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What’s on at the Hub

Our program of exhibitions, events and workshops

Fire Stories

Stories Around the Fire is happening again at the Arts Hub on Saturday June 21st 2025, 5pm - 8pm. Come and gather around the fire pit and celebrate an age-old tradition of community storytelling on the longest night of the year.

Wonderland – Felicity Burman

Exhibition opens 10am Saturday 5 July

New Nature Writing

Writing workshop over six weeks with Deborah Wardle, exploring what climate change means to writers and how to write about or with non-human characters. Mondays, 6 - 8pm, 6 August - 22 September

Art Hang

Weekly on Wednesdays 11am-2pm Starting 15 Jan 2025 - all artists/ all levels welcome

Newstead Writers Group: Let’s Shut Up and Write!

Monthly: 4th Friday of each month, 1-5pm. All writers welcome

Past Events, Workshops & Exhibitions

Be inspired to visit! Scroll through our fabulous range of past exhibitions, workshops and events.

Newstead Arts Hub’s Trivia Night Fundraiser

Trivia Night featuring frivolity, music, games, puzzles, delicious food and ... trivia questions

PopUp-ShowUp + Membership drive

PopUp-ShowUp Exhibition: LAST CHANCE Sat 8 Feb & Sun 9 Feb, 10am-4pm.

Cornucopia

Workshop: Sun 6 April, 2025, 10am -3pm BOOK NOW!!

Small World Sculpture Prize: Exhibition

Exhibition: LAST CHANCE this Sat & Sun 10am-4pm

Love Tokens

Workshop: Sun 9 Feb, 2025

Rudderless

Exhibition: Weekends 5 -13 April, 10am-4pm LAST Chance this weekend! All Welcome

Landscapes: Milton Moss

Exhibition: Weekends 15 Feb -2 March, 10am-4pm Opening Celebration: 15 Feb, 2pm-4pm. All Welcome

The Writing Life – Bonny Cassidy

Event: Friday 23 May, 6pm-7.30pm. Bookings open now!

The Writing Life – Carmel Bird

Event: Friday 28 March, 6pm-7.30pm

Newstead Open Studios 2025

NEWSTEAD OPEN STUDIOS ART TRAIL: Fri 7 to Mon 10 March, 10am-4pm

Small World Sculpture Prize: Entries

Entries CLOSED! Finalists announced SOON!

Making great writing: young writers’ workshops

Writers Workshops - December to February BOOK NOW!

Art Bar: Newstead Live 2025

NEWSTEAD LIVE 2025 EVENT: Sat 25 & Sun 26 January 10am-6pm, Mon 27 Jan 9am-12noon

Instrument Makers Gallery + Art Bar: Newstead Live 2025

NEWSTEAD LIVE 2025 EVENT: Sat 25 & Sun 26 January 10am-6pm, Mon 27 Jan 9am-12noon

Fleeting Fields

Fleeting Fields: THIS Sun 30 March, 10am-4pm PopUp Sculpture Park!!

Newstead Artist Market

Newstead Artists Market: Sun 01 Dec, 10am-3pm Mark your Calendars!!

Newstead Artist Market: BOOK a STALL!

Filling UP!! Artists Market: Sun 01 Dec, 10am-3pm Book a Stall!

Going Going…Newstead Art Auction

Silent Auction continues @ the Hub until 28 Nov! Get along to view and bid.

Places Revisited…Again

Bill Beasley - Exhibition: Weekends Sat 2 - Sun 24 Nov 10am-4pm.

Writers Read

Writers Read

Event: Friday 22 November, 6.30-8pm

Plein air Oils – Loddon River, Newstead

Workshop: 24 Nov 2024 BOOK NOW!

Mother Mother

Exhibition: LAST CHANCE 10am-4pm, Sat and Sun. Artists talk and reading on 27th October at 11am with cake and coffee! All Welcome

Wild Discoveries

Exhibition: Sat 7 - Sun 29 Sept 10-4pm

Pleinair… Belinda Prest… Saul Roche

LAST CHANCE! Exhibition: Gallery 2&3, Sun 21 July 10am-4pm

Newstead Spinners: Fibre to Fabric ’24

Exhibition: Weekends 3-18 August, 10am-4pm. Opening Celebration 3 Aug, 12pm All Welcome!

