Top 10 Things to do in Bega, New South Wales

WOMEN’S AND KIDS WOODWORK.TWO SHEDS WORKSHOP is a supportive, fun environment for women and kids to learn woodwork and carpentry.Gain confidence and knowledge through our weekly classes and weekend workshops, learning skills to carry out your own projects.Our teachers are tradeswomen Jo Saccomani, qualified carpenter/joiner and Tess Walker,qualified cabinet maker.

Spiral Gallery Co-operative Limited is a not for profit artists-run cooperative established in 1997. The Gallery caters to a broad range of artists including painters, sculptors, glass artists, gold and silversmiths, textile artist, printers, photographers, mixed media and installation artists living within the Bega Valley and beyond.

*Please note, BVRG will be closed 25 December 2019 - 1 January 2020 inclusive* Bega Valley Regional Gallery (BVRG) is located in the South East corner of New South Wales, half way between Australia’s two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne and three hours’ drive from the nation’s capital, Canberra. Idyllically situated within the Bega Valley Shire on the land of the original custodians, the people of the Yuin Nation, a landscape of pristine wilderness, rich pastures, unspoilt coastline and boutique villages, the BVRG is the regions only publicly funded gallery and an outpost for contemporary visual culture. Holding up to eight important exhibitions annually, the gallery also boasts one of the country’s richest and most loved portrait awards, a $50,000 non-acquisitive prize for realistic portraiture which in 2016 reaches its tenth anniversary.

The Bega Valley Commemorative Civic Centre is a regional function and events space that provides a holistic event management service with design, coordination, catering and audio visual technology. The venue is managed to attract and provide a variety of events and is used for conferences, seminars, workshops, meetings, private social functions, formals, performing arts and touring productions.

Dating back to 1879 The OBH is part of the Heritage of the Far South Coast of NSW. It ceased being a Hospital in 1957, becoming an Agricultural College, an experimental farm @ 1980’s it was in a state of disrepair. In 1988 through the efforts of the community and a Bicentenary grant it was revived, becoming a Regional Cultural Centre. In 2004 the main building ruined by fire. Explore the grounds.