Events December 2009

Every Friday night from 6pm at the Broken Hill Bowling Club. Families with children welcome.

Time: 9am till 1pm                            

Come check us out!                          

We have cakes, fresh fruit & veg, jams & preserves, handmade chocolates, quilts, toys, artworks, souvenirs,  mementos,  childrens' clothes,  jewellery, folk & craft items and Cora’s famous spring rolls and many other things!  Come check us out at the North Mine Hall! New and visiting stallholders are most welcome.   

Events July 2010

2010 OUTBACK OPEN ART PRIZE

The Outback Open Art Prize hasbeen a highlight of the cultural calendar in Broken Hill for many years with the shortlist exhibition and the prestigious acquisitive First Prize. In 2010 the prize will be an "open prize" with a view to broadening the participation from across the spectrum of arts practice.
Entries for the 2010 Outback Open Art Prize are now open and the entry form may be downloaded in PFD format by clicking on this link - ENTRY FORM.
The 2010 Outback Open Art Prize exhibition will constitute a shortlist by selection panel.
Entries close at 5pm on Friday 25 June and successful entrants will be notified from 2 July. The official opening and prize announcements will be made at 6.30pm on Friday 23 July 2010.
The 2010 judge will be Kathleen Von Witt, Director of the Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery.

MURIEL RILEY & PHILIP BATES

Muriel Riley is a Barkanji woman and a member of the stolen generation. She was born in Wilcannia in 1952 and grew up for a while there, but was sent to Broken Hill, then to Adelaide and finally to Sydney. When she turned 18 Muriel was turned out and hitch-hiked home to Wilcannia from Sydney. She always carried an old photograph of the Wilcannia Bridge over the Darling River and she used this to seek directions on the journey home.
In 2006 she took up painting seriously and enrolled in the Broken Hill TAFE, Arts and Media course. In 2009 she won the open section of the Far West Emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Prize held at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery.
One of her main areas of practice are landscape paintings, focusing on places of historical and cultural significance to her life. She works in acrylic paint and charcoal and also produces portraits of local Aboriginal family and friends. Her work is held in many private collections with a didgeridoo taken to France.
Philip Bates was born in Wilcannia in 1970 and grew up in the country of his Paakantyi people from the Paaka or Darling River, western NSW. Philip has mixed the traditional and contemporary to create an individual style that portrays a sense of identity and association with the land. His art is an extension of a living oral tradition and is an important way of interpreting, renewing and handing on that tradition.

Events August 2010

Poets in the Pub are meeting every first Monday of the month commencing 7.15pm. There is no admission fee and the evening is open to all. We encourage all visitors to perform their own work. If they don't have any with them we can supply them with some of the better known poets of Australia, and others from away.
Our evenings are very informal and we aim for all to have a fun time in a relaxed environment. Our attendance varies from many to a few and there's never a dull evening. We look forward to hearing your poetry, or enjoying ours. See you soon!

14th August 12 noon start
50 TARGET TROPHY SHOOT

15th August, 10am start
75 TARGET TROPHY SHOOT

Club Facilities: Camping is permitted, toilets/showers,kitchen, BBQ available.

Saturday, 21st August
9.00am Dance
7.00pm Instrumental

Sunday, 22nd August
9.30am Vocal
2.00pm Vocal
7.00pm Vocal & Choral

Monday, 23rd August
9.30am Choral Choirs
11.30am Piano
2.00pm Piano
7.00pm Piano and Pop Star Final

Tuesday, 24th August
9.30am Instrumental
2.00pm Speech and Drama
7.00pm Instrumental

Wednesday, 25th August
9.30am Verse Speaking Choirs
11.30am Speech & Drama
2.00pm Speech & Drama

Events September 2010

TROPHY SHOOT

10:00am start 
Club Facilities: Camping is permitted, toilets/showers, kitchen, BBQ available.

Poets in the Pub are meeting every first Monday of the month commencing 7.15pm. There is no admission fee and the evening is open to all. We encourage all visitors to perform their own work. If they don't have any with them we can supply them with some of the better known poets of Australia, and others from away.
Our evenings are very informal and we aim for all to have a fun time in a relaxed environment. Our attendance varies from many to a few and there's never a dull evening. We look forward to hearing your poetry, or enjoying ours. See you soon!

