Live in the Hive - Endrey & Nick Craft

Welcome to the first Live in the Hive Backyard Session this Friday 13th

It's been a confusing year for performing artists, Endrey is no exception, having released a self-titled album during lockdown. This will be the first full show since that time and the sublime lineup of soulful singers and instrumentalists are delighted to put on a great night for all. Nick Craft is a singer songwriter from Canberra. He released his debut solo album, Minerva, in late 2018, after years of playing in bands including Sidewinder in the 90s, the Zillions in the 00s, and as a touring guitarist for other acts. He is currently working on a set of experimental songs in his I am singing in a room project, and a follow-up to Minerva.

Tickets $20 full, $15 conc. online or on the door.
Create Collaborate Collective Inc will be serving food and drinks. This is an outdoor event. In the case of bad weather, refunds will be provided less booking fee. The Queanbeyan Hive is a CovidSafe business and check in's with the Service NSW app will be required at the door.

Kitchen NV Available @ The Hive Gallery 8.30am-2pm

NV is delighted to collaborate with The Queanbeyan Hive to bring you the excellent Cat’s Pyjamas coffee from the roasters of Black Mountain Coffee and their delicious cakes and pastries from Tuesday to Friday.

Julia Zanetti has recently opened her shop in Queanbeyan West specialising in Genovese style focaccia and French pastries with traditional home style cakes. Her style combines the best of modern French training with our passion for local produce presented in a simple rustic style. She makes everything from the jams and crystallised fruits on our cakes to our breads, brioche and croissants.

They are delicious - come and see for yourself and support our local businesses.

Connee-Colleen Exhibition

This is your last chance to get a look into Connee's fascinating life.

This unique art-meets-history exhibition celebrates the remarkable life and works of living local legend Connee-Colleen Cameron and includes her sculptures, sketches, and other artefacts celebrating her creative Queanbeyan community spirit.

Extended till Sun 15 Nov

Opening Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 10am-4pm 

'Sweetheart'

Patrick Morison is a Queanbeyan artist that won The Hive Exhibition Award in the 2019 QPRC Regional Arts Awards.

With a bold use of colour and line, this show will bring both portraits and scenes inspired by Lake Burley Griffin and seeing birds within the landscape.

“My paintings of the female are inspired by a fondness for beauty in the human face and figure” Patrick explains. “They have particular reference to Hugh Ramsay, a great Australian painter of the late 19th and early 20th century, showing a beautifully composed and sensitive love of his subject.”

Opening Wednesday 25 November 6pm

Runs: 25 Nov - 19 Dec  Wednesday to Saturday 10am - 4pm

Image: Sweetheart Verde by Patrick Morison 2019, Acrylic on canvas 61cm x 45.5cm

Performance and Poetry with a difference

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald

"Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse – and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness – And Wilderness is Paradise enow." 

Omar Khayyam, 11th century Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet, composed some hundreds of rubaiyat (quatrains) and, in 1859, Edward Fitzgerald made a major contribution to English literature when he rendered 75 of the verses into English. Though bibulous, sensuous and irreligious, the rubaiyat became a favourite for recitation in Victorian and Edwardian parlour soirees and, later, were to be found in the kitbags of many soldiers in the two World Wars.

In a new approach to the text, Phillip Mackenzie is joined by Fleur Millar and dancer Kirsty Duncan in a witty and wistful conversation between the ageing poet and his youthful, if slightly more worldly, houri.

BYO snacks and drinks; doors open at 5pm for a 5.30 free performance.

Donations will be welcome. Enquiries Phil 0407 905 970 or Helen 0403 994 446