HelloPlus: Exploring Life & Philosophy.
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An unlikely mix of artistic expression
Peter Ryan and Gillian Gorrie are both artists at Art on Piper. Their joint exhibition came about when Peter, a photographer, was musing with Gillian, a watercolour artist, about how he would like someone to paint his images. Not copy them, but paint their interpretation of them. Gillian jumped at the chance and said “Let’s…
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Winter show a triumph!
Trentham’s Little Gallery Winter Fundraising Show achieved new heights by having one of their biggest shows ever in the 14 years they have been open. With record sales, the gallery made a substantial donation to the Central Highlands Health ‘Treehouse Program’ in Trentham. The quality of the artwork in the group show featuring 16 local…
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Bill tabled on park
Local environmentalists are celebrating the tabling of a bill in state parliament last week to create the new Wombat-Lerderderg National Park. About 24,000 hectares of the Wombat Forest will be conserved for animals, plants and fungi and for future generations to enjoy. Wombat Forestcare congratulated the state government for creating this park and the Mt…
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An invitation to recalibrate
Anyone in the vicinity of the Phee Broadway Theatre last Friday would have been witness to a constant stream of middle-aged women steadily making their way into the library foyer in a manner somewhat reminiscent of a clandestine suffragette meeting (perhaps the women of Castlemaine are ready for their own uprising?). The meeting was, in…
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‘Shifting Perspectives’ at Harcourt Valley
Students at Harcourt Valley Primary School are exited to have had the opportunity to work on a unique arts project thanks to the support of a Creative Learning Partnerships grant through Creative Victoria. Over the past eight weeks two groups of grade four students have been working on an engaging and evolving arts project titled…
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Road risk as safety removed
It has taken months but safety measures have now been restored to a dangerous stretch of road at Barfold. The 300m stretch of road is located along Heathcote-Kyneton Road and is sign-posted 100km/h but features a dip that obscures vision for overtaking. A head-on crash between two cars in April 2023 prompted double line road…
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A beloved family musical
Kyneton Theatre Company presents Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s multi award-winning show: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Performed hundreds of times, including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, and international tours in more than 80 countries worldwide, Joseph has become one of the world’s most beloved family musicals. Featuring much-loved…
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A first for the nation
Local First Nations groups across the region have welcomed the historic state-wide Treaty tabled in state parliament last Tuesday. It makes Victoria the first state or territory in Australia to introduce a bill of this kind in parliament and, if passed, will set in stone a permanent First Peoples’ Assembly under the name Gellung Warl,…
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Ngannelong speculation
Significant Treaty legislation introduced into the Victorian Parliament last week has re-ignited speculation in certain quarters about possible changes to the names of specific landmarks and waterways on state-controlled land. Could it be that the widely known phrase ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ eventually changes to ‘Picnic at Ngannelong’? Under the legislation introduced last week by…
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The road to Kyneton
Historian and author Professor Janet McCalman AC, will be the guest speaker at Kyneton U3A this Friday, September 19. Janet McCalman is known for her award-winning books – Struggletown, Journeyings and Sex and Suffering. For more than 20 years, she taught and researched interdisciplinary history at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 she was made…
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Bokashi – brilliant, or bit of a bother?
Do you know that feeling, everyone is talking about some ‘amazing’ thing, and you are left wondering “am I missing something here?”. That’s me and bokashi. Bokashi is a system for processing kitchen scraps that is presented as a convenient, odour-free alternative to composting or worm farming. We need a bokashi bucket – with a…
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Love Letters on stage
Beginning with birthday party thank-you notes and summer camp postcards between two dorky third graders Melissa Gardiner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, Love Letters offers a memorable and unique theatrical experience. Set in an era well before the advent of faxes, texts, emails and all forms of social media, it’s a celebration of language. Words…