-inspiring diversity of our region’s dynamic artistic community. Choose your favourite and vote in the People’s Choice award. #BilletDoux2018
Join us for the launch of this exhibition on Saturday 20 October, 2.00pm
Refreshments provided
RSVP: 02 6023 8333
Billet-Doux is an initiative to showcase the diversity within the Murray Arts footprint with support from AlburyCity and the LibraryMuseum
International Games Week
International Games Day has now become International Games Week! People all over the planet will join together to celebrate the mutually-reinforcing power of play and learning. Whether you are competitive or not come along and have fun playing games including chess, monopoly and scrabble. You can bring along your own board game to share as well as going on line to join in with other game players. All ages and levels welcome – just drop-in.
Tune Out!: November
Bookings: 12-25
This one is especially for newbies to Retro Lane. Enjoy an afternoon of lawn games, pool, Playstation and live music. Come down, check out the space, kick back and chill.
Friday Night Gigs: October
Bookings: 12-25
Into live music? Retro hosts regular gigs throughout the year in a range of genres. We proudly support local artists and provide a safe place to enjoy live music free of charge. All events are drug and alcohol free with great food for sale at the café.
Friday Night Gigs: November
Bookings: 12-25
Into live music? Retro hosts regular gigs throughout the year in a range of genres. We proudly support local artists and provide a safe place to enjoy live music free of charge. All events are drug and alcohol free with great food for sale at the café.
Retro Clothes Swap
Bookings: 15-25
Time to get swishing @ Retro Lane! Come in, exchange the clothes you don’t want for tokens then use them to buy your ‘new-to-you’ wardrobe. All items must be in good condition
May Gibbs: Celebrating 100 years
It’s 100 years since May Gibbs’ adorable characters found their way into the homes and hearts of Australians, and Albury LibraryMuseum is celebrating with a free travelling display featuring May Gibbs’ iconic artwork.
May Gibbs was Australia's first full-time, professionally trained children's book author and illustrator, and the display features reproductions of some of her most beloved characters including the gumnut babies and the brothers Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.
According to State Library of NSW Senior Curator Alison Wishart: “Generations of Australians have fond memories of growing up with the gumnut babies and their friends, and passed the books they read as children down to their own children.”
The gumnut babies became an instant hit when they first appeared on 5 December 1916 in a booklet published by Angus & Robertson, and the gum-blossom babies soon followed.
The display explores May Gibbs’ early work, the characters of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Ragged Blossom and Little Obelia, her process and examples of how the war influenced her work.
“May Gibbs was a keen environmentalist and was also fiercely patriotic”, Ms Wishart said. “Not many people know that during the First World War she designed a series of postcards and bookmarks featuring her popular characters to send to the soldiers overseas.”
Image Credit: Illustration from Gumnut Babies by May Gibbs, 1916. PXD 304/1/1
Kool Skools Awards Night
Every year, Kool Skools provides the opportunity for 30 local young people to record their own music at Studio 52 in Melbourne. Come along to the 2018 CD launch featuring live music from the bands. The project is funded by AlburyCity Council.
Selfie: Amateur and Candid Photography from the AlburyCity Collection
What was your first camera? How do you capture your memories now? Lavington Library’s new exhibition is a unique and personal look at lifestyle through the 20th century with a focus on the relationship between an everyday person and their camera.
The Museum & Social History Collection holds a large number of home, social and street photography and homemade films as well as a selection of cameras, including Box Brownies and Polaroids. Selfie showcases a wide selection of home and street photography that capture the memories of the region.
Join us for the launch of the exhibition on Thursday 18 October, 6.00pm
Refreshments provided
RSVP: 02 6043 5645
Armistice: Albury's Armistice Celebration
At 7.30pm on Monday 11 November 1918, Alderman H.G. Davies appeared on the balcony of the Town Hall clutching a telegram addressed to the Daily News and shouted to the people on Dean Street that the Armistice had been signed and the war was over!
