Theatre Onset is preparing to stage an Ancient Greek classic, Lysistrata: A Woman’s Translation by Drue Robinson. This version of Lysistrata is the only modern adaptation of Aristophanes’s classic comedy that is entirely in rhyme.
Lysistrata, an Athenian woman fed up with war, rallies the women of Greece to seize the Treasury and all its money, stage a sex strike and force the men of each warring faction to sign … Read more »
Bermagui has it all!
Two outstanding Far South Coast performing arts companies will collaborate for an event to help kick off the opening of Sculpture Bermagui. Join FLING Physical Theatre and Stonewave Taiko for a world-premiere performance of Okina Mura: Big Village amongst the sculptures on the grass at Horseshoe Bay, Bermagui.
With music composed by David Hewitt and movement devised by Paddy Meessmann, Christopher Wade and FLING Company members, the project plays … Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »