Lyn Bowtell – Wiser Album Tour 2022

Stunning, heartfelt vocals, beautifully-crafted songs and world- class performances, there are few female voices in Australia to rival the class and style of Lyn Bowtell.

Lyn Bowtell, is back on tour with a brand new Album!

Fresh from the recording studio with Producer Shane Nicholson at the helm, 9 time Golden Guitar winner Lyn Bowtell is thrilled to share with you the new songs that spearhead her first solo release in nearly 4 years.

‘I’m really looking forward to sharing these songs with you. Those of you who have followed my career will know that I never do exactly the same thing twice and this collection of songs is no exception, so…expect the unexpected!

I’ve named the Album ‘Wiser’, after a track that reflects the overall feeling of the songs; songs about love, loss, learning and looking towards the future with a better understanding of the past. This album reflects where I’m at and where I’m headed… ‘Wiser, braver, stronger from now on’.’

Join Lyn and be amongst the first to hear these brilliant new songs by one of the most innovative Artists in Australian Country music.

Lyn will be joined by Special Guest Artist Kelly Brouhaha

Lyn Bowtell is a Toyota Star Maker winner, MO Award winner, a nine time Golden Guitar winner, and Artistic Director of the CMAA Academy of Country Music.

This exhibition is to celebrate the launch of Grills’ anarchic illustrated memoir, big beautiful female theory, at Radius Gallery in Hepburn from 3rd September to 15th October, 2022. The show opens on September 3rd, 3-5pm with a special, surprise perfromance.

The exhibition explores notions of femininity, the abject, inheritance, the body and diet culture, and the domestic, through watercolour and gouache, oil paintings, found objects, collage, and more. Through deeply personal works, Hassall, Grills and Gorring examine what femininity means to them, in an increasingly fragmented, unknowable world. The exhibition will launch on September 3rd from 3–5pm with a special guest performance at Radius Gallery, 76 Main Road, Hepburn and will continue until the 15th of October.

This exhibition will include artworks from Eloise Grills’ recent illustrated memoir big beautiful female theory, released by Affirm Press in June 2022. The book has been named one of the ABC’s Best Books of June, and been reviewed positively by the Age, Meanjin, ArtsHub, and the Bendigo Advertiser. Windham Campbell-winning author Maria Tumarkin described the book as ‘impossibly brilliant’, and Stella Prize-longlisted author Ellena Savage called it a ‘blazing, fearless manifesto’. Part feminist rallying cry, part comic book, big beautiful female theory is a carnivalesque exploration of the ways identity is formed through culture, relationships and the weight of society’s expectations. The book encompasses more than 150 pages of illustrations, and many of these artworks will be on display at this exhibition in Radius.

Exhibiting with Grills are Jackie Gorring and Nina Hassall. Jackie Gorring’s work for the show includes sculpture made from found, recycled, stitched, wood and metal constructions, floor or wall rugs featuring tapestry, knitted fabric, sheep fleece, fabric-stencilled recycled cardboard wall pieces, and stencilled nylon scour pads. Nina Hassall’s artworks explore how intrinsically linked we are to our surroundings, the people in our lives and how this feeds back into our own sense of self, memory, and perception. By using cropping and collage with personal and family photographs, and varied media of oil paint, pastel, watercolour, and charcoal, she attempts to paint humans, feelings, temperature, moments in time that are familiar, sometimes intimate, sometimes claustrophobic, and often ambiguous.

More details on Radius Gallery's website

Shepherds Flat Landcare Group has received funds from the Australian Government, Dept. of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources to plant trees celebrating The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.  Sunday August 28th will be the first of several planting sessions. Community members are invited to share in this event, planting native trees and grasses to help repair the damaged environment.  We will then celebrate with a BBQ and be joined by the Honorable Catherine King MP, Councillor Jen Bray and others who are supporting our Group and activities.  Please register your interest with Jill Williams, 0437751824 or Phil Laukens, 0408348709. You can refer to the Shepherds Flat Landcare Group facebook page to read about some of our past achievements – https://www.facebook.com/groups/2195408310734940

ChillOut’s annual women’s dance is coming back this August!
Dance the night away with 80s women’s supergroup The Lost Girls with DJ Quality Time and DJ Gay Dad giving you tunes to dance to all night long. PLUS host with the most chest hair, Lead Drag King of Queen FREDDIE MERKIN.

When: 6pm – midnight
Saturday 27 August 2022
Where: Daylesford Town Hall
Dress code: 1920s flapper style – or get your glam rock on!
Rockstar bar • BYO food only.
Trans, gender fluid and non binary folks are welcome.

$40 full, $30 concession. Grab your tickets from the ChillOut website.

Image credit: Mish Donnelly

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Last year HRCC helped more people than ever before, distributing food hampers, gift vouchers, toys, books and back to school support. This year the charity is hoping to hit their fundraising target of $50,000 – and it will mean they can help those in the Daylesford and Hepburn community who need it most. 

The upcoming Christmas in July fundraising event, hosted by the Farmer Arms Hotel, includes a two course dinner, auction, entertainment – and plenty of Christmas cheer – with all proceeds going to HRCC. 

Almost 50 businesses in the region have donated goods, services and gift vouchers to be auctioned off on the night – including renowned artists Michael Parker (Stony Creek Gallery), Cristina Doyle (Black Gallery) and Bridget Bodenham, local accommodation, hair, beauty and massage spas and some of the area’s top restaurants and wineries including Sault, Kadota and Passing Clouds.

