This workshop will be run over two consecutive days—comprising both theory and in-the-field photography in Glenlyon and led by John Walter, President of the Upper Campaspe Landcare Network (UCLN) and an accomplished photographer and naturalist. Over the past 10 years, John has compiled an impressive photographic archive of pollinators and other insects and birdlife in our region.

Day 1: Theory Workshop – Time: 1 pm—4 pm at Glenlyon Hall, Barkly Street, Glenlyon
Day 2: In-the-Field Photography – Time: 1 pm—4 pm at a Glenlyon location announced on day 1

Numbers are limited to 15 – so book early. To book your place RSVP by 5th October to glenlyonlandcare@outlook.com

Electronic Spring

Free, open air event, featuring local electronic artists:

• Justine Walsh
• Kontrast
• Square Wave Bounce
• Maarten Stenakur
• Identify project
• unruhe

Saturday 12 November 3pm. Hepburn Soundshell.

Held once again at the Daylesford Town Hall, the opening night celebrations on Friday the 28^th of October will also include live art, music, and an auction of art and other items supplied by local businesses. This ticked event will bring together many local businesses and community members, giving them the opportunity to experience the art and share in an informal and fun night that promises to enliven the community spirit.

Daylesford Art Show

Gardens provide important opportunities for people to engage with the natural world and to develop their ideas about their relationships with nature. Gardeners in village areas play a key role in the management of significant areas of green space, and they must engage with pro-wildlife and conservation behaviours in their gardens. Although living in village environments, gardeners can be left disconnected from nature and less likely to engage with habitat conservation. However, while village gardeners each manage a relatively small parcel of land, collectively these gardens provide important habitat – a corridor for pollinators. One approach for village gardeners is to engage in the Pollinator Corridor Project

RSVP by 20th September to glenlyonlandcare@outlook.com

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

Buy tickets

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!