After years of being shuffled around, the Phillip Island Community Art & Craft Gallery has a new home, writes Aleta Groves.

Just over a year ago, at Berninneit’s opening event, Remi D'Agostin sat in the audience and wondered what it would be like to perform in such a beautiful space.

His name was Warren Thompson and he had big plans. Janice Orchard was part of them.

While Ray Dahlstrom found inspiration in the depths of the ocean, Ellen Hubble looked beyond the clouds to outer space for their joint exhibition.

DO YOU have a story to tell? The Bass Coast Shorts film festival is seeking submissions for our next festival in April 2025.

Robyn Arianrhod’s new book celebrates the power of signs and symbols. The Post asked our resident mathematician to tell us more – in simple terms.

It starts with a jumble of disconnected paintings. It takes Karin Murphy Ellis, Susan Hall and Ursula Theinert to turn it into an exhibition.

Artists respond to exhibition challenge.

Ellen Hubble heard the call and so Wonthaggi’s first Acoustic Music Festival was born.

Julie Statkus discovers the joy of singing together in the Good News Community Choir.

At last we are beginning to see glimpses of some of the treasures within the Robert Smith Art Collection, and how they relate to our own community and time.

The Bass Coast Chorale's mid-year concert marks the winter solstice.

Poetry as therapy? Give it a go, Geoff Ellis suggests.

Angela Newberry told her children to hang onto her linocuts for at least 20 years because by then no one would be making them.

Like the rest of us, artists usually stare put to sea, but Lindy Yeates has turned her gaze around to document the ceaseless change.

Prize money of $2500 is up for grabs in an art exhibition celebrating the Western Port Woodlands.

After a long writing career, Ian Robinson’s first children’s picture book opened up a rich vein of creativity.

Mark Schaller's been having fun. He hopes we'll enjoy the results.

THERE’S no separation between Mae Adams’ life and art. Walking or weeding on her bush block, she’s surrounded by the lomandras, saw sedges and dianellas that go into her exquisite weavings.

The songs are still sad but this time round Tim O’Brien is enjoying them a whole lot more.

An empty shop in Inverloch sparked Carla Van Laar’s imagination. And so the Inverloch Pop-Up Art CO was born.

This summer’s pop-up exhibition marks a watershed moment for the PICES art group as it moves to the purpose-built gallery at Berninneit. Curator Warren Nicholls reports.

​Meryl Brown Tobin is well known in Bass Coast for her poetry, short stories and non-fiction but she has entered new territory with her first novel, a romantic suspense set in the ​far northwest of Australia.

Award-winning authors Lucinda Bain and Rees Quilford talk about the role of daydreaming in the creative process, writing as self-exploration, and the place of “I”.

IT’S back! After a three-year break, the Phillip Island Festival of Stories returns next month in Bass Coast’s new cultural home, Berninneit.

ELLEN Palmer-Hubble’s soulful portrait of Bass Coast Mayor Michael Whelan and his kelpie Grouse has been selected for Hidden Faces - the 2023 Victorian Salon des Refusé Exhibition

What happens when 12 writers are randomly matched with a painting, a drawing and a word and asked to tell a story?

The Post caught up with the director of the Bass Coast Shorts Film Festival while he was en route from Berlin to Wonthaggi for the second festival from August 4-6.

The Bass Coast Chorale’s mid-year concert looks to the heavens, writes musical director Larry Hills.

Inverloch artist John Mutsaers has a new challenge for Gippsland writers.