How you can help

• Book tickets to the  Christmas in July event ​​

https://www.trybooking.com/CAAUN

• Donate goods or services to HRCC’s fundraising auction – contact Wendy Berry (HRCC Chairperson) via info@hepburnregionalcommunitycheer.org.au
• Make a donation – all donations over $2 are tax deductible

https://hepburnregionalcommunitycheer.org.au/donate/

ELECTION DAY 21ST MAY, 2022
Hepburn Primary School are having a sausage sizzle from 9-4pm or until they sell out!

Holy Thursday April 14th— 5.30pm at  St Augustine’s Catholic Church Creswick

Holy Thursday April 14th—7pm at  St Peter’s Catholic Church Daylesford

Good Friday April 15th—3pm  at St Augustine’s (lay led) Catholic Church Creswick

Good Friday April 15th- 3pm  at St Peter’s Catholic Church Daylesford

Good Friday  CLUNES April 15th -10am—Ecumenical Way of the Cross Clunes– Starting at The Ford, bottom of Fraser Street. Followed by a cuppa at Jubilee Hall in Service Street Clunes.

Easter Sunday April 17th—9am at  St Augustine’s Catholic Church Creswick

Easter Sunday April 17th—10.30 am at St Peter’s Catholic Church Daylesford

Natasha Morgan invites you to visit the Australian renowned gardens of Oak & Monkey Puzzle, Spargo Creek, Victoria, on Sunday 23 January 2022 in aid of raising funds for the local SES and CFA.

The Oak & Monkey Puzzle Open Garden is the final opportunity to visit Oak and Monkey Puzzle, the home of Natasha Morgan before the property is offered for sale.

Located 1hr north of Melbourne near Daylesford,  experience its ever changing beautiful productive gardens and gold rush era exotic trees.

Visit this breathtaking place, that has been revered by garden lovers, special event attendees, and has been featured on the cover of many magazines and books, including Country Style’s ‘Dream Homes’, Women’s Weekly ‘Beautiful Australia’, and The Design Files.

Talk with Natasha about her tree change with a purpose, the design and construction of the gardens. Pop down a picnic blanket under our ancient Oak canopy. Gather and soak up this stunning property nestled in the Wombat State Forest.

This is also an opportunity to support some of our region’s wonderful artisans and producers, of whom a selection will be at Oak and Monkey Puzzle to share their specialty products.  Natasha Morgan signature syrups will be available for purchase, as well as much more.

Limited tickets available via www.natashamorgan.com.au

This event is proudly sponsored by Belle Property Daylesford.

This event will follow the current Victorian Chief Health Officer directives at the time of this event.

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Disability Information Night – Victoria Park Pavilion – 02 December

The Rotary Club of Daylesford is pleased to invite interested community members to a Disability Information Session to be held at the Victoria Park Pavilion on Thursday 02 December.

Living with a disability can be challenging enough. Those living with a disability in a small regional community like ours are presented with even bigger barriers, whether that’s access to affordable services, physical access to facilities and venues or even the availability of toilets!

The Rotary Club of Daylesford has convened a panel of speakers, including:

• Katrina Kavanagh, a disability support coordinator with Pathway Connect, who will discuss the challenges of living with a disability in small regional communities.
• Peter Waters a local resident who lives with cerebral palsy and will talk about his inspirational wheelchair trip from Melbourne to Sydney, as well as the challenges of growing up as a child with a disability.
• Dale Hoy, District Governor of Rotary District 9800, who will talk about the role of services clubs such as Rotary working to improve disability outcomes.
• Pat Groenhout, President of the Rotary Club of Daylesford will host a Q&A session.

Event details:

Time:

6:00 PM – Gourmet BBQ and drinks: 6.00PM ($20 for the meal and a drink)

7:00 PM – Presentations from speakers

8:00 PM – Q&A

8:30 PM – Close

Location:

Victoria Park Pavilion, Victoria Park (entry at the corner of Burrall St and Ballan-Daylesford Rd, Daylesford

RSVP:

Pat Groenhout at patrick.groenhout@greenwoodstrategy.com.au or 0402 159 314 by 5:00PM Monday 29 November 2021

2pm –  Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor
Haydn String Quartet op.33 no.1 in B minor

4pm –  Caroline Shaw Punctum
Debussy String Quartet in G minor

Tickets $45 and only available online.

Hosted by Scrub Hill 1869

Live (classical) music is back in town with a fabulous benefit concert for our local wildlife at the Convent Gallery, on Sunday November 14, 1pm, which will be a repeat of the sold-out Friday night concert. Jack Schiller, principal bassoon with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, will delight us with a quirky, new work of Australian music for solo bassoon, “The Song of the Wombat”, that captures the comic and playful character of a young wombat.

Jack will be joined by the Zephyr String Ensemble (pictured), which includes exciting young, professional musicians Emma Hunt (violin), Katie Yap (viola) and Anna Pokorny (cello), all members of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, whose ever-popular Feast of Music tragically had to be cancelled again this year. The concert program will include works by composers such as Mozart, Corelli, Hildegard of Bingen and Francois Devienne as well as a couple of traditional pieces.

Tickets are essential, as is proof of x2 vax: https://www.trybooking.com/BTGNA. Info: 0478 622428 or djs@oceanbooks.com.au

Catherine Freemantle -her paintings reflect the ever-changing patterns of nature

Suellen Wilkie – an observation of Lake Daylesford and the bird species who visit her back door

Piccolo Food van – all day for deliciousness on the lawns