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Category Archives: Arts
Knox Festival 2022
This year’s Knox Festival was a blaze of colour, culture and community, with a reported crowd of 15,000 in attendance. Continue reading
Foothills Art Trail Exhibition
If you’ve enjoyed the recent Foothills Art Trail, you now have the opportunity to purchase your favourite artworks. Continue reading
New home for Knox Library
The new Knox Library will move into Level 3 of the old Myer Knox department store, while also doubling in size. Continue reading
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Tagged ERL Library, Knox, Knox City, Knox Library
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Revitalising our community spaces
The much-loved Millers Homestead in Boronia is set to be taken over by Eastern Regional Libraries for a trial 12 month tenancy. Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Community, history, News
Tagged ERL Library, Knox Council, Millers Homestead
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Foothills Art Trail: A treasure hunt for the mind and body
These hidden gems are mapped out along the Foothills Art Trail, some hiding in plain sight, waiting for the discerning eye to seek them out. Continue reading
Upwey Archies 2021
The Upwey Archies are back for 2021, with local aspiring artists to have their work publicly displayed in the Upwey Main Street shops. Continue reading
Foothills Art Trail – Finding art in new places
Ferntree Gully Arts Society is bringing art and the community together to experience a very different exhibition in the windows and on the walls of the local Ferntree Gully Village traders. Continue reading
Foothills Art Trail
Something is coming to Ferntree Gully Village! As you wander around the Ferntree Gully village shopping areas, you’ll notice something new – the Ferntree Gully Arts Society are excited to announce “The Foothills Art Trail” – a project to put … Continue reading
Artists welcome back visitors at Dandenongs Open Studios
Artists from Upwey to Kalorama opened their doors to visitors for a weekend of creativity this May with the return of the Dandenong Ranges Open Studios program. The highly anticipated weekend was bigger than ever and warmly welcomed by artists … Continue reading
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Burrinja re-opens
The Burrinja Cultural Centre in Upwey has reopened after two years. Having closed for an expected one year of major redevelopment in 2019, thanks to Covid the centre remained closed until April 2021. The official re-opening was launched by local … Continue reading