Private viewings, DIY masks, challenges for writers, poets and photographers ... Liane Arno explains what’s happening in the arts in Bass Coast.

More than 30 writers responded to artist John Mutsaers’ challenge. Now you can listen to the results and pick your favourite.

Gippsland artist Sofie Dieu has developed some online workshops to help creatives, educators and art enthusiasts who are suffering from eco-anxiety.

THE countdown has started for Gippsland musicians to record and upload their songs for the chance to win a paid gig in a gala concert. ​ Gippsland Live will be held via Facebook and culminate in three...

The lockdown has seen an outpouring of work by members of an artists’ group called The Isolated Penguins, writes Baden Johnson

Liane Arno’s guide to local arts you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home. This week the focus is on Bass Coast authors.

An esteemed art historian and collector was drawn to a working class town with a collectivist character

Liane Arno’s guide to local arts available from the comfort of your own home.

YOUNG writers of Wonthaggi and Bass Coast are invited to enter the Wonthaggi Library Young Writers Competition for the chance to win one of three $150 prizes.

SOMETIMES a setback provides an unexpected stimulus and so it proved with Phillip Island’s pop-up exhibitions.

THE death of renowned gallery director James Mollison last month has revived memories of his most controversial purchase for the National Art Gallery of Australia: Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles.

Monkey Magic, a Japanese cult TV show based on a 400-year-old Buddhist saga is the unlikely source of Wonthaggi Theatrical Group’s summer show. Sue Lindsay reports.

PHILLIP Island artist John Adam never had the chance to reconcile with his daughter in life but an exhibition in Cowes next month gives him a chance to reconnect with her unique artistic vision.

Next weekend’s Sound for Climate concert features a distinguished line-up of musicians young and old, local and city.

He’s finished the paintings, he’s commissioned the music; now John Mutsaers just needs the words for his intriguing new collection. Liane Arno reports.

Surrounded by the rich harmonies of the Bass Coast Chorale, Mary-Anne Peters feels the power of the human voice: organic, raw and timeless.

As the curtains opened, the performers burst from darkness to the beat of I Will Survive. Geoff Ellis shares the buzz of Connecting2Australia’s seventh annual show.

IT’S 20 metres long, contains 86,750 glass tiles and took 4552 man hours to create, but the chances are you’ve never seen the Grantville Armistice Mural.

A Wonthaggi exhibition features a new wave of local artists determined to go their own way.

Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson discuss life, love and legacy in a fundraiser for the embattled Wonthaggi Life Saving Club

KernART Prize returns for its third year, with sections for novices, budding artists and old hands

LEONGATHA’S Julie Lundgren-Coulter has won Bass Coast’s premier art award, Your Art Collection (YAC) Award, with her work ‘A Hill Somewhere’.

Local playwright Rory Godbold’s acclaimed first play works through the chaos and mess of dying to a kind of truth for those who remain.

Headway’s Wonthaggi exhibition offers a glimpse into the lives of people with an acquired brain injury.

​Cowes needs an arts hub, writes Marian Quigley, for the good of the community and the local economy. Cartoon by Natasha Williams-Novak

You can join the fun at the Bass Coast Acoustic Music Club’s Winter Hoedown Community Bush Dance in the Cowes Cultural Centre in Cowes on Saturday August 24 from 7-11pm.

LAST weekend’s Phillip Island Festival of Stories served up a feast of storytelling from all parts of Australia, entertaining, confounding, moving, and challenging a diverse and very receptive audience.

BASS Coast has been placed on the literary map with the launch of one of the richest competitions for non-fiction in Australia.

The ferry captain A storm-damaged tree, a world class tree carver with a local connection and a proud maritime heritage ... the stars aligned for Rhyll’s new artwork.

HOW does a small regional festival like the Phillip Island Festival of Stories snare a Booker prize winner and a Nobel Peace Prize winner?