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Free writing comp open for regional writers

A FREE writing competition facilitated by Country Press NSW, the peak body representing independent regional newspapers, is calling on entries from primary and secondary school students, and adults, living in readership areas of the Country Press...

31 Mar 2025
Arts & Entertainment

Away to take centre stage

IT’S almost time for the actors of Theatre 44’s production of Away by Michael Gow to take to the stage. Away is an Australian play set in 1968 that tells the story of three families, whose only connection is the school that their...

29 Mar 2025
Arts & Entertainment

Local screening for cult classic

THE newly formed cinema club, Red Dirt Film Club has partnered with the Broken Hill Musicians Club to screen cult classic film Wake in Fright at the Silver City Cinema on April 9. The recently remastered version of the film will be shown, which has...

29 Mar 2025
Arts & Entertainment

Indigenous arts officer funding for local org

LOCAL arts organisation West Darling Arts have received over $100,000 in government funding to employ an Aboriginal arts officer. The funding will allow the organisation to increase delivery of services to indigenous artists throughout the Far...

29 Mar 2025
Arts & Entertainment

Film fest showcases local cinema

PERFECT Light Film Festival’s ninth event took place over the weekend, this year hosted in the Civic Centre rather than in Sturt Park as in previous years. About 300 people gathered to watch the films on the big screen, with local emerging...

28 Mar 2025
Arts & Entertainment

Artist in residence celebrates womanhood

VISITING photographer Tanja Bruckner has spent the last couple of weeks as an artist in residence with the Broken Hill Art Exchange, exhibiting her work in the Kitchen Gallery in the courtyard behind the Grand Hotel. She said she’d heard of Broken...

26 Mar 2025
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Weaver inspired by love of local landscape

LOCAL weaver, Ann Evers, sits in a shed-turned-studio in her backyard, weaving sculptures and baskets from plant materials she’s grown in her sprawling garden she’s nurtured over the last 50 years. Evers spent her childhood moving with family from...

26 Mar 2025
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Taylor to tell stories through music

TAYLOR Sheridan has taken a step beyond being a support act, and is wrapping a tour of his debut solo album in Mildura and Broken Hill. The former Taxiride vocalist has featured on the national music circuit since 2015, touring alongside acts such as...

25 Mar 2025
Arts & Entertainment

Tram project on right track at Railway Museum

A ONE-hundred-year-old relic has made its way to its final resting place after sitting in a Council depot for decades. A section of the Broken Hill Tram was transferred from the Warnock Street depot to the Sulphide Street Railway Museum last week. And...

22 Mar 2025
Arts & Entertainment

Barkandji inspired artwork in the pipeline

MENINDEE artists and community members have begun painting the pipeline at the site of the installation of fish passageway infrastructure between Lake Wetherell and the Lower Darling-Baaka River. The community art project, which is a collaboration...

21 Mar 2025
Community

What’s on in Broken Hill?

TODAYFree Film Screening: Under the Streetlights6.45pm, Silver City CinemaPerfect Light Film Festival will be showing this feature film with a Q&A after the movieTOMORROWPerfect Light Film Festival6pm-10pm, Civic Centre, freeMarkets and food...

20 Mar 2025
Arts & Entertainment

Wrong turn becomes artist’s right canvas

THREE years ago, a wrong turn led artist Joshua De Gruchy across the border from South Australia and into Broken Hill. De Gruchy, who grew up on the south coast of Western Australia, had been living from his van, travelling and making...

16 Mar 2025
Arts & Entertainment

Film fest finalists announced

FINALISTS in this year’s Perfect Light Film Festival have been announced, with festival director Steve Bastoni saying he’s thrilled that a few local filmmakers have made the cut.“We have a couple of local entries in there,” he said.“Jarrod...

15 Mar 2025
Arts & Entertainment

A whistle out to badly behaved dogs

MASTER dog trainer and host of reality television show Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly Graeme Hall is planning to visit Broken Hill in the next month or so to film an episode of the show. Hall said though he’s travelled throughout Queensland and the...

15 Mar 2025
Arts & Entertainment

Couple turn fossicked gems to jewellery

LOCAL lapidarists LiMing and Detlef Schmidt have been collecting gems and colourful stones for years, which now Ms Schmidt has begun turning into jewellery to sell at local community markets. Ms Schmidt said she’s loved jewellery and gemstones...

15 Mar 2025
News

RFDS flies high with new museum

THE Royal Flying Doctor Service’s brand new Outback Heritage Experience Visitor Centre opened to the public this week, with an official ceremony held yesterday. The museum, housed in a refurbished hangar near Broken Hill Airport, includes interactive...

14 Mar 2025
Arts & Entertainment

Filmmaker attends premier doco conference

JASON King, a Broken Hill-based filmmaker, has spent the week attending the prestigious Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC); networking and making connections for his upcoming project – a documentary honouring his late daughter...

14 Mar 2025