Black Gully Festival

With the themes of music, art, environment and the community, Black Gully Festival is a wonderful and free family-friendly event that celebrates all that is good about living in Armidale and is an essential event on the community calendar. The heart of the festival is live music, with performances on three stages. The music is by local performers and includes a wide range of musical styles with bands, soloists and small groups highlighting the fantastic talent in this region. Supporting the music programme is a range of other activities including a makers market featuring local artisans and foodies with an exciting array of wares. Displays from environmental and community groups and workshops and a slow fashion tent will be running during the day. NERAM and the ACCKP will be open with exciting exhibitions and the Six Counties Café will be going full speed.

The Black Gully Festival is a community-driven event so you never know what other activities and events are likely to pop up. To make the most of the day we suggest you bring a folding chair, a water bottle and a coffee cup.

Festival highlights include:

• 10.00am-4.00pm – Makers and Community Markets
• 11.30am – Welcome to Country and Official Opening
• 11.30am-12.00pm | 12.30pm-1.00pm | 1.30pm-2.00pm Museum of Printing open
• 10.00am-3.00pm – NERAM Family Art Making
• 7.30pm-9.00pm – Astronomy night with the Stars @NERAM café

As well as a full program of performers on the music stages, there will be a number of fabulous workshops and talks including:

• 10am – 10.45am | 1am – 1.45pm – Composting made easy
• 11am – 11.45am | 2pm – 2.45pm – Wicking bed demo
• 12.00 -12.45pm – Growing mushrooms
• The popular Clothes Swap will also be on – clothes drop from 10.00am-11.00am and Clothes swap – 12.00-2.00pm and the live music will be playing non stop!