Saturday 8th November
New England Regional Art Museum
106-114 Kentucky Street, Armidale, NSW
Music Dance & Theatre
Main Stages
- 10.30 O’Connor Jazz Band
- 11.15 Alejandro & Armidale Salsa
- 11.30 JazzLab
- 12.00 Welcome to Country + Thanks to Sponsors + announcements
- 12.30 Tandav School of Dance
- 12.50 Blakk Dynasty
- 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 Troup presents Pandora and the Dragon
Festival Program
- 9am–7.30pm Festival Livestream and broadcast 2ARMFM Community Radio
- 10am–2pm Aboriginal Cultural Centre &n Keeping Place — open with BBQ and music jam
- 10am–2pm Museum of Printing
- 10am–4pm Makers, Community and Environment Markets
- Caring for Koala Country
- Clothes Swap and Slow Living
- Community Garden tours
- Community Weathering Station
- Growing Sustainable Landscapes
- 10am–7.30pm Food Vans
- 10am–7.30pm Weeding for Weaving art installation with Andrew Parker and Friends of Black Gully
- 12pm Official Opening – Welcome to Country + Thanks to Sponsors + announcements
- 7.00pm–8.45pm Astronomy night with the Stars & UNE & NT Astronomical Society@NERAM cafe
- Manilla Community Solar
- NERAM Family Art Making
- SLA and Friends — Platypus Play and Clay, River Weaving and Rising Tide
- Highlands End of Life Project
- Face painting and more…
Talks, Activities & Workshops
Clothes Swap@ Slow Living Tent
- 10am–11am Clothes drop
- 12pm–2pm Clothes swap
Community Weathering Station @CoWS
and the “How to Weather Together” NERAM exhibition
The Community Weathering Station (CoWS) is a stall that started in Armidale in the drought of 2019. It began as a way of collectively processing the fear and anxiety about the disappearing water while sharing ideas about how to adapt to climate change. At this year’s Festival, the stall’s program focusses on methods for slowly challenging the terms of our own existence and perception as a keystone strategy for mitigating climate change. The BGF workshops are for people aged 16+
Full program and registration details available at: https://communityweatheringstation.net/2025/10/13/2025-black-gully-festival-stall/
Sustainable Living Armidale and Friends
- Time TBC Cozy Story Time- @SLA and NERP (South Village)
- The Platypus – with Sue Elliot
- Where are all the baby Turtles? – with Lou Streeting
- Time TBC Bat’s in the Backyard – Threatened Species Tent (South Village)
- Time TBC Healthy Headwaters and Creek Bug Collecting – UNE Aquatic Ecology (Central Village)
- Time TBC Chatting about Energy-Efficiency – Electrify Armidale – (South Village)
- Time TBC The Magic of Science Show – UNE Discovery – (Central Village)
- Time TBC Making Seedballs – Armidale Tree Group – (South Village)
- Time TBC Bell’s Turtles the amazing story – Lou Streeting (Packsaddle Room – bottom NERAM)
- Time TBC The Need for Roots film (Packsaddle Room – bottom NERAM)
- Time TBC Composting for your soul (Community Garden)
- 10.30/2.30 Rhizome Somatic Meditation (1.5 hour sessions) for people aged 16+ -(South Village)
- 10.30/1.00 How healthy is my soil? – why not soil some undies! @Talking Soil (South Village)
- 11:00/1:30 Digging Together: Where Soil Science Meets Community @Talking Soil (South Village)
- 1pm Black Gully Walk and Talk with Funky Dave and Friends of BG – Meet @the Black Gully Central Tent
• ART • COMMUNITY • MUSIC • ENVIRONMENT •
• ART • COMMUNITY • MUSIC • ENVIRONMENT •