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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?

Science @ The Markets

Curtis Park 75 Faulkner Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Join the UNE Discovery team during National Science Week for some hand-on science play. 9.00am-1.00pm - Science for All Discover animal specimens from the UNE Natural History Museum, rocks, fossils, microscopes, models of the natural world and more! There will be some magical tricks with some physics fun. 9.30am and-10.30am - Science Craft For the very young there will be science craft sessions with hands-on maker-space area for kids to be creative and make a take-home science craft. 11.30am and […]

Science @ Central

Armidale Central Shopping Centre Cnr Beardy & Jessie Streets, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Join the UNE Discovery team during National Science Week for some hand-on science play. 10.00am-4.00pm - Science for All Discover animal specimens from the UNE Natural History Museum, rocks, fossils, microscopes, models of the natural world and more! There will be some magical tricks with some physics fun. 10.30am and 11.30am - Science Craft For the very young there will be science craft sessions with hands-on maker-space area for kids to be creative and make a take-home science craft. 1.30pm, […]

Palaeo in the Pub @ the Dog Brewery

National Science Week, is taking the Palaeo Jam podcast on the road, and you're invited! Join us for a free and fascinating evening of palaeontology in the awesome brand new surrounds of Armidale's very own brewery, A night of palaeontology as we explore what prehistoric creatures once walked, swam, slithered, flew and crawled right here in Armidale! And while there wee some pretty awesome dinosaurs that have walked this way there is a whole collection of other remarkable beasts that […]

Event Series Science @ the Library

Science @ the Library

Armidale War Memorial Library 2/182 Rusden Street, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

The UNE Discovery team is excited to bring a late afternoon science show to the Library. During National Science Week, young and old are invited to come along for some creative chemistry and a little magic of physics – some elephant’s toothpaste or a fire tornado may be created, perhaps  a light bulb levitated or a Chladni Plate vibrated. There’ll be something for everyone - lots of science, and lots of WOW! Each session will be limited to 40 attendees. […]

Free

National Science Week: Walk @ Gara Gorge

Blue Hole, Gara Gorge Off Castledoyle Road, ARMIDALE, NSW, Australia

Coach travel will be provided from Armidale Visitor Information Centre (please arrive prior to departure time). Walk Blue Hole Threlfall Track Loop A ranger, a botanist and an ecologist wander in the New England . . . . . . . and you’re invited join them. For National Science Week 2024, UNE Discovery, in partnership with the local National Parks & Wildlife Services (NPWS) team and UNE academics, have arranged two visitor walks in the New England area to observe, […]

$5