The contentious Cudgen Connection development proposed on State Significant Farmland on the protected Cudgen Plateau next to the Tweed Valley Hospital site was in front of Tweed Shire Councillors at yesterday's planning meeting.
North Coast Music industry Award winning Reggae Band Radio Jupiter is back with a new line up and a new album. They will be performing live at the Chillingham Cafe on Saturday 4th May from 3pm. Put on your dancing feet and experience the intergalactic reggae grooves of Radio Jupiter. See you there!
North Byron Hotel is the official watering hole of Caper Byron Bay Food & Culture Festival 2024. With a jam-packed schedule spanning over 10 days, the sun-drenched garden is set to come alive with creativity and collaboration, starting on 17 May.
Surfing Australia has announced the return of Seas The Day for its second year running. The world’s largest female participation surf event will take place over 22-23 June at Kingscliff Beach.
The Alliance for Nature NSW says critical environmental reforms have been delayed and ignored, with concerning indications that some members of the Minns Cabinet are seeking to water down or simply not enact these election commitments.
The impact of Private Native Forestry agreements are often contentious and with eastern Australia being the only first world country identified as one of 24 ‘deforestation hotspots’ around the world the question of who provides permission and oversees the consent for PNF is important.
Expanded Field by Maya Veit at the Art of Woman exhibition at Lismore’s Serpentine Gallery. Photo Aslan Shand
Friday evening saw a bountiful display of art at Lismore’s Serpentine Gallery celebrating the feminine and preluding the 2024 Lismore Women’s Festival.
The Art of Woman exhibition at Lismore’s Serpentine Gallery. Photo Aslan Shand
The show saw a range of work from artists who identify as women who were celebrating the wonderful diversity of the feminine in The Art of Woman show. From sculpture to painting to photography the show brought together and highlighted the amazing artists skills of women throughout the Northern Rivers. The show will run until Friday 15 March and will launch the Lismore Women’s Festival on 7 March from 5pm with Kelly Banister, CEO NORWACS providing the opening address.
Artist Mardi Zylstra with her work at the Art of Woman exhibition at Lismore’s Serpentine Gallery. Photo Aslan Shand
International Women’s Day, 8 March, will see a fantastic program at Southern Cross University with a range of free and paid for events available for everyone to participate in.
The Art of Woman exhibition at Lismore’s Serpentine Gallery. Photo Aslan Shand
From yoga and vocal workshops to visionary thought leaders there is something for everyone who wants to get involved. The focus of this year’s event is ‘connecting the generations’ with an Intergenerational Dance workshop facilitated by Miriam Torzillo and other events such as Bundjalung weaving circle with Kyle Caldwell and Egyptian Dance for Wellbeing.
The Art of Woman exhibition at Lismore’s Serpentine Gallery. Photo Aslan Shand
Festival mistress
Mandy Nolan is the festival’s ‘Mistress of Ceremony’ and she will introduce keynote speaker, Ashani Dante – thought leader, speaker and visionary on embodied feminine leadership, a type of leadership that inspires women to reclaim their intuitive gifts and harness the power of inner wisdom.
The Art of Woman exhibition at Lismore’s Serpentine Gallery. Photo Aslan Shand
There will be debates on chivalry, the Fierce Femmes Panel Discussion featuring panellists: Professor Judy Atkinson, Jenny Dowell, Justine Dorrell, Amy Colli and Amarina Toby among many other events throughout the day.
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Don’t you think you people are over doing it. Womanhood is not all about vaginas.
The impact of Private Native Forestry agreements are often contentious and with eastern Australia being the only first world country identified as one of 24 ‘deforestation hotspots’ around the world the question of who provides permission and oversees the consent for PNF is important.
The state of the Hempire in the Northern Rivers is healthy. In the last two years many changes have come about, both strategically and tactically. Celebrate this weekend at the Nimbin MardiGrass.
Local residents and Wilson Nature Reserve Landcare Group have said they are ‘dumbfounded’ at the lack of scrutiny of the ongoing development application at 37 City View Drive, East Lismore.
As the Greens move to declare violence against women a national emergency, Greens candidate for Richmond and community advocate Mandy Nolan will hold a vigil for victims of violence and has called on Northern Rivers Labor MPs to back budget funding to tackle the violence epidemic.
Don’t you think you people are over doing it. Womanhood is not all about vaginas.
They don’t all feature vaginas – far from it!
Poor old Kaz, obsessed by nudity and genitals