Workshops & Events
Calendar of Events
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Current & Upcoming Workshops
Volunteers Morning Tea
Whether you are already an engaged volunteer or just interested in getting involved, this regular catch up is for you! Meet other enthusiastic volunteers in a social situation, find out how you can be involved, find out wants going on at BHAE and offer your ideas. Tea and cake supplied. Upstairs in the lounge 10am - 11am on the first Wednesday of the month.
All welcome
Micro Safari
Micro Safari Workshop with Connagh Eimear Redmond
Micro Safari - Learning to to see and appreciate the tiny things
We will start with a 20-30 min walk to look for "micro environments" around town, including recording with photos and taking samples. We will then take our samples back to the workshop area for a closer look using magnification and microscopy. We can then use a variety of media to creatively interpret the micro textures, shapes, and relationships all around us, just out of sight.
Felting Workshop
Felting Workshop with Eleanora Pasti
A workshop on the different felting techniques, explaining the technique where water and soap are used, how to use felting needles. There are also different applications for these techniques. For example, felting needles allow for precision work combining wool with other types of fabric, while water and soap can be used to create flat or three-dimensional objects.
Shape a First Sketch
Shape a First Sketch with Artist Cynthia Schwertsik
Join Artist in Residence Cynthia Schwertsik for a session where she shares some basics off her practice.
We will spend 2 hours exploring the way into movement through walking and breath by applying some simple exercise drawn from a life of yoga, dance and performance.
As we extend into drawing and storytelling, allowing an idea to emerge from the intuition of the body as we shape a first sketch.
please bring an object that you treasure, your sketchbook and comfortable clothes and if you can a exercise mat.
I am looking forward to see you
Egg Tempera
Egg Tempera with Artist Michelle Teear
Join experienced artist and educator Michelle Teear to explore a new medium.
Egg tempera is a beautiful translucent viscous paint that holds exciting potential for contemporary painters. It is the original board painting medium and predates oil paint. Tempera’s unique qualities sit between watercolour, acrylic and oil paint. Learn how to make this safe and healthy archival paint. You’ll be guided on how to apply tempera in layered translucent to opaque painting and explore it’s potential for texture and fine detailed marks. Suitable for beginner to experienced painters.
Artist Talk with Artist in Residence Cong Yu
Artist Talk with Artist in Residence Cong Yu
In this talk, Cong explores the intimate interplay between the human body and the Australian landscape from a deeply personal, feminine perspective. Her paintings often begin with the contours of human forms, gradually dissolving into expansive vistas where body and land mirror and depend on one another. During her time in Broken Hill, Cong has drawn inspiration from outback ruins and vehicle camping setups—seeing them as residues or incomplete forms of “home.” These fragments become visual metaphors for belonging, dislocation, and the search for place. She will share insights into her creative process and the narratives behind her work. This is a conversation about identity, place, and the transformative space where inner and outer landscapes meet.
Volunteers Morning Tea
Whether you are already an engaged volunteer or just interested in getting involved, this regular catch up is for you! Meet other enthusiastic volunteers in a social situation, find out how you can be involved, find out wants going on at BHAE and offer your ideas. Tea and cake supplied. Upstairs in the lounge 10am - 11am on the first Wednesday of the month.
All welcome
Drop In
Dark moon Festival Ball
Enjoy the night with live music by THE BLACK SHADOWS & TRUE VIBENATION and an ART AUCTION . Ticket includes food.
Volunteers Morning Tea
Whether you are already an engaged volunteer or just interested in getting involved, this regular catch up is for you! Meet other enthusiastic volunteers in a social situation, find out how you can be involved, find out wants going on at BHAE and offer your ideas. Tea and cake supplied. Upstairs in the lounge 10am - 11am on the first Wednesday of the month.
All welcome
Drop In
Mini Christmas Makers Market
The Broken Hill Art Exchange will be hosting four Maker's Markets this year. These markets are exclusively for hand-made, hand-crafted, or home-grown items from local crafters, artisans, and growers. Book a table on BHAE website
StoryTelling through art
Workshop with Visiting Artist Julia Twomey
Julia Twomey
Sunday 24th 1-3pm
Reading too deep? Never! With emerging Brisbane writer and mixed-media artist, Julia Twomey, participants will explore stories through literature and visual art. Participants will draw inspiration from Australian short stories and translate themes to art works that combine collage, painting, and drawing. This playful workshop combines Book Club with Art Club and is suitable for participants of all stages.
Makers Market
The Broken Hill Art Exchange will be hosting four Maker's Markets this year. These markets are exclusively for hand-made, hand-crafted, or home-grown items from local crafters, artisans, and growers. Book a table on BHAE website
Lets Get Lyrical
Songwriting workshop with Visiting Artist Julia Bates
Thursday 21st August 6-8pm Julia Bates will be sharing strategies to inject original and honest imagery into songwriting with a focus on lyrics.
