The Newcastle Writers Festival is back, and it’s one of our favorite times of the year! With an incredible lineup of speakers and events, this highly anticipated festival promises to be bigger and better than ever. Don’t miss out on the exciting literary celebration coming to Newcastle from April 4 – 6 2025!
National Science Week is Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology and is held annually in August. Featuring more than 1000 events around Australia, including those delivered by universities, schools, research institutions, libraries, museums and science centres, it’s one of Australia’s largest festivals. Here’s a round up of what’s happening in Newcastle and surrounds.
The creative team behind New Annual’s 2023 sold-out smash-hit ‘Spewy’ are excited to bring a brand new production to Newcastle from 14 – 17 August. Blueberry Play is the Griffin Award-shortlisted play from Novocastrian playwright Ang Collins.
After spending six months completely renovating a 1908 miner’s cottage in Wallsend,
Michael and Amanda Huggins needed a break
from the dust, the mess and the dilemmas
that come with modernising a housing relic.
Little did they know that their next project
would be the complete opposite – a brand spanking new build in the Lower Hunter Valley.
Melanie Norman’s debut solo exhibition explores vulnerability and getting out of our comfort zones.
Twenty-five members of Women of the Hunter in Photography (WH!P Collective) currently have their works on display at Newcastle’s Watt Space Gallery as part of their ‘Stories of Light’ exhibition.
One of our favourite times of the year is almost upon us – the Newcastle Writers Festival is back again with another stellar line up of speakers and events.
Newcastle’s business and financial experts, Evolution Advisers, have just held the eighth annual ‘Evolution Charity Cup’ as part of Surfest 2024, raising an incredible $92,000 for local charity, Hope In A Suitcase.
In 2023, Newcastle Writers Festival will celebrate its tenth anniversary. To mark the occasion, Swell sat down with director, Rosemarie Milsom, to learn more about the festival’s history, highlights and her hopes
for its future. Cover Photo: Chris Patterson
The blink of an eye, a heartbeat, a split second in time. That’s all it took for Sam Bloom’s life to change forever. Hear her remarkable story on Friday 31st March 2023 at the GenCollective International Women’s Day Luncheon.
