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Fringe Festival in Cobargo: It Takes a Village

1 February 2026/in Arts /by Tikka Wilson

Thursday 26 February to Friday 27 February (morning)

Following last year’s incredible success, It Takes a Village is back and is bigger and better than ever. As the start of the Cobargo Folk Festival, the Fringe Festival transforms the entire village of Cobargo with music and art.

Busking Heats

This is a first! Cobargo will host the official Cobargo Busking Championship Heats on Thursday 26 February. Founded in Cooma in … Read more »

An artwork featuring a turquoise octopus.

A new art landscape

1 February 2026/in Arts /by Tikka Wilson

Nicole Grimm-Hewitt’s December exhibition ‘Art in the dining room’ at Harbourview House in Bermagui showed her new works inspired by a recent trip to South Australia. The new watercolour series focuses on the red dirt of the Flinders Ranges, the vibrant colours of the crops and the Eyre Peninsula coastline. It was on this trip she discovered a new way of exploring these landscapes through her work. Her new medium? Watercolour. … Read more »

Pastel painting of shoreline with trees overhanging.

Shop7 ArtSpace Gallery February 2026

1 February 2026/in Arts /by Tikka Wilson

Shop7 ArtSpace Gallery supports the visual arts community by making space available in which guest artists can exhibit. This month we welcome artists who collaborate. We begin with Rock, Wind and Fire, an exhibition of works on paper by Narelle Perroux, Roz Bannon and Ivana Gattegno, inspired by the Far South Coast of NSW and showing until 11 February.

Immediately following Rock Wind and Fire is an exhibition of … Read more »

Painting of a petrol station in the rural landscape.

Garnet book launch

1 February 2026/in Arts, Books, Fiction /by Tikka Wilson

Local writer, Jen Severn, has a new book out in March – a novel called Garnet about a small country town peopled with eccentric, lovable, difficult, ordinary and extraordinary characters – and a few evil developers for good measure. This short novel (an early manuscript was shortlisted in the Viva La Novella Prize in 2022) packs the emotional punch of a much larger book. It is quiet but … Read more »

Save the date – Cobargo Folk Festival 2026

1 December 2025/in Arts /by Tikka Wilson

The Cobargo Folk Festival is a true gem in our regional cultural calendar and next year’s festival promises to be one of the biggest and best yet.

Once again, the festival will kick off with ‘It Takes a Village’ on Thursday, 26 February – a series of performances and ‘happenings’ offered free of charge at venues around the village. More details of the events and performers will be published in the … Read more »

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