Weekend Notes

On this page, you will find links to all the articles I have written for Weekend Notes.

2024 Local Word Writers Festival

2046

5 Lands Walk 2024

50 Years On The Beat: The Legacy of Constable Kenny Koala at the National Capital Exhibition

75th Anniversary of the Brisbane Water Historical Society

80 Stories High – Dr John Irvine Book Launch

A Day at Selborne

A-Leagues Unite Round 2024

A-League Unite Round 2024-2025 Season

Alexander the Great: 2,000 Years of Treasures

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Bell Shakespeare

A Taste of Ireland – The Irish Music and Dance Sensation – Wyong

A Wisdom of Age

Acoustic Life on the River

After Birth

Alexander the Great Exhibition 2012

Alexandra Dariescu

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Australian Ballet Company

Alphonse Mucha: Spirit of Art Nouveau at the Art Gallery of NSW

All About Women 2024

All About Women 2026

All Kids Can Be Readers with Sally Rippin at Erina Library

An Evening with Fran Lebowitz – Sydney Opera House

Anne Enright

April School Holidays at the Australian Museum

April School Holidays 2024 – Mecure Kooindah Waters

Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2024

Architecture Club with Louise O’Brien

Art and Craft Fair

Australia Day Central Coast 2024

Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year – Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Gateway to Egypt Programs

Australian National Maritime Museum

Australian War Memorial

Australia’s Home Front 1939 to 1945 – Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG)

Author Workshop with Nathan Luff at the State Library of NSW

Avoca Beach Theatre French Film Festival 2024

Avoca Beach Markets

Avoca Beachside Markets 2024

Avoca Beach Twilight Christmas Markets

Avoca Beach Twilight Christmas Markets 2024

Avoca Beach Seafoods

Bad Sydney Crime Writer’s Festival 2024

Bad Sydney Crime Writer’s Festival 2025

Bang On Live at the Art House, Wyong

Bark Park 2024 – Central Coast Dogs Day Out

Bauhaus Euphoria 2025

Bauhaus Firebirds

Bayete Zulu Elephant Interaction

Beetle, by Legs on the Wall at The Art House

Bellyfish Café

Berkelouw Book Barn, Berrima

Beyond Bars

‘Big Cats!’ – A Charcoal and Ink Full-Day Workshop with Karen Bloomfield

Big Christmas Spectacular

Blues and Roots Revival 2024

Bombora SUP Festival 2025

Book Face Erina Fair

Book Launch: Being Jimmy Baxter

Bookocino February Events 2024

Book Fair Australia 2024

Book Review: A Waltz for Matilda by Jackie French

Book Review: Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth

Book Review: Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Book Review: Kill Your Husbands by Jack Heath

Book Review: Love, Just In by Natalie Murray

Book Review: Secret Sparrow by Jackie French

Book Review: Tandia by Bryce Courtenay

Book Review: The Casual Vacancy

Book Review: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Book Review: The Hidden Book by Kirsty Manning

