Chess in the Mall
Beardy Street Mall Beardy Street Mall, ARMIDALE, NSW, AustraliaCome and enjoy a relaxed morning of Chess and coffee. Boards are also set up inside Boobooks. All welcome!
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 and enjoy a relaxed morning of Chess and coffee. Boards are also set up inside Boobooks. All welcome!
Thor is coming ladies (sorry not Chris Hemsworth)! Meet Thor Phillips, the Australian singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso whose passionate, powerful performances are stirring up storms across the nation.
A Festival of Short Plays produced by Benjamin Thorn and Margaret Sims.
A monthly open-air market that offers fresh seasonal produce, meat, cheese, eggs, baked goods, coffee and other food products from growers and producers around the New England and Coffs Coast regions. Celebrate our community and the unique offerings of this wonderful region! BYO bags and re-useables.
Four-person Ambrose ($200 per team), shotgun start followed by lunch, raffles and prizes on the day. All proceeds go to CanAssist to help cancer patients in Armidale.
Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman - fine portrait of a neglected artist Released nationally only this week, to coincide with International Women's Day. Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker (1844-1926). She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. A study of a female painter who exhibited with the first impressionists in 19th-century Paris, but saw little of their renown […]
Come along for a wonderful Sunday afternoon of live music, good company at a great venue.
Sausage sizzle lunch, registration, afternoon tea and cold meat salad for dinner. There will be raffles, auction, trading table and prizes. The event is an open triples (subject to change depending on numbers). Nominate your team, single entries welcome. Dress up if you wish, theme is Hawaiian - prize for best dressed team. No experience required, bowls available.
Tumbling Like Stars Using the human voice to tell the stories of our time and place through song four of Australia’s finest vocalists come together in a visionary performance combining heavenly vocals in a chamber setting. Katie Noonan’s new project, Australian Vocal Ensemble - AVÉ intertwines Australian compositions by Cawrse, Davidson, Green, Humphries, Hurren, Leek, Noonan and Wells, alongside new arrangements of music by Bach, Handel and Tomás Luis de Victoria creating a beautiful tension between ties to more traditional […]
Runs for eight weeks at a time. 7.00pm registration, 7.30pm start. All the money collected goes to the winner of the overall eight weeks!!! Weekly prizes, $60 venue voucher, $20 venue voucher, $10 venue voucher - may not be spent in bottleshop or for gambling credit. There will be a scoring board to see everyone’s progress. Each player starts with six lives one for every letter in the word “killer” If you miss six shots, you are out of the game. […]
Briny Sea - Swathed in homespun tunes; lyrically dipping, swelling, sailing afore a qusty rhythmic headwind to reckless foolhardy wood and rope adventure, the Briny Sea features Mike Croft on keys, bass and vocals; Mark Fisher on electyric guitar; Matt Benham on drums; and Matt Knights on guitar and vocals. All aboard! Music washes away the dust of everyday life - Art Blakey
An invitation is extended to all interested persons to attend. A great Irish day with a bit of Irish humour for everyone! Competitions: Best St Patrick's Day dress-up; Best Green Hat; Best Irish Joke plus some Trivia and a sing-along. Lunch will be cold cuts and special salads plus dessert. Essential to RSVP (Bev on 02 6778 4328 or Faye on 0412 399 204) prior to 10 March for catering purposes.
St Patrick's Day theme Viewing from 6.30pm, with Official Opening by Mayor Robert Bell at 7.30pm. Music by The Rocky Bottom Girls. Come and enjoy the art and entertainment. Nibbles will be provided, with one (1) drink on arrival and further refreshments available to purchase. Catering by the Uralla Central School.
Entry fee includes tea and coffee - sandwiches and slice available at nominal charge.
See (and for sale) a spectacular array of gems, rocks, crystals, jewellery, crafts, beads and lapidary books/supplies/equipment. There will be a kid's treasure hunt and fossicking, raffle tickets ($1.00), great prizes, BBQ breakfast and lunch/light refreshments also available.
Jex Lopez is an artist masquerading as a skeleton and creating dark and quirky tales with piano and voice.
Oscar LaDell is a Naarm-based singer, songwriter and guitarist who brings a timeless vulnerability and passion to his original blend of Blues, Soul and Folk. Following the release of Somber Land, the first single from an upcoming EP, Oscar is bringing his music on the road to the villages, towns and cities of Australia's East Coast. Singing with emotion and depth, Oscar's set features soul and blues classics interspersed with his heartfelt original songs in a show that is not […]
Come along for a wonderful Sunday afternoon of live music, good company at a great venue.
The drums of war are becoming deafening. Efforts are increasing to convince us that Australia must be America's proxy in a war with China. David Bradbury's latest film, The Road to War, brings a sharp focus to why it is not in Australia's best interest to be dragged into a war with China.
Dumaresq Drum - Pat Harris, Josh Kreusler and Dave van Tongeren play in completely improvised rhythm cycles. With a grab-bag of synths, sequencers and other toys, the group sits in pockets looking to nod some heads. If you have pipes of bars, you are welcome to sit in for a tune Music washes away the dust of everyday life - Art Blakey