About: Sophie Founé

Das sign-in-gold: popular attraction revamped for opera

WHILE the much-anticipated Melbourne Opera production of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle will open at the Ulumbarra Theatre tonight, a recent Bendigo icon has received...

Golf day to tee off for kids’ books

IMAGINATION Library Bendigo is holding its second Annual Golf Day to raise money so the group can give free children’s books to those in...

International student numbers booming

HEAD of Bendigo’s La Trobe University campus, Associate Professor Julie Rudner, has said she’s pleased with the number of international students who have chosen...

Party time at Latin Festival

MEMBERS of Hispanos Unidos de Victoria, a central Victorian Latin American group, are looking forward to holding their second Bendigo Latin Festival next weekend. The...

Moving feast to celebrate diversity

IF you like delicious food from around the world, head to Long Gully Splash Park next Friday for a Moving Feast put on by...

Full of pride for fantabulous fortnight

GET ready to celebrate as the Bendigo Pride Festival is set to run for the fourth time, and it all gets underway today, Friday. Festival...

Best of the Fest!

AHEAD of this year’s Bendigo Pride Festival we sat down with director John Richards and took a look at what’s on offer. Here is his...

Hockey tourney rolls into town

INLINE hockey players descended on the city over the Labour Day long weekend for the Bendigo Cup. Held at The Zone in East Bendigo, the...

Hidden veterans speak up

SERVING in Silence, an exhibition on LGBTQI+ members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) past and present, is now on display at Bendigo Pride. The...

Saint Pat’s event dances back into town

THE Central Victorian Irish Association is putting on a concert at the Bendigo Library on St Patrick’s Day titled A Golden Hour of Irish...

Eaglehawk business goes great for grandmother

FOR some it could be a case of blokes just doing their job, but when one great-grandmother recently had major car trouble, the fellas...

Remembering prisoners in lesser-known WWII tragedy

A MEMORIAL service for prisoners of war who died on death marches in the Borneo jungle during the Second World War was held in...

Successful women shine light on failure

WOMEN’S Health Loddon Mallee held a community breakfast to celebrate International Women’s Day on Wednesday. A consistent theme across speakers and those in attendance was...

Art installation to make regional debut

A GIANT seven-hundred-square-metre audio-visual sensory mirror-maze described as a “euphoric human-sized kaleidoscope” is coming to Bendigo’s Rosalind Park this April.

Bendigo will be the first...

Djaara up for enviro award

DJA Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, also known as Djaara, are finalists in the 2023 Banksia Sustainability Awards. The organisation has been nominated in the...