Book Review: The Puzzle Ring by Kate Forsyth

Book Review: The Sequin Star by Belinda Murrell

Book Review: The Sea Captain’s Wife by Jackie French

Book Review: The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth

Bouddi Coastal Run 2024

Bouddi Coastal Run 2025

Brain Power Trivia

Bravewords Live April 2024

Brisbane Water Oyster Festival 2024

Building Blocks of History

Building Your Financial House

Burbank at Saddles

Burn the House ‘Dare to Dream’ at the Sydney Opera House

Canberra Walk-In Aviary

Cancer Council, 7 Bridges Walk

Cape Otway Lightstation

Celtic Beat: The Music from the Legends of Ireland at the Art House

Central Coast Christmas Fair 2023

Central Coast Christmas Fair 2024

Central Coast Christmas Fair 2025

Central Coast Comicon 2024

Central Coast Craft Club

Central Coast Crystals, Creatives, and Mystics Fair January 2024

Central Coast Film Festival 2024

Central Coast Harvest Festival 2024

Central Coast Harvest Festival 2025

Central Coast Italian Weekend 2024

Central Coast Kids Day Out 2024

Central Coast Oktoberfest 2025

Central Coast Reads

Central Coast Regional Show 2025

Central Coast Watercolour Society Winter Exhibition

Ceramic Wheel Throwing Workshop

Chaotic Social Lounge

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Gosford Musical Society

Cherry Tree Walk, Bowral

Chinese Gardens of Friendship

Christmas Floral Wreath Workshop

Christmas on the Coast

ChromeFest 2024

Cinema Under the Stars 2024

Cinema Under the Stars 2025

Cirque Africa

Clambake: In My Waters

Coastal Fusion 2024

Coastal Surge International Film Festival – The Lakes Festival

Coastal Twist 2024

Coastal Twist 2025

Coastie Carnie Fair Day 2024

Coastie Carnie Fair Day 2025

Cockington Green Gardens

Cosplay Runway

Courtyard Cafe, Berrima

Crackneck Point Lookout

Creative Workshops March 2024, The Art House

Creative Workshops April 2024 at the Art House

Curious: Gender and Power

Curious: Is it Fascism Yet?

Curious: Is this AI’s Black Mirror Moment?

Curious: Live Journalism

Daddy Issues

Daffodil Dip 2024

Daily Dough Co

DanceRites

Darling Harbour, Sydney

Davistown Gin and Jazz Festival 2024

Davistown Putt Putt Regatta 2024

Deborah Cheetham

Dharug National Park

Didi

Draw the House with Eliza Gosse, Emily Besser and Emmanuel Asante

Digital Wildlife Photography Workshop for Beginners or Intermediate – Australian Museum

Discover Ancient Egypt at the National Museum of Australia

Don’t Ask the Trees for Their Names

Drag Bingo 2024

Drag Brunch 2025

Edinburgh Castle

Edward the Emu

Egyptian Pottery School Holiday Workshop

Erskine Falls, Lorne

Ex-HMAS Adelaide Dive Site

Exhibition, Music Night and Markets

Fade into You: Acoustic Women of the ’80s and ’90s – Avoca Beach Theatre

Family Clubbercise 2025

Family Fun Day, Words on the Waves

Family Fun Day 2024

Family Fun Day 2025

Family Sunday 2024 at the State Library of NSW

Fantastic Mr Fox

Feared and Revered

Feminist Roast

Feminist Roast 2026

Femmergy

Film Review: Becoming Jane

Floriade 2023

Floriade 2024

Floriade 2025

Follow the Art Trail of the Central Coast

Follow the Leader

For All Time: Shakespeare in Print

Foundation Park, The Rocks

Fountain at Darling Harbour

Foxy Silvers ‘Let’s Get Quizzical’

Foxy Silvers 2025

Free to Dance

Gather and Groove Music and Arts Festival, the Lakes Festival

Gaugin’s World: Tona Iho, Tona Ao

Geelong

George Gershwin’s An American in Paris

Girrakool Blues Festival 2025

Glenworth Valley’s Giant Easter Egg Hunt

Gosford Comedy Club

Gosford Comedy Club July 2024

Gosford Regional Library Community Day

Gosford Silent Book Club

Gosford Summer Markets 2024

Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie and Ice Creamery

Grug – Windmill Theatre Company

Gosford Regional Gallery and Edogawa Commemorative Gardens

Gossy Gay Times 2025

Harbourview Cinema at the Zoo 2024

Henry Kendall Cottage

Heterofatalism

History on the Central Coast

Home Alone in Concert

Hot Gossip

Hyperfix-Slay-Tion 2025

Influencers are the New Public Intellectuals

Ink and Water Community Poems and the Lighthouse Keepers

Illustrator Cate James at the State Library of NSW

Inspire: Women Empowering Women – A photography exhibition by Victoria Fitzmaurice

International Women’s Day at Bells at Killcare

Introduction to Drawing

Introduction to Procreate with Paul Macklin

Is It Time to Rethink Porn?