Slip and Sgraffito Ceramics _sold out
With visiting Ceramicist Mahalia Leckner Sold out
Artist in Residence Mahalia Leckner Sunday 17th August
This hands-on workshop explores the decorative potential of slip and sgraffito techniques on unfired clay. Working with prepared clay slabs, participants will begin by applying coloured slips to the surface, creating a rich base for further mark-making. Using reference images for inspiration, we’ll then draw directly onto the clay, carving into the surface to reveal layers beneath. This process—known as sgraffito—allows for expressive, detailed designs that reflect personal or local stories. Participants will be encouraged to observe and capture the textures, shapes, and character of Broken Hill’s unique landscape, architecture, and people. Whether you're drawn to abstract patterns or representational imagery, this workshop offers space to experiment and develop your own visual language in clay. No prior experience is necessary—just a willingness to explore new techniques and engage with the environment through a creative lens. All materials will be provided, and finished works can be taken home once fired
Volunteers Morning Tea
Whether you are already an engaged volunteer or just interested in getting involved, this regular catch up is for you! Meet other enthusiastic volunteers in a social situation, find out how you can be involved, find out wants going on at BHAE and offer your ideas. Tea and cake supplied. Upstairs in the lounge 10am - 11am on the first Wednesday of the month.
All welcome
Drop In
follow the lens
BHAE Camera Club :
photography meet-up last Sunday each month
Times subject to change so we can capture the different light through the day. Different locations always meet at the Kitchen Gallery
Check the Facebook event comments for details or email/call us.
all welcome (members free or by donation)
Whimsical Faces with Artist Patty Bover
Mixed media artmaking workshop with visiting artist Patty Bover
Card Making Workshop
Two Exciting Card Making Workshops
Melbourne based artist and art teacher Anne Hastie will lead a card making workshop on Thursday 26th June 10am -12noon and July 3rd in the upstairs dining room @the Grand.Come to one or both sessions
Using vibrant coloured inks, participants will paint onto on adhesive paper that when dry will be cut into smaller images then stuck to high quality cards. Finished cards will also have appropriate sized envelopes. This is an exciting and easy way to make beautiful gift cards.
Inks are non-toxic. Apron/smock required. Suitable for beginners to experienced participants. Success guaranteed!
Volunteers Morning Tea
Whether you are already an engaged volunteer or just interested in getting involved, this regular catch up is for you! Meet other enthusiastic volunteers in a social situation, find out how you can be involved, find out wants going on at BHAE and offer your ideas. Tea and cake supplied. Upstairs in the lounge 10am - 11am on the first Wednesday of the month.
All welcome
Drop In
follow the lens
BHAE Camera Club :
photography meet-up last Sunday each month
Times subject to change so we can capture the different light through the day. Different locations always meet at the Kitchen Gallery
Check the Facebook event comments for details or email/call us.
all welcome (members free or by donation)
Embroidery Project
Broken Hill Panel Margaret and Albert Morris
As part of the Australian Quaker Embroidery Project join us to explore a panel for Margaret and Albert Morris. The panel has been in design for some time - we are looking for interested members of the Broken Hill Community to get on board and help to embroider it.
No experience necessary. Drop in.
Meeting regularly last Saturday of the month 10am-12noon.
Call Susanne 0433911956 for details
https://www.quakersaustralia.info/Stitches
Winter Solstice Makers Market
The Broken Hill Art Exchange will be hosting four Maker's Markets this year. These markets are exclusively for hand-made, hand-crafted, or home-grown items from local crafters, artisans, and growers. Book a table on BHAE website
Card Making Workshop
Two Exciting Card Making Workshops
Melbourne based artist and art teacher Anne Hastie will lead a card making workshop on Thursday 26th June 10am -12noon and July 3rd in the upstairs dining room @the Grand.Come to one or both sessions
Using vibrant coloured inks, participants will paint onto on adhesive paper that when dry will be cut into smaller images then stuck to high quality cards. Finished cards will also have appropriate sized envelopes. This is an exciting and easy way to make beautiful gift cards.
Inks are non-toxic. Apron/smock required. Suitable for beginners to experienced participants. Success guaranteed!
Crochet Workshop
Starting Sunday June 8 NOW FULL!
If you are interested in Crochet workshops in the future please email us
Embroidery Project
Broken Hill Panel Margaret and Albert Morris
As part of the Australian Quaker Embroidery Project join us to explore a panel for Margaret and Albert Morris. The panel has been in design for some time - we are looking for interested members of the Broken Hill Community to get on board and help to embroider it.
No experience necessary. Drop in.
Meeting regularly last Saturday of the month 10am-12noon.
Call Susanne 0433911956 for details
https://www.quakersaustralia.info/Stitches
follow the lens
BHAE Camera Club :
photography meet-up last Sunday each month
Times subject to change so we can capture the different light through the day. Different locations always meet at the Kitchen Gallery
Check the Facebook event comments for details or email/call us.
all welcome (members free or by donation)
Poetry Night
OPEN MIC POETRY NIGHT
With Special Guest Artist and Poet Elyas Alavi
Aspiring poets bring a poem to recite, or poems will be provided by Rumi, Hafez, and more.
