Public listings checked 25/10/2026. Dates use each event’s local time. Check organiser details before travelling.
Explore the region
Explore Wagga Wagga's city, riverside and neighbouring communities. Albury and other Riverina centres are separate journeys, not part of this city selection.
Listings across Lake Albert, Turvey Park, Uranquinty, Wagga Wagga.
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23 matching events listed in the next 60 days. Admission prices are shown where supplied.
In 1865, Wagga Wagga butcher Tom Castro stepped across the threshold of his shop and into the history books. Claiming to be the long-lost heir to the Tichborne family's Hampshire estates, Tom unwittingly set in motion one of the greatest cases of disputed identity in recent criminal history. Man, myth, would-be baronet, peep show oddity and pauper, who was Tom Castro, and did he ever really exist?
The Museum of the Riverina brings this amazing story to life in the wonderfully evocative surrounds of their Historic Council Chambers. View the Nathan Hughes painting 'The Great Tichborne Trials' alongside objects from the Museum's Tichborne collection, believed to be one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.
Given the same starting point, one thousand potters will invariably produce one thousand unique and individual pieces. The only limit to what can be created through fire and clay is imagination itself. Centuries of exploration, of materials, methods, and techniques, have allowed potters to transform vision into reality, turning fleeting ideas into objects of permanence.
The Wagga Wagga Potters Club group exhibition, 'Concepts in Clay', showcases this diversity of practice, bringing together a rich array of clays, glazes, and firing methods, each piece tracing its origin back to a single spark of imagination.
That same spirit of imagination extends beyond the studio and into the community, as seen in the Club's ongoing work with the Blamey Community Group. The Blamey Community Group reached out to the club for information on running pottery workshops after a kiln had been found tucked away at the centre. After some discussion, Potters Club members offered to assist in making this possible. These members have been going to Kapooka once a week to run classes ever since. The nature of the work of military members makes this a unique task. A small display of works produced during these lessons will be included in the exhibition.
During the residency, Allis would like to begin creating portraits of local people that capture not only how they look, but something of who they are.
The portraits will bring together painting, drawing and fragments of poems written in response to each person. Alongside each painting, a soundscape will be created using, with permission, pieces of conversation, stories or memories from the sitting, together with sounds connected to the sitter's life.
The idea for this project grew partly from the artist losing an uncle suddenly, and hearing her aunt say that she wished she had a recording of his voice. It made Allis think about how much a voice can hold — a person's character, memories and presence.
The residency will give Allis the opportunity to explore this idea, spend time developing the work, and begin to see where the project might lead.
Musings from a Darkened Corner translates lived experiences with mental conditions into tangible physical objects, which can be perceived, assessed, and understood. Artist Dan De Nardis uses glass as the shears through which to cut back the curtain between the psychological world and the physical, as her personal investigations into the mind plunge deeper into introspection, and we, the audience, are invited to peer in.
Gallery closed on Mondays.
Join bestselling author Fiona McIntosh at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery for the launch of her newest release "The Art Lovers".
While war rages across the city of Valletta, a local barkeeper's daughter Valentina Camilleri is on the cusp of womanhood when Flight Lieutenant Peter Fox falls out of the sky from his spitfire and into her world. In that fateful moment, he captures not just her imagination and her dreams, but also her young heart.
As he convalesces, Peter, an art historian, becomes captivated by Malta's spectacular cathedral and its treasure, the famed artwork of Caravaggio. His passion for the subject ignites Valentina's ambition and sparks the dream of a life far from her dreaded destiny.
A dozen years on, Peter returns to the island as an art expert for newly crowned Queen Elizabeth's forthcoming visit. When he reconnects with Valentina, a woman now, he is horrified to see what has become of her.
Facing a war of her own within her heart, Valentina must find the courage to fight for her son and her future – but will freedom come at a cost?
Come to the Demonstration Gardens, bring fruit or vegetables to swap, or purchase fresh vegetables from the community garden.
Held every Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday morning weather permitting. Please support the local community.
All proceeds go to the Community Gardens.
Run by local growers and makers, the Farmers Markets are a not‑for‑profit, farmer‑led initiative where every purchase directly supports small‑scale producers from across the Riverina.
