Past
The Man From Coxs River
The new ‘cinema’ at the Upper River Hall will be launched on Saturday 2 August at 6.30pm with a screening of the acclaimed Australian documentary The Man from Coxs River followed by a Q and A session with the director, Russell Kilbey and co-producer Amy Scully. This independent release, set in another valley – the […]
EGTC – Audrey of the Outback
Our call for artists for our first Performing Arts Residency produced some fantastic applications from local artists – musicians, performance poets; directors and playwrights from Wollongong to Nowra, Bowral to Kangaroo Valley. It was difficult to choose one from so many outstanding proposals. However we are very pleased to announce that the residency has been […]
Ben Fowler & Southerly Change
A Southerly Change hit the Upper River Hall on Saturday 5 July with a wonderful concert by artist-in-residence Ben Fowler and his band. The performance of new songs was filmed and recorded by Harvest Recordings for future release. The audience who had come from near and far and had managed to keep still and quiet […]
The Modern Midden
The Modern Midden — another inconvenient truth “Environmental changes are incremental and barely register in our lives but from evolutionary and geological perspectives WHAT IS HAPPENING IS EXPLOSIVE CHANGE.” — David Suzuki Jo Stirling’s project The Modern Midden, created as part of her Masters research, illustrates graphically, and in a way that we can all understand, […]
Lo Five
Upper River Hall gets funky! We’ve done fabulous and French and now the Upper River Hall is getting funky, with the fantastic Sydney band Lo Five to warm up your feet and delicious soul food to warm up your bellies! Where better to spend a cold winter night than at the Upper River Hall on […]
Paul Kelly – Stories of Me
Paul Kelly – Stories of Me charts Kelly’s life, loves and losses, painting an intimate picture of a private man living in the public eye… an exclusive insight into the man behind the fame, his creative processes and his remarkable catalogue of music. (Bradley Dixon. 6 Aug 2012) “…a fine, fascinating, foot-tapping and slightly subversive documentary about […]
Baby et Lulu
Paris! Up a river… with baby et Lulu Those who braved the cold winter night on Saturday 28 July, those lucky and quick enough to get tickets to this sold-out event, stepped through a red velvet curtain and into Paris for the evening. The upper river bistro was warm, cosy and very Parisienne, with gingham […]
Up a river…festival
The up a river… festival almost became the ‘in the river’ festival on the first weekend of March. As we all know, it rained and rained and did not stop raining for the entire weekend! But the people of Kangaroo Valley are never deterred by a drop or two of water. They came in their gumboots and […]