Friday 1 - Sunday 3 November 2024

Blue Mountains Writers' Festival

All Day
The Carrington Hotel

The program includes more than 80 authors featured in 46 sessions, 14 workshops and 10 special events.

Upcoming events

Friday, July 26, 2024

Sirens Revisited

10am - 4pm
Norman Lindsay Gallery

A glimpse into both the artist’s personal vision and the film that sought to reflect societal reactions to Norman Lindsay’s daring artistic expressions.

Saturday, August 3, 2024

Disruptor: For all That Matters

Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat-Sun 10am-4pm
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Disruptor features fifteen artists who pursue diverse practices, each motivated to create art that responds to environmental concerns by examining ecologically significant Blue Mountains biospheres.

Saturday, August 31, 2024

Weird & Wonderful Watercolour with Wendy Tsai

10.30am - 1.30pm
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Create a collection of experimental pieces with Wendy Tsai, showcasing the wide range of effects achievable with watercolour on Yupo paper.

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Big Skies - Wild Wings: Dr Graham Cam & Steve Tredinnick

Wed-Mon 10am-4pm
Everglades Gallery

A photographer and a watercolourist celebrate 25 years of collaboration with creative and uplifting imagery.

Saturday, September 7, 2024

slow stitching, slow thinking

1.30pm - 3pm
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Altitude artist Jennifer Brady invites you to slow stitching sessions in the gallery, help mend her artwork, chat and find connections.

Saturday, September 7, 2024

Colours of the Country

Wed - Sun 11am - 3pm
Everglades Gallery

View a beautiful new exhibition of works by Corinne Loxton and Owen Thompson on display in the Everglades House & Gardens gallery.

Saturday, September 14, 2024

Blood From Stone

11am-12pm
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Watch Scott Marr, a master in the art of alchemy, perform a mesmerizing ceremony, Blood from Stone.

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Nature Journaling in the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden

10am - 12.30pm
Blue Mountains Botanic Garden

Learn and practice the benefits of nature journaling and connecting to the environment around you.

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Birds of a Feather, 2-day sculpture workshop

10am - 2pm
Blackheath Art Society (BArtS)

Join artist and teacher Monika Scarrabelotti to construct sculptural birds out of recycled materials.

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Blue Mountains Sustainability Festival 2024

10am - 9pm
Various. Shopping trail in and around Katoomba and Leura shopping precincts; Speakers and exhibits at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre; Sustainable fashion show at Wentworth Falls Art School.

Join us on Saturday, 28th September, for the inaugural Blue Mountains Sustainability Festival, a day packed with fun, learning, and eco-friendly activities in the heart of Katoomba and Leura. Whether you’re passionate about sustainable living or just curious, this festival has something for everyone.

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Blackheath Art Society October Exhibition

Sat/Sun 10am – 5pm, Mon 10am – 4pm
Blackheath Art Society (BArtS)

Talented 2D and 3D artists will showcase their stunning creations, offering something for everyone, at this annual exhibition.

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Magic Pudding Day

10am - 3pm
Norman Lindsay Gallery

A celebration of ‘The Magic Pudding’, a whimsical children’s book written by Norman Lindsay in 1917.

Monday, October 14, 2024

Building Sculptures in Clay, 6 week night class

6pm - 9pm
Blackheath Art Society (BArtS)

Join artist and teacher Monika Scarrabelotti to learn the principles of sculpting in clay.

Saturday, October 19, 2024

The World of Origami with Harumi

2-4pm
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Experience a peaceful hobby, a beautiful art, a craft, science, and meditation all at once through origami with Harumi.

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Ikebana Journey with Harumi

10.30am-1pm
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Embrace nature, find beauty in imperfection, and discover simplicity through ikebana and the Japanese aesthetic with Harumi.

Friday, October 25, 2024

The Literary Illustrations of Norman Lindsay

10am - 4pm
Norman Lindsay Gallery

Explore the captivating world of Norman Lindsay's book illustrations.

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Spot the Difference Exhibition

10am-4pm
Penrith Regional Gallery

Exhibition about the myth and culture of The Panther, from the intense loyalty to the Penrith Panthers, to sightings of wild panthers in the region including the Blue Mountains.

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Nature Journaling in the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden

10am - 12.30pm
Blue Mountains Botanic Garden

Learn and practice the benefits of nature journaling and connecting to the environment around you.

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Stitched in Place (2-Day Workshop)

10am - 2pm
Blackheath Art Society (BArtS)

Through a series of reflective prompts participants will create their own stitched landscape using thrifted and naturally dyed textiles.