Lucy Wise Concert – Hub Fundraiser

Lucy Wise: Concert - TONIGHT doors open 6pm! Tickets available at the door! Come for Delicious curry dinner before the show 6-7pm vegan and gf options available.

Jo Huf Concert

THIS FRIDAY 7pm!! Concert + snacks and drinks @ bar prices. BOOK NOW

Workshop: Small Birds from Natural Materials

Workshop: Sat 24 Aug 2024, 10am-3.30pm

Charcoal Painting, Stories from the Fire

Workshop: THIS SAT!!, 10am-3.30pm. Book NOW!

Just Below the Surface

Exhibition: Gallery 1, Sat 1 - Sun 23 June 10am-4pm Jody Galvin & Kylie Cuthbertson

Newstead Young Writers Festival

THIS SUNDAY!! 20 Oct, 10am - 4pm FREE Event - Bookings essential!

150th Celebration – Newstead Railway

THIS Sun 7 July, 2.30pm FREE Community Event:

Tripartite

Exhibition: Lawrence Winder, Gallery 2&3 Weekends Sat 1 - Sun 23 June 10am-4pm.

POSTPONED: Movie Night + Director Q&A: Defend, Conserve, Protect

POSTPONED: Keep your eyes out for this special event later in the year!

Medieval to Modern: Buninyong Players Concert

TODAY! Concert - Sun 21 July 2.30-4.30pm. BOOK NOW or tix at the door!

Through My Eyes

Exhibition: Dawn Robinson - Through My Eyes Stunning limestone sculptures and abstract expressionist paintings. Sat & Sun 10am to 4pm ALL welcome

Central Australia: forming, folding and shaping

Jim Roberts - Exhibition: LAST Weekend Sat 25 - Sun 26 May 10am-4pm.

Weaving Poetry and Narrative: Dimity Fifer

ON TONIGHT (fri 23 Aug) Weaving Poetry and Narrative - Writers Talk: Dimity Fifer - 6.30-8.30pm - Book NOW! or get tix at the door.

Barrys’ Bonsai from the Hidden Garden

Exhibition: Last Chance! Sat 23 - Sunday 24 March, 10am-4pm.

Finding your creativity – wet media

POSTPONED until 2025 keep your eyes on the What's On for updates

Writing for the next 7 Generations – Thrutopian Writers Lab

Writing for the next 7 Generations - Thrutopian Writers Lab - Fri 27 Sept, 6.30pm-8pm - Book NOW!

Trilogy

Exhibition: weekends Sat 3 - Sun 25 May, 10-4pm

Mysterious Landscapes

Exhibition: Last Chance this weekend Sat 23 - Sun 24 March 10-4pm

Newstead Open Studios 2024

NEWSTEAD OPEN STUDIOS ART TRAIL: 9, 10, 11 & 16, 17 March 11am TO 5pm

Newstead Open Studios

NEWSTEAD OPEN STUDIOS ART TRAIL: 9, 10, 11 & 16, 17 March 11am TO 5pm

Never bore an audience – Writers Talk: Lauren Williams

Never bore an audience - Writers Talk: Lauren Williams - Friday 26 July 6.30-8.30pm - Book NOW!

Nicole Hurley-Moore: How to write great characters & other tips!

TOMORROW! Writer's Talk: Nicole Hurley-Moore - Friday 22 March 6.30-8.30pm - Book NOW!

PopUp-ShowUp

Exhibition: Weekends Sat 17 - Sunday 25 Feb, 10am-4pm.