It Girl

It’s Squiggle Time! Mr Squiggle and Friends at the National Museum of Australia

January School Holiday Circus Camps Active, Creative Kids Program in Gosford

Julia at the Sydney Opera House

July 2023 School Holidays at the Australian Museum

July 2023 School Holidays at Central Coast Libraries

July School Holidays at Mercure Kooindah

Just for Laughs Comedy Gala

Justice and Police Museum

Karaoke Pride Edition 2025

Kathy Lette in Conversation

Kids at the Library, State Library NSW

Kids Music Playtime at the Sydney Opera House

Kids + Teens Events at Better Read Than Dead Bookstore Newtown

King Lear – Bell Shakespeare

Koala Conservation Reserve

Labour of Love

Last Days for Ramses at the Australian Museum

Light up the Lake 2024

Light Up the Lake 2025

Lighthouse Festival 2024

Lighthouse Festival 2025

Lightscape Sydney

Lionel Bart’s Oliver

Live Aid: The Songs and Stories

Loch Ard Gorge

Long Jetty Festival 2024

Lost Paradise Festival 2024

Loud Mouth Youth Variety Show 2024

Loud Mouth Youth Variety Show 2025

Love Club Cabaret

Love Club Cabaret 2025

Love Lanes Festival 2024

Love on the Beach Book Signing

Lyrebird Harps

Macbeth – Bell Shakespeare

Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru – Australian Museum

Making Candles

Manly

Manly Writers’ Festival 2024

Marine Discovery Family Day

Marine Magic Outdoor Cinema

Mary Beard – Sydney Opera House

Masters of their Fates: Julius Caesar

Medical Misogyny

Meet Up and Chill 2025

Mega Jam

Mel Buttle: Not Here to Put Socks on Centipedes

Meet Deep Water Art Space Creatives

Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells at the Art House, Wyong

Moneygirl

Money Matters

Mothers in the Margins

Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House

Music at the Cottage

NAIDOC Family Fun Day 2023

National Aboretum in Winter

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

National Zoo and Aquarium, Canberra

National Museum of Australia, Canberra

Narcissus

Nautical Country

New Years Eve 2023 at Gosford

Norah Head Lighthouse

Northern Beaches Reader’s Festival 2024

Ocean Film Festival World Tour 2026

Opera Up Late with Reuben Kaye

Our Bodies

Our Natural World Exhibition – The Sea

Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia at the National Museum of Australia

Painting by the Lake

Patonga Blues Across the Bay 2024

Peter Pan-tomime at the Laycock Street Theatre

PheZulu Safari Park

Phillip Island Penguin Parade

Pelican Time

Plant Lovers Fair 2025

Play the Girl

Plot Gay 2025

Port Campbell National Park

Port Fairy Literary Weekend

Possum Magic Stage Show

Pride Eucharist 2025

Pride and Prejudice at the Sydney Opera House – the Playhouse

Pride Poetry Coastal Twist Edition 2024

Pride Poetry Coastal Twist Edition 2025

Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody The Greatest Hits

Queerscreen Short Shorts

Rainbow, Federal Highway

Raising Boys

Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs

Readers Theatre: Ramses and Nefertari

Reclaim the Night

Reflections: 50 Years of the Australian Honours System Exhibition at the Royal Australian Mint

