A magazine promoting arts, health and wellbeing in the Northern Rivers.
Ballina Players is proud to produce for our Patrons, our first post-Covid Production, with a full Covid Safe plan registered with the NSW government…DOWNTOWN The Mod Musical. This is a musical with 5 girls featuring songs from the 60’s by popular female artists such s Lulu, Petula Clark and Dusty…
The Ballina Art Society Exhibition – After a long lockdown and limited art classes , our members are hosting our 48th Art Exhibition. The event is to be held at the Tintenbar Hall from 20-22 November and entry is free.
COVID-19 has hit our community theatre hard, like many other arts organisations. As a result of the lockdown, we had to postpone our opening show for 2020 and cancel the rest of our 2020 season. This was devastating for our theatre family. We have not been able to use our…
Dead Man’s Track by Sarah Barrie. Book review by Jenny Dowell. If you like thrillers and especially those set in Australia, then this book is one for you. Author, Sarah Barrie, has worked as a teacher, vet nurse, horse trainer and editor. Experience in at least some of those careers…
The Salt Madonna by Catherine Noske — review by Jenny Dowell This is one for those of us who love a crime novel while relishing a beautiful literary style and a touch of the unexplained. As a bonus, this is an Australian novel where the sense of time and place…
Ballina District Hospital + TAFE NSW Lismore Art Program 12 August – 18 October 2020 – – Robin Osborne reviews a narrative art project where healthcare patients met TAFE students to go on a personal journey through sickness, healing and self-discovery. The dramatic image is surely an aerial view of…
