This Life Drawing session will be taking place at the beautiful Raleigh Hall with the musical accompaniment and guitar journeys of Joseph S Fairburn

A laid back session open to all levels of experience. Beginners welcome!

Charcoal, butchers paper and drawing boards provided.
Please BYO your own art supplies if you prefer to use those.

We will begin the first half of the evening with a series of quick drawing exercises & after a short break, resume the second half with longer poses and time to lose yourself to the art and tunes. This session is about letting go of restraints and just relaxing into creativity.

There are limited table spaces available, all other spots are seats with drawing boards. If you require a table due to the type of medium you working with (i.e. paints, clay etc) , please request a table spot at the time of booking. Thankyou!

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*Doors open 6.15pm, Drawing starts 6.30pm*

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Award-winning songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ruby Gill returns with her long-awaited sophomore album, Some Kind of Control, out March 28, 2025. An anthemic, choir-laced, poetic epic, the album is, in Gill’s words, “looser, gayer, and even more raw.” To celebrate, she’s bringing its ten body-focused, politically rich, and deeply intimate songs on a national tour across Australia in 2025, performing in the country’s finest venues alongside some of our most exciting artists.

Ruby’s first tour leg was a total sellout, lighting up packed rooms all along the East Coast. Now, she’s back with the second leg, hitting northern NSW and QLD—don’t miss your chance to catch her live.

Widely adored for her ability to stun a room into hear-a-pin-drop silence with unforgettably honest - and wryly humorous - offerings that can bring even the most cynical to tears, Ruby Gill has gone from strength to strength since turning heads and ears with 2018 single ‘Your Mum' (2018) which garnered millions of streams and a full add to triple j in its first week, and 'you should do this for a living' (2021; featuring backing vocals from Angie McMahon and Maple Glider) earned Gill the title of triple j Unearthed Feature Artist, with strong playlisting support across Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon. Internationally acclaimed debut album I'm gonna die with this frown on my face (2022) debuted at #5 on the AIR Independent Album charts and was nominated for an Australian Music Prize and Best Folk Work at the Music Victoria Awards that same year. The following year on November 7, Gill shared a heartfelt tribute to Palestine on her socials in her poem-turned-song 'Resistance looks like the sun on you', returning to official releases with the forthcoming album’s lilting title track exactly one year later in 2024.

Now, Ruby Gill is ready to take her boldest work yet to the stage. Don’t miss her live in 2025.

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Acclaimed contemporary flamenco guitarist Damian Wright of Bandaluzia Flamenco returns to the theatre this July 4th with percussionist James Hauptmann for a mesmerising evening of unique sound

DAMIAN WRIGHT is an ARIA nominated Flamenco guitarist. Damian recently released his debut album “Shifting Sands” (ABC Music) which was The Sydney Morning Heralds ‘Pick of the week’ where it was described as “Glorious guitar playing”. Damian was invited to perform as a solo artist at The Rajasthan International Folk Festival, INDIA and in 2016 performed at The Shanghai Fringe Festival, CHINA. Damian’s ensemble BANDALUZIA was invited to perform at the biannual Adelaide International Guitar Festival curated by Slava Grigoryan & was a soloist at The Sydney International Guitar festival in 2017 & 2018. BANDALUZIA was awarded 'The Pick Of the Sydney Fringe' at The Sydney Fringe Festival and performed to a sold out Sydney Opera House Concert Hall as an invited artist to TEDX Sydney 2014. BANDALUZIA has headlined The International Gypsy Music Festival, Sydney, The Global Carnival and is on Musica Viva's national touring program. In 2010 Damian received a development grant from the Australian arts council to study flamenco guitar in Spain with Pepe Justicia, where he spent five years. Damian has recorded with ensembles RASA DUENDE & THE TRANSLATORS on ABC/Universal and Jazzgroove Records and his compositions have been played on ABC radio national and ABC Classic FM. 

'Damian Wright is a brilliant flamenco guitarist...Wright showed what a captivating solo player he is on his own 'In Time', and elsewhere his articulation of complex lines was fluid and dripping with conviction' - John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald.

JAMES HAUPTMANN

One of the most highly regarded percussionists Australia has produced. James has had an extensive and diverse career in various genres performing internationally and nationally. Originally from Canberra, James studied Jazz at the Australian National University, before arriving in Sydney and performing and recording regularly with Australian Jazz royalty including James Morrison, Vince Jones, Dale Barlow and songstress Katie Noonan… James has also performed and recorded with acts as diverse as ARIA nominated pop - rock artists Bluejuice on the Big Day Out Main Stage, Sydney and The Viper Room, Los Angeles to Javanese percussion masters and acclaimed flamenco artists from Spain. James has become a formidable addition to percussion in Australia, through his extensive touring and collaboration with Bandaluzia flamenco. James is currently endorsed by Yamaha Drums and Roland Recording.

