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October
2006
To 2 Oct
The Pub With No Beer Festival
Area Taylors Arm
Type Festival
Date Saturday 30th September to Monday 2nd October 2006
Venue Pub With No Beer
Cost Adults $65.40, Children $35.60
A regional event featuring an impressive line-up of Australian Country Music performers including Jimmy Barnes, Rose Tattoo, Hoodoo Gurus, After The Fall, Burbon Street and Anthony Snape. An exciting mix of classics and new material from some of Australia's most colourful and best known performers. Free camping available onsite. Tickets available through Ticketek on 131 931 or www.ticketek.com.au
Contact The Pub With No Beer on (02) 6564 2100
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To 2 Oct
Hot Rod Rally Show & Shine
Area Valla Beach
Type Exhibition
Date Saturday 30th September to Monday 2 October 2006
Venue Valla Beach Resort
Hundreds of early model cars, lovingly transformed into works of art arrive at Valla Beach each year for thier annual rallly. You are invited to experience the colourful display of these hot rods as they parade Bowra Street on Saturday morning.
Contact Valla Beach Resort on (02) 6569 5555
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To 3 Oct
18th Annual Rotary Cartoon Awards
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Art Exhibition
Date Saturday 26th August to Tuesday 3rd October 2006
Venue Bunker Cartoon Gallery
The Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City initiated the cartoon competition in 1989 to provide the proposed Regional Art Gallery with a collection of cartoons that were to provide the city with a unique specialization. The Competition recognizes the best of Australian and International cartoons with prizes totaling over $10 000. The Awards are sponsored by the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City to raise funds for various Rotary charities and to promote cartooning through the Bunker Cartoon Gallery and other galleries in Australian.
Contact Bunker Cartoon Gallery on (02) 6651 7343
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To 7 Oct
Bellingen Art Prize
Area Bellingen
Type Art Exhibition
Date Friday 29th September 2006 to Saturday 7th October 2006
Venue Bellingen Memorial Hall, Hyde Street
Time Opening night 6pm, then daily 10am - 4pm
Cost $5 per person for opening night. Gold coin donation exhibtion days
Art competition offering over $11,000 in prizes. Categories are painting and drawing, 3D, members prize, photographic and digital art and youth (up to 14 years and 15-18 years)
Contact Lynn Tizzard from Bellingen Community Arts Council on (02) 6655 2257
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To 7 Oct
Coffs Coast International Buskers & Comedy Festival
Area Coffs Coast
Type Festival
Date Saturday 30th September 2006 to Saturday 7th October 2006
Venue Various
Time Various
Cost Most events are FREE the the public but bring some money for the buskers hat.
8 days of fabulous international street theatre and comedy in and around the streets and certain night time venues around Coffs Coast.
Contact John Logan Entertainment on (02) 6652 8266 or email john_jle@tpg.com.au
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To 15 Oct
Sawtell 20th Annual Art Exhibition
Area Sawtell
Type Exhibition
DateSaturday 30th September to Sunday 15th October 2006
Venue Sawtell Art Centre
Time 10am - 4pm
Cost Free admission
A wide range of paintings from local and interstate artists. All paintings are for public viewing and sale.
Contact Sawtell Art Group Inc on (02) 6653 5157
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1 Oct / 7-8 Oct
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Area Bowraville
Type Theatre
Date Saturday 30th September, Sunday 1st October, Saturday 7th October and Sunday 8th October 2006
Venue Bowraville Theatre
Time 2pm
Cost $5 per person
Anne Joyce will present the pantomime 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' at the above Theatre, this is a wonderful Show with a terrific cast of local children and adults.
Contact Bowraville Theatre on (02) 6564 7808
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3-6 Oct
NIDA On Tour
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Theatre/Performance
DateTuesday 3rd October to Friday 6th October 2006
Venue Bishop Druitt College
Time 11am to 5pm
Cost Adults $380, Children $380. Early bird price $350
NIDA is the National Institute of Dramatic Art. NIDA on Tour provides access to expertise in theatre, film and television by bringing our industry professional tutors to regional areas. NIDA Acting Techniques for 12-15 yrs and 16 yrs + will run in Coffs Harbour introducing participants to NIDA's world famous performance techniques. Skills in voice, movement, improvisation, characterisation, scriptwork and responding to other performers will give participants an exciting overview of NIDA's teachings.