Instrument Makers Gallery: Newstead Live 2024

NEWSTEAD LIVE 2024 EVENT: Fri 26 & Sat 27 January 10am-5pm, Sun 28 Jan 10am-12noon

Create a woven boat form: a workshop with Jodie Goldring

Workshop: Sun 21 January 2024, 10am-4pm

Newstead’s inaugural Artist Market:

Artists Market: Sunday 10 December, 10am-4pm

Put Your Hands Up!

Put Your Hands Up! Connecting Volunteers with Opportunities at the Hub

All Aboard!

All Aboard celebration: Friday 1 December 6-9pm. All welcome

The Shape of Blue

Exhibition: Weekends Sat 4 November to Sunday 26 November, 10am-4pm.

Expressions of Interest: Sign Scoping project

Expressions of Interest: Sign Scoping project

Applications now open!

Program & Promotion Coordinator: Applications closed!

Program & Promotion Coordinator: Applications closed!

Applications now closed

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Fire Stories: A free community event

Get warm by the Fire! Sat 22 June, 5-8pm

Poetry @ the Hub – Peter Bakowski

Poetry Pep talk: Friday 27 October 7-8.30pm - Bookings open!

Elinor Ryan: an exhibition

Exhibition: Weekends Sat 7 Oct - Sun 29 Oct, 10am-4pm.

Finding a voice: Spring series of artists’ talks

Series of Artists' Talks: 7 Sept, 12 Oct, 9 Nov, 5.30pm Book now (free)

De-Stash Market: BOOK a STALL!

Ready to De-Stash!!! THIS Sat 27 July, 10am - 3pm. Last chance to BOOK a stall!

Slow Stitching: a workshop with Liz Sardone

Workshop: Sun 14 April 2024, 10am-3.30pm. SOLD OUT!

Quirky Clay: Hand-building for beginners

Workshop: Sat 18 May, 10am-3pm & 25 May 10am-12.30pm Book Now!

Random Weave a Basket: a workshop with Jodie Goldring

Workshop: Sat 21 October 2023, 10am-3.30pm

A slender white woman, Ilka White, is weaving a narrow green band. The end of her weaving is attached to a tree and there are shrugs in the background

Introduction to Backstrap Band weaving with Ilka White

Workshop: Sun 22 Oct 2023, 10am-4.00pm Book NOW!

While We Live: an exhibition

Exhibition: Weekends Sat 9 Sept - Sun 1 Oct, 10am-4pm.

NerdROM Node 1: Sound and Music

Event - Sat 2 September 7.00pm. FREE

Be part of a community conversation: Indigenous Voice to parliament

Book now for 9 & 30 August, 5.30-7.00pm

Contra Guitar Duo: Concert

Concert - Sat 29 July 7-9.30pm. BOOK NOW

StudioBaxter: an exhibition of student work

Exhibition: Fri, Sat & Sun, 5-27 August 10am-4pm

Coiled Basketry: a workshop with Jodie Goldring

BOOKED OUT Workshop: Sat 22 July 2023, 10am-3.30pm

Braided Rag Rug: a workshop with Ilka White

BOOKED OUT Workshop: Sat 15 July 2023, 10am-4.00pm

Decolonising Fire Science: a live-streamed talk

Live Stream - Thurs 13 July 6pm

Ghost Stories: an artist talk with Melissa Proposch

Ghost Stories: 8 July 2023, 2pm (free)

Winter Warmer – Stories around the Fire

Sat 24 June, 5-8pm - All welcome!

Nature Printing workshops with Rhyll Plant

WORKSHOPS: Sundays 18 & 25 June, 10am-3.30pm

Seeking a Media/Publicity Coordinator!

Apply now to join our volunteer team

Tell us what you’d like to learn, do or explore!

Create your own workshop, class, space to meet: answer our quick survey here

Rural Heritage: an exhibition of monochrome prints

Exhibition: Weekends 6 - 28 May 2023, 10am-4pm.

Sparrows of Kabul

Sparrows of Kabul: Concert Friday 2 June, 7pm - book now!

Scratching the Surface – Sean Kenan

Exhibition: Weekends 15 - 30 April 2023, 10am-4pm.

