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Locked On : Karla Dickens

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That's a wrap on New Annual festival 2025! Thank you to our community, artists and sponsors for your support this year.

26 Sep - 5 Oct '25

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The Bathers

27 Sep - 5 Oct Newcastle Ocean Baths

Accessible Art Family Friendly Free Public Art Trail

Don’t miss this outdoor photographic exhibition to be discovered at the Newcastle Ocean Baths amid the cozzies and concrete.

Listen to a Starfish : Soundwalks

Fri 3 Oct Newcastle Ocean Baths

Family Friendly Free Workshop

Join Diana Chester and Damien Ricketsen for a special beach soundwalk during low tide, and explore the marine life of the Newcastle Coast using their specialised underwater listening devices.

Family Free

Mini Putt Putt : Rosie Deacon x Jen Denzin

Sat 27 Sep - Sun 5 Oct The Station

Accessible Art Family Friendly Free Public Art Trail

Tee-off on a colourful and whimsical 6-hole mini putt putt course, built especially for New Annual - created by the wild imaginations of Rosie Deacon and Jen Denzin.

Family Free

ANCHOR : Heidi Axelsen and Hugo Moline

Sat 27 Sep - Sun 5 Oct Camp Shortland

Free Public Art Trail

A moving image appears of the world outside, upside-down and back-to-front. Reflections of the surrounding landscape come together into a shipping container repurposed into an inhabitable camera obscura.

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Argo Escargot : Jen Denzin

27 Sep - 5 Oct Camp Shortland

Art Family Friendly Free Public Art Trail

A rogue shipping container has found its way home, with a cargo of tall tales, lost histories and a healthy dose of the absurd. Enter the portal of wonder and be transported into another world.