Contact Johanna Mulholland on (02) 9697 7626
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3, 6, 9, 13 Oct
Whale Watching at Muttonbird Island
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Discovery Tour
Date Tuesday 3rd October, Friday 6th October, Monday 9th October & Friday 13th October 2006
Venue Meet at viewing platform at east end of Muttonbird Island
Time 9.30am
Cost Free
Discovery Rangers will welcome you to the viewing platform on Muttonbird Island for a morning of whale watching using powerful viewing scopes and binoculars. Whale biology and behaviour will be explained. Drop in anytime.
Contact National Parks & Wildlife Services on (02) 6652 0900
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6-7 Oct
Muttonbirds By Moonlight
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Discovery Tour
Date Friday 6th October & Saturday 7th October 2006
Venue Meet at base of Muttonbird Island
Time 6.30pm
Cost Bookings Essential - Adult $10, Child $5, Family $25
Enjoy an enthralling moonlit walk as we discover the significance and beauty of a wedge-tailed shearwater rookery. At this time of the year the birds are busy with nest-building and preparing for egg laying. Local Aboriginal Discovery Ranger Mark Flanders will welcome you to this sacred island and interpret it's cultural significance to the Gumbaynggir people.
Contact National Parks & Wildlife Services on (02) 6652 0900
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6-9 Oct
Valley Community Arts, Art & Craft Exhibtion
Area Nambucca
Type Exhibition
Date Friday 6th October to Monday 9th October 2006
Venue Nambucca Entertainment Centre
Time Official opening at 7pm Friday, 9am-4pm Saturday & Sunday and 9am-2pm Monday
Cost Adult $2, Children - gold coin donation appreciated, not compulsary
Exhibition and sale of art & crafts including pottery, jewellery, photography, china painting and lots more. Stalls selling local craft, sausage sizzle on Saturday and demonstrations by artisians.
Contact Beverly Casson from Valley Community Arts on (02) 6568 6429
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6-7 Oct
Macksville Pro Ag
Area Macksville
Type Exhibition
Date Friday 6th October 2006 to Saturday 7th October 2006
Venue Macksville Showground
Time 9am - 5pm
Cost Adults $5 - children free
A town and country field day, exhibiting the best of farm, home and business products and services.
Contact Matt Brennan on (02) 6562 6577
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6-10 Oct
Duyfken 1606 Replica Ship Visits Coffs
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Exhibtion
Date Friday 6th October to Tuesday 10th October 2006
In 1606, the small Dutch ship Duyfken sailed from the Indonesian island of Banda in search of gold and trade opportunities. They did not find gold - but they did find the northern coast of a huge continent: Australia. Captain Janszoon was the first European to map and record Australia in history so Duyfken's voyage marks the beginning of Australia's recorded history.
Celebrations of the arrival of the ship into Coffs include an official welcome of the ship and crew as well as an official dinner 'Australia-On-The-Map' to be held at the Big Windmill Restaurant (see further details below).
Contact (02) 6648 4840
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7 Oct
Corindi Canoe Adventure
Area Corindi
Type Discovery Tour
Date Friday 7th October 2006
Venue Red Rock Boat Ramp
Time 9pm - 3 1/2 hours
Cost Bookings Essential - $25 per person
Explore the facsinating estuary, part of the Solitary Islands Marine Park, adjoining Yuraygir National Park. Seagrass in the lower reaches of the Saltwater Creek provides important breeding grounds for marine fish whilst mudflats of the Corindi River are feed grounds for migratory waders and seabirds.Contact National Parks & Wildlife Services on (02) 6652 0900
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7 Oct
Australia-On-The-Map
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Dinner/Celebration
Date Saturday 7th October 2006
Venue Big Windmill Restaurant
Cost $30 per person
To celebrate 400 years since the dutch ship 'Duyfken' and Captain Willem Janszoon arrived in Australia. Janszoon was the first European to set foot in Australia in 1606.