POSTPONED – Let’s explore colour: ONE DAY lino print workshop with Susan Clarke

POSTPONED: ONE DAY workshop: 23 April, 10am-4pm

Remembering Newstead Railway Station

Open Day: Saturday 22 April 2023, 10am-4pm

Cancelled: Creating Scratchboard Art – a workshop with Sean Kenan

Workshop: Sat 29 April 2023, 10am-3pm

Art Windows: Dressing Up the Street

Art Windows: on show Fri 17 March to Sun 2 April, 2023

Tiny Towns Arts Trail – 22-24 April 2023

Event: Sat, Sun & Mon 22-24 April 2023

Traditional straw plaiting & ‘Corn Dollies’: June Workshop

Workshop: NEXT Sun 16 June, 2024, 10am -3pm BOOK NOW!!

Traditional straw plaiting & ‘Corn Dollies’

Workshops: Half day 30 March or full day 15 April, 2023

POSTPONED Landscapes in watercolour: 1-day workshop with Mark Dober

POSTPONED - ONE DAY plein air workshop: 16 April, 10am-2pm

It’s a Small World Sculpture Prize: Exhibition 18 March – 9 April

Exhibition: Sat 18 March-Sun 9 April 2023, 10am-4pm

Launching ‘Precious’ – The Book

Launch: Sunday 12 March, 3pm

Clay Hand-building Weekly Classes with Jason Luca

Weekly class: Thurs, 6-9pm to 9 March (then resuming after Easter)

Clay Hand-building Classes with Jason Luca

Weekly class: Starts Thurs 9 Feb, 6-9pm - 5 weeks

Responding to Country: Friends of the Box-Ironbark Forests, 1998-2023

Exhibition: Weekends 25 Feb - 12 March + Mon 13 March, 2023, 10am-4pm

Garden Whispers: Drawings to prints – a second workshop with Dianne Longley

2 places left! Workshop: Sun 12 Feb 2023, 10am-4.30pm

The Nature of Seasons

Exhibition: Weekends 28 Jan - 19 Feb, 2023, 10am-4pm

Instrument Makers Gallery: Newstead Live 2023

EVENT: Sat-Mon 21-23 January 2023

Happy Holidays

Happy holidays: the Hub reopens Sat 21 Jan 2023 for Newstead Live

It’s a Small World Sculpture Prize: Entries closed!

Entries now open! Deadline extended to Sun 18 December 2022

Earthwork

Exhibition: Weekends 3-18 Dec 2022, 10am-4pm

Landscape: paintings & photographs by Milton Moss

Exhibition: Weekends 5-27 November, 10am-4pm

Gardens of Colourful Connections: Multi-block lino printmaking – Second workshop

Workshop: Sat 19 November 2022, 10am-4.30pm

Random Weave a Basket

NEW DATE Workshop: Sat 29 October 2022, 10am-3.30pm

Creating Scratchboard Art – a workshop with Sean Kenan

Workshop: Sat 22 Oct, 2022, 10am-3pm

Subjective Objectivity

Exhibition: Weekends 1-30 October, 10am-4pm (extended dates)

Nature printing with Rhyll Plant

WORKSHOP: Sat 24 Sept 2022 10am-3.30pm

Gardens of Colourful Connections: Multi-block lino printmaking workshop

Workshop: Sun 25 Sept 2022, 10am-4.30pm

The Printmakers’ Garden of Imagination

Exhibition: Weekends 3-25 September, 10am-4pm.

Plant Walk, Making String and Weaving Nests

Workshop: Sun 18 September 2022, 10am-3.30pm

CANCELLED Garden Paradise: Transprint Dye Workshop

CANCELLED: Workshop: Sun 11 Sept 2022, 10am-4.30pm

Garden Whispers: Drawings to prints – a workshop with Dianne Longley

Workshop: Sat 17 Sept 2022, 10am-4.30pm

Always wanted to draw? A second workshop with Selina Wilson

Workshop: Sun 4 September 2022, 10am-4.00pm

An evening of music with Clancy McLeod

Concert: Friday 26 August, 7pm for 7.30 concert

Create a Braided Rag Rug

Workshop: Sun 14 August 2022, 10am-4.00pm

Zorba the Greek: the movie

Book now: Sat 13 August, 7.30 onwards

Finding your creative self through experimentation

Workshop: Sat 27 April 2024, 10am-3.00pm. SOLD OUT! Join the waitlist.

