Festival goers can sign up for hands-on workshops, and learn to craft their own silver jewellery, learn how to hand-weave or crochet beanies, and explore photography or modern art.  

There are also opportunities to play with floral art and extend your creative voice.

Children and the young at heart might prefer to play with lego and ‘’no time’’ clock making.

Marg Hansen will be running the “threads together” workshop. Marg is a crochet artist and beanie enthusiast based in Narooma.

She regularly journeys to the Alice Springs Beanie Festival and in 2005 she, together with Narooma Djaadjawan Dancers, won the Reconciliation Prize with a beanie made from local natural material and feathers.

“All the beanies on exhibition in the River of Art will travel to Alice Springs for the beanie festival,” she said.

“The festival has been going for 25 years. It started in a garage, and now over 7000 beanies from all around the world are sent in.”

Anyone is welcome at her workshops, but beware – you might get hooked.

“It’s a bit of an addiction,” Marg said.

“Once you learn, it can be therapeutic – it’s very rhythmic.

“Some of the ladies at the festival make three beanies a day, all year round.”

Children’s Lego Art Workshop

with Rima Edwards

17 May – 3.30pm-5.30pm

Cultivate Space, 10 Kylie Crescent, Batemans Bay

$5 per child, pay at the door

Ted Richards photography workshop

19 May – 10am-12pm

Old Courthouse Museum, 3 Museum Pl, Batemans Bay

Cost: donation

Alexafranka’s “no-time” clock

making workshop for kids & adults

19 May – 9am-2pm Workshop

Mind, Body and Home,

Shop 2/15 Sydney Street, Mogo

Tickets: $25: www.riverofart.com.au/ticketing

“Rings and Things” at Dowry

Silversmithing Workshop by SilverPaperString

19 May – 10.30am-1.30pm

Dowry, 18 Ford Street, Moruya

Cost $110 includes all materials and morning tea

Bookings: 02 4474 2816

“Understanding Modern Art”

Discussion led by Alda Rudzis

19 May – 2pm-3pm

36 Glenduart Grove, Moruya

Tickets: $16: www.riverofart.com.au

Barry Flanagan, Floral Art Workshop

Fresh and artificial 17 May – 2pm-4pm

Uniting Church Hall,134 Wagonga Street, Narooma

Tickets: $20: Bookings www.riverofart.com.au

“Threads Together” beanie workshops & exhibition

South Coast Beanies Represented

Hand-woven beanie workshops

18 May – 10am-1pm and 19 May – 10am-1pm

Crochet beanie workshops:

18 May – 12pm-3pm and 19 May – 12pm-3pm

$30 per workshop, all materials provided

Bookings: www.riverofart.com.au/ticketing

School of Arts’ Studios, 92 Campbell Street, Narooma

Exhibition and workshops

Hilde Knottenbelt

Creative Voice Workshop

26 and 27 May – 9.30am-4pm

Bodalla Community Hall, Bodalla

Tickets: $90 www.riverofart.com.au/ticketing