Digby Hildreth

This month’s Bangalow Film Festival will be something of a family affair, with a father and daughter filling two key, but very different, roles, reports Digby Hildreth.

Beer, banter, barracking: Digby Hildreth discovers that chess can prove to be a fun night out.

Bees are our best friends and closest allies, says self-confessed ‘flower girl’ Laodekia, who suggests we spend more time in their company. Digby Hildreth reports.

Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Pearces Creek: every few weeks, international and Australian musicians depart from their big city touring schedule to play a gig at a humble country hall…

It seems likely that Anouska Gammon was predestined to a career in the spotlight, even if her childhood was spent on a Northern Rivers farm in a small,…

Two of the regular volunteers turning up at Bangalow Landcare’s weekly working bees are in their 20s – rare examples of young people giving their time for the…

Building a thriving future for a rare and ancient breed of cattle is the passionate concern of a small group of Australian farmers – the most active of…

A little over four years ago, Bangalow teen Malik couldn’t play a note of music. This year he was selected to appear in an episode of the ABC’s…

The renowned Byron Writers Festival takes place in August, with more than 120 authors, journalists and literary figures from Australia and around the world gathering in the Bangalow…

“Money is like manure,” says long-term Bangalow resident John Bennett. “It’s made to spread around; if you pile it up, it stinks.”

Which is why the 82-year-old has…

Programming a literary event such as the Byron Writers Festival (BWF) is a little like weaving, says the festival’s new artistic director, Jessica Alice.

Artist Damian Bisogni spent a weekend sitting on country with the subject of his Archibald Prize portrait, Goreng Goreng man Chris Sarra, before he fully understood the direction…