Arts

Theatre Company Gearing Up For Laughs

Theatre Company Gearing Up For Laughs

The Nanango Theatre Company has a new executive team for 2016, and its first production for the year will debut at the end of April

Heritage Saves Film Festival

Heritage Saves Film Festival

The Big Screen Film Festival will get to celebrate its 10th anniversary in the South Burnett this year, thanks to a $20,000 funding injection from Nanango’s Heritage Community Bank.

‘Sense Of Wonder’ Gets Ready To Tour

‘Sense Of Wonder’ Gets Ready To Tour

Tingoora artist Robyn Dower is getting ready to hit the road her “Sense Of Wonder” exhibition

Photographs Capture Inspiration

Photographs Capture Inspiration

The lives, achievements and inspirational stories of South Burnett women were celebrated in a special photographic exhibition officially opened by Minister for Women Shannon Fentiman in Kingaroy on Wednesday.

Exhibitions Show Variety, Colour

Exhibitions Show Variety, Colour

Wondai Regional Art Gallery is presenting three exhibitions this month, and held its March opening night last Friday to launch them.

Musos Head To Hivesville

Musos Head To Hivesville

On the first Saturday of every month, musicians young and old turn for jams at the Hivesville Hotel.

Wanted: Ukulele Players

Wanted: Ukulele Players

Former Member for Nanango Dorothy Pratt has a new love in her life. So does her husband Tony.

Exhibition Honours International Artist

Exhibition Honours International Artist

An internationally famous Hungarian artist whose works hang in 30 major collections across four continents – but who called the South Burnett home – is the subject of the Kingaroy Regional Art Gallery’s latest exhibition.

Photo Club Awards Life Memberships

Photo Club Awards Life Memberships

The Kingaroy Photographic Club held its Annual General Meeting recently, and a highlight of the meeting was a motion to award three Lifetime Memberships to three long-standing members: Cliff Schwenke, Geoffrey Armstrong and Mervin (Mick) Cook.

Bush Poets Serve Up Laughter

Bush Poets Serve Up Laughter

A crowd of 70 people packed Kumbia Race Club’s canteen on Saturday to enjoy an evening of laughter

Bargains Snapped Up At Art Auction

Bargains Snapped Up At Art Auction

Only six of the 86 artworks on sale found new owners and they went for bargain prices

Portrait Finds A New Home

Portrait Finds A New Home

A portrait of Lady Bjelke-Petersen is now adorning the entrance foyer of the recently renamed private hospital

Dancers Get Ready To Rock (& Roll)

Dancers Get Ready To Rock (& Roll)

With the annual Waterhole Rocks festival barely seven and a half months away, the South Burnett’s rock and roll dancing fraternity have kicked off their 2016 training program.

Artists Explore New Skills

Artists Explore New Skills

Well-known Brisbane sculptor Laurie Nilsen, a foundation member of the Campfire Group of artists and a member of the proppaNOW Indigenous arts collective, is taking a group of Cherbourg artists on a journey of discovery.

Great Art At Summer Sale

Great Art At Summer Sale

Art lovers only have 10 days left to snap up a bargain at the Kingaroy Art Gallery’s Great Summer Art Sale.

Diverse Exhibitions Launch A New Year

Diverse Exhibitions Launch A New Year

Fighting breast cancer, battling depression and the need to get metropolitan galleries to sell more rural art might seem an unusual set of themes for an exhibition …

Kirsten Snaps Up Heywire Win

Kirsten Snaps Up Heywire Win

Kirsten Butters, from Maidenwell, is a woman on a mission to revive the regional live music scene

New Cellar Door For Wondai

New Cellar Door For Wondai

The Kingaroy-Murgon Rail Trail has produced its first new tourism offering … or will, once liquor licensing requirements are met.

Timbertowns To Be Recorded In Song

Timbertowns To Be Recorded In Song

Josh Arnold, the singer-songwriter who crafts special songs for small towns, is coming back to the South Burnett … this time to Blackbutt and Benarkin.

Great Summer Sale Of Art

Great Summer Sale Of Art

South Burnett artists and craftspeople have been invited to take part in the Kingaroy Regional Art Gallery’s Great Summer Sale and Auction next month.