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Woodend Winter Arts Festival: The Healing Power of Music

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
Music has an incredible way of healing both the mind and body. Its universal appeal makes it a powerful tool for relaxation, resilience, and emotional expression across all cultures and generations. It can ease stress, help manage pain, reduce anxiety, and even boost cognitive function, offering comfort when you need…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: My Great Aunt Jane Austen: Celebrating 250 years

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
Experience Jane Austen’s world through the eyes of her family. Jane Austen’s fifth great niece, Caroline Jane Knight, invites you to join her as she shares memories of growing up at Chawton House on the ancestral estate where Jane lived, wrote, and published her most celebrated novels. As the last…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Australia’s Energy Transformation in the Regions

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
As Australia moves towards a net-zero emissions energy future, debates continue about the right pathway, technologies, costs, electricity prices, and the role of regions. A 2024 CSIRO survey of over 6,700 Australians found most support a shift to renewables. Of three possible futures, 87% preferred moderate to high change. While…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism & Body Politics

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
Fearless Beatrice Faust celebrates, explains and questions her struggle to change both herself and her world. Drawing on public records and private writings, award-winning biographer Judith Brett creates a compelling and psychologically nuanced portrait of a gifted, argumentative woman who refused to be a victim. She is joined by Sally…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Vortex

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
It is 1954, but not the same way the history books would have it. Events and characters swirl in a vortex of fragments and chance connections. Brisbane celebrates the young Queen Elizabeth II’s arrival on her first royal tour of the commonwealth. Meanwhile the future is being shaped behind closed…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: A Garden and a Library: what more could you need?

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
Cicero’s famous quote doesn’t mention the substantial overlap between these two ‘necessities’. TV host and garden writer Michael McCoy will look back over evocative references to gardens in fiction, the literary quality of early garden writing, and take a personal journey through the interplay of reading, writing and gardens, and…

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: Hot off the Press

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
Margaret Simons will speak on issues in politics and journalism, with the precise topic to be decided closer to the day. She will be joined by Don Watson and Jim Middleton, well-known to Woodend audiences!

Woodend Winter Arts Festival: The Genius of Nijinsky

Woodend Community Centre Corner of Forest and High Streets, Woodend, VIC, Australia
The story of Nijinsky, the Polish/Russian dancer is a tale of brilliance and despair, of innocence and stardom, celebrity, sensitivity and tragedy, and amongst the saddest historical cases of artistic success versus mental health — yet Jill Rivers is convinced that Nijinsky was way ahead of his times — at…
Between the Covers

Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Between the Covers

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Cabaret’s favourite book club returns, with a fresh line-up of book nerds. Curl up with Helen’s Garner’s funny, electric and moving Australian classic, The Children’s Bach. Join Virginia Gay, Annabel Crabb, and writer Lur Alghurabi in conversation, confab and cackling, accompanied by scintillating jazz covers of Bach from Michelle Nicolle,…

: Creative Conversations: Mental Wellbeing & The Arts in Queensland

Museum of Brisbane Level 3, Brisbane City Hall, 64 Adelaide St, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Join us for a special evening hosted by Hey Mate in partnership with the Museum of Brisbane, where we bring together voices from Queensland’s vibrant music, film, visual, and performing arts communities to explore mental wellbeing in the arts. This thought-provoking event will feature a 60-minute moderated panel discussion with…
StoryFest 2025

StoryFest: StoryFest Opening Lines

Ulladulla Civic Centre 81B Princes Hwy, Ulladulla, Ulladulla, NSW, Australia
StoryFest is not simply a festival - it’s a community inspired experience that brings people and stories together in unique ways. Join Patron Markus Zusak, local storytellers and musicians and our special guest speaker at the first of more than 25 events to be held over StoryFest 2025. With a…
StoryFest 2025

StoryFest: Workshop – Memoir with Lee Kofman

Ulladulla Civic Centre 81B Princes Hwy, Ulladulla, Ulladulla, NSW, Australia
In this workshop with Lee Kofman you will learn how to find the right theme to focus on, how to structure your life story so that it makes for an engaging reading, how to turn yourself and the people in your life into compelling characters and more.

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