This exhibition examines life in Albury at the time of the Armistice. It looks at the immediate impact of war, peace and a soldier’s return home. Albury, like the rest of Australia, was no longer at war. World War One had significant impact on Albury and this display looks at the way the people celebrated, welcomed the returned soldiers and commemorated those that were lost.
Join us for the launch of the exhibition on Friday 9 November, 11.00am
Refreshments provided
AlburyCity Council Foyer
RSVP: 02 6023 8333
Don't miss the talk Assessing the Impact of World War One on Albury and District on Thursday 25 October
Assessing the Impact of World War One on Albury and District
Just ahead of the centenary of Armistice Day, two local historians explain how they go about trying to
assess the impact of the First World War on Albury and District. Doug Hunter is author of Albury at War 1914-1919. Dr Bruce Pennay is from Charles Sturt University.
The session is organised by the Two-state History Education Network (THEN) and will be of particular interest to schools. Both speakers will refer to e-resource materials they have developed with Albury LibraryMuseum.
Refreshments provided
Links with the Armistice Exhibition
Happy Birthday Playschool!
Come inside and find all your favourite Play School characters in an exhibition that brings our childhood stories alive. Happy Birthday Play School: Celebrating 50 Years honours Australia’s longest-running children’s television program and its special place in people’s hearts. Featuring Big Ted, Little Ted, Humpty and Jemima – plus the Rocket Clock and all the windows – this exhibition is a wonderful chance to consider the changing nature and experience of Australian childhood.
A travelling exhibition from the National Museum of Australia developed in collaboration with the ABC
© Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2016
Don't miss our special Teddy Bears' Picnic on 1 December in QEII Square.
Big Ted and Friends invite you to a picnic!
Bring along a picnic, your family, your friends and your favourite teddy bear to QEII Square and enjoy some summer fun with Big Ted and friends as we celebrate the launch of the Happy Birthday Playschool: Celebrating 50 Years exhibition.
© Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2016
River of Stories Writing Competition Awards Presentation
Bookings: School aged children
It’s still not too late to enter this competition for young writers, with entries closing on 21 September.
Proudly sponsored by the Rotary Club of Albury Hume and Hume Bank, with additional support from Dymocks and the Commercial Club Albury
Book in for the WAM Festival young adult workshop with graphic novelist Mandy Ord to hone your writing skills on Saturday 8 September, 10.00am – 12.00pm.
More details at writearoundthemurray.org.au
Kidsmake: Something Spooky is in the Air
Bookings: school age children
Halloween is coming. We'll make some spooky papier-mâché creations just for fun.
KIDSMAKE
A weekly after school maker space where children can enjoy a variety of activities including art, craft and technology.
Bookings: 02 6023 8333 or learningoutreach@alburycity.nsw.gov.au
Kids-make: Sustainability month - let's reuse, recycle and have fun!
Bookings: Bookings essential 6023 8333 learningoutreach@ alburycity.nsw.gov.au
Bookings: School age children
KIDS-MAKE:
A weekly after-school maker space where children can enjoy a variety of activities including art, craft and technology.
Thursday 1 November
Is it rubbish? No, it’s a potential pot for a new plant to grow in! We’ll get creative with old containers.
Thursday 8 November
A good garden needs decorations. We’ll use recycled materials to create garden ornaments.
Thursday 15 November
OK, we’ve made plant pots and decorations … what next? Today we learn how to grow seeds, seedlings and take cuttings from old plants.
Kidsmake: Play School is coming
Bookings: 8 plus
Play School is coming,
We all love Play School, and this summer the Happy Birthday Play School exhibition is coming to the LibraryMuseum. Help create decorations to celebrate the arrival of Big Ted and friends!
KIDSMAKE: A weekly after-school maker space where children can enjoy a variety of activities including art, craft and technology.
Bookings: 02 6023 8333 or learningoutreach@alburycity.nsw.gov.au
Garage Sale Trail
AlburyCity is bringing Garage Sale Trail to the local area! Taking place across one jam packed weekend on October 20 & 21, Garage Sale Trail is the nation’s biggest weekend of garage sales. It’s a great way to declutter, make some money and meet people in your local community.
