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West Australian
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- West Australian
What's On: Your guide to events around Albany and the Great Southern, July 24-30
From art classes to inspiring maritime exploration talks, here's your guide to the week ahead in the Great Southern. THURSDAY Rising Tides: Imagining Coastal Resilience Exhibition , Museum of the Great Southern, 10am Building a Scale Model of the Brig Amity with Norm McQuade , Albany Public Library, 2pm Maritime Exploration Evening: Sailing Against the Tide , Six Degrees, 7pm FRIDAY The Antipodean Manifesto: Works from the State Art Collection , Albany Town Hall, 10am Rob V , Wilson's Brewery Bar, 5pm SATURDAY The Quiet Space with Adam James Cook , Wesley Church, 2pm Christmas in July , Elleker General Store & Tavern, 6pm SAC NAIDOC Ball , Albany Entertainment Centre, 6pm SUNDAY Try Sailing Sundays , Albany Marina, 10am Albany Orchid Society Monthly Meeting , Albany Bridge Club, 2pm Something Else , Wilson's Brewery Bar, 5pm MONDAY Maritime Themed Kids Gym , Albany Leisure and Aquatic Centre, 9.30am TUESDAY Tuesday Curatorial: Waratah and Papanui: Two Albany Shipping Mysteries , Museum of the Great Southern, 10.30am Intro to Watercolours with Ros Jenke , Vancouver Arts Centre, 11am WEDNESDAY Shellfish Hatchery Tour , Albany Shellfish Hatchery, 10am Planning something? Let us know! Send details of your event to greatsouthern@
West Australian
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
What's On: Your guide to events around Albany and the Great Southern, July 10-16
From the Albany International Folk 'n Shanty Festival to creative school holiday workshops, here's your guide to the week ahead in the Great Southern. THURSDAY Art After Dark , Vancouver Arts Centre, 5pm Albany Storylines Session , Albany Public Library, 5pm FRIDAY Albany Orchid Society Coffee Meet Up , Zhivago Cafe, 10am Coral Reef Sculpture School Holiday Workshop , Museum of the Great Southern, 10.30am Seasong and Shanty , Albany's Historic Whaling Station, 1pm RnB Soul Train , Wilson's Brewery Bar, 5pm Musical Mutiny Concert , Albany Town Hall, 7.30pm SATURDAY Folk 'n Shanty Fayre , Albany Town Square, 9am CWA Monthly Market , Albany CWA Hall, 9am Folk 'n Shanty Kids , Albany Public Library, 10am Found and Framed Creative Workshop , Albany's Historic Whaling Station, 10am Winter Warmers Cooking Class , Kirby's Atelier de Cuisine, 3pm Roaring 20s Murder Mystery Night , Elleker General Store and Tavern, 6pm Highland Thunder Concert , Albany Town Hall, 6.30pm SUNDAY Folk 'n Shanty Tug of War , Boatshed Markets, 9am The Captain's Cut Concert , Wilson's Brewery Bar, 1.30pm MONDAY Due South Surfing Academy Youth Surf Lessons , Middleton Beach, 9am Connect: Creative Ground Workshop , Albany Entertainment Centre, 9.30am TUESDAY Luminous Landscapes Art Workshop , Vancouver Arts Centre, 9am WEDNESDAY Mini Ocean Explorer School Holiday Workshop , Museum of the Great Southern, 10.30am Planning something? Let us know! Send details of your event to greatsouthern@
West Australian
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
What's On: Your guide to events around Albany and the Great Southern, June 12-18
From art exhibitions to launching local music, here's your guide to the week ahead in the Great Southern. THURSDAY John Toohey: Terra Exhibition , Albany Town Hall, 10am FRIDAY World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Morning Tea , Southern Aboriginal Corporation, 10am Threatened Species Artwork Exhibition Evening , Retravision Stadium, 5pm Rob V , Wilson's Brewery Bar, 5pm Albany Eisteddfod Showcase Concert , Albany Entertainment Centre, 7pm SATURDAY Reception This Way by Tim Ross Exhibition Opening , Museum of the Great Southern, 10am RnB Soul Train , Wilson's Brewery Bar, 5pm SUNDAY Deon Utber , Wilson's Brewery Bar, 5pm MONDAY Allen Kennedy: Beyond the Surface Exhibition , Vancouver Arts Centre, 10am TUESDAY World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Talk with Dr Tom Moodie , CWA Hall, 10am Connecting Threads of the Albany Woollen Mill Curatorial Talk , Museum of the Great Southern, 10.30am Albany Shantymen , Six Degrees, 7.30pm WEDNESDAY Introduction to Lawn Bowls , Emu Point Sport and Community Centre, 1pm Community Yoga Session for International Yoga Day , Albany Public Library, 6pm Planning something? Let us know! Send details of your event to greatsouthern@
West Australian
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Museum of the Great Southern prepares a host of attractions to entertain Albany's WA Day visitors
Staff at Albany's foreshore attractions are getting ready to welcome thousands of WA Day visitors with a host of events on the cards to keep them entertained. The Museum of the Great Southern, the Brig Amity and the Albany Convict Gaol Museum are expecting about 3000 locals and tourists to head to the city to take advantage of a free day of family fun on Monday. Ian Westmore, the regional manager of the Museum of the Great Southern, said a full range of activities, all with a Western Australian slant, would be taking place in the precinct. Some of those lined up to take part include Larry Blight, who will be showcasing Menang toolmaking, Lovilen Edwards, whose face painting will transform children into quokkas or black swans, and Mark Higginbotham, who will be guiding visitors around the Brig Amity. Mr Blight said he would be making a set of traditional, Indigenous tools. 'It is always a great atmosphere on the day,' he said. 'It will be a lot of fun, I'll make lots of smoke and burn lots of resin for those lovely smells; and I'll be answering about a million questions. 'Or maybe it'll be the same question a million times,' he laughed. Also scheduled is a full stage program opening with a welcome to country by Menang elder Vernice Gillies and followed by a succession of local acts including Jamie the Clown, Adam Grok, the Bird on a Wire Choir, and the Mt Lockyer Primary School Choir. Mr Westmore said it was important to invite local participants. 'It's a community celebration of WA Day so we wanted stallholders and participants to be part of that and to be people who understand what it's like to be West Australian,' he said. The events take place on Monday, June 2 from 10am-2pm.
