Arts

With the 2026 season now sold out, Sally Schofield’s interview with musician Luke Bennett might be the closest you get to NORPA’s Love for One Night this year,

Indefatigable artist and gallerist Caitlin Reilly was preparing the latest multi-artist exhibition at her Station Street gallery when she learned she’d been accepted into one of the world’s top contemporary art competitions, ‘almost hyperventilating’ at the news. Digby Hildreth reports.

Four decades after finding his place in Melbourne’s Goth and post-punk scene, Bangalow musician and artist M.E. Baird is opening a new creative chapter. Digby Hildreth discovers how illness, survival and a lifelong search for meaning continue to shape his music. 

After a decade down south studying and establishing her career as a prosthetist-orthotist, Camille Wiseman, 28, returned home to Bangalow earlier this year – via a 12-month sabbatical in Italy honing her formidable skills as a painter. Georgia Fox found out more.

Debra Oswald, for those who don’t know, is an Australian author of novels, plays and TV dramas, the most notable being the very popular Offspring series. She has written several books, but this is the second one I have read, and I enjoyed it immensely. Betty, the book’s protagonist, is about to celebrate her 100th birthday and narrates the story…

Bangalow-based artist Hilary Herrmann explores the beauty and complexities of life through her enchanting paintings, which first mesmerise viewers and then draw them into deeper exploration, writes Adele Scaysbrook.

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.

Former Bangalow Post Mistress Joan Leeds swaps cheeky customer service banter for cranky comedy gold, writes Sally Schofield.

For those of us who have watched Bangalow Theatre Company (BTC) grow over the years – from COVID-inspired roving pop-up events to risk-taking contemporary works – there has always been a sense that something special is happening here. But their latest foray hits different. When Australian composer, performer and writer Eddie Perfect – the Tony-nominated creator of Broadway’s Beetlejuice the…

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 nestled in the hills a short drive from Bangalow, Digby Hildreth reports.

Anyone who reads my reviews regularly will know that, in general, I love Irish authors. The story of Milkman is told in an interesting and powerful voice by another Irish author. The characters in the book are seldom given names other than ‘first sister’, ‘second sister’, ‘third brother-in-law’, and ‘wee sisters’ (the children younger than the narrator, who is ‘middle…

Gabby Le Brun meets Michael Sharmon, the playwright giving the Bard a new twist.