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Happy June from Eastern Riverina Arts!
This month’s newsletter is packed with creative workshops, exhibitions, live performances, funding opportunities, and community celebrations. From theatre and dance socials to writing competitions and vibrant festivals, there’s something for everyone to enjoy and get involved in. Explore what’s on and make the most of this season of inspiration! |
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| Something to Crow About: A Frivolous, Fulsome Frolic
The Wagga Wagga Shakespeare Club presents a lively theatrical revue blending Shakespearean excerpts with modern humour, clowning, madrigals and farce. Directed by Fay Walters, this dinner show at the Thirsty Crow supports the Kooringal Rotary Club and promises a night (or afternoon!) of wit and whimsy.
🗓 18 – 27 July 2025 🕒 Fri & Sat: 7pm | Sun: 1pm 📍 The Thirsty Crow, Wagga Wagga
🔗 Buy Tickets > |
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| In Bloom & Motion Exhibition Launch
Georgia Barton’s debut exhibition, In Bloom and Motion, is an intimate exploration of memory, emotion and personal experience. Through a collection of finely detailed graphite works on cold pressed paper, she invites viewers into her world—one shaped by nostalgia, sentiment and deeply personal moments.
🗓 Exhibition Dates: 14th-29th June
🕒 Sat: 10am – 4pm, Sun: 10am – 2pm
📍 Station Creative Workspace 🔗 Find out more > |
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| | Drench Festival Temora
Live music, art & cooking classes, exhibitions, historical experiences, theatre, and food experiences… the Drench Festival delivers a full low-cost calendar of events for people of all ages to reconnect through culture.
🔗 Explore the program >
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| Art and Books Public Lectures 📚
Art & Books’ is an engrossing six-part lecture series with Associate Professor Sam Bowker for the Booranga Writers' Centre, exploring the history and artistry of books from the past, present and future.
📍 CSU Playhouse, Wagga Wagga 🗓 5:30pm to 6:30pm, Thursday evenings
🎟 Find out more & book tickets > |
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| Curious Combinations: Drawing & Painting Workshop ✏️🎨
Join artist Dotti Le Sage for a hands-on art workshop exploring curious combinations through drawing and painting. You’ll dive into expressive linework, playful compositions, and mixed materials, all while developing your own unique visual language with personalised guidance. Held in a bright and welcoming studio space at The Art Centre Cootamundra (T.A.C.C), this workshop offers a relaxed atmosphere to experiment, learn, and connect creatively.
🗓 Saturday 21 June 2025
🕒 10:30am – 2:30pm
📍 The Art Centre Cootamundra (T.A.C.C) 🍽 Light lunch supplied
🎟 $75 | Bookings & info: Dotti Le Sage on 0402 028 430
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| Mending People: Cross Cultural Textile Workshops
Slow-make during Refugee Week celebrations with Mending People. Project led by textile artist Mary Coughlan and Afghani refugee artisan, Roghayeh Uzbak is a chance to learn styles of mending and embroidery found across the world in all cultures.
Start or extend your mending and embroidery journey with help and support from our generous community of makers with everything you need to confidently create the next blanket banners with care and calming attention. No textile skills or knowledge required, and all materials and tools provided.
Friday 20 June | 10:30AM to 12:30PM Sunday 22 June | 10:30AM to 12:30PM 📍 Wagga Wagga City Library
🔗 Find out more & RSVP > |
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| Dance Makers Collective Friday and Saturday Night Social
Don’t you ever wish you could travel back to the Friday night dance? Take a spin across a glassy floor, to a swinging live band under sparkling lights? Well, YOU CAN!! Dance Makers Collective Friday Night Social with Lock, Stock & Bingle 🗓 Friday 20 June 🕒 7:00pm | doors open 6:00pm 📍 Temora Memorial Town Hall Dance Makers Collective Saturday Night Social with Mostly Blues 🗓 Saturday 28 June 🕒 7:00pm | doors open 6:30pm 📍 Roxy Community Theatre, Leeton These events take inspiration from the peak dance hall and disco eras, reimagined for the modern lover of dancing.
🔗 Book tickets in Temora or Leeton > |
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| Smile: The Story of Charlie Chaplin
Step into the life of the legendary Little Tramp with Marcel Cole's award-winning physical comedy show, Smile. From his rise to fame, political exile, and beyond, experience a captivating blend of mime, movement, humour, and heart. This touring hit has earned accolades including the Hollywood Fringe Tour Ready Award 2024 and Spirit of Fringe Award 2024. Marcel Cole’s mesmerising performance, praised as “tender and hilarious,” is perfect for audiences aged 13 and up.
🗓 Sunday 13 July 2025
🕒 1:00 pm (Doors open 12:30 pm) 📍 Roxy Community Theatre, Leeton
🔗 Find out more & book > |
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| 2025 Mawang Gaway Wagga Wagga NAIDOC BallJoin an unforgettable evening of celebration, music, and cultural pride at the Wagga Wagga NAIDOC Ball & Awards Night, proudly presented by Mawang Gaway, the Wiradyuri Elders Consultative Committee. This formal event brings together Elders, emerging leaders, families, and allies to honour the strength, vision, and legacy of First Nations people – past, present, and future.
