Miranda Donald first staged The Vagina Monologues in Wonthaggi 17 years ago. She’s back with a new production that will leave the audience smiling.

Sometimes you choose the house and sometimes it chooses you. By Jillian Durance

Hoa Nguyen’s monumental drawings of the Rhyll Inlet and the Western Port Woodlands take your breath away and then pull you in deep.

A landmark regional exhibition has been revived for a new generation of artists.

How Meg Viney continues to change lives. By Liane Arno

Young musicians will take centre stage when the inaugural Breakthrough Music Festival is held at the YES Youth Hub in Wonthaggi next month.

A poet, a prodigious reader, a letter writer and a storyteller, Malcolm Brodie mistrusted the orthodoxies of the modern world.

One survived war and exile, the other was made this year in Korumburra. Now both are part of Ellen Hubble’s family history.

Irene Bennett has spent a lifetime singing professionally. These days, she gets her biggest thrill from helping other people discover their voices.

What happens when a Hawaiian psycho surf clad band joins forces with a vibrant 30-voice community choir at Archies Creek?

IT’S time to get out the cameras or phones and make your mini masterpieces for the Bass Coast Shorts film festival.

You’d better get in quickly if you want to buy an artwork in this year’s NAIDOC exhibition, writes Liane Arno

The fundamental rule remains: watch the conductor, writes Larry Hills as he celebrates the first 20 years of the Bass Coast Chorale.

Wonthaggi’s midwinter music festival is back – good tunes, hot drinks and warm vibes all weekend long.

Entering Helen S. Tiernan’s new exhibition you meet the powerful gaze of Maggie Arnott. By Rosemary Forde

Dennis Leversha's drawing of the old mine brace finds a fitting home in the nearby Rescue Station Arts Centre.

It started with two women meeting on a beach during Melbourne's lockdown. Now the extraordinary story of the Sea Wolves comes to the stage.

For Meryl Tobin Brown, it's book number 22 and counting.

From happy accidents to AI anxiety, Gonzalo Varela’s new exhibition finds poetry and light in uncertain times

The world comes to Bass Coast with the 14th Wonthaggi International Film Festival this weekend.

Step into Pat Wishart's garden and nothing is quite what it seems.

Gwen Derrick helped to build the Wonthaggi Theatrical Group – and a community with it. By Karen Milkins-Hendry

JAM Jerrup fibre artist Jennie-maree Tempest is forging a growing reputation with her extraordinary botanical works.

Normally quietly spoken, poet Kathy Wiltshire finds her voice on stage.

Will the author get lost? Will the punters come? Will they enjoy the talk? Organising an author talk can be fraught, writes Julie Statkus

A year of hard work for EAL students ended with a joyous party. By Daryl Pellizzer

As 50 artists descended on Berninneit Art Gallery carrying around 130 artworks it was bedlam ... and curator Warren Nichols loved it.

Vegas Fitzmaurice channels nature in a moving tribute to his late mother.

After the long quiet of lockdown, Anne Olsen found her voice again in singing with others.

Kate Muir’s and Tessa Hubble’s contrasting styles and painting techniques open different windows on the passage of time for their joint exhibition at ArtSpace.