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Creative fun for the little ones and a cuppa and chat for you!
Young children and their families can enjoy simple art activities guided by friendly art museum educators at the Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie.

Tuesday’s in March join us for a Coffee and Baby Chino a look at an artwork and a simple art making project.
Ticket $7 dollars (includes drinks and all art materials).

Please note children must be accompanied by an adult at all times and the art activities will take about 40 minutes to complete.

Bookings required: https://mac.lakemac.com.au/Events/Art-Space-Week-day-Pop-Up

Creative fun for the little ones and a cuppa and chat for you!
Young children and their families can enjoy simple art activities guided by friendly art museum educators at the Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie.

Tuesday’s in March join us for a Coffee and Baby Chino a look at an artwork and a simple art making project.
Ticket $7 dollars (includes drinks and all art materials).

Please note children must be accompanied by an adult at all times and the art activities will take about 40 minutes to complete.

Bookings required: https://mac.lakemac.com.au/Events/Art-Space-Week-day-Pop-Up

Children can enjoy exploring artmaking techniques in a structured but fun environment, with inspiration from the gallery exhibitions.

Bookings essential: https://mac.lakemac.com.au/Events/Childrens-Art-Workshop-ART-CLUB

Tuesdays 4.30-5.30pm

4 x sessions

9 March -30 March 2021

$100 for the 4 weeks includes all Materials

Level: Ages 6–10

Closed shoes essential.

Always wanted to try printmaking but not sure where to start?

Try a range of different printmaking techniques in this short taster course. Create a unique piece each week using four different methods under the guidance of experienced printmaker Amanda Donohue. Beginners very welcome.

Materials included.

4 x week course

Wednesday 10 March – Wednesday 31 March 2021

10.30am-1pm

Cost: $120

Bookings required: https://mac.lakemac.com.au/Events/Printmaking-Workshop

Children can enjoy exploring artmaking techniques in a structured but fun environment, with inspiration from the gallery exhibitions.

Bookings essential: https://mac.lakemac.com.au/Events/Childrens-Art-Workshop-ART-CLUB

Tuesdays 4.30-5.30pm

4 x sessions

9 March -30 March 2021

$100 for the 4 weeks includes all Materials

Level: Ages 6–10

Closed shoes essential.

Always wanted to try printmaking but not sure where to start?

Try a range of different printmaking techniques in this short taster course. Create a unique piece each week using four different methods under the guidance of experienced printmaker Amanda Donohue. Beginners very welcome.

Materials included.

4 x week course

Wednesday 10 March – Wednesday 31 March 2021

10.30am-1pm

Cost: $120

Bookings required: https://mac.lakemac.com.au/Events/Printmaking-Workshop

Handmade in the Hunter Markets, located at Sobels Wines (5 Halls Rd, Pokolbin) is the longest running and most popular, meet-the-maker market in the Hunter Valley vineyards. You will meet and talk with the grower, maker or artist behind each of the expertly crafted and truly unique “Handmade in the Hunter” creations. We take great pride in the fact that when you buy something from us you are taking a little bit of the Hunter home with you.

Conveniently located near the three major concert venues (Hope Estate, Bimbadgen and Roche Estate), wineries, restaurants and Hunter Valley Gardens, Handmade in the Hunter Markets are also held to coincide with concert dates and other major vineyard events.

Come along to see, taste, try, buy and marvel for yourself at what the vibrant Hunter Valley artistic and creative community has to offer.

Hop along to the Hunter Wetlands Centre on Saturday 3 April from 9.30 am to 2.00pm for Easter fun. There’ll be a jumping castle, dip-netting, Easter craft, reptile encounters, a Bunny Trail to follow and lots more. And, of course, meet the Easter Bunny! These activities are included in the entry price.
Enjoy our sausage sizzle, eat at the Wetlands Café or bring a picnic.
All tickets must be booked online. There will be no ticket sales on the day.
All Visitors are required to pre-purchase tickets for this event.
General entry $7.50
Under 4 free
Families $25
COVID -19 rules apply. Do not come if you are unwell. Maintain social distancing and hand hygiene

Handmade in the Hunter Markets, located at Sobels Wines (5 Halls Rd, Pokolbin) is the longest running and most popular, meet-the-maker market in the Hunter Valley vineyards. You will meet and talk with the grower, maker or artist behind each of the expertly crafted and truly unique “Handmade in the Hunter” creations. We take great pride in the fact that when you buy something from us you are taking a little bit of the Hunter home with you.

Conveniently located near the three major concert venues (Hope Estate, Bimbadgen and Roche Estate), wineries, restaurants and Hunter Valley Gardens, Handmade in the Hunter Markets are also held to coincide with concert dates and other major vineyard events.

Come along to see, taste, try, buy and marvel for yourself at what the vibrant Hunter Valley artistic and creative community has to offer.

April 2021 Lifeline will open the doors to the book lovers of Newcastle for a huge two-day event. With over 20,000 pre-loved books available which have been sorted into 60 categories.
Lifeline’s Book Fair is our biggest fundraising event each year and will directly help fund local crisis support and suicide prevention services. We hope to raise $30,000 from this event, which will support the cost of training new telephone crisis supporters as well as fund our local face to face and Telehealth counseling service.
With 2020 affected by Covid the event was canceled and our 5000 regular customers are eager for us to announce a new date.
The 2021 event will be held at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre Hall Of Industries and will be fully Covid compliant.