Contact Patricia Degens on (02) 6652 2393
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8 Oct
Sunday Salon at Coffs City Gallery
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Music - Opera
Date Sunday 8th October 2006
Venue Coffs City Gallery
Time 3-4pm
Cost $25 per person
Peta Blyth sings the greatest female arias. Accomplished opera singer and founder of "Opera in the Paddock" Peta Blyth will be performing in this very special Salon, accompanied by a pianist on the grand piano. Peta, who has performed many roles with Opera Australia as well as overseas, will be singing some of the world's great female arias in her beautiful soprano voice. Refreshments included. Bookings highly recommended.
Contact Coffs City Gallery on (02) (02) 6648 4861
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9 Oct
Ulidarra Night Stalk
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Discovery Tour
Date Monday 9th October 2006
Venue Sealy's Lookout, Bruxner Park Flora Reserve
Time 4pm
Cost Bookings Essential - Adult $10, Child $5, Family $25
Spend a warm spring evening exploring Ulidarra National Park. Discovery Rangers will lead you on a short stroll through spectacular rainforest to a very special old tree. Then, as night falss we venture into Bruxner Park Flora Reserve on a spotlighting search for the endangered giant barred frog and other animals.
Contact National Parks & Wildlife Services on (02) 6652 0900
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14 Oct
Juan Martin
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Flamenco Guitar
Date Saturday 14th October 2006
Venue Jetty Memorial Theatre
Time 8.00pm
Cost $39 Adult, $35 Concession
A sensational solo performance by Juan Martín, the legendary flamenco guitarist direct from Andalucia, Spain. Take a musical journey with Juan from flamenco's Moorish roots through to the present day as he spans the centuries with a mixture of the dazzling and the profound. A celebrated virtuoso of the flamenco guitar, Juan has twice been voted into the 'top three guitarists in the world' by US magazine Guitar Player.
Contact Jetty Memorial Theatre Box Office on (02) 6652 8088 weekdays 10am-4pm
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14 Oct
Sherwood Explorer
Area Woolgoolga
Type Discovery Tour
Date Saturday 14th October 2006
Venue Woolgoolga Creek Picnic Area
Time 8.30am - all day
Cost Bookings Essential - $50 per vehicle
On this vehicle tour from Woolgoolga to Nana Glen we explore the fascinating Sherwood Nature Reserve. From cool subtropical rainforest to old growth eucalypt forest and flowering heaths of sandstone plateaus overlooking wonderful views of the Orara Valley, this is a highly varied and exciting day out. Bring your own 4WD.
Contact National Parks & Wildlife Services on (02) 6652 0900
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14 Oct
Falcon GT Combined Clubs Annual Cruise to Valla
Area Nambucca Heads to Valla Beach
Type Exhibition
Date Saturday 14th October 2006
Venue Depart from Bowra St, Nambucca Heads
Time 9.30am to 12.30pm
Annual Show & Shine in Nambucca Heads.
Contact Jeff Mott on (02) 6564 7188
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15 Oct
Sunday Salon at Coffs City Gallery
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Australian-Irish Folk Music
Date Sunday 15th October 2006
Venue Coffs City Gallery
Time 3-4pm
Cost $5 per person
Australian-Irish folk songs with Mal Winckle and Friends. You're guaranteed to have a rolling good time this afternoon as country singer Mal Winckle and his friends will be entertaining you singing Australian-Irish folk songs and playing lots of instruments including the fiddle, guitar, ullian pipes, piano accordion and penny whistle.
Contact Coffs City Gallery on (02) (02) 6648 4861
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18 Oct
Yariabini Explorer
Area Nambucca
Type Discovery Tour
Date Wednesday 18th October 2006
Venue Pines Picnic Area, Yariabini National Park
Time 9am
Cost Bookings Essential - $30 per vehicle, includes morning tea & info
A ranger guided 2WD road drive, crossing many bangalow palm lined creeks and passinggiant white-barked flooded gums. Picnic at the culturally significant Pines Picnic Area and enjoy a short interpretive rainforest walk. Take a detour to the spectacular lookout near the summit of Mt Yarrahappini. Bring your own car.
