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May-30 September ...
'In Translation' - by Lois Johnson
wood-block
prints ... exhibition at Jervis Bay Maritime Museum
until 30 November
(extended) ...
Robin Holliday (1932-2014), Abstract
sculpture exhibition - at Galiera Aniela, Kangaroo Valley
National
Program for Excellence in the Arts - seeking assessors
from arts and cultural professionals to reflect the Australian
community - link
to website
... it's aimed inclusive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples, people with disability, young people, or those from
culturally and linguistically diverse background and/or living
in regional and remote areas
N.B.
change of Communications & Arts Minister to Senator Mitch
Fifield (replaces Senator George Brandis). Impact on NPEA
and other Brandis initiatives not yet clear ...
R.I.P.
- E
L DOCTOROW -
ACCLAIMED
AMERICAN AUTHOR known for his works of historical fiction including
Ragtime (1975), Billy Bathgate (1989), The March
(2005) ... see also New York Times comment
Shoalhaven
City Arts Centre - August
11 August ... 2015 Elizabeth Jolley Short
Story Prize, shortlist - announced by Australian
Book Review
Michelle
Cahill (AUS)
- 'Borges and I'; Harriet McKnight (AUS) - 'Crest';
Rob Magnuson Smith (UK/USA - 'The Elector of Nossnearly'
... total prize value $8,000 ... winner announced
on Fri 4 September at Brisbane Writers Festival
20 August ... R.I.P.
Lyn Aldred
- a great musical force, and recently music director of the Lydian
Singers
Lyn
touched many lives in music within the Shoalhaven community and
further ... teaching, working with massed choirs, and encouraging
young people. Lyn's other interests included writing, in which
she produced seven Fantasy novels for younger readers including
the Wild Magic series
20 August ... R.I.P.
Sister Veronica Brady I.B.V.M. (1929-2015) - academic and radical
From
teaching at Loreto Convent in Sydney, went on to University of
Western Australia as Associate Professor - later Professor of
Australian Literature ... an active champion of Australian writing,
she also joined many progressive causes including Aboriginal
rights, anti-uranium mining lobby, and publicly attacked the
Vatican position on gay rights, abortion, church resistance to
ordination of women
24 August ... Australian Arts Party candidates
nomination
for the next Federal election now closed ... 66 applications
received or enough to stand senate candidated across the nation!
More than half of
membership is female, which they aim to be reflected in candidate
selection !! (Peter Collins, party leader)
18 September-14 October ... Escape
ARTFest 2015/2016 - presented by Milton Ulladulla Apex
...
CLASH theme - Facebook
news!
19 September- 21 November
...
'The Garden of Forking Arts' - travelling exhibition
by DLUX
Media Arts,
curated by Neil Jenkins ... The Metaphysical Edge: Seeing
Abstraction - The Dingle Hughes Collection, curated by
Max Dingle ... at Shoalhaven City Arts Centre - launch Sat 19
Sep 12-2 pm
21-25
September
... Acacia
Quartet,
at South Coast Music Camp
Mumbulla
School, Bega
23
September
... 2015
Shoalhaven Literary Award - results!
1st
- Joanne Nell (Clareville, NSW) - main prize $1,000 plus
two-week residential at Bundanon Centre - for 'Kicking The
Coffin Nails'; 2nd Carmel Lillis (Yarraville VIC)
for 'I Believe in the Sun'; 3rd - Melanie Napthine
(Frankston, VIC) for 'The Escape Artists'; Geoffrey
Grocott - Shoalhaven Encouragement Prize - for 'At Bellingen'
- Congratulations to all prize-winners!!
24 September ... lecture, Sir
Edwin Lutyens - by Anthea Streeter, Med Harvard - presented by
ADFAS
Shoalhaven
...
7:30
pm at Berry School of Arts, Alexandra St ... light supper after
- enquiries , email - shoalhaven@adfas.org.au; phone - 4423 5588
R.I.P.
Yoram
GROSS, animator
(1926
- 2015)
25
September ...
Fred
Smith, singer
- house concert in Milton (Escape Artfest event)
7:30
pm at Milk Haus, 170 Woodstock Road, Woodstock - $55 per head,
for dinner+concert ... bookings, call : 4455 7293 ... or Splatters Milton on 4455 1959
... or online from Ticketbooth
26 September ... Vivaldi,
Pachelbel, Barber, Schubert - played by the Australian
Art Quartet
7 pm at St John's Church,
Moruya
26
September ...