Rhino River Lodge

Ripples Schools Program 2024

Rise and Shine Festival

Rise and Shine LGTBQIA+ Art Exhibition

Rock the Farm

Rolling Sets Festival 2024

School Holiday Art Workshops at Gosford Edogawa Regional Art Gallery

School Holiday Fun with Bluey and Bingo – Australian Reptile Park

School Holiday Art Workshops at Gosford Regional Gallery July 2024

Scientist for a Day: Archaeologist

Scientist for a Day: Wildlife Geneticist

Sculpture at Wagstaffe

Sea Food Fest

Seeking Sperm

Seven Spectacular Vivid Experiences for Every Year

Shot – Photography at the State Library of NSW

Slowing Down Fast Fashion, Sydney Opera House

Some Tips to Start a Book Club

Spend Some Time in Terrigal

Spike the Echidna at the Art House

Spiral Coast, The Lakes Festival 2024

Spiral Coast 2025

Spirited Away

Splashabout Showcase 2024

Splashabout Showcase 2025

Splish Splash Science

Split Point Lighthouse, Airey’s Inlet

State Library of NSW and Shakespeare

Sticky, Handmade Rock Candy

Stories from the Reef

Street Paws Festival 2024

Strength in Unity Art Exhibition 2025

SUP Extravaganza, The Lakes Festival 2024

Sustainable Future Festival 2024

Swells Bar and Restaurant

Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase 2024

Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase 2025

Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair

Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair 2024

Sydney Festival 2024

Sydney Opera House Turns 50

Sydney Royal Easter Show 2024

Sydney Sea Life Aquarium

Sydney Symphony Presents: How To Train Your Dragon in Concert

Sydney Writer’s Festival 2024

Sydney Writer’s Festival 2025

Sydney Writers Festival Author Talks – Live Streamed to Central Coast Libraries

Sydney Writer’s Walk at Circular Quay

Taking Action on Gender-based Violence

Taronga Zoo

Taste the Coast Food Festival

Taste the Coast Festival 2025

Term 3 Art Classes at Gosford Regional Gallery

Terrigal Antique and Vintage Fair 2024

Terrigal Beach House

Terrigal Beach Markets

Terrigal Beach Markets 2024

Terrigal Ocean Swim 2024

The All Fours Effect

The Art House presents Luke McGregor – Okay, Wow

The Beauty Trap

The British Museum

The Cowrie Restaurant

The Cowshed Café

The Entrance Market

The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes

The Lakes Festival

The Lakes Festival 2025

The Lakes Festival Comedy Gala 2024

The Nolan Collection at the Canberra Museum and Gallery

The Nutcracker

The Oils – Midnight Oil Tribute Show

The Rocks Discovery Museum

The Stories We Need Now

The Welcome Choir

The Wet at The Art House

The Wonders of Water, The Lakes Festival 2024

The World of Musicals in Concert 2024

There’s a Sea in My Bedroom

Thin Ice VR

Things to do in Prague

ThursGay Twist Edition 2024

Titanic: The Exhibition

Top Things to do in Salzburg

Tower of London

Trivia at the Library

Tulip Top Gardens

Twilight at Taronga 2024

Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve

Umina Beach Markets 17/12/23

Umina Beach Markets 2024

Vivid 2025

Walkabout Wildlife Book Fair 2024

Weber Bros Entertainment Presents The Circus

Whalebone at the Art House

What to do in Oxford

What’s On at Better Read than Dead Bookstore Newtown, March 2024

What’s on at Better Read than Dead in July 2024

When Fiction Sounds the Alarm

Whistle Blowers

Wildflower Creations

Who Gets to Be Bad?

Why So Sad, Girl?

Wifedom

Wild Lights at Taronga Zoo

Winter 2024 at the Sydney Opera House

Winter Wonderland at the Australian Reptile Park

Women of Song – Laycock Street Theatre

Wonders of Waters

Words at Pearls

Words at Pearls 2025

Words at Wagstaffe 2024

Words at Wagstaffe 2025

Words on the Waves 2023

Words on the Waves 2024

Words on the Waves 2025

Woytopia

Write About Now

Wyong Town Centre Heritage Tours

Wyong River Catchment Tour

Yellowface, Sydney Opera House

Zadie Smith