Armidale Events

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.

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!

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.

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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 […]

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 […]