Saturday 8th November

 208 taylor Street, Armidale NSW  

Music Dance & Theatre

Main Stages                      

  • 10.30      Holy Horns
  • 11.15      Alejandro & Armidale Salsa
  • 11.30      JazzLab
  • 12.00      Welcome to Country
  • 12.30      Alejandro & Armidale Salsa
  • 12.50      The Sinners
  • 1.20        The Rocky Bottom Girls
  • 2.10        OhMaSoul
  • 3.00        MC & The Squares
  • 3.50        Dusky Buzz
  • 4.40        The Cham Cham
  • 5.30        PartyLine
  • 6.30        The Chads

Acoustic Stage (NERAM Café)         

  • 9.00         Judith Betts
  • 9.45         Bruce’s Country
  • 10.30       Pete Stanley
  • 11.15       Barney St Band
  • 12.00       The Miggy Man
  • 12.45       Dallas Muirhead
  • 1.30          Ian Russell
  • 2.15          Khaleel Jundi
  • 3.00          Firebirds Choir
  • 3.30          Saturday Magic Theatre 

Festival Program

  • 12pm Official Opening – Welcome to Country + Thanks to Sponsors + announcements
  • 9am–7.30pm Festival Livestream and broadcast 2ARMFM Community Radio
  • 10am–2pm Aboriginal Cultural Centre & Keeping Place — Music jam till midday
  • 10am–2pm Museum of Printing
  • 10am–7.30pm Food Vans
  • 10am–7.30pm Weeding for Weaving art installation with Andrew Parker and Friends of Black Gully
  • 7.00pm–8.45pm Astronomy night with the Stars & UNE & NT Astronomical Society@NERAM cafe
  • 10am–4pm Makers, Community and Environment Markets
    • Caring for Koala Country
    • Clothes Swap and Slow Living
    • Community Garden tours
    • Community Weathering Station
    • Electrify Armidale
    • Growing Sustainable Landscapes
    • Healthy Headwaters and Creek bug collecting
    • Highlands End of Life Project

    • NERAM Family Art Making
    • Platypus Play and Clay, River Weaving and Rising Tide
    • Save our Styx
    • Talking Soil
    • The Highlands Poet
    • Weeding for Weaving w/ Andrew Parker

    Talks, Activities & Workshops

    Clothes Swap @ Slow Living Tent

    • 10am–11am Clothes drop
    • 12pm–2pm Clothes swap

    Community Weathering Station @CoWS

    CoWS workshops are for people aged 16+

    • 10-11 Mixed Weathering Workshops – w/ Tessa Zettel, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Hamilton.
    • 11-12 Rest your identity – w/ Ju Bavyka
    • 12-12.30 Welcome to Country (MainStage)
    • 12.30-1.30 Day for it! why we love good weather – w/ Blanche Verlie
    • 1.30-2.30 Lunch Break 
    • 2.30- 3.30 Learn to Scry with the Sky: how to prophesize through gazing – w/ Nina Vroeman

    All Day:

    • By sign-up sheet on the day: Tea & Tarot by Donation (with Piers Kelly & Ju Bavyka)
    • How to weather together exhibition (Mazda Gallery inside NERAM)

    Community Garden

    • 10.30/12.30/2.30 – Composting with Jo 
    • 10–4 Community Garden Tours – Come for a visit! 

    Sustainable Living Armidale and Friends

    North Gully Village (NERAM Side)

    • 10.30/2.30 Rhizomatic Somatic Meditation (1-hour sessions) for 16+ – w/Pip Ryan @ Rhizomatic Chorus tent
    • 11 to 1:30 Magpie print making @ Museum of Printing
    • 10.30/1.00 How healthy is my soil? – why not soil some undies! @Talking Soil tent
    • 11:00/1:30 Digging Together: Where Soil Science Meets Community @Talking Soil

    Packsaddle room (Below NERAM)

    • 11 to 11.30 Special Presentation – Healthy Headwaters of New England and what our creek invertebrates tell us – with Dr. Sara Mika, UNE Aquatic Ecology Lab
    • 12.30pm Special Presentation – The Bell’s Turtle: A Turtle of Our Own – with Dr. Lou Streeting, UNE Lazer Lab

    South Gully Village (Stage Side)

    • 10.30/11.30/12.30/1.30/2.30/3.30 The Magic of Science Show @UNE Discovery
    • 10.30/1.30 Cozy Story Time- The Platypus – w/Sue Eliot@SLA and NE Rakali and Platypus tent
    • 10.45/2.00 Chatting about Energy-Efficiency – for beginners 101@Electrify Armidale tent
    • 11 to 12 Weeding for Weaving w/Andrew Parker @the Big Weave
    • 11 to 12 Making Seedballs @Armidale Tree Group
    • 11.30 Cozy Story Time- Where are all the baby Turtles? – w/Lou Streeting– @SLA and NE Rakali and Platypus tent
    • 11.30 & 1.30 Creek Bug Collecting – meet @UNE Aquatic Ecology Lab
    • 1.00 Black Gully Walk and Talk with Funky Dave and Friends of BG – meet@the Black Gully Central Tent
    • 2.00 Chatting about Energy-Efficiency –bring your really tricky questions @Electrify Armidale tent

     

    Partners and Sponsors

    The Black Gully Festival would not be possible and nor would it  be able to provide a free community event without the contribution of over 70 volunteers and our Partners and Sponsors.  The Black Gully Festival organisers would like to extend a huge thank you to our volunteers and to the following:

    Partners

    • Musicians of Armidale (MOA)
    • Sustainable Living Armidale (SLA)
    • New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM)
    • 2ARMFM Community Radio
    • Southern New England Landcare (SNEL)
    • Armidale Tree Group (ATG)
    • Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place (ACCKP)

    Supermega sponsors, Very special sponsors, and Festival friends

    • Sustainable Living Armidale (SLA)
    • Origin Energy (Renewable energy and the New England Community Investment Program)
    • Armidale Regional Council (ARC)
    • BlackDot
    • Gallery 126
    • The Welders Dog
    • StringyBark Ecological
    • Back Track
    • Creative Streets Festival

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