The Harvest Lounge is returning to Upper River Hall on June 6th 2015 (long weekend) featuring the wonderfully melodic and cinematic tones of Holidays On Ice. This is the first official event in The ARTSLAB program, co-produced with Harvest Recordings. Holidays On Ice is a collaboration between Angie Hart (Frente!) and Dean Manning (Leonardo’s Bride) who were […]
Frackman is a film like no other about a movement like no other. Not only is this is a film that will make you laugh and make you cry, with colourful bush characters and quintessential Aussie humour; it also gives audiences the tools to get involved in what is becoming the largest social movement our […]
This film is an account of Australian adventurer Jon Muir’s quest to walk 2500 kilometres alone across Australia. Jon filmed the whole journey himself. There was no accompanying film crew. Interviews and the long distance zoom lens shots were filmed 12 months after the expedition. Since it’d release in 2004, Alone Across Australia has received […]
The HARVEST LOUNGE Saturday 8th November brings the launch of The HARVEST LOUNGE – an intimate night of live music, supper and records. Over the warmer months, The HARVEST LOUNGE will feature live sets from a fine selection of current music artists and a collection of classic vinyls to take you back to the past. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 — 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, […]
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 […]