IN LIVING MEMORY - an exhibition of surviving photographs from the records of the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board, from 1919 to 1966

In June 1977, the official records of the former New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board were transferred to the protection of State Records, the NSW Government archives institution. Along with the Board's correspondence, reports and ledgers, there were approximately 1000 loosely stored black and white photographs of Aboriginal people taken between 1919 and 1966. These images are the surviving photographic records of the NSW Aborigines Welfare Board.
In Living Memory — an exhibition based on the photographs — opened to the public at State Records Gallery in The Rocks on 8 September 2006. The exhibition has been so well received that it has been extended twice and this touring version is travelling to 17 venues around New South Wales until 2010.
The Board photographs do not provide a complete picture of Indigenous life from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some people and places are represented by many photographs; others by a few or none at all. However, the process of meeting with Indigenous communities to research, develop and present the exhibition has begun to bring new life to those historical records that have survived. In Living Memory is helping to create a new purpose and place for the photographs within contemporary Indigenous life.
Exhibition presented by State Records NSW
& NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs

ORE INSPIRED - AN ALCHEMIC JOURNEY
an installation by Angela Fitzpatrick

Angela Fitzpatrick is a Broken Hill based multimedia artist working with sculpture and photography.
Man's presence in the landscape comes and goes ,leaving behind cars on the earth-detritus of man. An installation of sculptural lead and photography will portray the ritual scaring of the land  for man's vanity  greed and ambition. 

Don’t miss the laugh out loud musical comedy spectacular that is keeping abreast of the times. With more front than Myer, our bosom-buddies decided to star in their own laugh-out-loud and totally liberating show which has been seen by over 250,000 adoring fans throughout Australia and New Zealand. Follow these two lubbily-jubbily ladies as they unleash their playful puppies and walk abreast down mammary lane. It's an uplifting celebration of bouncy songs, wobbly jokes, thigh-slapping sketches, and of course, practical demonstrations of the fascinating lesser-known uses of your drooping assets. There have been no knockers amongst the critics as Busting Out! has toured Australia to sold out houses... 'Tasteful, clever, liberating and laugh out loud funny!' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Wonderful.. hilarious... time and again ambushing the audience with its audacity.' MANLY DAILY 'Mega talented... these girls sing, dance, bounce and squeeze through a non stop two hour show with clever skits, laugh out loud song and dance, and ripping gags.' MELBOURNE HERALD SUN Don't miss your chance to see Busting Out! before the show heads to the UK later in 2010.

Start: 8.00pm

Website: www.busting-out.com

A great week of golf, where in excess of 120 golfers representing more than 35 clubs from around the country compete for a large range of trophies. The tournament is played over 4 days. Monday's play is stableford and par played in grades, with trophies awarded at the end of the days play. Tuesday and Thursday is a 36 hole stableford event sponsored by the NSW Veteran Golfers Association. This is the main event of the week.
Trophies are also awarded for Tuesday and Thursday winners. Fridays event is a 4BBB V Stableford, trophies are awarded at a Bar-B-Que after the days play. A presentation dinner is held Thursday night at the Barrier Social Democratic Club. Nomination forms are available from Denis Martin, Stan Goodman or the golf club.

Events October 2010

This is a marvellous opportunity for the people of Broken Hill & District to hear Australian top professionals speak on hearing loss management and associated disorders of the ear, e.g. Tinnitus/Meniere?s. For more information regarding the seminar, please visit, www.bhhearingresourcecentre.com.au

Historic Cities, Fine Dining, Cultural Highlights, Stimulating Nightlife, Exotic Locations & Cultures. It would be great if we could offer you that but what we've got is the historic towns and villages of the Australian Outback, good country tucker, fantastic hospitality, outstanding and picturesque locations, and a memorable and fun time. You’ll end up with memories that’ll last a lifetime and might even make a few new business contacts. All you’ll need is an appropriate vehicle and the commitment to raise some funds for the new Learning & Life Centre at North Melbourne.

To get in this fun event you'll need to have a pre '79 Bash-style car or a regular 4wd. You'll need to raise a minimum of $4300 per car and $495 per crewmember as donations to the Learning & Life Centre. These donations are tax-deductible and very much appeciated by the kids at the Learning & Life Centre. If you can raise more than the minimum then you will be a bigger hero. You'll need to cover your costs as far as preparing the car, accommodation, fuel and drinks. 3 meals a day are provided for which there is a meal ticket cost. Once we finish the event at the Bathurst 1000, you are free to come home any way you choose.

150 TARGET SILVER CITY CHAMPIONSHIP 

Championship 9:00am start both days. 
Club Facilities: Camping is permitted, toilets/showers, kitchen, BBQ available.

UNDERTOW - HANNA KAY
Undertow is an exhibition created by Hanna Kay who was commissioned to create a series of paintings that is influenced and informed by the Jewish Cemetery in Maitland; one of only two ‘stand alone’ Jewish Cemeteries in regional NSW. Along with the cemetery itself, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue tells the story of the people buried there as a way to re-tell the story of the Jewish community in colonial Maitland.
Historian and academic Janis Wilton OAM also contributed to the exhibition with a historical study that flanks the exhibition Undertow. Wilton researched the stories of the people buried at the cemetery and the stories of the place itself; the people buried there, the communities from which they came, the lives they led and their place in Maitland’s history. 
Kay was born in Israel and has travelled and lived in Europe, America and has now settled in the Upper Hunter in NSW. This exhibition tells the story of displacement and migration in regional NSW during colonial times. Philip Adams, writer and long time friend of Kay, described the paintings in the exhibition Undertow as ‘intensely beautiful and deeply moving; and they are a paradox’.

