A group of local women with a range of creative abilities took part in the Cobar Library’s Adult Craft session on Saturday to hand decorate travel mugs. Participants were given free reign to create a design of their choice using brush strokes and dots. Among the artwork created were flowers, letters (which made their mugs even more personalised), mandalas and native birds. While a few of the participants already had extensive experience painting on flat surfaces, they commented that working on the mug’s curved surface was definitely more of a challenge.
A group of local women with a range of creative abilities took part in the Cobar Library’s Adult Craft session on Saturday to hand decorate travel mugs. Participants were given free reign to create a design of their choice using brush strokes and dots. Among the artwork created were flowers, letters (which made their mugs even more personalised), mandalas and native birds. While a few of the participants already had extensive experience painting on flat surfaces, they commented that working on the mug’s curved surface was definitely more of a challenge.
Local educator, Kate Munro, is working to promote the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation’s ‘Literacy is Free-dom’ campaign, which targets literacy in remote and indigenous communities and also among refugees. “Their strategy is to try and provide early literacy training to staff and intervention for children that need it,” Kate […]
Cobar Public School’s Spring Fair at the school on Friday provided a great night out for families with lots of entertainment, fun games, busy market stalls and delicious food on offer. The night was topped off with a fantastic fireworks display and the official opening of the school’s refurbished oval. […]
Guest speakers at this year’s ‘Night to Remember Our Lost Miners’ event include the first woman to work underground at CSA Mine and descendants of the Great Cobar Copper Mine manager, Thomas Longworth. A Night to Remember Our Lost Miners was first introduced to Cobar’s Festival of the Miner’s Ghost […]
