No matter what time of year you visit, chances are there will be an event or festival in or around Armidale.
Events not to be missed include the Autumn Festival, Big Chill Festival, The Bach Festival, The New England Garden Festival, Armidale International Film Festival and Guyra Lamb and Potato Festival. Other great annual events include New England Sings, The Armidale Cup, Guyra Trout Festival, Armidale Youth Orchestra Garden Party, Vintage Truck, Machinery and Heavy Horse Show and the NEGS Equestrian events. The calendar is full with premier sport events including the TAS Rugby Carnivals, Tour de Rocks and the 12hr Mountain Bike Enduro.
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Come along and support the Children’s Ward at Armidale Hospital. Raffle tickets: $2 (single ticket) or $3 (for five) or $7 (for 10) – ticket sales from 6.00pm, drawn 7.00pm. Five meat trays, donated by Pete’s Mountview Butchery, to be raffled. Happy hour from 4.00-7.00m, drink specials and delicious meals available.
Among highlights will be a live Nativity play, featuring local children (and farm animals) in the old stables behind newly renovated Bolt Inn. Performances are at 5.00 and 5:30pm. Next door, at Little Birdy Uralla, step into Santa’s Toy Workshop, where you can make your own wooden toys with the Uralla Community Neighbourhood Centre. Across the road, have free Christmas portraits taken by a professional photographer in Uralla’s historic Joint Stock Bank, with its beautifully preserved 1890's drawing room and […]
Bring the family and a picnic blanket to enjoy a free Christmas event and movie for the community. There will be plenty of family-friendly activities, while Armidale local, Fergus Lupton, provides live music. There will be market stalls, food trucks, and so much more. From 8.00pm, the movie Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin, will screen.
Come along for a great night of good company and foot tapping music.
Playing the best of the best Aussie rock hits, following the Rock the Boat members' draw; Dress to impress with lucky door prizes to be won!
GlenFest Events presents Australia's newest punk sensation.
Come along to the front bar, try your singing skills and have a great night in good company.
Family Fun Day! Camel rides; games; Christmas stall; café and coffee; Wishing Tree; lucky dip; books; Treasure Island; icecream; food stalls; sausage sizzle; dunk'n' machine; plants; fresh produce; entertainment.
Let there be light! The Choral Society will be performing Haydn - The Creation with the Armidale Symphony Orchestra. Soloists Samantha Cobcroft (soprano), Kent McIntosh (tenor) and Benjamin Caukwell (bass) will feature on the day.
Chilli Jam is a local Armidale Band bringing you a variety of songs from Blues, Rock, World Latin, Jazz and originals with a unique twist. Chilli Jam - Massiel, Gary Daly and Mick Houlahan share a unique connection, provide a great mix of sounds and vocals, and a fun vibe that caters for chilling and upbeat fun.
Come along for a great night of good company and foot tapping music.
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Darren Hanlon grew in a place described in tourist brochures as: “the town that saved Queensland”. The grandiose statement refers to the discovery of gold in Gympie in 1867. The house overlooking the river in the Southside of the regional town contained his parents, his sister and their scant record collection but it seemed the two albums played continually were Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits and Slim Dusty's This is Your Life which they’d all listen to from their rooms at […]
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Converting to Christianity in Late Antiquity: What we can learn from Augustine of Hippo - Dr Katie Chambers. . She teaches at UNE in History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies and is a specialist on the thought of Augustine of Hippo, especially his moral and political thought and its reception in the Middle Ages and Modern Era. Her latest publication is Augustine on the Nature of Virtue and Sin (Cambridge University Press, 2023). This talk looks at how ‘conversion’ has been understood […]
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