Contact National Parks & Wildlife Services on (02) 6652 0900
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21-22 Oct
Pianists Simon Tedeschi & Kevin Hunt
Area Bowraville
Type Music
Date Saturday 21st October and Sunday 2nd October 2006
Venue Bowraville Theatre
Time 7.30pm
Cost Early bird tickets $30 if purchased before 30 September. Regular prices - $40 per person, $30 for group of 10 or more
Pianists Simon Tedeschi and Kevin Hunt love creating Music that results in a unique blend of styles and backgrounds. They met on tour with American Maestro of the Mouth Organ, Larry Adler. Amazing music featuring composers such as, Shostakovich, Keith Jarrett, Fats Waller, Serge Prokoiev Chopin, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin. Brubeck, Debussy and Ravel. Compositions and arrangements by Kevin Hunt are a feature of the piano duo programme. ‘I Want to Play Like Him’ is a concert title Simon and Kevin have used whilst touring Australia and sums up the respect for each others skill, creating one genre, their own. Tickets include complimentary wine and hors-d,oeuvres.
Due to overwhelming demand by Families who wish to hear these talented Musicians, there will be an abridged Concert on Sunday the 22nd October at 2pm, Patrons must be in their seats by 1.45pm and entry will be $15.00, and $10.00 for Primary schoolchildren. Doors will open at 1pm and the Cafe will be open for Coffee, Tea, and Snacks.
Contact Bowraville Theatre on (02) 6564 7808
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21-22 Oct
Relay for Life
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Community
Date Saturday 21st October to Sunday 22nd October 2006
Venue Advocate Park
Relay for Life is a community fundraising event to support cancer survivors, remember those lost to cancer and raise money for cancer research, education, prevention and patient support. Teams of 10-15 people take turns to walk, run, skip or wheel around the oval, raising funds as they go. There is food and entertainment all throughout this memorable event.
Contact The Cancer Council NSW on (02) 6651 5732
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21-29 Oct
Festival of Golf
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Golf
Date Saturday 21st October to Sunday 29th October 2006
Venue Coffs Harbour Golf Club
In it's 56th year, the annual Festival of Golf has become known as the biggest week of golf on the Mid North Coast. The Festival features a number of different competitions each day with events ranging from Single and 4BBB Stablefords to Mixed events for both men and women, with over $15,000 worth of trophies for the offering. The prestigious North Coast Amateur Open, Ladies Classic and Coffs Cup are the defining moments of this week long celebration of golf with top amateurs from north and south converging on Coffs Harbour.
Contact Coffs Harbour Golf Club on (02) 6652 3244
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27-29 Oct
Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival
Area Dorrigo
Type Festival
Date Friday 27th October to Sunday 29th October 2006
Venue Dorrigo Showground
Cost Weekend festival pass $65 (early bird until 1st October $55)
Now in it's fifth year the Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival features concerts, workshops, bushdance, food, fun, new and old friends and good times. Offering a diverse variety of talented musicians.
Contact The Festival hotline on (02) 6657 1229
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28 Oct
Bongil Bongil by Mountain Bike
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Discovery Tour
Date Saturday 28th October 2006
Venue Bongil Bongil National Park
Time 9am
Cost FREE - Bookings Essential
Bongil Bongil National Park offers ample opportunities for mountain biking on unsealed roads and forest trails. Discover the natural delights of this unique coastal bushland and see regionally significant koala habitat. Bring your own mountain bike.
Contact National Parks & Wildlife Services on (02) 6652 0900
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28-29 Oct
Coffs Coast Food & Wine Festival
Area Coffs Harbour
Type Festival
Date Saturday 28th October to Sunday 29th October 2006
This popular annual event showcases the local food and wine products of the Coffs Coast region. The main event takes place with a picnic in the park on Sunday, with a number of stalls presented by local restaurants, produce growers and wine makers. Plenty of live entertainment and activities for the kids, this event proves to be a great day out for everyone!
Contact Jenny Oloman on (02) 6648 4081
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