Arts and Entertainment

More than just rural riffs

Cowra hosted the first ever Bell Beats festival this October long weekend. The streets were transformed into a stage for locals and visitors to experience the sound and art of the Cowra and surrounding community

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12 Oct 2025

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Bell Beats turn it up

The Bell Beats festival kicked off it’s debut night on Saturday, 4 October

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12 Oct 2025

Arts and Entertainment

Experience the arts quarter of the Bells Beats festival

Experience art installations, video and artmaking workshops at Bell Beats on Saturday, 4 October, from 1pm-7pm. Cowra Regional Art Gallery is partnering with the Bell Beats Music & Arts Festival to present the Arts Quarter. Brush up on your artmaking...

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05 Oct 2025

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Experience the arts quarter of the Bells Beats festival

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05 Oct 2025

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Sculpture brings Eugowra’s last locomotive back to life

A brand new competition launched at Eugowra Show, and bearing a championship ribbon at day’s end was a very special project from local Judd McKenna. The feature sculpture train was a weldart tribute to the 3026 – the last steam locomotive on the...

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05 Oct 2025

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Family fun day coming soon

The Cowra Child and Family Network is hosting a Family Fun Day on Tuesday, 30 September at Brougham Park. The event will run from 10am to 2pm and is free for all ages. Families can enjoy a free sausage sizzle and take part in a relaxed day out in the...

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28 Sep 2025

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Creative fun at Cowra Library

The Cowra Library has put together an exciting program of activities for children and families during the October school holidays, promising plenty of colour, creativity and fun. Things will kick off on Wednesday, 1 October, with a retro throwback to...

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28 Sep 2025

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Great tunes and golden fields in Cowra

A new free music festival and golden canola fields combine to make Cowra a tempting country escape for the October long weekend. With children welcome, families will love the country atmosphere at the inaugural Bell Beats music and arts festival, set...

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28 Sep 2025

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Club Cowra continues to support local business and local sport

WIN! A $1500 SPORTPOWER VOUCHER FOR A SPORTS CLUB OF YOUR CHOICE!! As well as $500 cash for yourself!! In Club Cowra’s quarterly barrel draw we once again support ‘local business and local sport. All have to do is be a member of the club and...

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28 Sep 2025

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Great tunes and golden fields in Cowra

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28 Sep 2025

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Club Cowra continues to support local business and local sport

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28 Sep 2025

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Whats on in Cowra, Canowindra and Surrounds

CANOWINDRA LIBRARY STORYTIMEThursday, 25 SeptemberCanowindra Library Storytime is an exciting program to share with your child from birth to pre-school. It is designed to enhance language development, develop pre-literacy skills, stimulate...

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28 Sep 2025

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What you need to know about the Bells Beats festival

Cowra’s town centre will come alive on Saturday, 4 October 2025, with the inaugural Bell Beats Music & Arts Festival. A vibrant new event celebrating creativity, culture, and community. Proudly funded by the NSW Government’s Open Streets Program...

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21 Sep 2025

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What’s On in Cowra, Canowindra and Surrounds

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18 Sep 2025

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Cowra Rotary celebrated 87 years

The Cowra Rotary Club marked another milestone this week, celebrating its 87th birthday while also reflecting on a busy and successful period of community service, fundraising, and local engagement. At the weekly meeting, President Kylie Docker...

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21 Sep 2025

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Love, loss and bedlam as Baroquefest returns

Baroquefest returns to Canowindra this month, with five concerts planned across three days and the finale already booked out.“Love, loss and bedlam” is the theme of the annual festival, in its 10th year, with a program artfully curated by Jenny...

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14 Sep 2025

Arts and Entertainment

Late, Late At Night brings Rick Springfield’s story to Cowra

Rick Springfield’s remarkable life and career will take centre stage at the Cowra Civic Centre on Sunday, September 14, when Late, Late At Night (The Rick Springfield Story) arrives for a 2pm performance. Written by award-winning Australian...

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14 Sep 2025

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What’s On in Cowra, Canowindra and Surrounds

COWRA PARK RUNCowra POW Camp, Sat 14 Jun ‘25 – Sat 20 Dec, weekly. A free, fun, and friendly weekly five-kilometre community event on beautiful Wiradjuri Country. Walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate – it’s up to you!The course is 5000m long...

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07 Sep 2025

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What’s On in Cowra, Canowindra and Surrounds

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31 Aug 2025

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On Wiradjuri Country, science meets art and community at ERTHWRX25

National Science Week took on a distinctly regional character at ERTHWRX25, a three day program where traditional and western science converged with art, culture andcommunity in the Central West. Farmers, First Nations knowledge holders, researchers...

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31 Aug 2025

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From scrubs to stage lights

After years balancing hospital shifts, singer songwriter Gordi – aka Sophie Payten – is back headlining stages and ready to release a new album. Like Plasticine is out Friday, 8 August, and the Canowindra-raised artist, fresh from months of...

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10 Aug 2025

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ERTHWRX25: A Decade of Science and Culture Celebrated in the Central West

A major community event marking 10 years of science, art, and cultural collaboration will take place across the Central West this August, as ERTHWRX25 returns from 8–17 August 2025. Presented by The CORRIDOR Project in partnership with the...

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03 Aug 2025

Arts and Entertainment

Art prize exhibition now open

The annual Cabonne Acquisitive Art Prize exhibition is now open, with prize winners to be announced on Friday night. The annual art prize and exhibition, organised by Arts Council Cabonne Inc., aims to foster a sense of identity, pride and place in...

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03 Aug 2025

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“Coming home” theme to inspire short stories, poetry

“Coming home” is the theme set to inspire writers for this year’s Cabonne Women Writers Open Writing Competition. Entries of short stories and poetry based on the theme are open through to Sunday, 31 August and Helen Haynes from Cabonne Women...

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27 Jul 2025

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What’s On in Cowra, Canowindra and Surrounds

VIBRATIONS IN AUSTRALIAN DRAWING Cowra Regional Art Gallery until July 13An exhibition demonstrating the essence of the practice and importance of drawing underlying a range of artistic disciplines. Featuring the artworks of both contemporary...

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13 Jul 2025

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What’s On in Cowra, Canowindra and Surrounds

What’s on as at 26.5

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29 May 2025

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What’s On in Cowra, Canowindra and Surrounds

COWRA LIBRARY HOSTS ANA SCARF: LAST OF THE CAVALRYMENCowra Library 6 June, 10:00amDiscover the memoirs of Major-General Robert Harley Wordsworth, born in CowraMeet author Ana Scarf when she launches her book Last of the Cavalrymen: Memoirs of Major...

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29 Jun 2025