Artist Ken Pay recreated American Gothic, a 1930s painting by Grant Wood. Fabulous Fakes on show at the Coffs Harbour Showground Art Gallery. Fabulous Fakes on show at the Coffs Harbour Showground Art Gallery. People’s Choice winner, Wilderness, by Steve Beveridge. COFFS Harbour Creative Arts Group (CHCAG) held the official opening of its Fabulous Fakes […]
Superhero screening set to support local cancer patients
THE Can Do Cancer Trust is holding a movie night fundraiser featuring the film “Superman: The Legacy Begins” at Sawtell Cinema on Wednesday 16 July. “We’re calling on our community to come together for a great film and an even greater cause,” Chairperson of the Can Do Cancer Trust Julie Jardine told News Of The […]
Three new cutting edge exhibitions at Yarrila Place
YARRILA Arts and Museum (YAM) is currently hosting three exciting new exhibitions. “Interconnected Entities” combines the works of Patricia Piccinini, who melds human and animal forms to create surreal hybrid creatures, and Caroline Rothwell, who explores the relationships between humans and plants. Both are exhibiting 2-D, 3-D and video art works. “We are both inspired […]
Archibald Prize coming to Yarrila Arts and Museum
Archibald Prize 2025 winner ‘Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene)’ by Julie Fragar. Photo: Art Gallery of NSW, Jenni Carter. Winner of the Packing Room Prize 2025, Abdul Abdullah’s ‘No mountain high enough’. Photo: Art Gallery of NSW, Jenni Carter. THE Archibald Prize 2025 is coming to the Yarrila Arts and Museum (YAM) in 2026, showing from […]
Cedar and Steam returns to Glenreagh
Denise Hansford. Judith Hanson. Finley Stokes. GLENREAGH Memorial Museum’s annual art and photo exhibition, Cedar and Steam, will be held from 27-28 June in the Glenreagh School of Arts hall. “Come out to our delightful village for Cedar and Steam to encourage the participants, be delighted by the talented artistic works and to support our […]
Warm your heart at the Winter Solstice
THE Boambee East Community Centre is inviting the community to come together and warm their hearts at the Winter Solstice Family Festival. The Festival will be held on Saturday, 21 June from 1-8pm. Now a cherished annual tradition, the Winter Solstice Family Festival promises to be a joyful and magical celebration for all ages. The […]
Local authority John Ross to lead native orchid workshop
Cryptostylus (greenhood) orchid. Calanthe triplicata (Christmas) orchid. The swamp orchid Phaius australis. Purple spotted hyacinth orchid. Snake orchid (Cymbidium suave). THE Coffs Harbour Branch of the Australian Plant Society is meeting to look at the cultivation of native orchids on Tuesday, 10 June. Leading the discussion from 7.30pm in the Display Room at Coffs Botanic […]
Rainbow Coffs Harbour invites community to join Pride Walk
RAINBOW Coffs Harbour is holding its second walk during Pride Month for the LGBTQIA+ community, their friends, families and supporters. It is being held at the Jetty Foreshore on Saturday 14 June between 11am-12.30pm – with walkers to meet at the Lighthouse Memorial next to Jetty pier. The founder and director of Rainbow Coffs Harbour, […]
Parents urged to attend rescheduled youth gambling workshop
THE Gambling Harm Program at the Coffs Harbour Neighbourhood Centre, in partnership with GambleAware Mid and Northern NSW, has set a new date for its free parenting workshop. “With the recent wet weather and regional flooding, we couldn’t hold the workshop as planned,” program coordinator Leigh Watson said. “But we decided it was too important […]
Winter art bonanza at Yarrila Arts and Museum
THREE blockbuster exhibitions – including a mesmerising installation from an international art collective, surreal sculptures and mind-bending video – are heading to Coffs Harbour. The suite of winter showstoppers at the City of Coffs Harbour’s Yarrila Arts and Museum (YAM) will add another golden layer to the gallery’s growing reputation as a venue which showcases […]