Handmade in the Hunter Markets, located at Sobels Wines (5 Halls Rd, Pokolbin) is the longest running and most popular, meet-the-maker market in the Hunter Valley vineyards. You will meet and talk with the grower, maker or artist behind each of the expertly crafted and truly unique “Handmade in the Hunter” creations. We take great pride in the fact that when you buy something from us you are taking a little bit of the Hunter home with you.

Conveniently located near the three major concert venues (Hope Estate, Bimbadgen and Roche Estate), wineries, restaurants and Hunter Valley Gardens, Handmade in the Hunter Markets are also held to coincide with concert dates and other major vineyard events.

Come along to see, taste, try, buy and marvel for yourself at what the vibrant Hunter Valley artistic and creative community has to offer.

Hunter Arts Network, the group behind the popular and long running Art Bazaar, is bringing Art Bazaar back to Speers Point Park on Sunday 11 April 2021 from 10am – 3pm.

Crowds will be treated to a wide variety of carefully selected stalls featuring premium handmade products. Art Bazaar has cemented it’s reputation as the event that showcases the Hunter’s creative & vibrant art community that locals & visitors look forward to three times every year.

Hunter Arts Network is a non-profit incorporated membership of artisans from the Hunter. HAN is run by a dedicated committee of volunteers who have also worked hard to celebrate all modalities of visual arts

Applications for stallholders will be open soon and all stallholders must apply to become a member of HAN

Come and enjoy a delicious High Tea & a Fashion Parade included in the cost!
Held at The Berkeley Centre, 1-3 Heather Ave Glenning Valley
Bookings are essential – limited numbers at the moment due to Covid-19.
The more the merrier.
This event is Covid safe. Fundraiser for Because We Care Boutique.
Plenty of onsite parking!!! 🙂

PICTURES FROM THE PAST: a special display showing Newcastle life in the early twentieth century as lived by the Porter family of King Street.

A picture really is worth a thousand words and the many family snaps, prints and commercial photographs in the Miss Porter’s House Museum collection paint a vivid portrait of Newcastle life in the early years of the twentieth century. The special display of PICTURES FROM THE PAST will include examples from courting post cards and holiday snaps, street scenes and local landmarks. Visitors can also help identify several mystery photographs.

Miss Porter’s House Museum, 434 King Street, Newcastle West
Sunday 11 April 1pm – 4pm
Adults $10, Concessions $8, Family $25, children under 5 free
Enquiries 4927 0202
www.nationaltrust.org.au
Facebook missportershouse

‘A Taste of Ireland―The Irish Music & Dance Sensation’ comes to Newcastle’s Civic Theatre with a performance that is ‘Celtic―for this generation’. Laugh, cry and jig into the night with a show that has entertained thousands.

Hot off its premiere New York City run in 2020 and with 130 shows in 2019 across Australia and New Zealand, ‘A Taste of Ireland’ features acclaimed Irish dancers, dazzling folk musicians and contemporary vocalists. Experience the raw, rhythmic passion that is the original story of the Celtic motherland.

With revamped classics like ‘Danny Boy’ and ‘Tell Me Ma’, the show’s live, energetic blend of well-known tunes, jaw-dropping acapella tap battles, melodic folk music mash-ups and craic galore transports you through the story of Ireland’s tumultuous history, complimented by stunning production and lighting.

Including beautiful scenic visuals, glitz, glamour and poetic narration, ‘A Taste of Ireland’ combines toe-tapping rhythms with heart-warming emotion to create a contemporary Irish dance showcase that will leave you shouting for more.

Starring dancers from the West End’s Lord of the Dance, Riverdance, & Gaelforce Dance alongside a treasure trove of Irish Dancing World Champions, ’A Taste of Ireland’ delivers the very best talent in the nation.

‘A Taste of Ireland’ is exactly what it promises: a taste of everything you love about Ireland with a generous helping of more!

Experience one of the best Irish Dance shows in the world today. With all new sets, costumes, tunes and effects, we promise you haven’t seen anything like this year’s show!

With tours lined up in the USA, Canada and the UK, don’t miss your chance to see ‘A Taste of Ireland’ in 2021.

It’s truly ‘Celtic―for this generation’.

Handmade in the Hunter Markets, located at Sobels Wines (5 Halls Rd, Pokolbin) is the longest running and most popular, meet-the-maker market in the Hunter Valley vineyards. You will meet and talk with the grower, maker or artist behind each of the expertly crafted and truly unique “Handmade in the Hunter” creations. We take great pride in the fact that when you buy something from us you are taking a little bit of the Hunter home with you.

Conveniently located near the three major concert venues (Hope Estate, Bimbadgen and Roche Estate), wineries, restaurants and Hunter Valley Gardens, Handmade in the Hunter Markets are also held to coincide with concert dates and other major vineyard events.

Come along to see, taste, try, buy and marvel for yourself at what the vibrant Hunter Valley artistic and creative community has to offer.