DID you know the special silicon-based insulation serving as the primary heat shield for the Space Shuttle orbiter sheds heat so rapidly that one side can be held in bare hands while the other side is red hot? Did you know the International Space Station loses about 25 metres of altitude per day? Every three […]
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 […]
MIDCOAST Council has listened to pleas not to remove a few improvised dirt bike jumps in Gloucester District Park. After the recent floods, Greg Germon, who regularly rides his bike in the park, thought it would be a great idea if some of the loose soil was made into bike jumps to be used by […]
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 […]
Ronald Wood, Alexis Apfelbaum, Michael O’Hara, Jasmine Van Aalst, Christine Dodd and Jym McPhee.
Ronald Wood. Ronald Wood, Alexis Apfelbaum, Michael O’Hara, Jasmine Van Aalst, Christine Dodd and Jym McPhee. MUSIC has been an integral part of Ronald Woods’ life from a very young age. Now a resident of Gloucester, Ronald shares his passion for music with a group of musicians every second Saturday at Gloucester Creatives. Originally a […]
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 […]
Elisa Kate’s music video image taken on the farm they grew up on near Bulahdelah. Photo: supplied, August Peridot Photography. Elisa Kate and one of her preferred instruments. Photo: supplied, August Peridot Photography. BULAHDELAH’S own singer/songwriter Elisa Kate has had her music picked up for a Netflix movie production, in yet another win for Myall […]
