Arts

The famous Byron Writers Festival is coming to Bangalow. It is to be held this year at the Bangalow Showground and A&I Hall from 11-13 August.

Tricia Shantz has lived in Byron Shire for 40 years, 33 of those in Coorabell. Here she explains the genesis of her book Neverland, a social history that documents the arrival of American surfers in the 1960s and how their creative collaboration with locals started the first ripples of alternative culture in Byron Bay.

Set in a fictional coastal town, original new musical New Blood reveals irksome details and inconvenient truths of treechange life.

James Ioannou talks to Sally Schofield about using pesky camphor wood to make works of art.

The original much-loved mobile library was destroyed in the floods but now a new library van will take its place on Saturday mornings in Bangalow writes Mary Nelson.

Deep within the beating heart of the Bangalow Music Festival lies the organisers’ commitment to young people across our region, writes Digby Hildreth. Audiences are in for a rare treat at the much loved ‘Locals Night’ when the Bangalow Music Festival returns this month after a two-year COVID-induced interlude.They will hear three quirky and engaging pieces by a young neurodiverse…

Before La Nina turned our blue skies permanently grey we were able to see the stars at night and gaze at them in wonder. And for millennia before the dismal days of 2022, First Nations peoples also studied the heavens, developing an intimate familiarity with the stellar constellations and a profound understanding of the interconnection between sky and land. Their…

Bangalow’s Pat Davern from Grinspoon recounts his recent experience playing a free flood relief show for Lismore, a place that’s close to his heart. I’ve been living in the Northern Rivers on and off since 1991. When I finished school, I moved to Lismore, and did a music course there. I spent a lot of time touring with Grinspoon and…