For sellers
Put your sale on the Garage Sale Trail for free. You can register as an individual or with friends. Groups such as schools, community groups and local charities are also encouraged to register.
For shoppers
Plan your day by searching the map! It’s projected that over 2 million items will be listed for sale and reuse across the country, so join your neighbours and grab a bargain.
For more information visit Garage Sale trail.
Pop Up Shop
Visit the LibraryMuseum’s Charlie Chaplin Pop Up Shop to take home your own unique piece of Charlie memorabilia. The Pop Up Shop will also stock moustaches and bowler hats for use in our Guinness World Record Attempt.
Visit our Charlie Chaplin page for full details of all festival events.
Retro Lane Café Charlie Meal Deal
While visiting the Capturing Charlie: Collecting A Cinema Icon exhibition, don’t forget pick up your voucher for 15% off at Retro Lane Cafe.
Your voucher is valid from 22 September to 18 November during regular cafe hours.
Just make sure you have your voucher with you to redeem the offer.
Visit our Charlie Chaplin page for full details of all festival events
Educational Program Support
Charlie Chaplin is regarded as one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. His life offers a unique lens through which students and teachers can explore major events of the past century, including the ascendancy of film as a form of art and entertainment; the rise of fascism; WWII and the influence of the Cold War.
For primary school students studying the ways in which technology and entertainment have changed, the exhibition offers the opportunity to engage in learning around the phenomena of silent film and its influence on culture. Chaplin’s poverty stricken early life in the slums and work houses of late 19th and early 20th Century London also offers students a glimpse into the experiences of children in the past and lends itself to exploration of how attitudes towards child welfare have evolved over time. ‘Chaplinmania’ also presents an early example of celebrity culture, pointing to the origins of contemporary fascination and idolisation of pop-culture icons, offering an opportunity for students and teachers to reflect on how this culture has emerged.
A critical examination of the artefacts presented in the exhibition offers senior history students the unique opportunity to use primary sources to explore representations of the man and his myth(s), and uncover differing perspectives on the life and legacy of Charlie Chaplin. In particular, students may consider how inclusion and omission of sources influence historical representations and the influence of subjectivity in this process. Additionally, for senior students studying major events of the 20th Century, Chaplin’s creative works and personal life were heavily influenced by many of the significant debates of the time. These controversies include criticism of Chaplin’s absence from WWII, his famous satirical representation of Adolf Hitler in the film, The Great Dictator, and his later Cold War exile from America under accusation of Communist sympathies.
Contact us:
To book or discuss an education tour or program please contact the Learning & Outreach Team:
Email: learningoutreach@alburycity.nsw.gov.au
Phone: 02 6023 8333
Visit our Charlie Chaplin page for full details of all festival events.
Exhibition Floor Talks
Join us for a floor talk and guided tour of the Capturing Charlie: Celebrating A Cinema Icon exhibition.
The talk on Saturday 6 October will be Auslan interpreted.
Bookings essential on 02 6023 8333 or via email.
Visit our Charlie Chaplin page for full details of all festival events.
Happy Hour with Charlie
Bookings: Over 18s
Don’t miss your chance to try a delicious Charlie Chaplin inspired cocktail!
Simply visit the Capturing Charlie: Collecting A Cinema Icon exhibition for your exclusive voucher for a Charlie Chaplin Cocktail at Q Manhattan at Happy Hour price. Valid until 18 November
Visit our Charlie Chaplin page for full details of all festival events
Capturing Charlie: Collecting A Cinema Icon
At the height of his career, Charlie Chaplin was one of the most famous people on the planet. With over 80 film releases between 1914 and 1967, his films were enjoyed across Australia and the world, including at our local picture palaces. Chaplin left a great legacy to the performing arts, to cinema and to comedy, and his iconic image remains recognisable to this day.
Capturing Charlie: Collecting A Cinema Icon tells the story of this cultural icon through the collection of Chaplin enthusiast Paddy MacDonald. Featuring posters, postcards, stamps, cigarette cards, magazines, books, dolls, original artwork and more, the exhibition charts the life, work and image of one of the twentieth century’s most recognisable figures.
