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Armidale Events

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?

Fools for Love @ the Playhouse

The Armidale Playhouse 309 Beardy Street (cnr Ohio Street), ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

TIME: 11.00am (Saturday, 11 June), 7.00pm (Friday, 10 June and Saturday, 11 June). Fools for Love promises a funny, gritty and exhilarating night at the theatre. Sure to make you laugh, smile and gasp. Be drawn into darkly comic tales of love and desire in Empty Space Productions inaugural theatre work, Fools for Love is directed by Dr Julie Shearer from UNE Theatre and Performance. An anthology of thought-provoking scenes from some of the West End and Broadway’s most acclaimed […]

$30 – $37

“Vivace” (Folk Festival)

Armidale Showground 5 Dumaresq Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Featuring: Cigany Weaver; Wild Thyme; Elekoustika; Strung; Tri; Jhana Allan Find yourself dancing with your heart and not your feet when you join us for a beautiful Saturday evening. With national band Cigány Weaver headlining, you will be swept away with the summer breeze in a dazzling fusion of Jazz, classical and folk music. Thriving, dynamic, and fiery, Cigány know how to weave a night you won't forget! Enchanting you with vibrant and unique tunes, some of the New England's most incredible local artists will be supporting […]

$15.87 – $150.84

Event Series “The Winter’s Tale”

“The Winter’s Tale”

Armidale Showground 5 Dumaresq Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

King Leontes, tortured with jealous imaginings about his loving wife, Hermione, destroys his family in crazed nihilistic violence. But after winter comes the spring, and 16 years later, the lost Princess is found and in Shakespeare’s most extraordinary coup de théâtre, an enthralling moment of magical realism will leave audiences profoundly affected. Empty Space Productions' bold re-imagining of The Winter’s Tale, will envelop the audience in a visceral experience of soundscape, immersive audio-visual, live music and stunning image-making. Some of […]

$20.98 – $97.63