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Round up your gang, grab your partner and swing on into Bright Brewery for a colourful night of bush dancing, featuring local bush band Squid Jig and dance caller Mark Buckley, which will raise money to support the future of the Bright Autumn Festival. To be held on Thursday 4th May 2017, this special event is a community fundraiser that will help showcase the spectacular Autumn season in beautiful Bright. All ages welcome!

The boys from Feral Brewing Company are coming to shake things up for one week only. All six of our taps will be invaded with nothing but the best brews from West Oz including: Sly Fox - Summer Ale Hop Hog - IPA White - Belgian Style Wheat BFH - Barrel Fermented Pale Ale Knuckles - Coffee Pale Ale Boris - Russian Imperial Stout There will be a special (top secret) menu as well as a chance to MEET THE BREWER on May 3rd. You can also expect lucky door prizes, social media competitions and heaps more. Dont miss out!

Presented by CherryRock + Young Henrys For the first time ever, Melbourne’s infamous Cherry Bar together with beer lords Young Henrys, will present a special co-headline tour showcasing two of their new favourite European bands - together with their favourite Sydney locals. BALA (which means Bullet in Spanish) are a female 2-piece of incredible power. After making waves all through Europe, they are trekking it over to us for their very first appearance in Australia. Imagine a mix of Motorhead and Kyuss fronted by Patti Smith and you’ll get something close to the thunder Anxela & Violeta bring to the stage. BOTTLECAP are a Swedish 3-piece, high energy rock ‘n’ roll that sounds like the bastard of The Hives and The Hellacopters with an added 2017 cheeky grin. In your face rock n roll from Gothenburg City, Sweden! After many a jaunt to Cherry Bar, James has hand picked Sydney’s favourite spicy boys THE LOCKHEARTS to join the bill. After an impressive run of sell out shows in 2016, they will be bringing their bell bottom swagger and unique brand of Americana Doom Fuzz to the Stag for the first time. This CherryRock side show wouldn’t be complete without Sydney’s finest heavy blues merchants LE MANCHA NEGRA. After becoming one of the most raved about acts at Chopped and supporting Beastwars on the Sydney leg of their 2016 Australian tour, the boys have been laying low and will no doubt have an electrifying first show of 2017. We know you don't know these bands yet, but Cherry and YH guarantee that when you see them live you will be talking about this show for the rest of the year COS YOU SAW THEM FIRST!" Bala (SPA) - https://www.facebook.com/somosbala/ The Lockhearts - https://www.facebook.com/thelockhearts/?fref=ts Bottlecap (SWE) - https://www.facebook.com/bottlecapband/?fref=ts La Mancha Negra - https://www.facebook.com/the.black.stain/?fref=ts FREE ENTRY SHOW with Young Henrys drink specials all night long.

#MayThe4thBeWithYou. Join us this #StarWarsDay Thursday to help raise money for Starwars own children’s charity, #ForceForChange. We’ll be welcoming you to the dark side with big, scary IMPERIAL dark beers on the taps interspersed with a few REBEL lines of sour power. We’ll be auctioning off an un-released 2017 Mountain Goat Beer #BarleyWine, (aged in STARWARD whiskey barrels), in a joint auction with our Barrack Street neighbours Alfred's Pizzeria. Small Bar and taking donations for song requests. • Nail Brewing ‘Flamin Laminton’ / ‘Clayden Brew’ • Feral Brewing Company ‘Boris’ • Founders Brewing Co. ‘Dirty Bastard’ • Micro-brasserie Le Trou du diable ‘L’Imperatrice’ • Almanac Beer Co ‘Barbary Barrel Noir’ • Belching Beaver ‘Viva La Beaver’ and more… Thu May 4 | from midday

We are excited to announce The Pool Grant 2017 Exhibition, Resist Laughter, by Alana Holmberg, opening this May at Special Group Studios as a featured exhibition of Head On Photo Festival. OPENING NIGHT: 6pm 11 May 2017 *RSVP ONLY* click 'going' and rsvp on our website The Pool Grant 2017 recipient will be announced on Opening Night Exhibition Dates: 5 - 17 May 2017 Artist Talk: 1pm, Saturday 13 May 2017 Alana Holmberg was awarded The Pool Grant 2016 for her proposal Resist Laughter, and has spent the past year creating her series under the mentorship and support of The POOL COLLECTIVE and The Pool Grant. "A tweet lured me to Turkey initially – an image of young women laughing in the street and the Turkish words #direnkahkaha, meaning #resistlaughter. It was one of thousands of tweets posted by Turkish women to protest comments by the country’s then Deputy Prime Minister who said women should not laugh in public. And it found me, 16,000 kms away." "I went to Turkey to learn more about these women and connect with them. Tentatively beginning to call myself a feminist at the time, I wanted to celebrate their efforts and add my voice to theirs in the face of media censorship and marginalisation." Through necessity of timing, Resist Laughter considers the influence of Government actions and rhetoric on everyday experiences of women in Turkey – on the street, in families, at home, in personal relationships – as told to Alana from those fighting for equality.

Got a case of the cold weather blues? Is the harrowing prospect of only one Friday night party getting you down? In partnership with Hobart Brewing Company, laureled legends Verticoli and Dog Dreams are here to help. With a new and improved formula and scientifically proven results, this is sure to be a night recommended by 9 out of every 10 medical professionals. FREE ENTRY