Phillip Island artists Warren Nichols, Jill Rogers and Marian Quigley have been selected as finalists in national art awards.

​Post readers can win a double ticket to Kavisha Mazzella’s concert in Inverloch on Sunday.

WHEN the Post asked those attending the Phillip Island Literary Festival to name their favourite moments, one name kept coming up.

TWO whales were seen swimming towards the Cowes jetty on the opening morning of the Island Whale Festival. Words by Laura Brearley, photos by Terry Melvin

Expect the unexpected at Phillip Island's literary festival, including a former Australian of the year sharing the stage with an indigenous rapper.

One of Australia’s most exciting community choirs. THECHO!R will perform in Wonthaggi next Sunday with the Bass Coast Chorale.

Next Friday evening Bass Coast cinema fans will be treated to The Travelling St Kilda Short Film Festival featuring 12 of Australia’s Top 100 Short Films.

The tiny community of Tenby Point turned on a mighty show for their winter solstice festival.

The humans will be singing back to the whales at next month’s Island Whale Festival, writes Laura Brearley

One of the joys of The Edge Of Us project has been the discovery of the interesting and talented people in the Waterline communities, writes Jeannie Haughton

Liane Arno takes a glimpse behind the scenes of a fashion exhibition opening in Wonthaggi next week.

James Joyce’s novel Ulysses takes place on June 16, 1904 in the city of Dublin. Tomorrow night Cowes joins the international Bloomsday party when Maggie Millar reprises her acclaimed reading of Molly Bloom.

JOHN Clarke's memory will live on at the Literary Festival of Phillip Island with an annual dedication.

​INVERLOCH pastel artist Judy Soerink features in the first of the Sunday Afternoon with the Artists series at the Wonthaggi Goods Shed this Sunday.

A Melbourne vocal group will sing their way from Cowes to San Remo as their contribution to Phillip Island’s 150 year celebrations.

For Sheridan Palmer, the South Gippsland coast provided the ideal setting to write about art and the getting of wisdom in her biography of Bernard Smith.

Those who attended the final session of the summer readings in the Wonthaggi library last month were entertained by two hilarious readings of personal works by Gill Heal and Hamish Trumble.

Virtuoso pianist and organist Jon Wade will be special guest when the Jackson Four perform at the Phillip Island Jazz Club next weekend.

It’s verse at 20 paces as Bass Coast poets do battle in two poetry slam events.

The Wonthaggi Monster still stalks Bass Coast in Sydney artist Filippa Buttitta’s new exhibition.

​Hannah Shin, winner of the Zhuhai International Mozart Competition, is guest solo pianist at a Maroondah Symphony Orchestra concert in Cowes on March 25.

The first Inverloch Jazz Festival in 1994 featured 13 bands and 61 musicians. Some of those first musicians who will attend this year’s festival, the 25th.

ALL eyes will be on the horizon when a flotilla of wooden boats sails into Rhyll next weekend to kick off the first and only Rhyll Wooden Boat Festival.

A request for assistance with a school art project introduced Phillip Island artist Bill Binks to the art of Picasso and the Cubists and cemented his love affair with art.

SERENADE at Sunset, the iconic light opera and musical theatre event, is back for 2017 after a one-year hiatus.

John Clarke joked that most of his bird photographs had a tiny bird flying out of the top left-hand corner. But a calendar of his photos, many taken around Phillip Island, attests to his skills and patience.

Printmaker Mary Ham wants to combine chaos and order, she tells Liane Arno.

PHILLIP Island artist Marian Quigley called her portrait of Anne Davie “The Custodian” in recognition of Anne’s long custodial role within the Phillip Island community.

Jill Rogers’ evocative Minah Swansong has taken out this year’s Your Art Collection prize, announced at the Cowes Cultural Centre last night.

BASS Coast’s talented young performers get their chance to shine at this week’s gala performance at the Wonthaggi Union Theatre. The evening features past recipients of Bass Coast Community Foundation...