Culture Tracks Yarra Ranges

12/07/2024

Don't miss your chance to witness the magic of ARC by Erth Visual & Physical Inc.! ✨

📆 Thu 25 Jul, 6pm
📍 The Memo Healesville
🎟 https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/Events/ARC-by-Erth

ARC by Erth transports you to a world of wonder. Do you prefer the awe-inspiring beauty of a majestic bird or the playful curiosity of a furry friend? This intimate performance will bring both to life through exquisite puppetry and audience interaction.

📷Images: Jacquie Manning

Tickets from $15pp, book yours today before they disappear!

09/07/2024

If laughter is the best medicine, surely this is the cure? 🤣

We've got an epic line-up of comedy shows coming to the Yarra Ranges over the next few months, including:

🔴Blake Pavey: Still Kicking - Mooroolbark Community Centre, Wed 17th July, 7pm (Tix selling fast!)
🟠Arj Barker: The Mind Field (15+) - The Memo Healesville, Fri 19 Jul, 8pm (Get your tickets before he mind-melds them away!)
🟢 Ross Noble: Jibber Jabber Jamboree - The Memo Healesville, Wed 21 Aug, 8pm (The master of nonsense returns - don't miss it!)
🔵Lawrence Mooney: Pigeonhole (15+) - The Memo Healesville, Fri 4 Oct, 8pm (Get ready for Mooney's trademark wit and hilarious observation)

Shows are selling fast! Book your tickets now:
🔗https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/The-Arts-and-Our-Creative-Community/Creative-Yarra-Ranges-Whats-on/Comedy

26/06/2024

On Sunday, we were so grateful to be able to support Montrose Music and Meals, hosted by Montrose Community Cupboard and Montrose Township Group.

Thank you to everyone who came along, enjoyed a deliciously sustainable meal and the inviting folk sounds of Corn Nut Creek.

A special shout out to Montrose Library and the Toy Library's contribution.

We'll be doing it again on the 25th Aug, head to our website to reserve a ticket to this incredible community event
🔗https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/Events/Music-and-Meals-in-Montrose


Montrose Township Group Inc

25/06/2024

🎬 CINEMA SCHEDULE | HEALESVILLE & WARBURTON | 29 JUN - 17 JUL 🎬

School holiday movies: Garfield, IF, Furiosa, Rabbit Proof Fence (4K restoration)

Full program here:
https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/The-Arts-and-Our-Creative-Community/Creative-Yarra-Ranges-Whats-on/Movies/Movie-Program

21/06/2024

This is your chance to make a real difference! Council is seeking engaged residents to join a Community Panel and help shape the Council Plan 2025-2029.

Make your voice heard:

🟡Engage in insightful discussions: Discuss the key opportunities and challenges facing Yarra Ranges.
🟢Champion your priorities: Provide valuable input on Council's focus areas, ensuring culture and creativity are well-represented.
🟣Dream big! Share your unique ideas about the future you envision for our vibrant community.

This is your chance to collaborate with fellow residents and actively shape the cultural landscape of Yarra Ranges.

Meetings take place between July and August. Don't miss this important opportunity to be heard!

Visit the website to learn more and register your interest:
🔗 https://shaping.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/yarra-ranges-shape-your-future/community-panel-deliberative-engagement

21/06/2024

Don't miss the chance to catch up with the community and prevent food from going to waste with a lovely, warm, cooked meal at Montrose Music and Meals this Sunday.

We look forward to seeing everyone at Montrose Town Centre and collectively trying to beat the chill.

Head to the following link to book your spot 🔗https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/Events/Music-and-Meals-in-Montrose

Montrose Community Cupboard (Victoria, Australia)
Montrose Township Group Inc

Do you have plans next Sunday afternoon? Why not bring a neighbour, or a friend, or your whole family to the Montrose Town Centre starting at 12pm - 2;30pm and enjoy an afternoon of FREE music and FREE community meal!

We'd love to see you there. And if you're going, tag your friends or share this post so others you know and love might come along too.

You can register to attend in two different ways:
https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/Events/Music-and-Meals-in-Montrose?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2AcIiH2tjsfygW6BinOTHmB8D7rEs51oZULvyZwfWhdTifB2B1XSCarhc_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw or you can tell the lovely folks at Montrose Community Cupboard you're coming through this link: https://www.facebook.com/events/989350305647426/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22group%22%7D]%7D

Hope to see you next Sunday!

