Cafs is calling for more foster carers to open their doors and hearts. To mark Foster Care Week in September, Child and Family Services is encouraging people across Ballarat and the Central Highlands region to consider whether they could provide the safety, stability and sense of belonging that a child needs. Cafs Home Based Care […]
Brendan Hehir was running The Blackwood Times when the storm of June 2021 decimated the region, so, naturally he started reporting on it. Taking photos, getting stories from affected community members. But after a while, like others, he realised it was bigger than one paper, bigger than a few news reports. “About two months later, […]
CONFIRMED AS ATTENDING: Martha Haylett MP LABOR Jo Armstrong NATIONALS Megan Read LIBERALS Donna Buxton ONE NATION Tim Drylie GREENS WESTERN VIC. CANDIDATES Sarah Mansfield GREENS Bev McArthur MP LIBERALS www.kingstonanddistrictpoweralliance.org Community event hosted by Kingston & District Power Alliance DOORS OPEN: 2:15pm DEBATE: 2.45 to 4:30pm SUNDAY 4TH OCT. NEWLYN FOOTY CLUB STATE ELECTION […]
Lyster Opera presents Don Giovanni – The Charmer, the Scoundrel and Mozart’s Masterpiece at the Creswick Town Hall on Saturday, October 24 In its 10th year of bringing opera to regional Victoria, Lyster Opera has gained a well-deserved reputation of delighting communities of small country towns with exceptional productions of well-known and, perhaps, less well-known […]
These Year 10 students had busily spent a term crafting and editing their pieces. Coupled with feedback from Amanda de Clifford, the head of English at Daylesford College, these young writers were also coached in performance and public speaking by Rebecca Lister – an award-winning playwright, M.C. and co-artistic Director of the arts company Anvil […]
Three artists will open their exhibitions at Stockroom in Kyneton on Saturday, September 26 from 4pm. The exhibitions will run to November 1. Mark Rodda will present Abstraction + Watercolour = Good Times!!, Ella Rizzi will present Distance and Steph Wallace will present Grief is like Glitter. Mark Rodda, Nebula 24P Mark Rodda’s Abstraction + […]
The Swiss Italian Festa Landscape Prize is back again this year. Celebrating the beauty and character of the Central Victorian Highlands through the eyes of the region’s talented local artists. Whether you’re a painter, sculptor or photographer, you are invited to capture the landscape that makes the region so special. The artwork must represent a […]
Children have an important role to play in caring for the local environment. When children take part in environmental projects in their local community, they learn that even small actions can make a big difference. Learning to be an engaged and active citizen is an embodied and intentional focus in the curriculum at the Daylesford […]
