The Top Spots festival is an ongoing  program of community led events. 

Top Spots events will surprise and delight with an electric range of performances, exhibitions, artisan markets, workshops, poetry readings and more.  

Designed to restart and activate community spaces, each Top Spots event features locally determined community arts and cultural programs, many of which have been supported by the STA Top Spots grant program.

5 & 12 December Deep Encounter Learn writing skills and exercises designed to take you deep within yourself with local writer and artist, Jessica Raschke. 

Bowral

7-28 Dec Festival of Lights featuring Virtual to Actual performance poet Andrew Galan and Robyn Sykes. 

Concerts light installations and more in Corbett Gardens, Bowral from 7-28 December. Lights every night 7.30pm – 10.30pm.

Sue Wallace of ImaginARTa – the Australian Puppet Centre will train in building large scale puppets with Leon Hendroff then create puppets with the community for events. Cockatoo by Leon Hendroff

Performance dates TBC

The Waltz by David Cole

Way into their 70’s, Irene and Alf meet on a park bench. They still embrace life with gusto A play by David Cole.

Performance dates TBC

Speleo 

A site-specific theatre event incorporating dance and performance planned for the heritage wooden dance floor in the Abercrombie Caves, located between Bathurst and Goulburn. A new work reacting to the beauty of the caves. Performance dates TBC

Topped Spots – past programs already enjoyed

Right to Work Mural Project
This project helped enhance the wellbeing and inclusion of a group of young adults with intellectual disability through creative expression, skill development and contribution to community.

Acting workshops with Bonnie Curtis Projects and Free Roam Theatre 

Is Bridget possessed by the dance devil?⁠ ⁠Learn more and watch some pretty cool vids at  @bonniecurtisprojects

Green Tape is an activist performance installation by Annemaree Dalziel leading the Sybil Disobedients, at the Earth Hour sculpture event on 27 March 2021 at Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens.

ACE (Artist Country Exhibition) 24-26 September

Showcasing the work of seven emerging Artists. 

Millicent Armstrong’s one Act Plays – rehearsed readings 

Dianna Nixon will produce & direct a cast of fine actors from the region – Heather Keens, Chris Carroll, Holly Ross – in rehearsed readings of Millicent Armstrong’s one act plays for the 2021 Gunning Arts Festival.

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