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
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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
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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

