Seniors Festival 2025
March 11 @ 10:00 am - March 14 @ 4:00 pm
It’s on again! The Seniors Festival will be celebrated at NERAM from the 11th – 14th of March 2025. The festival will include talks, wellness, guided tours, and for the first time Art Bingo. Our programs include both free and paid events, but we ask that you still book for both so we know how many attendees we can expect.
PROGRAM
Tuesday 11th March, 11am – 12pm
Chair Yoga (Stretch and Flex) + U3A Information Session
Join U3A Armidale for a free taster of their popular chair yoga and hear more about U3A and the amazing programs they offer our community. Wear some comfy clothes and get ready to stretch and flex the body and mind.
Tuesday 11th March, 11am – 12pm
Silver Swans
Silver Swans classes have been specifically designed for the over-55s, but whatever your age, if you are looking for a new way to keep fit and active, our ballet classes will put a spring in your step.
Whether you’ve never danced before or want to get back into the swing of it, our classes have something for everyone.
The R.A.D. developed this programme based on research into dance practice for older learners – classes are only taught by Silver Swans Licensees. Joanne Knight RAD.RTS is currently offering ballet classes including Silver Swans in Armidale upstairs above the Laneway Café in the Armidale Mall Arcade.
If you are one of those ladies who have always wanted to ballet, its never to late to shine and what better way to start than with this free event! We will have a number of ballet barre’s set up within our Hinton Gallery for a quiet atmosphere. We encourage you to wear comfortable clothing and, if possible, shoes that have some flexibility in them.
Wednesday 12th March, 2pm – 3pm
Art Bingo
Join NERAM Director Rachael Parsons and Curator Belinda Hungerford for a game of bingo with an arty twist. Instead of numbers we will be drawing out artworks from the NERAM collections – it will be part bingo and part art talk as Rachael and Belinda discuss artworks as they get drawn out. Don’t get distracted and forget to mark off your bingo card, there will be prizes for the winners.
Tea and biscuits are included.
Thursday 13th March, 10.00-11.00am
Artist Talk: Barbara McKay in conversation with Rachael Parsons (includes a back of house store room tour)
Join NERAM Director Rachael Parson and exhibiting artist Barbara McKay as they discuss Barbara’s art practice and career. Barbara McKay is one of Australia’s truly significant female abstract expressionist artists. Acclaimed by renowned American art critic Clement Greenberg, McKay has spent over five decades committed to immersing herself wholly into the gestural expression of the world and environment around her. McKay’s recently acquired work Wattle (1974), features in Vibrations: Abstract women in the collection.
The talk will be followed by a tour of NERAM’s art storeroom.
Friday 14th March, 2.00 – 3.30pm
Silver Swans
Silver Swans classes have been specifically designed for the over-55s, but whatever your age, if you are looking for a new way to keep fit and active, our ballet classes will put a spring in your step.
Whether you’ve never danced before or want to get back into the swing of it, our classes have something for everyone.
The R.A.D. developed this programme based on research into dance practice for older learners – classes are only taught by Silver Swans Licensees. Joanne Knight RAD.RTS is currently offering ballet classes including Silver Swans in Armidale upstairs above the Laneway Café in the Armidale Mall Arcade.
If you are one of those ladies who have always wanted to ballet, its never to late to shine and what better way to start than with this free event! We will have a number of ballet barre’s set up within our Hinton Gallery for a quiet atmosphere. We encourage you to wear comfortable clothing and, if possible, shoes that have some flexibility in them.
