New book shines light on Armidale identity

by | 8 May 2017 | AACSGaM, Event

A new book about the life of Armidale identity, mentor and philanthropist, the late Dr Ned Iceton, will be launched on Tuesday 16 May 2017 at 5pm at The Readers Companion bookshop across from the Post Office. Ned lived in Armidale for nearly fifty years and died in...

A Trillion Trees

by | 8 May 2017 | AURG, Starfish

Plant For The Planet, a global tree-planting movement sparked by a nine-year-old’s school project, has joined forces with the UN’s Billion Trees Campaign. They aim to encourage the planting of at least one billion native trees each year worldwide. In the first five...

Cultivating Murder is showing at Belgrave Cinema

by | 26 Apr 2017 | AACSGaM, Event

Tickets go on sale Monday, 24th of April. Cultivating Murder is a new feature documentary that tells the heart-rending story of the murder of Glen Turner, a public servant working for the Office of Environment and Heritage, who was gunned down on the side of a public...

Tiny Homes as a Solution To Homelessness in NSW

by | 26 Apr 2017 | Energy, Starfish

The Tiny Homes Foundation (THF) has received development approval for a pilot project in Gosford, NSW. The project, which is possibly the first of it’s kind in Australia, hopes to combat homelessness with a ‘homes first’ approach, using tiny houses as an affordable,...

Progressive Cinema presents: Lands for Freedom

by | 8 Apr 2017 | Event, Garden, Local Food

7pm on Thursday, 13th April at Kent House in Armidale. Lands for Freedom portrays four farmers in the 21st century, passionate rebels and visionaries. André, Giuseppe, Olga and Remy live and work in Belgium, Italy, Austria and Africa but they speak the same language,...