Arts

Few towns are lucky enough to have a local shopfront displaying works by artists represented in major public collections across the world, but that’s exactly the enviable position we Bangalowians have been in for nearly eight years now, thanks to Grant Rasheed and his gallery, Ninbella.

For as long as she can remember, Heidi Keller’s life has been filled with music. Growing up in a family where music filled the home, it seems inevitable that she would find her own voice. “We always listened to a wide variety of music, but I especially remember Skinny Genes by Eliza Doolittle. It used to wake me up in…

Bangalow ballet dancer turned teacher returns to the place where it all began.

Bangalow’s newest arrival, Tim Franklin, appeared in over 300 episodes of Home and Away as local cop Colby Thorne, and has since shared the big screen with actors such as Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, and Michael Caton. Here, he chats with Sally Schofield about his latest projects.

Choreographer, dancer, theatre maker, and MOVE IT Heartthrob, Rosebank’s Philip Channells is preparing for his latest creative venture – an exciting new workshop with the Queensland Ballet. It’s a perfect example of how the Hinterland-based founder of Dance Integrated Australia creates opportunities and shapes narratives through creative thinking and collaboration. During a recent spur of the moment trip to Brisbane…

Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, with its blend of familiar fairy tales and real-world complexities, goes beyond the stage. It serves as a reflection on the strength of storytelling and how the tales we grew up with continue to resonate through characters and scenarios in our adult lives.

Barry ‘Dr Baz’ Ferrier is an Australian musician and multimedia artist based in Bangalow. He is a champion of live music, a multi-instrumentalist, singer and multi-awardwinning songwriter/ composer. Sally Schofield caught up with him to find out about his recent work – award-winning experimental film making using artificial intelligence.

Angela Saurine meets the founder of Bunny Racket ahead of the release of the band’s first recording in three years.

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.

Sally Schofield chatted with Uniting Church minister Rev. Phil Dokmanovic about music and ministering.

Bangalow-based sculptor Ben Hellewell recently wrapped his first solo exhibition, Where Movement and Stillness Collide. Created mostly from assembled driftwood, it’s a body of work that represents the deeply personal journey Ben has been on since the course of his life changed four years ago. He’d lived in the Shire for about a year, led here on an “expansive journey”…

You’ve probably heard the mantra: Dance like nobody’s watching. Well, what about: dance like 300,000 people are watching? Bangalow’s Caroline Ralph is about to discover just what that feels like as she heads to Rio de Janeiro to dance in the world-famous Carnival, writes Sally Schofield.