Sapwood Projects

22/07/2024

Throw your favourite local or non local bands at us! We would love to host another gig before summer comes around!

02/07/2024

Thanks The Solstice Space Shiatsu & Acutonics for the photos.

Epic night of amazing people and amazing musicians.

02/07/2024

A couple of snaps from the other night.

They tested our power and our tech capabilities. But what an absolute honour to host on our sapwood stage.

It's our dream to have the most professional bush stage, and wow did we hit that dream with such an epic bunch of musicians. Lost for words. Thank you for bringing your energy, your love and yourselves to our space! We are still riding the high! What a beautiful night.

Go follow, attend shows and look them up on streaming platforms.

Photos by:

Big love ❤️🙏

01/07/2024

Here is a little snippet of the epic the other night.

Through slow tech set up, through rain, hail or shine... Piper always puts on such a stunning show! We are so lucky to have Piper on our stage, thank you!! 🙏

If you haven't, make sure you go follow piper, catch her gigs and support live music.

Photos thanks to joya,

23/03/2024

Need something... Fingers crossed got you covered!

18/12/2023

Over the past month we have been working with Whale Chorus supporting their production of A Midsummer nights dream.

Over the past few days we have wrapped up an extremely successful season of shows. What a pleasure it has been to work on this event. Thanks Whale Chorus and all the actors!

Like many of the events we work on, a lot of them have the incredible NSR Productions supplying sound and lighting. Such a pleasure working with you!

23/10/2023

Central Australia - A Journey of Learning “The more you know, the less you need.” – Australian Aboriginal saying Australia is an old country. Far more pregnant with culture and variety in landscapes than many of us realise. Recently we completed a trip through NSW, QLD, NT and SA, passing through Munga Thirri (5 days of 1000 sand dunes), visiting Uluru and many other Aboriginal lands....

Central Australia – A Journey of Learning “The more you know, the less you need.” – Australian Aboriginal saying Australia is an old country. Far more pregnant with culture and variety in lan…

11/04/2023

We ❤️ Bulga Beats Festival!

13/12/2022

Our 2022 year has come to a close and we would like to leave you with this little bit of bright and playful joy! Access Summer was a huge success and it was a pleasure to work alongside Singleton Council to bring this vision to life!

Here is a quick little recap of the event and a thankyou to the local and further afield businesses that made the event possible:

Singleton High School - Free BBQ / Games
Milbrodale Public School - Sensory Games and activities
Kirkwood Produce Singleton - Hay for seating
That Little Art Place - Paints and paint supplies for mural wall
Sparkle Marquees - Large marquee chill out zone
Witmore Limited - Hair braids / temporary tattoos
Clear Light Photography - Event photographer
1st Singleton Scouts - Drinks stall
Prestige Cleaning and Support Services - Keeping toilets clean
It's Endless - Signs / printing
Singleton Roosters AFC - Drinks and support
Bulga Community Centre - Tables and chairs
Paint N Play - Face Painting

Other local businesses include:
Woolworths
Mitre 10
Bunnings

Thanks to our further out businesses:
Curious Legends - mask making
Silent Sounds - Silent disco

The event was aligned with the celebration of IDPwD:
International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD) is a United Nations observed day to recognise the contributions and achievements of the 4.4 million Australians with disability, both visible and invisible.

This event was proudly funded by Singleton Singleton Council and the NSW Government

09/12/2022

2022 has been a huge exciting busy year full of fun projects, gigs and events.

Covid lockdowns and Post covid was a hard time for the creative industry. We have cancelled Bulga Beats Festival since 2020 and any other event work dried up.

2022 flew by, weekend after weekend of gigs, events and other projects. The back end of this year was everything I asked for and it was tough. Exciting and fun but emotionally and physically tough. But I made it through and I'm so proud of myself.

I would like to give thanks to the people around me who supported and collaborated with sapwood to make this year such a blast!

Thank you to my amazingly talented and caring partner Joya for always picking up the slack, doing the work I cannot and supporting me in everyway!

To my family, you have been following and supporting my dreams through my football career into my events and music career! Thank you for all your help.

Here is a collection of photos from all our work this year.

With gratitude,
Vahid

📸 Clear Light Photography Curious Legends Sapwood Projects Vahid Roser Rhys Wiffen Photography

05/12/2022

Was very grateful to have worked on this event over the past few months!

What a lovely afternoon. Watching the kids paint was my favourite part.

15/09/2022

💥 Do you live in Singleton and are between the ages of 14 - 19?

🎸Would you like to perform music live?

We have teamed up with Singleton Council to create a 🆓 youth mentorship program.