🗓 Friday 11 July 2025
🕒 6:00pm – 11:55pm
📍 Rules Club Wagga Wagga
🔗 Find out more & book tickets > |
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| Wagga Wagga Art Society WorkshopsJoin Wagga Wagga Art Society for their upcoming workshops:
Copitc Binding Workshop Join Sue Wood for a hands-on day learning the art of Coptic binding. 🗓 Saturday July 5 | 10-4pm 📍 11 Small Street Wagga Wagga 🔗 Find out more & book >
Pastel Workshop Explore the beauty of pastels with acclaimed artist Amanda McLean. 🗓 Saturday & Sunday Aug 23, 24 | 10-4pm 📍 11 Small Street Wagga Wagga 🔗 Find out more & book > |
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| Group Spoon Carving Workshops with AC WoodworkDiscover the art of spoon carving with AC Woodwork in two unique group workshops. Perfect for beginners and enthusiasts alike, these sessions guide you through safe carving techniques using greenwood blanks, traditional knives, and ethical wood sourcing. Take home your own handcrafted spoon and enjoy the thrill of learning a lost craft!
🗓 Saturday 19th July 📍 Cootamundra - Olde General Store
🗓 Saturday 23rd August 📍 Wagga - Bidgee Strawberries & Cream
🔗 Find out more & book > |
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| Riverina Readers FestivalJoin the Riverina Readers Festival for a full day of bookish delight and celebrate the power and joy of reading!
Set in the heart of the Riverina, this much-loved annual event brings together readers of all ages for inspiring conversations with bestselling Australian and international authors, including the beloved Rachael Johns, crime fiction favourites Mark Brandi and Sulari Gentill, and Miles Franklin Award-winner Shankari Chandran. Get ready to discover new stories, meet your favourite writers, and celebrate reading in all its forms!
🔗 Find out more & book tickets > |
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| Snowy Valleys Libraries Writing Competition
To celebrate Library and Information Week, Snowy Valleys Libraries are calling all budding authors aged 6 to 12 across the region to unleash their creativity in the Library Writing Competition.
⏰ Entries close Friday 18 July 2025 🔗 Find out more & apply >
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| Lambing Flat FAW 2025 writing competition
Writers of all ages and levels are invited to enter the 43rd annual Lambing Flat Writing Competition. Submit short stories (up to 1,500 words) or poems (up to 50 lines). Open and school categories available. Adult entries $5 each; free for school students.
⏰ Entries close: 19 September 2025
🏆 Prizes: Up to $200 for open categories
🔗 More info & apply >
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| | | 🌟 Sonder Youth Program Leader Opportunity
Sonder Youth is seeking 15 young people (18–24) from regional NSW to join their new statewide network of youth-led change. Includes a free, all-expenses-covered leadership retreat at Burrill Lake, 8–12 December 2025, with mentoring and training. | More info & apply >
💵 The Windmill Trust Scholarship supports visual artists from regional NSW to take up career development and/or presentation opportunities for their work. Closing Monday 7 July | Find out more & apply >
🎶 Join MusicNSW’s Regional & Remote Music Summit, 24–25 July on Bundjalung Country, Byron Bay. A two-day program of panels, workshops, and showcases focused on strengthening regional music communities. Travel funding available via Sound NSW Touring and Travel Fund. 24–25 July 2025 | More info & register >
🕺Applications open now for NAISDA. Step into a deadly career in dance and the performing arts with Australia's leading training organisation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dancers and artists. Applications close September 1 | More info & apply > |
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| 📝 National Young Writers’ Festival is seeking six writers from regional NSW to join a paid Regional Advisory Group, helping ensure regional voices shape the 2025 festival. Commitment: three virtual meetings (2 hrs each) between August–October 2025. EOIs close: 30 June 2025, 5pm AEST | More info & apply >
🎨 Calleen Art Award 2025 is an annual $30,000 acquisitive prize celebrating the best of contemporary Australian painting. Open to artists nationwide; winning work joins the Calleen Collection at Cowra Regional Art Gallery. Entries close 6 July | More info & apply >
🎨 MAC yapang Art Prize 2025 is a national acquisitive art prize open to Australian artists working in any medium. Total prize pool $40,000: $30,000 acquisitive prize, $5,000 Yapang Award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, $5,000 Lake Art Award for local artists Entries close: 30 July | More info & apply >
🧾 Artist bios, CVs, artist statements and competitionsThis online workshop by RANSW will help artists from all artforms to look at how to create the documents and material that will help them present their work across a range of platforms, to assessors and to curators.
🕒 Friday 4 July, 1-2pm
🎟️ More info & register > |
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| | ⭐️ Friendly reminder, if you’re looking for Eastern Riverina Arts to auspice your grant application, you’ll need to fill in an auspicing enquiry no later than 14 days from the due date of your funding application. |
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| Creative Riverina: Explore the Directory
Creative Riverina is your go-to directory for finding and supporting artists, designers, musicians, writers, creative services and more across the Riverina.
Whether you're looking to commission artwork, hire a performer, or find a unique handmade gift, you’ll discover incredible talent right here in our region.
If you're a creative, making a listing is free—promote your work, find new opportunities, and be part of a thriving arts community.
⭐️ Visit Creative Riverina now! |
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