Always wanted to draw? A workshop with Selina Wilson

Workshop: Sun 31 July 2022, 10am-4.00pm

Plein-air painting: five artists

Exhibition: Weekends 30-31 July and 6-7 August, 10am-4pm.

For Locals, by Locals…that’s Precious

You're invited to contribute! Exhibition dates Sat & Sun 16-17 & 23-24 July

Random Weave a Basket

Workshop: Sat 23 July 2022, 10am-3.30pm

Magic & a great Movie ‘Sing Street’

Book now: Sat 9 July, 7.30 onwards

Stories around the Fire

Event: Friday 8 July, 6-8pm

From Fibre to Fabric and Beyond

Exhibition: Weekends 4-26 June + Mon 13 June 2022, 10am-4pm.

Relief photopolymer prints: a workshop with Dianne Longley

BOOKED OUT Workshop: Sat 28 May 2022, 10am-4.30pm

Threads of Colour

Exhibition: Weekends 7-29 May 2022, 10am-4pm.

Weave a ‘Melon Basket’ (cancelled)

Workshop: Sat 14 May 2022, 10am-3.00pm (Cancelled)

Saori free-form loom weaving

NEW DATE: Workshop: Sat 14 May 2022, 10am-3.30pm

Scratchboard Art – Sean Kenan

Exhibition: Weekends 2 - 24 April 2022, 10am-4pm.

Nature printing with Rhyll Plant

TWO WORKSHOPS: Sat 30 April & Sun 8 May 2022 10am-3pm

Get out your bike: bike maintenance workshop

Workshop: 1 May 2022, 10am-12pm

Nature in time: images from central Victoria

Exhibition: 5-27 March 2022, Weekends & Labour Day 10am-5pm

Shifts and Seasons

Exhibition: 12, 13 & 14, 19 & 20 March 2022

Plein Air Oil Painting: a workshop with Mark Dober

Workshop: 3 sessions - 6, 13 & 20 March 2022

Creating digital audio & visuals: workshops

Workshop: Sun 27 February 2022, 9:30am – 12pm; 1:00pm – 3:30pm

Homesick: an exhibition

Exhibition: 5-27 February 2022, Weekends 10am-4pm

CANCELLED: Instrument Makers Gallery: Newstead Live

CANCELLED - EVENT: 22-23 January 2022

Marking Change

Exhibition: 6 - 28 November 2021, Weekends 10am-4pm

Hidden Away: Our Silent Auction continues 4-19 December

Event: Silent Auction continues 4-19 December at the Hub

Hidden Away: Art Exhibition & Auction

BOOK NOW: Sat 27 November, 5.30 onwards - in the Garden!

ReEmerge

Exhibition: 4 - 19 December 2021, Weekends 10am-4pm

Out Loud: Words & stories

Event: 5 December, 1.30 for 2pm start

The Weather Diaries

Event: Fri 10 December, 8.00pm

Projections

Event: 20 November 2021, 8.00pm onwards

Creating in watercolour

Sat 13 November, 10am-3.00pm

Creating gel plate prints workshop: second chance!

NEW Workshop: Sat 20 November, 11.00am-3.30pm

Nature printing on paper

Sun 7 November, 9.30am-3.00pm

Platform 4 Return

Exhibition: 2 - 24 October 2021, Weekends 10am-4pm

Photopolymer printmaking workshop – Second chance!

Sat 30 October, 10am-4.30pm

Creating gel plate prints: a workshop with Penny Peckham

Sat 23 October, 11.00am-3.30pm

Photopolymer printmaking workshop

Sat 16 October, 10am-4.30pm

Open!