This exhibition is the collection’s first ever large-scale showing in Australia, and highlights Paddy’s love of Charlie born of a childhood spent watching his films and time spent with the Chaplin family in Switzerland. Numbering many hundreds of pieces, the collection demonstrates the significance of this iconic performer and also the esteem with which he is held by our collector.
Chaplin was the son of music hall performers whose London childhood was marked by poverty and adversity. His life was marked by great success and joy but also great hardship. Yet despite these challenges, Charlie taught us to smile, laugh, and enjoy life. Albury LibraryMuseum is delighted to celebrate the life, work and legacy of this legendary actor, comedian, composer, film maker and humanitarian.
Capturing Charlie: Celebrating A Cinema Icon is part of Albury’s Charlie Chaplin Festival, which features a wide range of programs and events including talks and tours, a film screening, and a Guinness World Record Attempt. And don’t forget to visit the LibraryMuseum’s Charlie Chaplin Pop Up Shop to take home your own unique piece of Charlie memorabilia.
Visit our Charlie Chaplin page for full details of all festival events.
Author Talk - Mick Kramer - Now What
Bookings: Phone 02 6023 8333 or email librarymuseum@alburycity.nsw.gov.au
Join Local Author Mick Kramer as he launches his newest book Now What?!! .
Now What?!! tells the story of the English people from their beginning as Germanic pagans who were invited to Britain to aid of Vortigern, the King of the Britons, in 449 A.D. He needed help in repelling the marauding Picts and Scots who had been raiding Britain ever since the Romans had left in 417 A.D... The story continues with the arrival of St. Augustine in Britain with a team of 40 monks and the converting of the pagans to Christians. The story continues to the end of the reign of King Alfred the Great!
Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Light refreshments will be provided afterwards.
Music in the Gardens - The Cope Street Parade
Bring your family and friends, pack a picnic and kick back to good ol' Australian swing by The Cope Street Parade.
The Parade meld together gypsy swing with New Orleans traditional jazz to create a style of music that sounds both new and old yet uniquely Australian. Influenced by Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Father John Misty and Leadbelly.
The Cope Street Parade are a high energy music ensemble. With tender ballads and rollicking dance numbers they capture the spirit and warmth of early music styles and successfully blur the lines between the contemporary and the classic.
www.facebook.com/copestreetparade
Staged at the Albury Botanic Gardens, a limited number of chairs and tables are provided with ample space for your own picnic rug and cushions. For those that don't pack a picnic you can purchase Paella, gourmet burgers, ice-creams, coffee and sip on craft beers from Bridge Road Brewers and local wines from Posh Plonk. BYO alcohol is permitted. Music in the Gardens is a smoke-free event.
Music in the Gardens is a series of free outdoor concerts staged at the Albury Botanic Gardens during Spring and Autumn presented by AlburyCity and Johnsons MME with support from the Murray Conservatorium.
QEII Twilight Market - special edition forming part of the Albury Wodonga Sustainable Living Festival
Meet the makers, innovators and upcyclers who represent the future of the sustainable economy. Taste local street-food, craft beer and wine. Enjoy live music, diverse stalls and a live performance of ‘King and Queen of Green Say No to Plastic’ by the Eaton George Theatre Company.
Learn how to make beeswax wraps, wicking pots, an easy solar dehydrator, fermented sauerkraut, lip balm and toxic free cleaning spray. Stalls and workshops feature edible and medicinal native plants, stone tool and string making, backyard chooks, boomerang bag-making, tips on managing produce gluts and a children’s planting activity. Take part in the Retro Clothes Swap, turning your pre- loved clothing into a ‘new’ wardrobe.
This special edition market is presented by Halve Waste, Jacob Toyota and WAW Credit Union.