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Featuring Greg Sheehan, Linsey Pollak, Shenzo Gregorio and Tunji Beier

"4 musicians sit in horseshoe shaped semicircle surrounded by an audience.
The lights dim, and a soft drone begins to sound.
Who will sound the first answering sound? ...we don’t know, but suddenly, as if by magic, it is there, and then …over there .
The next 90 minutes disappear, as if someone has wound the clock forward at double speed. but in that timeframe there have been numerous connections, conversations, emotions, surprises, silences …and possibilities"

BYO drinks & dinner is welcome. Doors open 7pm, music starts 7.30pm, please arrive on time so as not to disturb the performance

The Listening Sessions’ invite the audience into the collective musical mind of a group of musicians to experience an extended improvisation. This process focuses on really listening, an essential element of creating music in the moment. The audience is invited to listen in the same way and experience this creative journey that the musicians are making together. The musicians will create 90 minutes of new music by listening deeply to each other while improvising over a drone. Nothing will have been written or rehearsed beforehand. Nothing will have been discussed about the unfolding music except to choose the pitch of the drone that will be the foundation upon which the musicians build their music. It is this ‘Process' of creating the music rather than the ‘Product of the completed composition that is given precedence. In this way 'The Listening Sessions’ redefine music as a process rather than a commodity. 

Greg Sheehan is one of the leading figures in Australian Percussion. As a performer, teacher and recording artist, he is significantly represented in Australian music for over 50 years. He has been a major influence on generations of musicians and has literally reshaped the map of RHYTHM… A passionate visionary who has created a unique system of maths music called ‘Rhythm Diamonds’ which is now being taught in Music Colleges around the country.

Linsey Pollak is well known all around Australia as a musician, instrument maker, composer, musical director and community music facilitator. He has toured his solo shows extensively in Europe, Nth America and Asia since 1996. He established The Multicultural Arts Centre of WA and has co-ordinated five Cross-cultural Music Ensembles in three different States. He has also performed at most major Festivals around Australia and recorded over 40 albums (solo & with various groups).

Shenzo Gregorio dazzles audiences with his world-class performances. He has been performing professionally for almost 20 years, his career highlights include performing at New York’s world famous Carnegie Hall with FourPlay String Quartet and author Neil Gaiman. He’s a leader in his field of jazz and world styles having performed in Russia, Brazil, Asia, India, parts of Europe and all over Australia at various festivals.

Tunji Beier: At the age of ten Tunji was studying Yoruba drumming in Nigeria. Six years later he travelled to Bangalore in South India to study percussion for three years at the Karnakata College of Percussion under the mentorship of Mr TAS Mani. This intense period of study enables Tunji to bring his mastery of the mridangam, kanjira, ghatam and morsing to a huge variety of projects with musicians such as with greats such as: Charlie Mariano, Bill Cobham, T.A.S.Mani, R.A.Ramamani, Trilok Gurtu, and Zakir Hussain.

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After more than a decade releasing albums and touring with award-winning indie-folk pioneers Tinpan Orange, Emily Lubitz has stepped out on her own. Her debut album, ‘Two Black Horses’ will be released on 18th July and she will celebrate with a national tour, stopping at historic Bowraville Theatre

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Lubitz is a veteran of the scene, having performed on some of the world’s biggest stages and premiere international festivals. She has collaborated with the likes of Paul Kelly, Martha Wainwright, Jen Cloher , Emma Donovan and Mama Kin, and yet her solo work is imbued with the raw energy of a breakthrough artist.

 Emily’s new record, Two Black Horses sounds like an old Hollywood film, starring Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline and Phoebe Bridgers, who go on holidays together and talk about their feelings. She wrote the album for her family. It covers themes of forbidden love, immigration, death, loss and growing older with love and defiance, all captured in an alt-country dreamscape. Produced by Emily’s husband and long-time collaborator, Harry James Angus, Two Black Horses is a deeply personal collection of songs that speaks to heartache, heritage and hope.

“Emily's exquisite, brushed-velvet vocal conjures a steady neck-hair raising waltz” - The Age 

“Strikingly assured” - Rolling Stone Australia

“What is it about Lubitz’s voice that makes it so incredibly captivating? Her timbre is otherworldly; hopeful and vulnerable, yet potent.” – Beat Magazine