August 20, 2025
Rainbow Coffs Harbour invites community to join Pride Walk Rainbow Coffs Harbour celebrates Pride Month.
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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, […]

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Parents urged to attend rescheduled youth gambling workshop Coffs Harbour Neighbourhood Centre is hosting a GambleAware parenting workshop.
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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 […]

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Winter art bonanza at Yarrila Arts and Museum teamLab’s ‘Flowers and People - A Whole Year per Hour’, 2020. Photo: Martin Browne Contemporary.
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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 […]

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STEM conference for girls on World Environment Day There’s a critical STEM teacher shortage in northern regional NSW.
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STEM conference for girls on World Environment Day

Employers struggle to find STEM qualified professionals. Bellingen High school students exploring water quality monitoring at an OzGREEN workshop. Despite growing demand, the number of students studying Year 12 physics, chemistry and biology has halved over the past 30 years. There’s a critical STEM teacher shortage in northern regional NSW. OzGREEN is bringing its STEM […]

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Holden Special Vehicle Show and Shine attracts performance cars Show and Shine judge Bob Carle, Holden HSV Nation Club President Lucas Jacobsen and National Holden Motor Museum’s Chris Paynter.
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Holden Special Vehicle Show and Shine attracts performance cars

Show and Shine judge Bob Carle, Holden HSV Nation Club President Lucas Jacobsen and National Holden Motor Museum’s Chris Paynter. A display Holden HSV receives a quick spruce up after the journey from Dorrigo. A well-attended Show and Shine event at the Bunker’s National Holden Motor Museum. Two exhibitors ‘tech talk’ the differences in Holden […]

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Sam Neill and Bryan Brown join Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival lineup Sam Neill.
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Sam Neill and Bryan Brown join Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival lineup

HIGH profile Australian actors Sam Neill and Bryan Brown will appear live on stage at the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival in a conversation style event. The last-minute addition to the program was coordinated by festival patron Brown, who emerged from his appearance last year committed to securing high profile guest speakers. The 2025 Festival, […]

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Local radio station 2Air FM raises funds for Cancer Council The Cancer Council’s Kerrie Piper with prizewinner 2Air FM’s Ken Capps.
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Local radio station 2Air FM raises funds for Cancer Council

THE Biggest Morning Tea Cancer Council fundraiser, run by local radio station 2Air FM, got off to a great start on Saturday 24 May after the event was postponed due to heavy rain. “Mother Nature was really kind, she gave us a nice sunny day with only a gentle breeze, which made for a perfect […]

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Artists share an ‘Eclectic Selection’ of what matters to them Jai Waters (centre) and friends with her Eclectic Selection works.
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Artists share an ‘Eclectic Selection’ of what matters to them

Jai Waters (centre) and friends with her Eclectic Selection works. Printmakers Barb Newby, Annie Olive, Karen Thio and Margie Hawtin with their “Woopi” mini prints. Jo and Barb Newby with Robin Appleby’s “Beach Bodies”. Roz Stone with her painting “Winter on Collins”. WOOLGOOLGA Art Gallery’s current exhibition “Eclectic Selection” is a fitting title for a […]

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