🔷 Group session working on performance

🔷 Workshops / talks / masterclasses

🔷 1 on 1 sessions / HSC support

🔷 Paid gig opportunities

Shoot us a PM
Email us at: [email protected]
Find us: www.sapwoodprojects.com

More information and dates to come.

22/07/2022

Next year we will be relaunching Bulga Beats Festival after the Covid-19 hiatus since 2019. We thought it would be good to share a little blog post on the history of festival and why we do what we do.

https://sapwoodprojects.com/2022/07/22/a-festival-is-born/

Dreaming – Overcoming – Creating “Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”Erich fromm Do you ever look at places, things or people and see a grand vision in play. A piece of…

13/07/2022

Coming soon!

💙WE ARE BACK 2023💙

Dates, tickets and info coming soon. 🎸

12/05/2022

Are you interested in roving performances, giant puppets and being awesome!

Curious Legends are looking for performers! Check out the attached for more info.

We've had a huge influx of bookings lately, and so we at Curious Legends are looking for experienced performers to join our crew of artists! We can offer a range of exciting gigs and opportunities to suitable candidates, and are looking for artists who are keen to be involved in ongoing work.

We offer a variety of fun and exciting physical theatre and puppetry gigs, including (but not limited to) roving, workshops, festivals, and large scale productions.

We will be holding auditions at our warehouse space in Hamilton on Saturday, May 14th from 10am. Successful candidates will undergo paid rehearsals the following week and will have their first roving gig on May 21st in Singleton!

All the details can be found here: https://www.curiouslegends.com.au/crew-callout/

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28/04/2022

Dodging covid isolations and location changes. We finally put on a small introduction mud pizza oven workshop. Hopefully next time we can make a full size one in a permanent location :)

Jump on and follow On Track Hunter
They are always looking for volunteers, so if you're interested in working with young men around the singleton area, shoot them a message.

22/02/2022

https://youtu.be/CWSGI1BgNsM
Singleton Council will be opening the brand new arts and cultural centre on the 6th of March. If you are around Singleton, make sure you get there and check it out!

After more than a year in construction, the State’s newest gallery, the Singleton Arts and Cultural Centre (SACC) will be unveiled on 6 March 2022. The $4.08...

03/12/2021

We are just the sapwood connecting artists of all kinds to you and one day we will harden, die and move into heartwood and our time to be the providing space for events will end. But right now, we welcome you to Sapwood Projects and hope to meet dancing, playing, creating or connecting at one of our events....

http://sapwoodprojects.com/2021/12/03/we-all-start-as-sapwood/

We are just the sapwood connecting artists of all kinds to you and one day we will harden, die and move into heartwood and our time to be the providing space for events will end. But right now, we …

08/11/2021

Looking for a Hunter Valley / Singleton DJ for a Christmas market in Singleton.

2-2.5 hour set.

Christmassy and pop songs.

Message us for more info.

06/10/2021

FUTURE UPDATE:

Hi everyone, what a interesting period of time we are living through right now. It's hard to stay focused on dreams and goals throughout this storm and we hope that in some way you stayed creative and found joy in parts of each day.

I won't say we have been working hard, but we have been working when the motivation is there towards the future of Sapwood, Bulga Beats Festival and new projects. In the coming months we will be launching a few exciting things:

- A guided bush walking business for the Wollemi National Park
- A grand opening for the Sapwood Space
- Regular camp outs at Sapwood
- A pathway for how Bulga Beats Festival 2022 might look
- Retreats
- A Saplings facebook group to connect, meet and organise campouts.

This is all so very exciting, firstly because who isnt ready to dance and connect after Covid blows over and secondly it has been close to 5 years since the journey and dream of sapwood was started with the first post concreted in.

Please message us your email / or keeness on any of this and we can pop you on the mailing list :)

With love and gratitude to all,
Vahid

31/05/2021

What a Blast! Can't wait to see all the amazing photos and videos to come out of Singleton Firelight Event last Saturday night!

Huge success and congratulations to Singleton Council! Well done!

Singleton was a sell-out success!

There are stacks of fantastic events still to come this year, like the Hunter Valley Wine + Food Festival, Smoke in Broke in June and the Freedom of Entry march in October.

Download the June What's On Guide at https://www.singleton.nsw.gov.au/827/Whats-On

14/05/2021

Coming up in just two weeks!

TWO WEEKS TO GO! 🥳🤩

Firelight will be warming up John Street and Burns Lane on Saturday 29 May from 6pm.

Soak up live entertainment and fire dancers, experience some the the region's best food stalls, food trucks, Hunter Valley wine and beer from our friends at Around Hermitage Pokolbin Hunter Valley and the amazing cultural activation in Burns Lane. 🎸🎤💃

To comply with NSW government COVID-19 community event regulations, the event is ticketed (but FREE) ➡ http://tix.yt/firelight-2021