Local Artist To Feature At Gallery

Local Artist To Feature At Gallery

Celebrated Hivesville painter Shannus O’Sullivan will be the featured artist for December and January at the Wondai Regional Art Gallery.

Ration Shed Wins Award

Ration Shed Wins Award

The Cherbourg Historical Precinct Group has won a Gallery and Museum Achievement Award

$26m Funding Round Opens

More than $26 million is up for grabs for community groups to showcase the best of Australia’s Indigenous culture, languages and visual arts.

Capturing The South Burnett’s Spirit

Capturing The South Burnett’s Spirit

The 2011 floods left an indelible mark on many local residents … and now they’re going to leave another legacy: a video documentary, a book and a theatre play plus song and art competitions.

Murgon Dancers Get Ready To Shine

Murgon Dancers Get Ready To Shine

Jacarandas in bloom always mean end-of-year exams; they also mean end-of-year concerts for the region’s dancers

Fund Offers Money For Small Towns

Fund Offers Money For Small Towns

The Federal Government is offering grants of between $50,000 and $500,000 for community projects in small towns in round three of the Regional Development Australia Fund, which is now open.

Titanic Effort In Nanango

Titanic Effort In Nanango

You just know the cast is going to either sink or swim … or in this case, drown

Six Turns Out To Be A Really Magic Mix

Six Turns Out To Be A Really Magic Mix

Six different artists mounting a joint exhibition isn’t common in the South Burnett – most exhibitions usually feature the works of one to three artists, unless they’re a competition or an acquisitive…

Nomads Muster At Murgon

Nomads Muster At Murgon

It looks like the Murgon Music Muster has well and truly become part of the grey nomad “circuit” with campervans and caravans packing the Murgon Showgrounds at the weekend for the four-day feast of music.

Old Friends Renew A Happy Acquaintance

Old Friends Renew A Happy Acquaintance

Sunshine Coast artist June McCotter enjoyed a reunion with former Wondai Art Gallery curator Alison Iszlaub on Friday night when the Gallery launched its November exhibition, which features works by June and her friends Sarah Lawson, Patti Henderson and Lyla McLaren.

Congratulations To Young Artists!

Congratulations To Young Artists!

Recently, art enthusiast and curator of the Wondai Regional Art Gallery Mrs Elaine Madill visited Kingaroy State School to judge the primary school art competition.

Island Breeze In Kingaroy

Island Breeze In Kingaroy

The visiting Youth With A Mission team hosted a Polynesian festival of singing and dancing in Kingaroy

Art Group Jumps Into Nimué

Nimué Gallery in King Street, Kingaroy, will be hosting an exhibition of works by members of the local “Jumping Ants Art Group” from next Saturday (November 3).

Small Grants Available For Community Groups

Queensland community and volunteer groups who help others can now apply for a share of $1.35 million to buy essential items to help their local communities.

Two Concerts By Community Orchestra

The South Burnett Community Orchestra will be holding two concerts in Murgon and Kumbia this week.

Art Society Shows Off Talents

Art Society Shows Off Talents

The Nanango Art Society held its Annual Show over the weekend to coincide with the town’s Mardi Gras Festival.

Prizewinner Returns To Gallery

Prizewinner Returns To Gallery

Former Wondai Art Gallery acquisitive art prize winner June McCotter is returning to the galley in November.

Young Artists Shine At Gallery

Young Artists Shine At Gallery

A big crowd of students, proud parents and teachers packed into the Kingaroy Art Gallery for the opening night of the 2012 Kingaroy State High School Student Art Exhibition.

Artists Open Their Minds To Inspiration

Artists Open Their Minds To Inspiration

The winners of this year’s South Burnett Mental Health Week art competition were announced at a small function at Kingaroy Art Gallery on Friday night.

Local Singers Get Ready For Adelaide

Members of the South Burnett Youth Choir will be heading to Brisbane this weekend to prepare with the Voices of Birralee choir for their joint tour to Adelaide.