“All creatures are fantastic, we just get used to some,” says artist and teacher Jovana Terzic, co-curator of the Fantastic Creatures group show at the Orchard Gallery this month.
Julia Flanagan is primarily a painter with a growing interest in sculpture. Born in Newcastle, Julia moved to Sydney to study painting and completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School in 2004 and her Painting Honours in 2005.
REDFERN: Yvonne Mayer has for many years enjoyed regular Tai Chi exercises. At 11am each Wednesday during school terms she meets with fellow practitioners,...
Haim’s Something to Tell You (2017) comes four years after the Grammy-nominated Days Are Gone (2013). The new record will be released on vinyl this month and the SSH has two copies to give away.
More than 100 worshippers gathered at St Joseph's Catholic Church in Newtown to celebrate a farewell mass and party for retiring parish priest Father Peter Maher OAM.
In late March an ensemble comprising experienced actors alongside tenants of the Waterloo housing community staged an original play entitled Turning Towers.
American singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy is a talented guitarist – melodic, dynamic, fierce, loose. Her distinctive vocal style is highly expressive.
The Harbour City Pirates baseball club held its presentation dinner on April 1. At the family event President Gary Fishburn invited the kids to take up a bat and swing at a skull-and-cross-bones piñata.
The footy’s back! You can just feel it in the air. You can see it on the faces of fans keen for the Rabbitohs to rebound strongly after disappointments in 2016.
We knew the day was coming, the redevelopment on the western side of Regent Street has gathered pace, but when we met for the last day of trading, it was an emotional occasion.
The winter months can be especially tough for anybody on a tight budget – finding money for the rent as well as the extra costs of warm clothes, energy and medication. Keeping healthy (physically and mentally) and eating well are important concerns.
Artist Melissa Carey has long loved drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. As a 12 year old she had her first jewellery stall. An art school graduate in hometown Perth, she worked for a while in the corporate sector but soon realised the office environment was not a healthy space for her. Three years ago she moved to Sydney where she has established her own creative business. From her share-space studio in Alexandria, Melissa conducts workshops in candle-making, printing and macrame. She enjoys festival work and volunteer work within the arts scene, as well as commissions large and small. Next month she hopes to complete an art residency in Berlin.
Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions (edited by Richard Kearney and James Taylor) features ten meditations on the theme of interreligious hospitality by eminent scholars...
Sydney Photo Fun (SPF) is a group with over 900 members – “camerateers” who meet regularly at various city locations to make and share photographic images. The group’s online archives boast stunning photographs from more than 250 meet-ups.
REDFERN: On Monday March 14 the Men Speak Out for Treaty forum was held at Redfern Community Centre, organised by the Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney. The forum was a complement to the Women Speak Out for Treaty forum held in Redfern in March 2015, and was facilitated by journalist and filmmaker Jeff McMullen.
The Living in Harmony festival saw colourful multicultural community events throughout March. Local highlights included Breaking Bread (March 10-12) at the Redfern Community Centre (an evening of discussion, damper and Jewish challah-bread making workshops), and the Just Say Hi film launch in Glebe (March 12), a moving documentary featuring local community groups – with a sound-score by Sydney Choirs and members of the public.
A new art space on Parramatta Road opened on March 12, between 2-6pm. Tetch Gallery co-owner Amanda Joy Robb talks to the SSH about the creative venture.
February 12-14 saw the inaugural Mount Kiera Downhill Challenge in Wollongong hosted by the Australian Skateboard Racing Association (ASRA) in cooperation with the International Downhill Federation (IDF).
The Aboriginal word marana means “stars”. Marana signifies a deep connection with the universe and a strong sense of spiritual belonging, and connotes the survival and durability of ancient cultures – the stars keep on shining. Marana is also the name of an innovative new service offering support and training opportunities for Indigenous pre-release prisoners. Employment on rel
WATERLOO: It’s common knowledge that Christmas can be a particularly anxious season for many vulnerable people. The timing of the government’s announcement of plans to redevelop the Waterloo estate, and the means by which those plans have been communicated, strikes many residents and housing representatives as highly insensitive and disrespectful.
South Sydney Herald distributor Eleanor Boustead recently spent four weeks in Turkey. A retired nurse, the Redfern local is also a keen reader, traveler and amateur historian. Eleanor has been fortunate enough to visit a different country every few years.
For Kerry, the responsibilities often create anxiety and frustration. She remembers when her daughter was happy and well. She enjoyed sports, studies and employment....
A free science fair and family fun day affirmed the value of traditional knowledge and practice, as well as the rich and complementary relationship between Indigenous and Western science.
REDFERN: Café owner-managers Georgia Woodyard and Anne Cooper are passionate about quality coffee and café-style dining. Their Scout’s Honour café at 118 George Street, opposite the fire station, is a thriving business. In the month of the literary event that was the publication of Harper Lee’s second novel (like the first and famous, To Kill A Mockingbird, the “follow-up” centres on the character – and café namesake – Scout Finch), Georgia took time to reflect on life and work in the neighbourhood.
A new college, the National Aboriginal College (NAC), is offering a variety of useful online courses and correspondence courses to people from all cultural backgrounds.