It's all part of the Albury Wodonga Sustainable Living Festival. A month-long festival of inspiration, innovation and conversation around sustainable living. For the casual, committed or just plain curious. To stay up to date with the festival program we invite subscribe here: www.alburywodonga.gov.au/slf
QEII Twilight Market
Meet the makers and innovators at this popular boutique market - a special Christmas edition. Attracting around 100 stalls, shoppers can expect unique and quality goods ranging from hand-made designs to local produce. In addition, visitors can taste a selection of street-foods, craft beers and local wines amid live music from our Carols line-up and featured band, Danny Phegan and Longreach.
Researching and Commemorating the 'Spanish flu' - Workshop
The pneumonic influenza or ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic that circled the world in 1918–19
left few communities untouched. Join us for this practical workshop, where we will
review the bigger picture of the pandemic before considering how its impact might be
commemorated locally. Participants will explore the value of local sites and collections
in uncovering the flu’s personal, social and enduring effects. We will then turn to
practical outcomes: how might you transform your research into stories relevant to
your community? From monuments and walking tours to websites and booklets, use
this workshop to map out practical projects for the centenary year of 2019.
The workshop will be facilitated by Dr Peter Hobbins, a medical historian at the
University of Sydney and a Councillor of the Royal Australian Historical Society, with
Mary Sheehan, a professional historian whose work includes histories of nursing and
the social impact of the ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic.
Presented by the Albury and District Historical Society Inc.
Author Talk - Heather Ward
Bookings: At the LibraryMuseum Loans desk or phone 02 6023 8333
It’s not a travel guide or a story about a midlife crisis. It’s most certainly not a story about a fat man named Bob. This is a memoir about a sassy blonde on a road trip around Australia on her Harley Davidson - Fat Bob, towing a camper trailer, Mr T!
Together revisit the sources of Miss Heather’s entertaining stories on her nomadic adventures.
Light refreshments provided.
Signed books will be available on the night to purchase
Book Launch - Howard Jones: Startling Stories
Bookings: 02 6023 8333 or librarymuseum@alburycity.nsw.gov.au
Join local author and fromer journalist Howard Jones as he launches his newest book Startling Stories From Albury.
This is a follow-up to Howard's successful Astonishing Tales From Albury published last year.
Purchase a signed copy of the book.
Light refreshments provided.
Funky Chicken Mission InCROCible
Bookings: 02 6023 8333 or librarymuseum@alburycity.nsw.gov.au
What news has our friend Funky Chook in a flap?
And why have his friends interrupted his nap?
Strap yourself in for a tropical trek
through the great Aussie outback.
Join Funky Chicken with friends, old and new,
in their wildest ride yet… out beyond Humpty Doo!
Funky Chicken returns in his whackiest adventure yet! Join him, and his creator Chris Collin, at the LibraryMuseum as he explores literacy through fun and funkiness with a show for the whole family.
Music in the Gardens presents Radical Son
His name is on the tip of the music industry’s tongue and with the release of his new album Cause & Affect, Radical Son is sure to be this year’s breakthrough name. He is a strong man with a stronger stage presence and a mesmerising voice that at once seduces the soul and punches the heart.
From hip hop roots to soulful social statement Radical Son is a man with a purpose. His music, both potent and sublime, conjures uncompromising visions and merciless lyrics of where we’ve come from and what could be. From a troubled past to songs of humility and healing his journey is universally understood.
His moving lyrics, original rhyme style, haunting melodies and captivating spoken word are just some parts of his magic - the rest is inexplicable and best experienced firsthand.
www.facebook.com/followradicalson
Staged at the Albury Botanic Gardens, a limited number of chairs and tables are provided with ample space for your own picnic rug and cushions. For those that don't pack a picnic you can purchase Paella, gourmet burgers, ice-creams, coffee and sip on craft beers from Bridge Road Brewers and local wines from Posh Plonk. BYO alcohol is permitted. Music in the Gardens is a smoke-free event.
Music in the Gardens is a series of free outdoor concerts staged at the Albury Botanic Gardens during Spring and Autumn presented by AlburyCity and Johnsons MME with support from the Murray Conservatorium.
