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Summernats Fringe Festival to drive visitors to Braddon

Canberra’s Summernats will extend to a family-friendly Fringe Festival in Braddon when it returns next month for two burnout-packed days.

Multicultural Festival postponed to 2023

Canberra will go without the Multicultural Festival for yet another year. The Festival will be postponed to 2023, due to COVID.

Food for thought: Taste Local Festival

Taste Local Festival The Canberra Centre is celebrating local produce this month with the Taste Local Festival. Every Friday in May sees complimentary drinks and nibbles from local producers, while workshops on Saturdays...

Tathra debuts new Headland Writers Festival

The charming seaside village of Tathra on the NSW Far South Coast will host the inaugural Headland Writers Festival this weekend, 14-16 May.

Enjoying Enlighten in a vaster, emptier space

The Enlighten Festival, beginning on Friday night, marks the first return of a major ACT festival since COVID-19 began.

Female patronage supporting women in the arts

HERE I AM festival showcases some of Australia’s best contemporary female creative talent, celebrating the importance and power of patronage.

Katie Noonan named National Folk Festival artistic director

Australian musician Katie Noonan has joined the National Folk Festival (NFF) as artistic director, presenting her inaugural festival in 2022.

Registrations open for this year’s Enlighten Festival

Registrations opened this morning for a number of events including the Canberra Balloon Spectacular, Lights! Canberra! Action!, Symphony in the Park, Canberra Day and the Enlighten Alley and Bentspoke Beer Garden.

Good news folks: ‘Good Folk’ is coming to Queanbeyan

Perhaps the capital region’s best known Easter weekend event will be back for 2021 in a wildly different form as 'Good Folk' in Queanbeyan.

2021 Summernats festival delayed to January 2022

The 2021 Summernats festival has been delayed to January 2022, with a reduced capacity event to run in March 2021 to tide rev heads over.

Where You Are Festival launched!

Where You Are Festival – It’s time to experience Canberra’s newest events, and there’s no better place than “where you are”. Canberra is well and truly on the move again, and it’s time...

Food for thought: We Love Local Festival

Tallagandra Hill Winery are celebrating coming out of isolation with the We Love Local Festival, featuring a program of entertainment options.

Summernats ready to rev up economic recovery

This year’s Summernats delivered a direct economic impact to the ACT of $29.7 million and organisers are hopeful next year’s event will proceed and provide a much-needed boost to the local economy. File image.

Icon Water helping Floriade to flourish

Icon Water has agreed to help all the Floriade Community participants with water for their garden beds after being approached for assistance by the Kingston Barton Residents Association to help water their plantings around the Kingston shops.

Canberra prepares for ‘exceptional’ truffle season

This year’s Truffle Festival is forging ahead, with a number of virtual and in-person events around the region for you to get your truffle fix.

National Multicultural Festival well attended

A celebration of cultural diversity that attracts hundreds of thousands to the centre of Canberra for music, dance and food, this year’s National Multicultural Festival was on par with previous events. Held in Civic on 21-23 February,...

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