19/06/2024

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at The Memo Healesville for a magical evening of classical music last weekend! ✨

Pianist Kristian Chong - Pianist and violinist Sulki Yu delivered a breathtaking performance of Beethoven and Strauss, leaving us in awe. It was especially heartwarming to see young music lovers, some learning piano themselves, enjoying the concert for free thanks to our A Minor Tix program!

We're so grateful for your support and for making this event a resounding success. Until next time!

18/06/2024

Coming Soon // ARC by erth

Treat yourself to this teaser for the upcoming show at The Memo Healesville, 6pm Thurs 25 Jul🌿.

ARC brings to the stage stories of fragility and beauty. It is an engaging new work that presents a rare opportunity to meditate amidst the hustle and bustle of a careless world.

A place to keep the most precious of things. A place to embrace the awe and wonder of nature. Showcasing exquisite puppetry, an enigmatic host, audience interaction and a world of rare and exotic animals, ARC is a profound experience that embraces the natural world and the creatures that cohabit this place we call Earth.

Tickets from $15pp, head to the link below to book yours now
🔗https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/Events/ARC-by-Erth

18/06/2024

📣 CINEMA SCHEDULE FOR HEALESVILLE AND WARBURTON | 20 - 28 JUN 📣

Full schedule here:
https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/The-Arts-and-Our-Creative-Community/Creative-Yarra-Ranges-Whats-on/Movies/Movie-Program

17/06/2024

🎞️ THE WAY, MY WAY screening at The Memo Healesville and Arts Centre Warburton! 🎞️

The charming and captivating true story of a stubborn, self-centred Australian man who decides to walk the 800-kilometre-long Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route through Spain. He doesn’t know why he’s doing it… but one step at a time, it will change him and his outlook on life forever. Based on Bill Bennett’s best-selling memoir of the same name.

For more info, session times and tix: https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/Events/The-Way-My-Way

09/06/2024

What's better than a long weekend, Monday music share?🎵

As part of the free in series, Corn Nut Creek will be performing a set on Sun 23 Jun at Montrose Town Centre 🎶

Here's a peek at what to expect✨.

Their spellbinding songs with lush three-part vocal harmonies and toe-tapping fiddle and banjo🪕are sure to transport audiences.

To check out more about Music and Meals in Montrose, visit 🔗https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/Events/Music-and-Meals-in-Montrose

To hear more of Corn Nut Creek, check out their Bandcamp
https://cornnutcreek.bandcamp.com/

Montrose Township Group Inc Montrose Music and Meals

07/06/2024

🎂Our good friend, Community Radio 3MDR 97.1 FM is turning 40 in 2025!

To celebrate, they're producing a special series of podcasts to celebrate the colourful history of the local radio station🎙

🟡If you or someone you know was involved in the early days of the station, they'd love to hear from you.

From committee members, volunteers, presenters to long-time listeners, tag them in the post comments or get in contact with 3MDR via the details below to share their stories of how the station came into being.

ℹ️ Contact the 3MDR office on 9752 5678 or email 3MDR’s Station Manager, Nat Grant on [email protected] and get involved in documenting the history of Mountain District Radio Inc.

05/06/2024

NOW ON DISPLAY//
Stories of Giants by Emma Jennings

Olinda-based artist Emma Jennings’ Stories of Giants honours the humble yet extraordinary people who supported the Dandenong Ranges community in the wake of an unprecedented storm event on 9 June 2021. Three years after the disaster, Jennings’ portraits and ongoing creative recovery work embrace art and creativity to process the experience and support her community to move from survival to meaning-making, healing and recovery.

Jennings’ detailed portraits of residents and volunteers, created on salvaged lengths of timber from trees that fell in the storm, are layered with botanical studies and patterns found across the forest floor. Evocative of the once tall forest giants, these paintings embody both the landscape that was and the regenerative growth slowly healing the land and people, by honouring those who worked tirelessly to support their community and loved ones in the wake of disaster.

📅 Wed 5 Jun – Sun 8 Sep 2024
⌚️ Wed - Sun | 10am - 4pm
📍 Yarra Ranges Regional Museum, 35 - 37 Castella Street, Lilydale

04/06/2024

Incredible work by artist Renate Crow 👏

Check out Tawny along the ngurrak barring | Ridgewalk trail at Karwarra Gardens and leave him a note ✍️

29/05/2024

'Our Special Places' is an artwork display created by a few of our local kids 🎨

It explores their creative visions of their special places, inspired by the short, educational film 'Caring for Coranderrk with Brook Wandin'.