RE-OPENING: Saturday 2 October 10am!

We Want You!

Nominate for the Hub Committee: still open!

Curbside Carnies @ the Hub

EVENT: Sat 25 Sept 1pm

Sticks & Stone

CLOSED: Exhibition: 14-29 August 2021, Weekends 10am-4pm

Wild Weaving Exhibition

POSTPONED FOR LOCKDOWN Wild Weaving Exhibition: Sat-Sun 21-22 August, 10am-4pm

Community Drawing Table – On Show!

POSTPONED during LOCKDOWN: On Show in the Foyer: Sat & Sun in August: 10am-4pm

Embers: Light up winter @ the Hub

Program: June & July 2021

Closed … deep breath

CLOSED: From now until 23 September (fingers-crossed).

Wild Weaving

FREE Community Art Event: Sat-Sun 31 July & 1 August, 10am-4pm

Kids Spark Stories

Workshops: 26 & 27 June; Event 11 July

Community Drawing Table

FREE Community Art Event: Sat-Sun 3 & 4 July, 12-4pm

Closed …

CLOSED: From now until ...

Art Most Fowl

Exhibition: 1 - 30 May PLUS 5-6June

Winter Solstice: Stories around the Fire

Event: Sat 19 June, 4pm onwards

Open Mic Night

Event: Fri 16 April, 7pm onwards

Particles

Exhibition: 2 - 25 April 2021

CANCELLED – Creating a Lampshade: Learn how with Annie Giffard

CANCELLED – Creating a Lampshade: Learn how with Annie Giffard

CANCELLED Workshop: Sunday 25 April 11am-3pm

Pen to Paper: Getting Started – a second three-week creative writing workshop for women

Pen to Paper: Getting Started – a second three-week creative writing workshop for women

Workshop: 3 sessions Fri 30 April, 7 & 14 May, 10am-12.00pm

Join our Newstead Art Trail in March 2025

Expressions of Interest: open until mid Oct for NOS art trail in March 2025

Newstead Open Studios art trail @ the Hub

Sat & Sun 20-21, 27-28 March 10am-5pm

Scraperboard Workshop with Linda Newton

Workshop: Thurs 25 Feb 10am-2.30pm

Cut ‘N Paste

Exhibition: 6 - 28 March 2021

Printing Plants and Textures as Cyanotypes: Workshop with Dianne Longley

Workshop: Sat 27 February 10am-4pm BOOKED OUT (Waiting list via Humanitix)

Movie Night: On the Platform at the Hub

Movie Night: On the Platform at the Hub

Friday 12 March: 7.00pm, Movie at 7.45 Book Now

Unfolding Breath: Pamela Isaacs & Judith Warnest

Exhibition: 6 - 28 Feb 2021

Creating gel plate prints – a workshop with Penny Peckham

Workshop: Sunday 14 March 10.30am-3.30pm BOOKED OUT (Waiting List via Humanitix)

Pen to Paper: Getting Started – a three-week creative writing workshop for women

Workshop: 3 sessions Wed 10, 17 & 24 Feb 10am-12.00pm

Lee Shelden: Quiet Spaces: A Retrospective + Sally Roadknight: Lockdown Landscapes & Baskets

Exhibition: 9 - 31 Jan 2021

John S Turner: Botanist and Artist

Exhibition: 5 Dec - 27 Dec 2020

Community Picnic & Turner Exhibition Closing Day

Event - Sun 27 Dec, 1pm

Plant Embossing: Dianne Longley

Workshop: Sat 28 Nov (Sold Out, new date added 12/12)

Relaunch Celebration Event- Friends of the Hub

Event - Sun 29 Nov, 2pm-5pm

Freeform Loom Weaving: Cathy Tobin

Workshop: Sun 22 Nov, 10am-3.30pm

Plant Embossing: Dianne Longley

Workshop: Sat 12 Dec, 10am-4pm

Plein Air Watercolour

Workshop: Sat 21 Nov, 10am-2.30pm