Living Well

Re-Page Exhibition: Transform Old Books into Illuminated Works of Art

As part of the Words in Winter Festival, Re-Page invites artists to transform old books into unique artworks that respond to the 2024 festival theme: Light in the Dark. Whether it’s sculpture, collage, or altered books, the goal is to breathe new life into discarded pages and create something extraordinary.

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Curtals and Continuo: A Rare Early Music Experience in Daylesford

Daylesford audiences are in for a musical treat on Saturday, July 5, when early music specialists Unholy Rackett join forces with Ensemble 642 for a unique concert of rarely heard 17th-century repertoire. The performance will highlight the curtal, a family of instruments unfamiliar to most modern ears, and the Renaissance ancestor of the bassoon.

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Book Review: The Medicinal Garden

The Medicinal Garden is a beautifully illustrated book that provides detailed information on various plants including how to sow and grow the plants, harvesting and drying details and information on how to prepare the plants and what they can be used for.

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Alex and Emily at Yandoit Cultural

Local Daylesford couple, Emily Davis and Alex Tsibulski will perform their newest and favourite music at Yandoit Cultrual this coming Sunday afternoon, June 15th, at 3pm.

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Winter Sounds

Winter Sounds returns to Daylesford and surrounds from August 14 to17 bringing live music to intimate, unusual and atmospheric spaces, from country halls to bush schools to churches and aboard vintage trains across the region.

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Winter in the Garden

There’s plenty to do in your garden in winter: pruning, composting, planting and transplanting. And when the weather closes in, find a comfortable chair and reflect on how to take your garden to the next level.

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Central Victoria Indigenous Film Festival – “Contact” to Screen at Yandoit Cultural

The Central Victorian Indigenous Film Festival runs from Tuesday, May 27 to Tuesday, June 3 2025 as part of Reconciliation Week. Award winning film “Contact”, to screen at Yandoit Cultural, is constructed around one of the most extraordinary pieces of footage in Australian history: the moment when a group of Martu women and children walked in from their nomadic existence of millennia into the universe of European modernity.

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Three Types of Art

Morgan Williams considers what he thinks are three types of art practice: Replication, Experimentation and Ideation.  And he previews a stunning solo exhibition by Sam Newstead at Radius.

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The Secret of Hanging Rock

Hanging Rock winery was established in 1982 by winemaker John Ellis OAM. When you visit, taste Jim Jim Three, Five Generations and Jim Jim Chardonnay, Cambrian Rise Heathcote Shiraz and their Sparkling Heathcote Shiraz. The cellar door is open seven days a week.

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