Glen Innes Highlands Newsletter
July 2020

Visit Glen Innes highlands this July and explore our museums and galleries filled with local knowledge, history and works of art. Take a stroll along the main street of Glen Innes and our villages Deepwater, Emmaville and Glencoe and enjoy boutique shopping and gourmet coffee houses filled with warm country hospitality. You may even be lucky enough to witness a dusting of snow fall across our picturesque region.

July 1, 2020

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With travel open in New South Wales we encourage our Queensland friends to visit the New England High Country and experience adventure among some of nature’s wonders with our World Heritage national parks, scenic road touring routes and venues celebrating our rich history, arts and local gourmet produce. Make sure you have your border pass to get home organised, its simple. Apply for your QLD border pass here. See you soon!

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Visit out museums and galleries and discover the stories of our past and present through. 

The Emmaville Mining Museum has reopened. This gem of a museum is a must see for any visitor not only full of fossils, precious stones and artefacts from our mining past, it has a few surprises with a Military wing, historical Bakery area, Foleys shop and lots of unique larger antiques all with a history to the LGA and kids can have a try at fossicking inside their new operating hours 10am to 3pm daily, closed on Thursdays.
The Land Of The Beardies History House Museum have been busy during lockdown. Behind the scenes is an extensive historical research and resource centre on the region and that part of their operations has not stopped. Now they are back with new hours of Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday 10am to 12pm and 1pm to 4pm. We are starting to see visitors coming through town and hope they get an opportunity to visit this unique museum. If you haven’t been to the museum in a while, this is a great time to revisit.
The Gawura Gallery reopened on June 12 and have new operational hours. Tuesday to Saturday 9am to 4pm. Current exhibition is Internationally acclaimed Aboriginal Artist Lloyd Gawura Hornsby and local fine artist Sarah Fletcher. The café is opened
The Glen Innes Art Gallery reopened on June 9 and has new hours of operation, weekdays 10am to 4pm. Their latest exhibition from the Cameron Art Group has been very successful, both online and at the gallery.

Glen Innes Highlands Shop  

Celtic Nation flags
We have a range of 150 cm x 90 cm polyester flags Celtic nation flags available for those whose poles need a face lift or anyone wanting a unique gift. Shop here.
Rediscover the beautiful practice of letter writing. Our selection of artisan cards reflects many aspects of our town, Historical pen drawings from Clare Toms, Celtic inspired from local artist Peter Grimes from the Alder Grove, beautiful local scenes from photographer S Moore and our great range of lenticular postcards to send off to family and friends, a great reminder for them to come and visit our unique town. Shop here.
Our Ngoorabul art collection is just a small selection from our diverse and talented local aboriginal community. We have works from Internationally acclaimed artist Lloyd Gawura Hornsby, painted beads and bangles by a local aboriginal womens group and selected pieces from Ngoorabul woman, Adele Chapman-Burgess. Shop here.

What's on in Glen Innes Highlands?  

Sunday 5th July - Tynwald Day - Australian Standing Stones
Sun July 5 is Tynwald Day, National day of the Isle of Man and we will be celebrating up at the Australian Standing Stones from 3pm. There will be music, food and flag lowering ceremony at 5pm. The Australian Standing Stones Management Board will be there on hand to answer questions regarding our amazing megaliths. Bring your camera and help us record this special day.
Friday 3rd July - Lone Piper returns to Town Square
Friday July 3 sees the return of our Town Hall piper at 12pm. A tradition here in Glen Innes that had to take a break during our lockdown. Make sure you stop by and support our wonderful businesses, accompanied by the historical and uplifting lilt of these traditional Celtic instruments.
Saturday 21st September to Friday 3rd October - GlenFest
Music festival GlenFest has been officially launched. It looks like September is going to be a wonderful month starting with the Free Older Persons Concerts featuring Heather Rose and Peter Harries Jnr with an early 1900’s silent movie at the Glen Innes Town Hall and official recognition of the United Nations International Day of Older persons. There will be a Free Youth Music Workshop at The Youth Booth, a Friday Night Charity Concert with Super Massive and local support band at the Glen Innes Services Club, a Saturday Night Spectacular starring Fiona O’Shea and the Passengers and Thor Phillips at the Glen Innes Bowling Club. There is also the GlenFest Arts prize. The theme is Companion Animals, art and photography, great prizes, no entry fee. Should be an amazing weekend of music, art and community. Selected entries will be displayed throughout shop windows throughout the CBD creating an exciting ‘Pop Up’ gallery. Pop it in your diaries Sept 21 to Oct 3, 2020.
For more upcoming events in Glen Innes Highlands head to our website and check out our event calendar.

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