Public listings checked 25/10/2026. Dates use each event’s local time. Check organiser details before travelling.
Explore the region
Explore Shoalhaven towns from Berry and Nowra to the NSW Jervis Bay coast and Ulladulla. Distances vary; this does not include Canberra's Jervis Bay Territory as NSW.
Listings across Berry, Bomaderry, Culburra Beach, Huskisson, Milton, North Nowra, Nowra, Sussex Inlet, Ulladulla, Vincentia.
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31 matching events listed in the next 60 days. Admission prices are shown where supplied.
Dr Christian Thompson AO traverses and dissolves binary boundaries through an artistic practice that spans photography, performance, sculpture, moving image and sound. The artist critically engages with concepts of race, sexuality, gender and memory by inhabiting imagined personas, captured in fantastical environments frequently centered on native flora. In House of Gold Thompson shifts focus to explore his Chinese heritage, dating back to the 1850s Gold Rush migration boom.
House of Gold draws inspiration from a line of Song Dynasty poetry or, 'a book in the hand holds a house of gold'. The exhibition chronicles a personal history of intersectional identity at generational scale, where Thompson gives us glimpses of intimate moments shared between both his First Nations Bidjara and Cantonese family – learnings of language, food and self that make the artist whole.
Curated by Thea-Mai Baumann and Con Gerakaris with curatorial support from Reina Takeuchi
A 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art exhibition, in partnership with Golden Dragon Museum Bendigo, supported by The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Global and touring nationally with Museums & Galleries of NSW. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program.
Discover the courage and curiosity that defined the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
This exhibition explores the remarkable journeys of Robert Falcon Scott, Douglas Mawson, and Ernest Shackleton, whose expeditions to Antarctica combined scientific ambition with extraordinary endurance. Facing extreme conditions, their small teams mapped unknown regions and gathered data that still supports scientific research today.
Featuring the powerful photography of Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley, the exhibition brings to life the stark beauty of Antarctica and the resilience of those who dared to explore it.
Modernist Scottish writer and poet Nan Shepherd expresses a sensual focussed immersion in nature which has been described as "living all the way through" whereby "everything is connected to everything else."
Patrice Wills is a Shoalhaven artist also interested in the relationship between the outer landscape of where she lives, and the inner landscape of the human spirit.
Her paintings and ceramics express how the self becomes inseparable from the surrounding environment. She presents human figures as integral to the story of the land as the wind, stones, rivers, and creatures, to remind us that we too are nature, longing for ways of being that are symbiotic, beyond the material world. The river, sky, sea, and shoreline operate as a protagonist, delivering more than just a background for human endeavour, but actively providing our sense of who we are.
Patrice has been selected as a finalist in major art awards, including the Archibald Prize, the Pro Hart Outback Prize, and the Fishers Ghost Art Award. Wills was selected for this exhibition as part of the Gallery's ongoing support for local artists.
Home Island – Cocos Island Dreaming is a multidisciplinary installation led by an observational film work that explores the cultural, social, and emotional ties between Cocos (Keeling) Islands and rural Wheatbelt Western Australia. Premiering at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery in 2026, the project foregrounds moving image as its central anchor, with printmaking and sound forming a layered, immersive environment around it.
The film adopts a quiet, observational approach, contrasting everyday life, landscapes, and rhythms of island culture with those of regional Western Australia, particularly Katanning. Through extended moments of looking and listening, it reveals how Cocos Malay communities operate as a living bridge between these two places—maintaining cultural practices, kinship, and memory across distance and displacement.
Surrounding the film are experimental print works, including prints on sheepskin that reference the labour histories of Cocos Malays employed in Katanning's meat industry. These tactile surfaces function as material traces of migration and resilience, embedding history directly into the installation. A composed soundscape drawn from field recordings, interviews, and musical elements further connects the visual components, echoing both coastal and inland environments.
Together, these elements form a multi sensory reflection on intergenerational memory, post-colonial identity, and cultural survival. Home Island – Cocos Island Dreaming offers audiences an embodied encounter with underrepresented histories, honouring the communities that sustain connection between island homelands and the Australian Wheatbelt.
What the Dark Remembers draws on Mariana del Castillo's lived experience of migration and cultural inheritance. Del Castillo was born in Ecuador, from a mestizo background shaped by Indigenous knowledge alongside European colonial histories. In her childhood, the Black Witch moth, Ascalapha odorata, is regarded as an omen of death and transformation. After migrating to Australia, she encountered the Bogong moth, Agrotis infusa, whose seasonal movement connects multiple First Nations peoples to Country, ceremony, and ecological knowledge.
The exhibition is an installation of moth-like structures made from repurposed fabric, eco-printed using eucalyptus leaves, and hand-stitched with cotton and glow-in-the-dark thread.
The Berry Farmers' Market is a genuine farmers' market, held every Thursday afternoon in the delightful township of Berry, NSW.
This is a true farmers’ market that cares about the origin of food and the protection of local growers, producers and makers.
Each week you will find a wonderful selection of seasonal produce, sold directly to you by the farmer or maker. Along with fruit and vegetables, you can expect to find seafood, oysters, local Wagyu beef, honey, eggs, milk straight from the dairy, gelato made from local milk, cider, wine, mushrooms, cakes and tarts, preserves, sourdough bread, street food, ready-made meals and more.
Start your Extend the Weekend experience with live music from Andre Laus at Pickled Ink Kitchen.
As Berry comes alive for A Day Well Spent – Around the World, settle in for an evening of music, food and hospitality at one of the village's participating venues.
Make a night of it and explore more of Berry's restaurants, bars and accommodation as the three-day music program gets underway.
Free entry. Bookings by phone recommended.
Continue your Thursday evening in Berry with GabzaK, performing live at Le Bar as part of A Day Well Spent – Around the World.
Enjoy live music in Le Bar's intimate setting, alongside an evening of good company and Berry hospitality.
Part of the village-wide Extend the Weekend program, this performance is an invitation to clock off early, stay a little longer and enjoy Berry after dark.
Free entry. No bookings.
Your cycle. Your hormones. Your baby's immunity. Your child who won't sleep. The fertility journey that nobody talks about honestly. The postpartum months that changed everything. These are exactly the questions Ayurveda was built for, and the ones most often left unanswered in the room.
Guided meditations with simple techniques to help reduce stress and achieve the peace of true meditation.
Tips on how to help stay in balance during the day and how to meditate at home.
Classes are suitable for both complete beginners and regular meditators.
No prior knowledge or experience of meditation is required.
Chairs are provided. No physical exercises, postures or special clothing are required.
Class duration is 60 to 90 minutes per week.
Classes are always free of charge.
Can't make this event? Then visit the website for online courses in over 10 languages.
Millions around the world are enjoying our free Sahaja Yoga meditation since it was started by Shri Mataji in 1970. Her meditation promotes mental, emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing.
Huskisson parkrun is a free, weekly, timed five-kilometre running and walking event held at Moona Moona Creek at Huskisson, NSW.
It's open to everyone, regardless of age or ability, and is organised by volunteers. Participants can choose to walk, jog, run, volunteer, or spectate.
It's not a race; parkrun events are timed, and participants receive a personal time. They are all about community and inclusivity, and they are organised and run by volunteers. Dogs are welcome on a short, hand-held lead.
Everyone is welcome- all ages and abilities, including walkers, joggers, and runners.
Baseline happiness is the steady inner contentment that already exists within us, beyond thought, achievement, or external control. It is often obscured by stress stored in the body. In this talk, Limor explores how the simple technique of Vedic Meditation helps dissolve stress and reveal this natural state of happiness.
