Yours & Owls Sundays – now at Pepe’s On The Beach! Sundays just got a whole lot better! Yours & Owls Sundays has found a new home right on the beach at Pepe’s On The Beach – Wollongong, and they’re turning up the heat every month with stacked lineups and epic vibes. Food and drink…
Wollongong’s free comic and pop culture festival. Comic Gong for an action-packed day at an exciting new venue! This year’s celebration of all comics, cosplay, gaming and pop culture will take place at Dapto Ribbonwood Centre, with trade and artist stalls, cosplay competitions, arcade and tabletop gaming, exhibits and entertainment all under one roof. Don’t miss…
The Enchanted Forest returns to Shellharbour with an all-new, ocean-themed adventure – ‘Tides of Treasure’. Get ready to be swept into a glowing ocean adventure filled with mystery, reimagined light displays, custom soundscapes, pulsating special effects interative projections and a dreamy mist filled ocean with floating, ethereal sea life. Follow the glowing trails, meet the…
The annual Thirroul Seaside and Arts Festival is a weekend-long celebration of the arts and seaside activities that reflect the community’s interests and way of life. Visit the Art Exhibition, which is open all weekend, for a visual feast of art, sculpture and photography. Gold coin donation for entry. The Thirroul Seaside and Arts Festival…
The Wollongong Annual Bridal Event is our fabulous coastal event located South of Sydney along the beautiful coastline of Wollongong. Located at the well-known Novotel Wollongong just opposite Northbeach. With over 70 vendors, from the greater Wollongong region. Enjoy the local, beachy, trendy vibe that the Wollongong Bridal Expo brings. Full of colour, inspiration, fun…
The Fraternity Club presents Castagne Day 2025. The May festival marks the beginning of the Italian nut season and pays tribute to Italians who survived World War II by gathering chestnuts and turning them into bread, after their corn and grain fields were bombed. Now, a family fun day at the Fraternity Club, you can…
11th March 2022 – 27th March 2022 NAIDOC is the most significant celebration on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander calendar, Australia wide. It is time for celebrations of Aboriginal people, culture and resilience. The inaugural Illawarra Aboriginal Art Trail, during NAIDOC is about reaching out to all the community and inviting people to enjoy…
The National Historic Motoring Heritage Day is an initiative of the Australian Historic Motoring Federation and is supported by heritage and historic motoring clubs throughout Australia. Come and celebrate the 100th Birthday of the 1925 Rugby, with a cake cutting celebration at 11:30am. The day allows owners of all types of vintage, veteran and classic…
‘Progress’ was the ethos of humanity in the Eurocentric world during the 18th and 19th centuries. Utopia was promised if people could keep developing society, technology, knowledge and science. Now, the ethos of progress has congealed into global culture and advancing technology and making more ‘stuff’ goes unquestioned. This exhibition seeks to dust-off the notion…
Wollongong-based artist and writer, Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis and sound producer, Leon Vasilakis, invite the viewer to listen to the ocean, where — beyond the rolling waves — lies a world of a polyphony of sound and noise, of tales and imagination. The multi-arts exhibition combines moving visuals of coastal ocean-scapes overlaid with a soundscape of modulated…
Celebrate Botanic Gardens Week with Wollongong Botanic Garden by dropping in to explore the amazing and varied botanical collections, enjoy a picnic with family and friends, or participate in our free community activities. There will be behind-the-scenes tours, rose garden talks, wild native bee walks, poetry to music performances and a fun composting activity, to…
Lore is not simply stories of old. Lore is living narratives in a state of flux, as we grapple with the locus of our past and present. In this exhibition, artists from the Illawarra Association for the Visual Arts (IAVA) take on the intangibility of lore by exploring perception, memory, knowledge and the lure of…
In addition to the Museum’s daily exhibits, Tarmac Days highlight specific events or eras in aviation. Tarmac Days are held outside the HARS hangars on the second Friday, Saturday and Sunday of every month, displaying some of the unique aircraft held at its headquarters at the Illawarra Regional Airport at Albion Park. Members of the…
The Illawarra Caravan Lifestyle Expo is taking place at the Kembla Grange Racecourse. The event is on for three big days showcasing the latest in caravans, motorhomes, campervans, camper trailers, tents, caravan and camping equipment, touring accessories and holiday parks all in one great location.
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