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Click to view the Summer 2024/25 events calendar! (PDF 1MB), or view the list below.

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.

Have an event to add to the calendar?

Armidale Waldorf School Spring Fair

Armidale Waldorf School 278 Rockvale Road, ARMIDALE, New South Wales, Australia

Everyone is warmly invited to our school for our Annual Spring Fair Fundraiser. The fair is one of the most joyful days of the year, filled with yummy food, hands-on crafts and family friendly activities. Made through the power of volunteers, this is a special day where we raise money to support the school and provide the children with a magical day filled with laughter and fun. This is a free event open to the public and we look forward to […]

Free

Fleece to Fashion Awards

Armidale Showground 5 Dumaresq Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

A truly spectacular night celebrating the remarkable journey of Australian Merino wool from fleece to fashion. Cocktail reception, parade and presentations.

$90
Event Series Armidale Race Day

Armidale Race Day

Armidale Jockey Club Barney Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Full bar and catering available. Great fields for the seven-race program – country racing at its best. Bookmakers and TAB on course

Free

Uralla Christmas Street Fair

Uralla CBD 104 Bridge Street, URALLA, NSW

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 […]

Free

Festive Flicks @ Bool

Southern Lawn, "Booloominbah" University of New England, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

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.

Aussie Rock Night with Peter Raymond

Armidale City Bowling Club 92-96 Dumaresq Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

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!

Free

St Mary’s Primary School Spring Fete

St Mary's Primary School 156 Rusden Street (Dangar & Jessie Street entrances), ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

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.

Free

Armidale Choral Society Concert

The Armidale School Memorial Hall 87 Douglas Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

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.

$5.50 – $72
Event Series Chilli Jam @ Alternate Root

Chilli Jam @ Alternate Root

The Alternate Root 48 Bridge Street, URALLA, NSW, Australia

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.

CONz @ the Newie

New England Hotel Cnr Dangar and Beardy Streets, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Always bringing you the finest in DJ talent

Free

Darren Hanlon @ Welder’s Dog Brew Bar

Welder's Dog Brew Bar and Entertainment Centre 101 Beardy Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

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 […]

$14 – $28

Dick Franklin Memorial Lecture

Armidale Uniting Church 114 Rusden Street, Armidale, NSW, Australia

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 […]

Free

Friends Trivia Night @ the Newie

New England Hotel Cnr Dangar and Beardy Streets, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Come and flex your Friends knowledge. Dress as your favourite character to win prizes. Great food ($16 schnittys) and drink specials. Bookings necessary.

Free

“My Son Pinocchio Jr” @ Hoskins

Michael Hoskins Creative Arts Centre The Armidale School, 87 Douglas Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

A TAS Junior School production. Disney’s My Son Pinocchio Jr is based on the 2000 made-for-television movie Geppetto with original music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a few tunes from the 1940 Disney classic Pinocchio. In this twist on the traditional Pinocchio story, things don’t work out exactly as expected. The Blue Fairy is convinced that she granted Geppetto’s wish perfectly, but the toy maker is less than thrilled with his new son Pinocchio. Geppetto tries to convince the Blue Fairy of […]

$10 – $25

Christmas in the Mall

Beardy Street Mall Beardy Street Mall, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Get set for a Christmas treat. Come and meet Santa, enjoy live music and entertainment, a petting zoo, face painting, over 80 market stalls and food vendors and lighting of the Christmas tree!

Free