ARTS Mid North Coast and the Creative Youth Council (CYC) are excited to announce that the ‘Ready, Set, Go Youth Music Program’ is happening again. This program aims to provide young musicians and others interested in a career in the…
PREPARE to be transported back to a time of musical revolution and cultural significance as the Bowraville Theatre Singers, in collaboration with the esteemed John Vallins, bring the essence of the 1960s to life on stage. A few weeks ago…
WHEN Valla-based futures academic Claire Marshall created her ‘Museum of Futures: Our Shared Futures’ exhibition, currently on show at NSW Parliament House in Sydney, she did not expect the exhibition to make national newspaper headlines through an MP helping himself…
SALLY Hook is a local artist with over forty years’ experience in ceramics, sculpture, and painting. She has exhibited in galleries up and down the East Coast but never in her hometown. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s…
IN a daring and cheeky move last year, Ashleigh Greaves and Matt Baker, who lead the charge in a movement known as ‘Mentally Healthy NV’ turned heads and raised eyebrows with their release of a unique semi-nude, tasteful and humorous…
SALVOS Kids In The Kitchen, a hands-on cooking program run by The Salvation Army, is now up and running at the Bowraville Youth Hub. Twelve kids across years 3 to 6 began the five-week course on Monday 29 May and…
FUNDS discovered in the recent process of reviving the Nambucca Valley MacKay-McKay Family Reunion group, held over from previous events from the sale of memorabilia and other promotional items from bygone eras, have been donated to two worthy local recipient…
VILLAINY in The Valley, a new show by the Valley Performers, is set in the year of 1885 in Macksville, Kansas, a US city in Stafford County. The historic Western-style melodrama is in rehearsals and comes to the stage in…
A NEW partnership was forged between Uniting NSW, ACT and three Local Aboriginal Land Councils (LALC) on Tuesday 30 May. This partnership will see a significant boost in the support already provided for children and families in the Nambucca Valley…
THE eyes of the poultry world will be on Macksville on Sunday 18 June when the Macksville and District Poultry Club Inc present their Annual Club Show. Many of the region’s best fowl will be on display at the Macksville…