MARK Laria was at a yard sale in the back streets of Melbourne when he came across a rusty old film can, inside it was Rock’n’Roll, a film made in 1959 widely regarded as one of the most important cultural…
CAPTIVATED by the beautiful image of a magpie drawn by her longtime friend and illustrator Jules Faber, local author Robyn McLennan brewed a children’s story that she penned to paper, now published as ‘Guess What Happened in Paddington Park…’. A…
DUMMY-running 104.1 CHYFM’s Amazing Scavenger Hunt Scramble fundraiser, before the event takes place on Saturday 18 November, Station Manager Angie Vaughan told News Of The Area, “We’ve had several people do the course in various vehicles, and all made it…
RED Cross Coffs Harbour branch’s Big Cake Bake took place recently outside the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood Coffs Harbour Donor Centre at Homebase. This is an annual fundraising event. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for…
GROWING one of the world’s most admired and prized plants throughout history, the exquisite orchid, is the subject of a free two-day workshop run by the Woolgoolga District Orchid Society on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 November. Following the society’s…
DESPITE thunderstorms, hundreds of people crammed into a giant marquee in Nambucca Heads for the Maagunda Muruygu Festival for Forests on Saturday, November 4. Attendees came to celebrate forests and call for an end to native forest logging in NSW.…
BELLINGEN’S recent Taranta Festival, celebrating Italian and Mediterranean culture with sounds and flavours, offered authentic cultural experiences and ancestral healing through collective arts immersion. The community festival, held from 2-5 November, brought the community together through dance and song. Advertise…
HEADSPACE Coffs Harbour will be holding an event on Monday 20 November at their Little Street offices. The evening begins at 5pm and provides an opportunity to hear from Professor Patrick McGorry AO, Founding Director of the headspace National Youth…
MUCH-TRAVELLED artist Gareth Budge returns to his home city for his first exhibition at Yarrila Arts and Museum (YAM). Entitled ‘When In Rome’, the exhibition is a photography series shot in Rome capturing the ever-changing form of urban ‘wildposting’. Advertise…
SUMMER’S arrival is being celebrated by members of the Combine Street Community Garden through the Coffs Regional Community Gardens Association (CRCGA) on Sunday 26 November from 5pm. “Our pizza and music evening celebrates the start to summer gardening and the…