Sunset Session 5 May 2023 with The De Factos

Entertaining local duo, Donna Cavanough and John O’Brien generally foolin’ about in the loungy lounge room at the Royal, with good singin’ songwritin’and alright playin’ join in! Grab a drink or a meal and join them for live and loungy performance! It’s free but there might be a hat. Friday 5 May 2023, 5.30 pm…

Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize Entries Close 19 May 2023

Now in its fifth year, the Australian Photographic Society’s Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize is a national $25,000 acquisitive prize that seeks to find Australia’s best conceptual photographic works. Use this link to enter: https://linktr.ee/Artscentre Entries Close – 19 May 2023 The 2023 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize is made possible by the Australian Photographic Society in…

Arts Upper Hunter announces seven local organisations to share in $21,000 to fund art projects.

CASP has been running for decades and is a vital support for regional arts, enabling community groups to hold small bespoke workshops, or create artworks, or have performances or exhibitions, that fit their local people and create further opportunities for artists. “The applicants ranged across many artforms, across the whole of this region,” according to…

Bulga Beats Festival 2023 

From circus beats to jazz and everything in-between! Bulga Beats Festival music entertainment is locked and ready for you all 19 to 21 May 2023 Bulga Recreation Ground 19 The Inlet Rd, Bulga For details please visit https://bulgabeatsfestival.com/  

This is Us – A Musical Reflection of Australia

Don’t miss the Grigoryan Brothers first ever performance at the James Theatre, Dungog. Thursday 27 April 2023, 7.30pm Acclaimed guitarists Slava and Leonard Grigoryan have created a suite of music inspired by objects personally selected from the National Museum of Australia’s vast collection tracing Australia’s diverse and complex history. The evocative nature of each of…

Baerami Bush Dance & campout 2023

A truly authentic and fun filled bush dance! Traditional music will be performed acoustically by Hunter musicians in the historic timber-lined Baerami Hall, in a picturesque valley at 1361 Bylong Valley Way, Baerami, near Sandy Hollow & Denman. It is 2 hrs west of Newcastle. Saturday 29 April 2023 All dances are explained, you don’t…

Thank You and Farewell

The board and staff of Arts Upper Hunter thanked Ivan Skaines, our outgoing Chair and Board Member, at the March meeting. Ivan joined the Board in 2018, was appointed as Deputy Chair in 2020 and Chair in 2021. Ivan has had a long association with AUH. He was even Acting Executive Director for 3 months in…