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Port Macquarie Hastings Council, Live and local music development project
Live and Local is a program by Port Macquarie Hastings Council to increase participation in Australia’s local live music scene.
Brilliant Writer
Dec 10, 20212 min read
David Lazarus brings Rhythmboat from Sydney to Port Macquarie
The iconic RHYTHMBOAT is now cruising in Port Macquarie and we are so happy to be here when David Lazarus bring Rhythmboat from Sydney.
Brilliant Writer
Dec 9, 20214 min read
2022 Watercolour workshops announced at Wauchope Creative Hub
2022 Watercolour workshops at WCH. It will be the perfect time to pick up a paint brush and learn a new skill, or revisit an old skill.
Brilliant Writer
Dec 9, 20211 min read
Wauchope Creative Hub has a new addition!
Wauchope Creative Hub welcomes Kalido, the koala from Hello Koala sculpture trail. Kalido is designed and created by Francessca O’Donnell
Brilliant Writer
Nov 12, 20213 min read
Introducing Port Macquarie’s quiet and introspective photographer, Mick Sheppo
Mick Sheppo has been capturing worldly images of nature, people, bands, and everything in between through the lens of his camera.
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Nov 1, 20214 min read
October 2021 at Wauchope Creative Hub
October 2021 at The Wauchope Creative Hub is exciting with new products from a lot of our members, having extra time to create recently!
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Oct 7, 20212 min read
Dark Alley Review: Angus Gill “The Scrapbook”
The ARIA and Golden Guitar nominee Angus Gill has shed yet another musical skin, checking the boxes on a new song writing journey.
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Oct 7, 20214 min read
Step into the World of Tim Walker's Story Boxes
Brilliant-Online interviewed Tim Walker, a community man at heart who creates his Story Boxes inspired by his love for theatre
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Sep 29, 20216 min read
Port Macquarie has a new Music Curator and it’s our own Lisa Willows
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council announces the Live and Local program led by Program Curator Lisa Willows. Looking forward to micro festivals
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Sep 13, 20213 min read
Kim Staples Art Therapy Touches Hearts and Empowers Lives
Kim Staples provides art therapy to youth groups, Alzheimer's sufferers, people with disabilities, and those with special needs under NDIS
Yann Tyng Kooi
Sep 9, 20216 min read
A.g (47) - James Schafer
We speak to James Shafer, Port Macquarie’s band A.g 47 making mix metal, hip-hop and industrial into one aggressive beast of a machine.
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Sep 9, 20214 min read
Wauchope Creative Hub Workshop Updates
Creativity can help focus and calm the mind, and has even been compared to meditation due to its calming effects. Book future workshops now.
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Sep 8, 20212 min read
Meet Francessca O’Donnell, Out There Design and Mosaic
Francessca O’Donnell, Out There Collective is well known in the Greater Port Macquarie region for her incredible mosaic installations.
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Sep 8, 20215 min read
Travis Fredericks, the Man in Dark Alley Business
Travis Fredericks, owner of independent music store Dark Alley Collectables in Port Macquarie says the shop is thriving.
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Aug 10, 20213 min read
Karl S Williams Interview with Vibez in the Vines
Karl S Williams is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist, and poet and he is coming to Port Macquarie in October 2021.
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Aug 9, 20212 min read
James Bennett – “Life and Life Only”
James Bennett is an independent solo artist and talented multi-instrumentalist launching his latest album Life and Life Only.
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Aug 9, 20213 min read
Shining a Leadlight on a Dying Art
Mark Wilson has adapted his man cave into a workshop for his passion: handcrafting stunning Leadlight creations and restorations.
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Aug 9, 20218 min read
Roberta Sandeman-Allen, Artist and Craftswoman
Roberta Sandeman-Allen fantasy paintings using ink and watercolour. Her most interesting passion is needle felting
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Aug 8, 20212 min read
Utopian Living Acrylic Arts sold as Happy Colours for Beautiful Souls
Michele spreads happy colours of acrylic paint onto her canvass and teases the strokes with brushes and hot air.
Veronica Lind
Jul 7, 20211 min read
Stu Doherty brings art back home to Wauchope
A COVID turnaround - Stu Doherty started Wauchope Creative Hub to bring art back home to the Port Macquarie-Wauchope community
Ben Tirebuck, Editor
Jul 7, 20218 min read
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