This vibrant display explores themes from the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum's
educational resource.

Next time you visit The Memo Healesville, be sure to stop by and check it out.

27/05/2024

We have a very special event coming up, presented by .

Building Creative Resilience is a very special networking event 🤝

🟢 Featuring a film screening of speculative climate futures short film Refugium and a knowledge circle led by The Centre for Reworlding.

Join other local creatives, changemakers and concerned community members for this unique opportunity to learn how First Nations knowledge systems can shift the paradigm of climate emergency engagement and disaster resilience.

📅 Thu 18 July, 12 - 4pm
📍 The Memo Healesville
🎟 https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/Events/Building-Creative-Resilience-with-the-Centre-for-Reworlding

21/05/2024

Join us at the Memo Healesville for a special screening of The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness on 13th or 15th June.

✨A mesmerising visual and auditory tour de force about beauty and resilience, society and belief, that at its heart expresses hope for a greater understanding and embracing of difference.

Experience:
🎥A moving tale of self-discovery
💪A deeper understanding of resilience
❓Participate in a post screening Q&A with award-winning creator Matt Ottley.

This work is part of Ottley’s intermodal initiative, The Sound of Picture Books TM📕.
The illustrations of the accompanying book of the same name will feature in the exhibition The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness showing at YAVA Gallery & Arts Hub 13th June to 14th July 2024.

Special screening of The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness. A masterful allegorical tale for the 21st century, weaving together the worlds of literature, music and visual art in the poignant story of one boy’s journey into mental illness.

21/05/2024

🍿 CINEMA SCHEDULE | HEALESVILLE + WARBURTON 🍿

18/05/2024

15/05/2024

🗽🎞️CIVIL WAR - screening in Healesville and Warburton! 🎞️🗽

In the near future, a team of journalists travel across the United States during a rapidly escalating civil war that has engulfed the entire nation.

For more info, session times and tix: https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/Events/Civil-War

13/05/2024

THE SCOOP AT ARTS CENTRE WARBURTON // Get ready to scream for ice cream🍦

Delicious new choc tops from Valhalla Ice Cream have arrived at Arts Centre Warburton! Including your favourite creamy flavours dipped in rich chocolate. At only $5 each, it's the perfect way to treat yourself while the sun's still shining.

Check out what’s showing at Arts Centre Warburton and grab a Chocolate, Peppermint, Boysenberry, Vanilla and/or Salted Caramel choc top 🤤 before they're gone!

👉 https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/The-Arts-and-Our-Creative-Community/Creative-Yarra-Ranges-Whats-on/Movies

12/05/2024

♥ This Mother's Day, we're celebrating all the Mums in the Yarra Ranges who go above and beyond, just like Dame Nellie Melba!

🟣 Did you know our local legend once transformed herself into the Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe, all to bring a smile to her granddaughter Lady Pamela Vestey's face on her 10th birthday? Borrowing costumes and props from J.C. Williamson’s property department she transformed her home at Coombe Cottage in Coldstream into a nursey rhyme dreamland. Dame Melba showed the lengths a Mum (or Grandma!) will go to for their family.

🌹 This Mother's Day, we thank all the Mums in our community for their endless love, creativity, and unwavering support.

📸 Thank you to & District Historical Society Inc. for providing this special image of Dame Nellie Melba

07/05/2024

🎬 CINEMA SCHEDULE | 9 - 22 MAY | HEALESVILLE + WARBURTON 🎬

For more info, session times and tix: https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Experience/The-Arts-and-Our-Creative-Community/Movies

02/05/2024

The comedic forces of the 4th are upon us!

Very excited to welcome Luka Muller, Bronwyn Kuss, Claire Hooper, Daniel Fernandes and William Wang to .

Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow at The Arts Centre Warburton will be a full house this Saturday!

01/05/2024

A new round of the Regional Arts Fund’s Quick Response Grants is open!

Apply for up to $3,000 for individuals and up to $5,000 for organisations to fund professional development for artists and arts workers or small project opportunities at short notice.

Applications close on Friday 31 May 2024. Head to the link in our bio for more information on guidelines, criteria and how to apply.

Image: QRG Recipient 2023, Benalla Migrants Association INC, Diwali Mural, Photograph: Andrew Donaldson.

Regional Arts Australia