Border Wars: Final Year La Trobe Students Making Military History
The border region was affected by the triumphs and defeats of WWI and WWII war, not only overseas, but also closer to home. Actions on the home front included the region coming together to help the war effort and support the local community in times of difficultly. In this exhibition La Trobe University Albury/Wodonga students delve into wartime experiences in Albury/Wodonga with a focus upon local organisations supporting the 13th Battery during The Great War, the tragic Wodonga incident of 1943 and the distinctive impact that military settlements have had shaping the region.
Launch and student talk
When: Wednesday 24 October, 11.00am
Where: Albury LibraryMuseum, Community Wall
When: Tuesday 23 October – Tuesday 11 November
Price: Free
Bookings: 02 6023 8333 or librarymuseum@alburycity.nsw.gov.au
Image: AlburyCity Collection - postcard of victory parade Post Office tank - ARM 90.363
Culture & Country Burraja Bushcrafts
Bookings: Bookings Essential 0428 565 195 wodongalandcare@gmail.com
Learn about bushfoods and traditional land management techniques on the Murray River with Brendon Kennedy – cultural tour guide, traditional land manager and craftsman. Experience the craft of stone tool making and create a traditional coolamon. Lunch included.
Wildflower Walk ‘n’ Talk
Join members of the Wodonga Urban Landcare Network as Parklands ranger Danny Jones leads this Walk ‘n Talk into the beautiful bush reserve on Castle Creek Rd.
In the springtime this is one of our most spectacular wildflower areas. Learn about the restoration work that has been done over the years to restore and improve this important habitat for threatened species.
This is an easy bush walk on earthen tracks in undulating - but not particularly steep - country. We will walk approx 1500m in total.
Please dress for the weather including hat, long pants and covered shoes. Morning tea provided, so leave time for a cuppa and chat after the walk.
Waste Wise Open House
See easy tips for reducing, reusing and recycling as you wander through every room of this display house. From waste-wise cleaning tips and ways to avoid single-use plastics through to turning mandarin peels into fire-lighters, egg shells into snail repellents and discovering eco-friendly alternatives to plastic toothbrushes, razors and washing pegs.
Albury Show Sustainability Zone
See easy tips for reducing, reusing and recycling as you wander through every room of this display house. From waste-wise cleaning tips and ways to avoid single-use plastics through to turning mandarin peels into fire-lighters, egg shells into snail repellents and discovering eco-friendly alternatives to plastic toothbrushes, razors and washing pegs.
Harvest Walk ‘n’ Talk
Join the Bhutanese Community Farm Rangers for a guided walk, talk and morning tea. Find out what’s being harvested in this multicultural garden for spring and learn the secrets of growing a wide range of vegetables in the local area.
Repair Café Albury Wodonga
Learn how to fix your household items with the help of experienced volunteer repairers. Bring up to three household items including furniture, clothing, battery-operated appliances, scratched CDs-DVDs, books, bikes and blunt garden tools like secateurs.
Learn to Cook with Native Ingredients
Join us to collect fresh native herbs, spices and vegetables from the 200 species at Bunyip Hollow. Together we will turn our freshly picked ingredients into a luncheon feast. Dine on the freshest, most delicious paddock to plate experience.
We will start the day with a tour of the organic farm and wildlife sanctuary, Bunyip Hollow. Hear the history of the farm and learn about the rare and endangered wildlife using this urban oasis.
Then we go collecting fresh native herbs, spices and vegetables from over 200 species grown onsite. Learn how to grow and utilise these unique produce. Later together you will learn simple but delicious recipes, using your freshly picked ingredients to create a luncheon feast.
Menu will include; Plantain crisps, native herb custed Kangaroo loin, lemongum smoked fish, wattleseed pancakes and more. Sitting under the 400 year old red river gums we will dine on the freshest and most delicious paddock to plate experience, Aussie style at its best.
Please wear sturdy shoes and dress appropriately as this a working farm.
Wanton, Wild and Unimagined
Wanton, Wild and Unimagined is a playful exhibition of sculptured recycled plastics that stirs the imagination and evokes environmental reflection. Townsville environmental artist Alison McDonald has spent hours manipulating the humble plastic bottle, and collecting thousands of lids to make a variety of unimagined and impossible creations inspired by plants, oceans and by John Wyndham’s book The Day of the Triffids.
