Pastor Luke Hester with one of the crocheted beanies.
THURSDAY 25 September was the end of term for the Craft Group at the Gloucester Baptist Church, a community program that has been running for 31 years. Turning 32 in October, the group began with members making Christmas decorations, cookies and cakes. New member Jasmine Wong walked into the Craft Group soon after the second […]
Wind players on stage. Photo: supplied
Bernadette Harvey, Dimity Hall and Julian Smiles. Photo: supplied. Wind players on stage. Photo: supplied A gatecrasher enjoying the music. Photo: supplied. THOSE organising a chamber music concert in an old tin shed in a cow paddock adjacent to a creek might be ready for some flooded crossings, or for the occasional snake, possum or […]
Rehearsal underway. Carol Bennett plays a woman in love from the late 1950s talking to the audience about a picnic. QUESTION: When is a stage production, with actors performing in front of an audience, not a play? Answer: When it’s a production of “Monologue Project” by Gloucester Arts and Cultural Council (GACCI). This stage production, […]
Selve at Abbey Road: (L-R) Locki, Reece, Creation, Michael, Liam and Scott. Photo: Josh Tate.
Selve at Abbey Road: (L-R) Locki, Reece, Creation, Michael, Liam and Scott. Photo: Josh Tate. Gloucester’s Reece Bowden. Photo: Josh Tate. REECE Bowden has grown up surrounded by music. “Family get-togethers always included someone bringing out a guitar for a sing-along,” he told News Of The Area. It wasn’t until his mid-teens that Reece realised […]
THE Gloucester Arts and Cultural Council (GACCI) and Gloucester Creatives are providing opportunities for young people to engage in creative activities during the upcoming school holidays. GACCI, in partnership with Inkling Writing Studios, is hosting a creative writing workshop for students aged 8 to 12 years. The workshop will be held over two mornings on […]
‘Bird’. Photo: Julie Slavin.
‘Bird’. Photo: Julie Slavin. Gemma Cross and her creations. Photo: Julie Slavin. WINGHAM artist Gemma Cross has been practising the art of needle felting for over 15 years. Needle felting is a relatively new practice; originating in the 1980s when American artists David and Eleanor Stanwood adapted industrial felting techniques. They used a single barbed […]
Work underway on the new stage.
Work underway on the new stage. The completed stage hosting the new piano. MUSICIANS playing the Craven Creek Music Festival on 13 and 14 September will ply their trade on a newly built stage. News Of The Area reported last month that this year’s festival will feature piano music for the first time, after the […]
THE Gloucester Mountain Man Tri Challenge, which was to take place on 14 September, has been cancelled. “With all the rain the organising committee really had no choice but to cancel this year’s event,” said Race Director Sam De Witte. “It was a reluctant decision and very disappointing, but there were a whole range of […]
AFTER the stress of the Higher School Certificate (HSC), many Year 12 students are keen to head off to one of the well-known “schoolies” locations, such as the Gold Coast or Byron Bay. But five Gloucester High School students have chosen a less-trodden path for their 2025 end-of-school adventure. Selina Denyer, Sam Collie, Xavier Soupidis, […]
MAUREEN (Mo) Hjorth knew from a young age that she wanted to be a performer. “When asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer was always the same – ‘I’m going to be an actress’,” she told News Of The Area. Her life as an actress is detailed in her recently […]
