Arts, Culture and Heritage

This Cultural Plan identifies the underpinning strategies, frameworks
and actions that will drive and support cultural development within
the Port Macquarie-Hastings region for the period 2021-2025.

Explore the Port Macquarie CBD through arts & culture! ArtWalk is a multi-venue cultural event that opens our local art galleries & museums bringing art out of the gallery & onto the streets at night!

Newsletter specifically for the Arts, Culture and Creative Industry. Find out more.

The Port Macquarie-Hastings Council Art Collection comprises over 200 donated and acquired artworks reflecting its major themes:- abstraction and landscape.

Information on the Glasshouse Regional Art Gallery.

Port Macquarie-Hastings Council acknowledges the Birpai people as the traditional custodians of the lands within its local government boundaries

The Bicentenary of Port Macquarie is an opportunity for our community and visitors to come together and celebrate our past; our present and our future across a range of year-round activities.

The Wauchope Bicentenary Riverside Sculptural Trail will become part of the popular Foreshore Walk at Wauchope, along the Hastings River. It will encompass our region's natural, Aboriginal, European and community history.

Two FREE art workshops coming your way.
Come hang with friends & create art that’s the bomb.

We are excited to announce the delivery of a Professional Development program aimed at supporting the regions creatives, including visual and performing artists, musicians, creative writers, designers, photographers and more.  

Live and Local is a comprehensive capacity-building program responding directly to the need to increase participation in Australia’s local live music scene.