Held Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings, the markets bring the community together in the big shed — a lively, seasonal gathering place where growers, makers, customers and neighbours meet to celebrate fresh food, local creativity and regional connection.
Part market, part community space and part grassroots movement, the Farmers Markets strengthen local food systems, champion regional producers and create meaningful connections between the people who grow and make — and the people who enjoy their products.
Each market features fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables, local meats, free‑range eggs, honey, preserves, baked goods, dairy products, flowers, plants, natural skincare, and a rotating selection of Riverina‑made artisan items, along with plenty of surprises from week to week.
Mike Parr is widely regarded as one of Australia's pre-eminent artists. Since staging his first solo exhibition in 1970, Parr has developed a distinctive practice spanning performance, printmaking, painting, sculpture, and installation for more than 40 years. His work is characterised by its cathartic intensity, emerging from personally demanding processes that explore the limits of language and the body. Central to his practice is the extensive "Self-Portrait" series, encompassing over 1,000 works across multiple media.
Breaking Off will present a series of etchings that investigate Parr's struggle with the memory of his late brother Tim and their relationship, alongside Ships In The Night, large-scale photographic documentation drawn from Parr's performance archive spanning 1975–2005. Following its installation and durational blind painting performance at Syrup Contemporary, the documentation is now partly visible and partly blacked out, acting as both record and residue. Installed across 20 metres of gallery walls, the work will be accompanied by a video and photostream of Parr's performance, documented by his longtime cinematographer Gotaro Uematsu and stills photographer Zan Wimberley.
An oracle is a portal to the unknown — a person, place or object believed to hold knowledge, power or a connection to something beyond us.
Oracle considers the talismanic qualities of jewellery and the ways a piece can transcend adornment to embody meaning, power and identity. Bringing together nearly 50 works from the Griffith Regional Art Gallery's National Contemporary Jewellery Collection and Wagga Wagga Art Gallery collections the exhibition explores jewellery as wearable artwork, charged with stories, symbolism and possibilities.
Featuring work by Blanche Tilden, Bronwyn Goss, Marian Hosking, Peter Tully, Julie Blyfield, Christel van der Laan, Johannes Kuhnen, Tracy Pateman and Juanita McLauchlan, Oracle reveals the extraordinary ways contemporary jewellers have used material, form and symbolism to create objects that carry meaning beyond their physical form.
Woven throughout the exhibition is Riverine Nocturne, a wall drawing by regional artist Sophie Chauncy. Living and working on Yanco Creek near Narrandera, Chauncy draws on the regional topography, waterways, landscapes, native species and nocturnal magic of this place.
Sitting quietly alongside the jewellery, Riverine Nocturne becomes almost a whisper, offering glimpses of the landscape, its species and stories, and a sense of the place in which the exhibition sits.
The Wagga Model Aero Club will be hosting the Military Scale event, the weekend of radio controlled Military Scale model aircraft at the clubs flying field.
This iconic event with always attracts the finest examples of Military Scale model warbirds planes.
Enjoy the regular Markets by the Lake, with yummy food and drinks available for purchase including bacon and egg rolls, sausage sandwiches, steak and onion sandwiches, cold soft drinks and water.
Stalls also include arts, crafts, local produce, children's activities, entertainment, and much more all on the shores of beautiful Lake Albert.
Meet the creative team behind Welcoming Aurora.
Welcoming Aurora was created by three Wagga Wagga friends, science communicator, Dr Annabel Bowcher, jeweller and photographer, Emma Kidson, and illustrator and teacher, Tara O'Halloran.
The travel book format combines Emma's extraordinary local photographs with Tara's original digital drawing style. Each page has something to discover and discuss.
Set in and around Wagga Wagga, the story follows the Reed family as they visit Aunty Kate's farm between Mangoplah and Cookardinia. While searching for the perfect name for their new baby, the family shares stories, stargazes together, and experiences the wonder of the aurora australis dancing across the night sky.
Following the aurora chase with the story creators, books will be available for purchase and signing along with light refreshments and craft activities inspired by Welcoming Aurora.
This is an intergenerational event. Everyone is welcome.