CONNECTIONS TO COUNTRY - JANA HLAVICA, REG DODD, LYN HOVEY & BORIS HLAVICA 
Four people coming from different backgrounds and artistic practices set up a visual conversation about their deep care for Lake Eyre country (in different ways) by using their media to learn more about country and to explore how each is affected by it.
Reg Dodd – Arabunna elder, traditional custodian, photography.
Boris Hlavica – migrant from Europe, photography, digital images.
Jana Hlavica – migrant, clay sculptures.
Lyn Hovey – from Victoria, paintings.   

DUST TO RUST - IMPRESSIONS OF THE HILL
KARRIE LANNSTROM
Karrie Lannstrom has been pratcising as an artist and studying art since 2001. Her practice as a painter is focused on the character of Broken Hill featuring whimsical visions of the city and landscape.
"My oil paintings and drawings of dust storms, misty mornings, night scenes and the bright blue skies of summer of Broken Hill with its old corrugated iron cottages held together with bell wire and cobwebs are combined with a love for the sturdiness of wild sunflowers, wildflowers and even wilder characters that not only survive but thrive in the desert harshness of our arid land."

Events November 2010

Poets in the Pub are meeting every first Monday of the month commencing 7.15pm. There is no admission fee and the evening is open to all. We encourage all visitors to perform their own work. If they don't have any with them we can supply them with some of the better known poets of Australia, and others from away.
Our evenings are very informal and we aim for all to have a fun time in a relaxed environment. Our attendance varies from many to a few and there's never a dull evening. We look forward to hearing your poetry, or enjoying ours. See you soon!

Up to 500 delegates to be expected.

More info to come...

Please note the new dates.

TROPHY SHOOT

10:00am start
Club Facilities: Camping is permitted, toilets/showers, kitchen, BBQ available.

Lee Kernaghan will return to Broken Hill on Sunday, 14th November on his Planet Country Tour.
He has invited some very special guests to tour with him. Be sure to check his website for the very latest news updates, twittering, goss and rumours ...

Due to an  unforseen scheduling conflict, the Lee Kernaghan date scheduled for March 11^th, has been moved to Sunday November 14^th.

The Broken Hill Historical Society has invited the Australian Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) to assist in organising three days of events in Broken Hill on November 27th - 29th  2010 to mark the centenary of the Synagogue.

The events will include a ceremony in the Synagogue, a program of historical talks and personal reminiscences about the Jews of Broken Hill and their contribution to the town, a bus tour of places where Jews lived and worked, a walking tour of the Jewish section of the cemetery and of central Broken Hill, visits to the Miners' Memorial Arch, art galleries, the Living Desert Sculpture Park and the historic town of Silverton, as well as a Civic reception by the Mayor.

Committees have been formed in Melbourne and Sydney under the umbrella of the AJHS to assist the Broken Hill Historical Society in planning and implementing the three-day program of events.

Everyone with an interest in Broken Hill is welcome to attend the centenary celebration events.

Over 200 attendees expected.

Events December 2010

The annual celebration of new work produced by students from the Arts & Media Department of the Western institute of TAFE, Broken Hill, Menindee and Wilcannia Campuses along with work by Higher School Certificate students from schools within the Far West region.

Father Christmas is on his way to the Silver City - he will arrive at the Pageant at 6pm. This annual event is a great community celebration.
After Pageant Party & Community Markets (Sturt Park Precinct)
Hot Food, Drinks, Ice-Cream, Yiros, BBQ
Live Entertainment by Clive Gregory

CHRISTMAS SHOOT

10:00am start
Club Facilities: Camping is permitted, toilets/showers, kitchen, BBQ available.

Poets in the Pub are meeting every first Monday of the month commencing 7.15pm. There is no admission fee and the evening is open to all. We encourage all visitors to perform their own work. If they don't have any with them we can supply them with some of the better known poets of Australia, and others from away.
Our evenings are very informal and we aim for all to have a fun time in a relaxed environment. Our attendance varies from many to a few and there's never a dull evening. We look forward to hearing your poetry, or enjoying ours. See you soon!

Events January 2011

TBA

Events March 2011

The feature event of the calendar is the huge St Patrick's Race Day where Broken Hill heads to the track for the biggest day of the year. St Pat's races attract locals and visitors from near and far as people flock to this acclaimed Australian event to enjoy a superb day of outback racing.

Events April 2011

Your chance to meet up with old school, work and sporting friends - PUT IT ON YOUR BUCKET LIST

WEDNESDAY 20/04/11    Arrival and check in day

THURSDAY      21/04/11   Meet and Greet at Broken Hill Musicians Club .  Buffet Dinner and Entertainment in all areas of the club.

Events May 2011

A 4-day international conference for the mining, resources and energy industries, and the international investment community.