McDonald reuses plastics in an attempt to raise questions about the relationship we have with plastic and its supposed sustainability. Wanton, Wild and Unimagined is a travelling exhibition organised by Umbrella Studio contemporary arts, toured by Museums and Galleries Queensland.
Introduction to Energy Management
Bookings: Bookings Essential 1300 361 967 (ask for the Energy Efficient Business team) energy.saver@environment.nsw.gov.au
Sign up for this course to learn how to lower your overall energy use and create an energy action plan for your business.
Lighting & Equipment Upgrades for Small Businesses
Bookings: Bookings Essential hello@powertosave.nsw.gov.au
Find out about the latest energy efficient lighting and other equipment upgrades through the NSW Government programs. Bring along your bill for advice.
Heating & Air Conditioning: Reduce Your Costs
Join a free webinar to find out how to improve your heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems for immediate cost savings for your business.
Tiny House Talk
Learn about the advantages of Tiny House developments over standard housing practices in the building industry with Tiny House expert, Lubosh Hanuska.
Spotlighting & Stag Watching for Squirrel Gliders
Go spotlighting and stag watching (counting) in one of Albury's prime habitats with ecologists Dr Damian Michael and Dylan McWhinney.
Free with optional low cost BBQ provided by Thurgoona and District Lions Club - pay cash on purchase.
Habitat Garden Tour & Native Plant Propagating Workshop
Garry and Teresa-Ellen’s garden is home to native wildlife from micro-bats and ring-tail possums to frogs, reptiles and many birds, thanks to their selection of largely native plants, their pond and bird baths, rocks and logs. Learn how to attract native wildlife to your garden during a guided tour, then participate in a native plant propagation workshop, focusing on seed and cuttings. Led by Fleur Stelling with notes provided.
Birds ‘n’ Bugs by the River
Join Parklands’ Rangers in the field for hands-on water quality testing and a short walk down to the first bird hide on the Kiewa River.
Energy Made Easy for Households - LibraryMuseum
Bookings: Bookings Essential 02 6023 8183
Find out how you can save on your electricity bill using discounted energy efficient appliances and lighting upgrades for your home. Bring your electricity bill for individual advice. Free energy saving kits for attendees.
Energy Made Easy for Households - Lavington Library
Bookings: Bookings Essential 02 6023 8183
Find out how you can save on your electricity bill using discounted energy efficient appliances and lighting upgrades for your home. Bring your electricity bill for individual advice. Free energy saving kits for attendees.
Energy Saving for Households & Small Business Thurgoona
Bookings: Bookings Essential hello@powertosave.nsw.gov.au
Find out how you can take advantage of discounted energy efficient appliances and lighting upgrades for your business and/ or home. Information will be available on NSW Government programs including business lighting retrofits, household downlight replacements and air conditioner upgrades for home and business.
Energy Saving for Households & Small Business LibraryMuseum
Bookings: Bookings Essential hello@powertosave.nsw.gov.au
Find out how you can take advantage of discounted energy efficient appliances and lighting upgrades for your business and/ or home. Information will be available on NSW Government programs including business lighting retrofits, household downlight replacements and air conditioner upgrades for home and business.
Albury Waste Management Centre Tours
Bookings: Bookings Essential education@halvewaste.com.au
It’s National Recycling Week! See first-hand what happens to the waste you generate from your home including general waste, recycling and organic bin contents.
Learn how commercial waste is processed and find hidden treasures at the reuse shop including pallets turned into furniture.
Tours for school students, years 3 to 12, available by appointment.
Clare Bear Food Wraps at Birallee
Bookings: Bookings Essential 02 6059 2590
Upcycle your pre-loved fabric to make reusable food wraps using Clare Bear's unique premium blend. Bring your own pre-cut 100% lightweight cotton fabric. Participants get to take home their own reusable food wraps (2 small, 2 medium, 1 large).
