THE GREAT VALLEY STAYCATION
You’ve heard it before: the bad thing about living in Kangaroo Valley is that very few places we travel to measure up. So this year, why not stay home? Here’s a list of activities and…
Selena
HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH A RIVER
Snakes: I dare you to fall in love
Pouncing at Shadows
From a Few Folk, Big Folk Festivals Grow
In a year we’ve lost music festivals across the nation, Kangaroo Valley stands strong, its success due to the low-politics dedicated, unpaid organising committee and the large crew of volunteers. As fab festival duo Stuart…
VOLUNTEERING: THE BEST MEDICINE
One might say that Kangaroo Valley has been built by groups of volunteers, from the sports, arts and social activities on offer, to the local Rural Fire Service brigade and even the public amenities.
Connecting to Country: a win for local school students
In the Valley this school term, young people have been given the opportunity to connect to nature and sense their belonging to the world in new ways, through two powerful programs facilitated by cultural education…
Remodelling Our Relationship with Clothes (Part Two)
Last issue introduced the Valley’s Loo Taylor, designer-manufacturer of the luxury lingerie brand Loo Taylor Lingerie, which rose to prominence in the 1980s and 90s, as a lens to look at pre-fast-fashion fashion. This month…
Remodelling Our Relationship with Clothes (Part One)
In 2018–19, Australians threw out 780,000 tonnes of textile waste, just over a third of it clothing. This put textile waste on Tanya Plibersek’s Priority List 2023–2024. In my other job at the post office,…
Space For a Great Life
In April 2023, NASA announced their Artemis II test flight mission to the moon, originally planned for 2024, would be pushed back to “No earlier than September 2025”. This is the test flight for the…