NORPA (Northern Rivers Performing Arts) has revealed a huge year of performing arts in store for 2017 including the premiere of new NORPA Generator work Djurra, Martha Wainwright in concert, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Bell Shakespeare, Ilbijerri Theatre Company & Belvoir, Circus Oz, Australian Dance… Read More »NORPA reveals its biggest year yet – 2017 season
After 30 years, the curtain is lifting on the Brunswick Picture House. The iconic site on Fingal Street in Brunswick Heads has had a new lease on life and opens its doors this coming Easter weekend. A fun packed program of events has been created… Read More »The Brunswick Picture House
BROADWAY COMES TO BANGALOW! It’s been called a ‘lollapalooza of a show’ and has been staged everywhere from New York to London, Japan to Toronto, and a multitude of cities in between. Now the recently formed Bangalow Theatre Company (BTC) will take on this Broadway… Read More »THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
In another coup for the arts in this region, NORPA will premiere an explosive new physical theatre work, Cockfight. For the last eighteen months Gold Coast-based company The Farm has been developing the work in collaboration with NORPA Generator (NORPA‘s creative development program) and NORPA… Read More »NORPA presents: COCKFIGHT by The Farm
We all wear masks. Our daily lives consist of a masquerade ball, a series of pseudo-personae that we adopt to fulfill society’s prescriptions. Some hide only our deepest truths, while others offer absolute protection, suits of armour as far removed from our real selves as… Read More »ILONA HARKER: COMFORTABLY CONFRONTING
In a time and society so vehemently driven by commercialism and consumption, we are so easily blinded to the things that truly matter. Christmas began before the Christians claimed it, a Pagan celebration of the winter equinox in jubilant thanks that the cold, dark days… Read More »WOODFORD FOLK FESTIVAL: ‘ANTI-SOCIAL’ BEHAVIOUR
While Splendour in the Grass, Big Day Out, The Falls Festival and the gamut of events peppering the annual calendar each have their own unique ambiance and appeal, each one as superb as the next for singular reasons, there is much that can be predicted… Read More »WOODFORD: A FESTIVAL APART
Last week NORPA at Lismore City Hall premiered their new homegrown theatre work My Radio Heart, created in collaboration with Sydney’s Urban Theatre Projects. My Radio Heart is definitely a voice of a new generation – cast members of different abilities come together in a… Read More »My Radio Heart
It’s V-Day Byron Bay week, and the countdown is on for the exciting production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues this Friday, April 4 at the Bangalow A&I Hall. What’s the hype? One billion women and girls on the planet, or one-in-three, are raped or… Read More »V-Day Byron Bay, what’s the hype?
The winner of The Byron Bay International Film Festivals Best Film and Best Documentary was “When my sorrow died”. It is an incredible true story about Theremin virtuoso Armen Ra who was born in Iran, of Persian/Armenian decent. From the moment that Armen Ra walked in… Read More »Armen Ra
