A new Arts & Cultural hub for the entire region
Your Connection has arrived. Connect @ Gunning Station brings the station to life with exhibitions, heritage displays, programs, events, workshops, community meetings and gatherings following a glorious restoration by Transport for NSW.
Plan your visit for one of our upcoming events including the GRAND OPENING EVENT on Saturday 28 October.
Connect @ Gunning Station is a destination for cultural experiences and opportunities and a hub at Gunning to be enjoyed by our whole region and also by the many visitors keen for a unique regional experience. We welcome our community to Connect to the journey.
STA has been successful in achieving funding through the NSW Government Stronger Country Communities Program to program Connect@GunningStation over first two years of operation.
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One highlight from the Connect offcial opening was a musical duet by Henry Liang on the Japanese Shō and Joel Bulger on Didgeridoo, commissioned especially for the celebration. See what else was on offer.
Upcoming program – Supported by the NSW Government through the Stronger Country Communities Fund.
Jodie Munday and Tracy Luff: Regional Futures – Main & Parcels Galleries
10am – 3pm Fri 19-Sat 20, Sat 27 January and Fri 2-Sat 3 February 2024 (closed Australia day)
Work from two exciting local Artists. Jodie explores connection to place through weaving and imagery. Tracy explores connection to each other through complex and challenging social issues affecting our community. Supported by the NSW Government through the Stronger Country Communities Fund.
10.30am Sat 20 Jan – Join us for the official opening event.
11-2pm Sat 20, Sat 27 Jan and Sat 3 Feb – Join First Nations Weaving Circle every Saturday with Jodie. All materials supplied including locally harvested local grasses. FREE
Keep on Weaving
11-2pm Sat 10 Feb – 9 March (five Sat sessions) First Nations Weaving term – Book your place for Five Saturdays of weaving with Jodie Munday at Connect – Sat 10, 17, 24 Feb and 2, 9 March 2024. Bookings coming soon. (Main Gallery)
Community Groups Expo – Ladies Gallery
10am – 3pm Fri 19-Sat 20, Sat 27 January and Fri 2-Sat 3 February 2024 (closed Australia day)
Photographic images celebrating the many community groups that operate in the Gunning area. Curated by Michelle Storey and Erin Olafson. Funded by Acciona.
10am-2.30pm 1st Friday of the month (February – November – excludes PH)
STA Mobile Office
2 Feb, 1 Mar, 5 April, 3 May, 7 June, 5 Jul, 2 Aug, 6 Sept, 4 Oct and 1 Nov
If you’re a maker, creative, cultural organisation or community minded business with an interest in arts and culture we want to get to know you better.
Past Programs
11.40am – 4.30pm 28 October (opening celebration),10am – 3pm 3-4 & 10-11 November
Snap Write The theme for this year’s SnapWrite Exhibition is “What If…”. View the exhibition online.
The Exhibition will help celebrate the formal opening of the restored Gunning Railway Station building as an arts and community centre. Wonderful and moving photos and stories of our region have been contributed as part of the community driven SnapWrite Facebook page. On display in the Ladies Waiting Gallery.
11.40am – 4.30pm 28 October (opening celebration), 10am – 3pm 3-4 & 10-11 November
In Transit by Hamish Ta-mé View the exhibition online.
We move through our lives and the landscape with a restless energy, pushing, pulling, hoping, fearing. Connecting. At times we come together in shared spaces, and in community. Our train journeys are a time where a large disparate group from an incredibly diverse range of backgrounds and intentions come together in parallel for a few hours to then disperse again. Railways have played a vital role in creating communities with little more initial connection than a common transport hub. From these utilitarian beginnings grows a community of families, friends, colleagues and commerce. These portraits are part of a larger body of work shot whilst commuting, they come from a place of openness and a genuine interest in these unique lives and how the sitters came to be in this time at this place. On display in the Parcels & Main Gallery
10am – 3pm 22-23 Sept & 29-30 Sept & 6-7 October
Waste to Art by Gunning Public School
Works of art created from waste materials by students at Gunning Public School through a series of workshops with Al Phemister.
- Read the History of Gunning Station
- Read about the recent restoration project
- Tell us what you’d like to enjoy at Connect.
- Share your memories, stories and images of Gunning Station
CONNECT@GUNNING is Big News – Please email STA for media inquiries
- Press Release Feb 2022
- Rose Marin talking on ABC Canberra Radio 24 Feb 2022
- Howard Collins CEO Transport for NSW on ABC Canberra Radio 25 Feb 2022
- About Regional article: Gunning well on track for new arts and cultural hub
- Canberra Time article. Transport for NSW edges closer to finishing restoration of Gunning train station buildings
Check out all the fun we had at the Open Day at Gunning Station on 28 May. The community turned out to explore the newly restored Gunning Train Station with exhibitions, live music, creative activities and more.
Top image: Under the heritage Gunning Station platform sign– excited local officials, community members, STA representatives and Transport for NSW staff. From left to Right: Graham Dyer President of the Gunning District Association, Colleen Worthy Upper Lachlan Shire Council, Clr John Stafford, Michelle Storey STA, Wendy Tuckerman MP member for Goulburn, Rose Marin STA, Andrew Killingsworth TfNSW, Mike Coley Gunning Focus Group and Clr John Searl.
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