SITEWORKS 2015 - The Feral Amongst Us ... 12-9
pm at Bundanon
Centre
26 September ... 'Swan
Lake'
- by
the Russian National Ballet
7:30
pm at Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, Nowra ... link for booking
26-27 September ... Acacia
Quartet,
presented by Sapphire
Coast Music Society
Sat
26 Sep at St Paul's Anglican Church, 11 Tilba Street Narooma
... Sun 27 Sep 2:30 pm at Wolumla Hall, Wolumla
27 September ... 'Sleeping
Beauty'
- by
the Russian National Ballet
2:30
pm (extra session) and 7:30 pm at Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre,
Nowra ... link for booking
27 September ... 'Famous Gospel
Brunch' by
the Glorious
MUD Singers
10
am - 12 pm at Milton Anglican Hall
30 September ... final entry-cutoff date for 2016
STELLA PRIZE, for nonfiction or fiction by women writers
... $50,000 major prize
30 September ... Frank Sinatra, celebrating 100 years!
Starring
the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
7:30
pm at Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre ... link for information/booking
... $10 off if booked/paid before 31 July!
30 September ... Elaine Morel (mezzo Soprano) & William R Hawkey
(piano),
Twilight
concert
- presented by Sapphire
Coast Music Society
5:30
pm at Bega
Valley Regional Gallery
30 September ... entry closing, The Margot Manchester
Memorial short story award and Robyn Mathison poetry prize
presented
by Society of Women Writers, Tasmania Inc ... short stories 1200-1500
words ... open poetry to 40 lines max ... link for details
2 October ... closing date, Kangaroo
Valley Poetry competition, prize $100 ... presented Kangaroo
Valley Folk Festival ...
for
info, email - kangaroovalleypoetry@gmail.com
2 October ... closing date, 64th
Blake Prize - for spiritual art - presented by Casula
Powerhouse Arts Centre
2 October ... Vivaldi, Pachelbel,
Barber, Schubert - played by the Australian Art Quartet
7 pm at St Martin's
Church, 275 Green St Ulladulla
2 October ... film 'Clouds
of Sils Maria' (2014) - written &
directed by Olivier Assayas ... presented by Gerringong Pics'n
Flicks
3
and 9 October ...
'Women
He's Undressed' (2015) - documentary
tribute to Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly - presented
by Gerringong
Pics'n Flicks and
Kiama Historical Society ... note - extra session on Friday 9 Oct !!
writer
- Katherine Thompson, director - Gillian Armstrong ... at 7:20
for 8 pm start, at Gerringong Town Hall
3 October ... Vivaldi, Pachelbel,
Barber, Schubert - played by the Australian Art Quartet
7 pm at Kangaroo Valley
Showgrounds - Community Hall
6 October ... comedy with Fiona
O'Loughlin with
guest David Smiedt
8 pm
at Milton Theatre ... link for
info/booking
8-9
October ...
SHOALHAVEN U3A Term 4 enrolments!
link for course details ... enrolments
may be left at or posted to U3A office, 48 Berry St Nowra, Thurs/Fri
8-9 October
9 October ... entry closing date, NSW Premier's
Literary Awards, 2016
administered
by the State Library of NSW in association with Arts NSW ...
link for guidelines and online nomination forms,
9 October ... Lee
Kernaghan & Friends : The Songs and the Stories In Concert
8 pm
at Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, Nowra ... link
for
details/booking
10 October- 29 November ... Dolgordorj : 'Mongolia Interrupted'
- t Galiera
Aniela,
Kangaroo Valley
11 October ... Sarah Mann (soprano) & Suzanne
Powell (piano), selection of opulent songs ... presented
by Milton
Ulladulla Music
2 pm
at St Martin's Church Ulladulla
15 October ... results released for Adrien
Abbott 2015 poetry prize
16-18 October ... Kangaroo
Valley Folk Festival !
18 October ... Melinda
Schneider
presents her "Tribute to Doris Day"
2 pm
at Milton Theatre ... bookings, call - 4455 3056 or link
24-25 October ... SHOALHAVEN
RIVER Festival 2015 ... celebrate with arts & entertainment;
river activities; and a street parade!! don't miss our launch
party, on Fri 16 October in Nowra CBD - ticket & venue details
soon!
25 November ... closing date, HARP
Writing competition, presented by South
Coast Writers' Centre - in leadup to World Aids Day (December 1) ...
possible topics include identity, sexuality, gender, sexual health,
equality, diversity - poetry to 40 lines, prose fiction to 1,500
words - entries by email - director@southcoastwriters.org.au
1 December ... closing date, Peter
Porter Poetry Prize, presented by Australian Book Review
$7,500
first
prize, $500 to shortlisted poets
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