Baranduda Reserves Walk ‘n’ Talk
Bookings: Bookings Essential. Meet between the Reserves and Saffron Cr, Baranduda 0428 565 195 wodongalandcare@gmail.com
Join native plant specialist Fleur Stelling and the newly formed Friends of the WRENs Baranduda to identify plants and wildlife of Baranduda. Explore the Stringybark Reserve and the Old School Reserve followed by morning tea. Bring a water bottle and a hat and wear closed shoes.
Fat Goose Farm Tour – Self-sufficiency in Food Production
Fay and Charlie moved to Fat Goose Farm with a view to becoming self-sufficient in food production. Visit their farm to find out how you can achieve the same end. It boasts a large thriving vegetable garden complete with two hot houses, a mandala garden and several hundred fruit trees. The combination of generous electricity feed-in tariff, growing nearly all their own food, saving their seeds and hard work means they live on one of the most cost efficient properties around.
Tools for Change - Effective Advocacy
Bookings: Bookings Essential 0428 565 195 wodongalandcare@gmail.com
Join the renowned Alpine Valleys Community Leadership Team to find out how to make a difference in your community.
If you want things in your community to be different, these workshops will help you find out where and how to start; the pitfalls to avoid, the paths to really make change happen and how to bring people along with you.
With so many community groups fighting to be heard by government and funding bodies, how does your group stand out from the crowd? Join this workshop to uncover a road map for cutting through bureaucracy and representing your community group effectively. Includes light lunch.
Gateway Island Discovery Tour
Join Parklands’ Rangers for a guided walk along the Murray River trail to discover the natural environment. Bring your water bottle and wear covered shoes. Meeting place confirmed on registration.
Wildflower Ride ‘n’ Talk
Bookings: Bookings Essential. Meet on the Rail Trail south side of the Thomas Mitchell Drive crossing. 0428 565 195 wodongalandcare@gmail.com
Explore the remnant and revegetated bush corridor of the High Country Rail Trail with native vegetation specialist Fleur Stelling. A one-hour return cycle followed by morning tea. BYO bicycle, helmet and water bottle and wear closed shoes.
Halve Waste: Answering Your Questions on Waste
Visit the Halve Waste stall at the Albury Upcycle and Reuse Shop. Get the answers on recycling and how to reduce your waste to landfill.
Bike, Chair & Garden Tool Repair Demonstrations
Learn how to fix a wobbly chair or stool, clean and sharpen garden tools and conduct basic bike maintenance. While you’re there check out the extensive range of goods at the tip shop, including racks of pre-loved bikes.
Carevan Kids Cooking & Caring Long Lunch
Join Carevan Kids Cooking and Caring Students for a community long lunch prepared and cooked by year 9 secondary students from across Albury Wodonga. Share in a meal and enjoy live music, good old-fashioned games for the kids and plenty of conversation.
Grays Island Grubbing
Join Parklands Rangers for a guided 'Walk and Weed' session, removing environmental weeds on Grays Island.
Be prepared to get wet as we will either lilo or paddle across to Grays Island and spend a few hours woody weeding (cut and poison).
All equipment supplied. Please bring your water bottle, and wear covered shoes and a hat.
Meet at Doctors Point, off Doctors Point Road, East Albury, for an 8.30 start.
Interpreting your Patch
Bookings: Bookings Essential 0428 565 195 wodongalandcare@gmail.com
Workshop leader Fleur Stelling will show you how to create signage and features for your patch to inspire visitors to appreciate and care for it. This session is ideal for friends or Landcare groups with morning tea provided.
Sustainable Gardening on a Shoestring
Bookings: Bookings Essential by Friday November 16 2018 hfoster@wmyc.vic.edu.au
Join Helena Forster, School Community Gardener, and students from Wodonga Middle Years College to find out how to build up fertile soils, use non-toxic weed control, recycle, manage fruit fly, use worms farms and much more.
What Was That?
A reflection on what we use, how we use it, how we can re-use it and the effects on our environment. Plus artworks on threatened animals native to our region.