2025 Cartoon of the Year – The Pied Piper by Rod Emmerson (NZ Herald).
THE winners of the 2026 National Rotary Cartoon Awards will be announced on Saturday 12 September at the official opening and awards ceremony at the Cartoon Gallery on City Hill. The competition, now in its 38th year, is open to cartoonists and illustrators and run by the National Cartoon Gallery in Coffs Harbour in conjunction […]
Some of the prize winners Annie Houston, Ann Connor, Joy Bentley, Jos Challis, Susan Massey and Marion Beer.
Some of the prize winners Annie Houston, Ann Connor, Joy Bentley, Jos Challis, Susan Massey and Marion Beer. Attending the opening are Joy Bentley, Ivinnie Brown, Meg Johanson, Ann Connor and Ruth Allen. Highly Commended in the Acrylic section, Ding the Dog by Maggy Hayne. Second Prize Mixed Media winner Isabella Brandli with Neighbour, presented […]
Coffs City staff and councillors.
Coffs City staff and councillors. Brad Daymond and Glenn Aylwood drum up the fundraising. The 42 Band entertains. FOLLOWING a magnificently successful Mayoral Ball benefiting the charity Coffs Kids, the City’s Mayor, Cr Nikki Williams, is sharing the committee’s plans for where the fundraising total of more than $70,000 will go. The 2026 Mayoral Ball […]
Jonathan Guthrie-Jones and Anthony Petrucci with show dancers.
Jonathan Guthrie-Jones and Anthony Petrucci with show dancers. Shake Dancers. Photos: Supplied. SHAKE Rattle‘n’Roll – the only 50s and 60s rock ‘n’ roll show of its kind – is set to tour to the Mid North Coast with shows in Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie later this month. Currently in Victoria, the company is heading […]
Visitors in the Archibald Prize 2025 exhibition at Yarrila Arts and Museum featuring (left-right) Fiona Lowry Ken Done, Angela Brennan Bridget in my painting.
Visitors in the Archibald Prize 2025 exhibition at Yarrila Arts and Museum featuring (left-right) Fiona Lowry Ken Done, Angela Brennan Bridget in my painting. Visitors in the Archibald Prize 2025 exhibition at Yarrila Arts and Museum featuring (left-right) Fiona Lowry Ken Done, Angela Brennan Bridget in my painting. Visitors in the Archibald Prize 2025 exhibition […]
Pianist Glenn Amer. Bass-baritone Warwick-Fyfe. Alan Gee presents a free pre-concert poetry reading. COFFS Harbour Music Society’s upcoming concert, The Great Aussie Songbook and the Empire, presents a unique blend of Australian history and patriotism with a little opera thrown in. It is a compilation of widely appealing music that the Society’s president, Dr Leigh […]
Coffs Coast Pipes and Drums Life Members: Dale Rogers, Robert Partridge and Cathy Suley.
COFFS Coast Pipes and Drums have awarded Life Membership to three long-serving band members. Dale Rogers, Robert Partridge and Cathy Suley were honoured at the band’s Annual General Meeting on 22 July. Dale Rogers has been part of the band family since 1996, when her daughter took up tenor drumming and her husband, Geoff, joined […]
‘Mountains in the Sky’ by Leonie Harrison. ‘Garland of ribbons’ by Leonie Harrison. EXHIBITING her own art for the first time, Nambucca resident Leonie Harrison, aged in her seventies, presents Painting with Papers at Nexus Gallery in Bellingen. Ms Harrison will host a free ‘meet the artist’ event with wine and nibbles between 12-noon – […]
Coffs Harbour Men’s Shed music coordinator Vern McAlpine.
COFFS Harbour Men’s Shed music coordinator Vern McAlpine has been conducting an audit on the Shed’s numerous bands. While he has found most of the members happily pumping out their music, one of the bands is in keen need of a keyboard or saxophone player. They are confident of finding the required member and until […]
FOURTEEN years after first capturing Australia’s attention on Australia’s Got Talent, The Wolfe Brothers remain one of the nation’s most successful country rock acts. After finishing runners-up in 2012, the Tasmanian brothers secured management and a recording contract before joining Lee Kernaghan on the road, opening his shows and performing in his band for a […]
