Three incredible writers haven made history by becoming the first joint winners in the Short Story Section of the 2021 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards and impressive writing featured in the ABC Radio Children’s Awards.

Cowra Regional Art Gallery is proud to announce the finalists for the prestigious Calleen Art Award 2021 acquisitive painting prize. Open to artists across Australian the Calleen Art Award received 407 entries and 47 artists have been shortlisted as finalists.

Looking for online activities, tours, exhibitions or workshops? We’ve compilied a list of things happening internet-side across the region.

After 15 years of amazing service Regional Arts NSW CEO Elizabeth Rogers is moving on. Elizabeth is taking her considerable skills, abilities and experience to the Canberra Glassworks, where she is taking up the position of CEO.

More than $7 million will flow to regional arts and entertainment organisations to attract additional tourists to Australian regions and to speed economic recovery in communities hit hard by COVID-19, as part of the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Tourism package.

Cementa Inc is thrilled to announce the participants in the Regional Artist Professional Development Program, funded through the Regional Arts Fund Recovery Grant.

Over three days in September, Artlands 2021 on lutruwita land, Launceston will enable a series of exchanges and help to enhance a creative ecosystem which is interconnected and integrated across Country, communities and art forms.

A community performance project that uses large-scale puppetry, physical theatre and cabaret to tell the story of Mount Panorama and what it means to people has received the backing of the NSW Government.

It has sat unoccupied for almost 20 years. But not for much longer. The former Forbes and District Ambulance Station is now once step closer to becoming a cultural and arts centre

Round 2 arts and culture funding has been announced with exciting Central West NSW projects, facilities and artists funded.

The Mitchell Conservatorium of Music will this month take up residence in the former Bathurst Railway District Engineers Buildings located on the corner of Piper and Havannah Streets Bathurst.

Support the first early childhood collection by regional Australian not-for-profit publisher, Dirt Lane Press: The Secret Boat poems for children by Mark Macleod & Gaye Chapman.

Orange photographer and proud Wiradjuri woman Kristin Byrnes has launched a photography business, thanks to her ‘life-changing’ TAFE NSW experience.

Create NSW has developed protocols to give guidance and direction to the sector when working with Aboriginal artists, cultural practitioners and communities.

A quick survey about what you need from Regional Arts NSW.

Congratulations to Wayne Miles ~ winner of the 2021 Forbes Shire Council Heritage Art Competition Aquisition Prize for his contemporary interpretation of the well-known ambrotype photograph of Ben Hall.

Just wonderful to see Christine McMillan showing in Kandos! Wood, carp scales, echidna spines by Christine McMillan is currently on show until mid-June.

Cowra Civic Centre has announced a program of theatre, comedy, dance, world and classical music, workshops, feature films, world cinema and documentary screenings including Australian and international artists.

Charles Sturt University’s director of external engagement Julia Andrews has been appointed to the Board of state peak body Regional Arts NSW.

Bathurst visual artist Karen Golland has been appointed to the board of First Draft, Australia’s premier space for emerging and experimental arts practice.

May 20-26. The Orange Regional Conservatorium (ORC) is proud to be welcoming Leanne Sullivan as artist in residence for a week of lessons, classes, workshops and performances.

Exhibition to June 12. Now on at the Cowra Regional Gallery is the wonderful regional art exhibition the Lachlan Valley Biennial Art Awards 2021 showcasing 100 artworks by 61 artists based within a radius of 100 klms from Cowra.

Orange Regional Gallery’s Extension Project reached major milestones recently with the pouring of the 1070m2 slab, blockwork starting on the collection store, and community donations for the project reaching $415,000.

Composer Peter Kennard and Portland-based visual Artist Sue Daley have recently completed a project entitled ‘Love Letter’ funded by a Blue Mountains City of the Arts Trust, Quick Response Grant.

The ‘Bird in Hand’ sculpture is the latest installation to be unveiled along Forbes’ Sculpture Down the Lachlan trail.

‘LET THE RIVER GO’ is the new LP by O’Connell based band The Safety of Life at Sea.

As Orange Regional Gallery’s Extension Project moves into full gear, one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists, John Olsen AO has made a remarkable gesture to mark the occasion.

Orange City Council is on the lookout for members of the community to share untold stories of previous generations and events in Orange’s history.

Congratulations to Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Director Sarah Gurich on being elected President of the NSW Public and Regional Galleries Association.

The first live music concert of the Inland Sea of Sound in 2021 will feature three great bands for the ridiculously low price of $20 for Adults and $15 for Students and Concessions (Pensioners & Unemployed).

The Orange Regional Conservatorium and Cowra Civic Centre will welcome the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows to town for performances and master classes in the last week of February.

This beautiful new artwork is located along the Mid-Western Highway in the small, rural village of Caragabal in Central West NSW. Completed in 2020, it aims to celebrate the unique local bird life at Caragabal and raise awareness of local threatened species.

The Hill End based artist and writer’s biography ‘Kate Kelly; the true story of Ned Kelly’s little sister’ is published by Allen and Unwin – release date 16 February 2021.

A mini bus of kids ages 7-14 years, a list of Central West destinations and plenty of public art and cultural experiences. Orange – Eugowra – Grenfell – Carcoar.

Residents of Parkes celebrated the opening of a new learning and cultural facility last month at The Parkes Library.

This Funding will assist The CORRIDOR project 2021 Arts and Cultural program aiming to ignite innovative, contemporary, collaborations between artists, community, and tourists.

Watch all the presentations online.

Sculpting in the Pyrocene: A Disappearing Act was one of 7 films selected for The Picture Show at the End of the World, international short film screening event.

Who teaches ceramics? Who has kilns? What groups are there?