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Andrew Hamilton - Jokes About the Time I Went to Prison - Mudgee

7pm - 9pm
Roth's Wine Bar + Cellar

Blue Mountains Comedy & A-List in association with Junkyard Artists presents Andrew Hamilton. In 2021, Andrew spent four months in two of Sydney’s maximum security prisons for the supply of psychedelic drugs. He had a great time.

Friday, December 6, 2024

Andrew Hamilton - Jokes About the Time I Went to Prison - Bathurst

7pm - 9pm
The Victoria Bathurst

Blue Mountains Comedy & A-List in association with Junkyard Artists presents Andrew Hamilton. In 2021, Andrew spent four months in two of Sydney’s maximum security prisons for the supply of psychedelic drugs. He had a great time.

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Andrew Hamilton - Jokes About the Time I Went to Prison - Katoomba

8pm-9.45pm
Bursill Lane Studio

Blue Mountains Comedy & A-List in association with Junkyard Artists presents Andrew Hamilton. In 2021, Andrew spent four months in two of Sydney’s maximum security prisons for the supply of psychedelic drugs. He had a great time.

past events

Friday, September 6, 2024

MTNS MADE salon

6pm - 8pm
The Ivanhoe Hotel, Blackheath

Monthly gatherings for the MTNS MADE community

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Fire, Stone and Water

2pm
Lawson

We’re excited for the next exhibition in the gallery space, opening July 7th. We hope you can join us for the opening of “Fire, Stone and Water” by local Colin Berryman.

Friday, May 10, 2024

MTNS MADE Salon

6- 8pm
Carrington Lounge

COSY SALON TIME Please join us this Friday evening in a classic cosy mountain spot, the Carrington Lounge is the perfect place to be in this weather, many ideas, collaborations and friendships have be forged in this very space.

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Festival Of New Work

4pm til late
Blue Mountains Theatre, Springwood

Festival of New Work

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Dream Alley Dream 10!

7- 9:30pm
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Dream Alley Dream

Saturday, March 23, 2024

The Fruit Bats

1.30 – 2.00pm
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Join us for the Fruit Bats show and share in the joy of circus for all ages

Friday, March 8, 2024

Grant writing one-on-one clinics with Anke Timm – Upper Mtns

10.00 -3.00pm
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Upper Mtns - One on One grant writing clinic

Friday, March 8, 2024

Native Birds - Avian Odyssey

6pm - 8pm
Kate Soady Gallery

An exhibition of recent paintings of Native Birds and Native Flora by Kate Soady.

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Grant writing one-on-one clinics with Anke Timm – Lower Mtns

10.00 -2.00pm
Blue Mountains Theatre And Community Hub

Lower Mtns - One on One grant writing clinic

Friday, November 24, 2023

Underground

6pm - 8pm
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Underground features dynamic and interactive works across a range of media. Spanning traditional format through to geo-sensory and AI the works have been developed by four recognised Blue Mountains artists.

Thursday, November 23, 2023

The Lyrebird Festival

7:00pm-8:30pm
Megalong Community Hall

The Lyrebird Festival launches in 2023, from Thursday the 23rd to Sunday the 26th of November, celebrating the spectacular Megalong Valley with music, art, food & wine, talks & nature walks.

Saturday, November 18, 2023

New Mountain

6:30 – 10:30 pm
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

New Mountain is a three channel live video work by Rachel Peachey and Paul Mosig, exploring human/environment relationships in the context of deep time with accompanying sound by Gail Priest, Chris Caines, Benjamin Ward and Tilman Robinson.

Friday, October 6, 2023

MTNS MADE Salon

6pm - 8pm
Location TBC

Salon time again, come along for a drink and bite to eat with the MTNS MADE creative community

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Woodford Academy’s Garden Celebration

Woodford Academy

Sunday, September 3, 2023

Perceptions: Natasha Daniloff and Raewyn Proctor

Gallery opens at 11am-3pm
Everglades Gardens

This exhibition is about reconfiguring the two landscapes as more than a pleasure ground, a place of diversion or real estate.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF NGURRA

The City of the Blue Mountains is located within the Ngurra (Country) of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples. MTNS MADE recognises that Dharug and Gundungurra Traditional Owners have a continuous and deep connection to their Country and that this is of great cultural significance to Aboriginal people, both locally and in the region. For Dharug and Gundungurra People, Ngurra takes in everything within the physical, cultural and spiritual landscape – landforms, waters, air, trees, rocks, plants, animals, foods, medicines, minerals, stories and special places. It includes cultural practice, kinship, knowledge, songs, stories and art, as well as spiritual beings, and people: past, present and future. Blue Mountains City Council pays respect to Elders past and present while recognising the strength, capacity and resilience of past and present Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Blue Mountains region.