May 10th, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Kitchen Gallery BHAE
As part of Outback Sufi Conference
Artist TAlk
Visiting artist Rene MG hosts a ‘PIP’: Participatory Interactive Performance, a show and tell of her experiences in Broken Hill – bring your stories. Join a Yarn.
BHAE | 6 PM | FREE Thursday, May 8th Upstairs in Lounge @the Grand
Drawing Group
Join our monthly Drawing Group first Sunday of the month
Meets @ 1-3pm on the first Sunday each month. Beginners + Experienced: All welcome
No tuition—just bring your sketch pad & pencils, pastels etc & draw the posing model (dressed)
No bookings required
$5 for non -members / free for BHAE members ( includes refreshments)
Held in the BHAE Heritage Gallery @The Grand 313 Argent St.
Enquires: Linden m. 0410 388 305 or BHAE 08) 8088 4698 or info@brokenhillartexchange.org.au
Macrame Workshop
With visiting artist Denise van Horen
Sunday 4 th May 2025
Time 10am – 2pm
At Broken Hill Art Exchange upstairs in Lounge Room
$40 per person for Materials - Plus $15 for Non members
Click on image below to register
follow the lens
BHAE Camera Club :
photography meet-up last Sunday each month
Times subject to change so we can capture the different light through the day. Different locations always meet at the Kitchen Gallery
Check the Facebook event comments for details or email/call us.
all welcome (members free or by donation)
Embroidery Project
Broken Hill Panel Margaret and Albert Morris
As part of the Australian Quaker Embroidery Project join us to explore a panel for Margaret and Albert Morris. The panel has been in design for some time - we are looking for interested members of the Broken Hill Community to get on board and help to embroider it.
No experience necessary. Drop in.
Meeting regularly last Saturday of the month 10am-12noon.
Call Susanne 0433911956 for details
https://www.quakersaustralia.info/Stitches
Drawing Group
Join our monthly Drawing Group first Sunday of the month
Meets @ 1-3pm on the first Sunday each month. Beginners + Experienced: All welcome
No tuition—just bring your sketch pad & pencils, pastels etc & draw the posing model (dressed)
No bookings required
$5 for non -members / free for BHAE members ( includes refreshments)
Held in the BHAE Heritage Gallery @The Grand 313 Argent St.
Enquires: Linden m. 0410 388 305 or BHAE 08) 8088 4698 or info@brokenhillartexchange.org.au
Waste2ART WORKSHOP
With Local Artist Clark Barrett
Waste 2 Art 2025 Year of the TOYS.
Join local artists to learn skills to turn waste into art.
Inspired by the DADA Art Movement - cardboard toys and collages: Saturday 5th April, 11-1pm at the Art Exchange, 313 Argent Street.
Join Clark Barrett for a two-hour workshop for inspirational ideas on creating using waste.
Clark will share the story of the Dada art movement - which pioneered 'found object art' in 1920 as a rebellion against 'serious art' and the establishment powers that allowed WWI to happen.
Then participants will create a collage or simple cardboard toy inspired by the information covered earlier in the session.
Participants can bring old magazines and cardboard - we will supply materials too.
About Clark:
Retired high school art teacher, outback artist, and photographer. Clark’s life and art have been positively influenced by his many decades of teaching creative young high school students and talented adult artists.
Clark has been travelling remote outback roads for decades. After first arriving in Broken Hill, a sense of curiosity and wonder led Clark to begin travelling the region’s dirt roads, sometimes travelling as far as 300kms. Fascinated by “the laser bright intensity of the outback sunlight and the way it makes colour vibrate”, Clark has spent the past 40 years taking inspiration from remote outback landscapes to create his renowned artworks. Travelling through stations and sleeping in shearers’ quarters, Clark would often knock on the doors of isolated homesteads hoping to meet the people who lived in this fascinating land. This curiosity led him to meet and befriend many unique outback characters, amass an enviable collection of experiences and stories, and gain valuable insight into life in the ‘bush’.
Clark’s on site artworks seek to capture the colourful glory of nature’s morning and evening light. ‘The rotation of the earth makes my day!’ The large studio works and 3D constructions communicate Clark’s spiritual link to the landscape and its unique history.
Free for Registered Entrants Waste 2 Art
Limited Numbers - Workshop Registration Essential
follow the lens
BHAE Camera Club :
photography meet-up last Sunday each month
Times subject to change so we can capture the different light through the day. Different locations always meet at the Kitchen Gallery
Check the Facebook event comments for details or email/call us.
all welcome (members free or by donation)
Embroidery Project
Broken Hill Panel Margaret and Albert Morris
As part of the Australian Quaker Embroidery Project join us to explore a panel for Margaret and Albert Morris. The panel has been in design for some time - we are looking for interested members of the Broken Hill Community to get on board and help to embroider it.
No experience necessary. Drop in.
Meeting regularly last Saturday of the month 10am-12noon.
Call Susanne 0433911956 for details
https://www.quakersaustralia.info/Stitches