There’s so much going on in this year’s Fungi Feastival. Photo: What’s On Eurobodalla.
It’s getting busy across the regions this week, with plenty of stage performances, photography exhibitions, festivals of food and art, string concerts, tribute acts and more.
The Fungi Feastival brings a massive program of events to the South Coast and Eurobodalla, with more than 60 events and five exhibitions, including workshops and seminars with international and Aussie experts, film showings about fungi, events about the role of fungi in agriculture and more.
There’s plenty of live music across the regions this week, with string quartets, tribute acts and orchestral explorations of Giovanni Bononcini and George Frideric Handel.
All this and so much more in the regions in the days to come.
Multiple Days
An exploration of media and the effect of the public eye. Image: Lieder Theatre Company.
Lieder Theatre Company Presents: Letters to Lindy
When: 12 to 18 June
Where: Lieder Theatre, 52 Goldsmith Street, Goulburn
Cost: Tickets from $20 to $35 | Book online.
Goulburn’s own Lieder Theatre Company presents Letters to Lindy, a verbatim play informed by the letters sent to Lindy Chamberlain-Chreighton after the tragic death of her daughter.
When Lindy’s daughter disappeared in the outback, her story became a media sensation, with the story unfolding under the full glare of the national media.
This performance focuses on the emotional toll on the grieving mother after her daughter went missing by using real correspondence sent to her to illustrate the opinions of the public and how they easily shifted.
An exploration of media, publicity and the pitfalls of trial-by-media, the story of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton is a story that still has relevance today.
On Thursday 18 June at 7 pm there will be a special audience Q&A with Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton. Tickets for this special event are available online.
Also at the Lieder Theatre Company will be a showing of Some Like it Hot on 14 June at 4 pm.
Nostalgia explored through photography at the Rusten House Art Centre. Image: Visit NSW.
Art Exhibition – Nostalgia by Leigh Penton at the Rusten House Art Centre
When: 12 to 18 June, during normal gallery hours
Where: Rusten House Art Centre, 87 Collett Street, Queanbeyan
Cost: Free.
Photographer Leigh Penton explores nostalgia through images that don’t document the past, but remember it, with all the imperfections, fuzziness and fragmentation that characterise human memory.
Using muted hues, subtle textures and banal subject matter, Penton presents everyday scenes, familiar to most of us, overlaid with subjective emotion.
Reflecting on recollection, truth and the inherent difficulty of subjective memory, this exhibition is a fascinating exploration of its subject matter.
More than 60 events and five exhibitions make this year’s Fungi Feastival an exciting one. Photo: Visit NSW.
Fungi Feastival
When: 12 to 18 June
Where: Various locations around the South Coast and Eurobodalla
Cost: Prices may vary | Book online.
The Fungi Feastival is a yearly celebration across the South Coast and Eurobodalla, bringing a full month of excitement, with more than 60 events and five exhibitions. There will be events focusing on the science of fungi, with workshops and seminars with international and Aussie experts, film showings about fungi, events about the role of fungi in agriculture and forestry, kayaking trips and courses on learning how to grow mushrooms and truffles.
There are also lessons on how to hunt for truffles as well as how to cook them, special truffle meals at participating restaurants, and artistic events, focusing on photographing, painting, collaging or even claymaking.
During the school holidays, there will also be kids’ events. More information is available on the festival’s website.
Saturday
There’s a lot on for this year’s Annual Poultry Show. Image: Goulburn Poultry Inc. Facebook.
Goulburn Poultry Fanciers’ Society – Annual Show
When: 13 June, 7 am to 5 pm
Where: 45 Braidwood Road, Goulburn
Cost: Free entry.
With more than $4000 in cash prizes and trophies to be won, the stakes are high for the Goulburn Poultry Fanciers’ Society Annual Show.
An extensive range of poultry and their proud owners will be on display, including soft feather, hard feather, standard, bantam, waterfowl, purebred, rare, crossbreeds, peafowl, turkeys, pheasant, guinea fowl and other species such as quail, parrot and finch. There will also be plenty of equipment on sale, including incubators, carry boxes and feeders.
If you’re a poultry professional or you just want to pick up some new equipment for your chook pen, there’s a lot to enjoy at the annual show.
Hear these talented musicians perform for one night at the Yass Memorial Hall. Photo: Humanitix.
Partridge String Quartet
When: 13 June, 7:45 to 10 pm
Where: Yass Soldiers Memorial Hall, 82-94 Comur St, Yass
Cost: Tickets from $50 to $60 | Book online.
An exciting quartet comes to the Yass Memorial Hall to perform an exhilarating program which includes Mozart’s String Quartet no 23, K.590, Harrison’s Fluor Electric and Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10.
The music of John Denver and Glen Campbell performed by Jason Owen. Image: Jason Owen, Facebook.
Jason Owen sings John Denver & Glen Campbell
When: 13 June, 8 pm
Where: Bay Pavilions, 12 Vesper Street, Batemans Bay
Cost: Tickets from $59 | Book online.
X Factor runner-up Jason Owen is coming to the Bay Pavilions to perform the music of John Denver and Glen Campbell, bringing the musical talent and stage presence that has earned him multiple ARIA Country #1 albums, Golden Guitar nominations and major performances at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
This Saturday he will perform the music of two greats, playing classics such as Take Me Home, Country Roads; Annie’s Song; Rhinestone Cowboy; Wichita Lineman and more.
Sunday
The music of Bononcini and Handel at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Image: Trybooking.
‘TWEEDLE-DUM & TWEEDLE-DEE’: Handel vs Bononcini’
When: 14 June, 2 to 3 pm
Where: Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 36 Queen St, Moruya
Cost: Tickets from $25 to $35 | Book online.
The Southern Concert transports you to the 1720s, when the musical world in Europe was fiercely debating the merits of two important composers, Giovanni Bononcini and George Frideric Handel.
This debate inspired the phrase Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee, which satirised the endless arguments between enthusiasts. The music of both composers will be performed here and audiences are invited to decide which artist they find more compelling.
Thursday
Author Julie Janson comes to the Moruya Library. Photo: eventbrite.
Author talk with Julie Janson
When: 18 June, 10:30 am
Where: Moruya Library, Vulcan Street, Moruya
Cost: Free | Book online.
Author Julie Janson gives a fascinating talk at the Moruya Library on her experience in fiction writing as well as the release of her new poetry collection, My Kaathi Sister.
Writers and readers are invited to come to the library and listen to Julie speak about her award-winning body of work, which includes poetry, novels and plays.
Set to be released on 29 June, Janson’s poetry collection is the newest piece in her body of work, which highlights First Nations history and voices.
Her new crime novel, Waagaan the Bloody Crow, will be released early next year. Signed books are available for purchase on the day.
