Armidale Events

Get your science facts with your science fiction! An action-thriller centred on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak. Hear about the real-world science in 2011 hit film, Contagion, with a short talk and audience Q&A with UNE Professor of Nursing, Kim Usher.

5.30pm (drinks and nibbles), 6.00pm (film and panel discussion). Reservation must be made via website or QR code. ROLA is the Anaiwan word for “stone”. This film explores the inseparable connection between geology, landscapes and culture on Anaiwan Country (Northern Tablelands, NSW). All places have parallel narratives—the scientific and spiritual, that govern our relationship with them. Woven together, these perspectives invite us to rethink the ways we understand the deep and recent past, present and future of the world around […]

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 […]

Olivier Award-winner, Lyndsey Turner, directs this electrifying new production with designs by Es Devlin in a magnificent restaging (UK Telegraph) of Arthur Miller's masterpiece, a gripping parable of power and its abuse. Written during the McCarthy witch hunt era in the USA, the 1950s, this classic continues to resonate. "A witch hunt is beginning in Salem…. Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a terrible power. As a climate of fear […]

Proceeds to the Playhouse, only 50 seats available - book 0418 249 912. International Peace Conference Documentaries Screening - An oratorio by Richard Harvey with Libretto by Ralph Steadman. Early morning, December 27 2003: over 300 excited Armidalians are getting out of their tents pitched in the Woodford Festival mud. Today is the day that 24 months of rehearsals, performances and planning come to fruition. That evening an 80-voice adult choir, 44-voice children's choir, 56-piece orchestra with didgeridoo, 24 dancers, […]

Special live performance by Armidale Pipe Band, at the screening of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2022.

COST: $120 (adult - Season Pass), $110 (concession/Belgrave member - Season Pass), $37.50pp (Opening Night), $17.50 (adult), $14.50 (concession), $13.50 (student), $12.50 (child), $10 (Belgrave member). Bar available each day after 5pm (Sparkling, White Wine, Red Wine, Beer). Friday, 9 September (Opening Night), 5.00pm for 7.00pm start - Gin cocktail (from Dobson's Distillery) and gourmet canapés on arrival. I Drive My Car - MA15+|Drama|2h 59m|Japan - An aging, widowed actor seeks a chauffeur. The actor turns to his go-to mechanic, […]

Ticket includes drinks and finger food on arrival. Come along and help raise funds to ensure all people, regardless of where they live in NSW, have equitable access to cancer treatment and care. The man. The legend. The King of Rock & Ross. The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

$70 (Festival pass). All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles. 3.00pm - Farewell Mr Haffmann Occupied Paris, 1941: all members of the Jewish community are instructed to come forward and identify themselves to authorities. Dedicated jeweller Joseph Haffmann (Auteuil), fearing the worst, arranges for his family to flee the city and offers his employee François Mercier (Gilles Lellouche) the chance to take over his store until the conflict subsides. But his own attempts to escape are […]

$70 (Festival pass). All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles. Lost Illusions An all-star cast dazzles in the spectacular and exhilarating new film by Xavier Giannoli (The Singer, Marguerite), an adaptation of Balzac’s classic novel about a young idealist who learns that anything can be bought and sold. 1821. Handsome poet Lucien (Benjamin Voisin, in a star-making turn) is poor, but highly ambitious. Failing to make a name for himself in his provincial hometown, he naively […]

$70 (Festival pass). All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles. 3.40pm - A Tale of Love and Desire Ahmed (the remarkable Sami Outalbali, Sex Education) is a talented 18-year-old Algerian from the outer Parisian suburbs, who has received a grant to study literature at the prestigious Sorbonne. Though the same city, it’s a disorientingly-foreign world for the conservative Ahmed, and he is rattled by the discovery of a rich canon of ancient, erotic Arabic texts in […]

This programme contains mature themes and is not recommended for children under 15 (children under 15 must be accompanied by adult). Friday, Best of International Shorts Loop - In this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same action over and over again, in this society each human being repeats the same over […]