What's On at The Roxy?

In 2009, the Gwydir Shire Council and the Bingara Historical Society were successful in their joint application for Federal funding to reinstate the Greek café within the Roxy building. 

A grant of $750,000 was announced for the restoration of the Roxy original Greek art deco café, construction of a conference centre on the first floor and restoration of the art deco shopfront.

The Roxy Café Restoration Project is well underway with the new deadline for completion pushed out to September 31, 2010. Until this time there will be very few events held at The Roxy.

News articles following this exciting project, from the day of its announcement, are listed below. (Click on "2009" to read the earlier articles)

News for 2010

Roxy complex in running for Tidy Towns Cultural Heritage Award (4-Sep-10) [Read more...]
Keep Australia Beautiful tidy Towns assessor, Glenys Anderson OAM cast a critical eye over the Roxy Theatre complex recently as part of her tidy Towns Award assessment.  The Roxy is nominated in the Heritage Branch Cultural Heritage Award.

Special guests for North West Film Festival (4-Sep-10) [Read more...]
The North West Film Festival is a festival for young people from rural communities interested and actively engaged in creative digital and analogue screen media.

Roxy Development update (28-Aug-10) [Read more...]
Building work at the Roxy has been extended out to September 31, 2010.

N.W.T.C. President praises Company and School collaboration (7-Jun-10) [Read more...]
North West Theatre Company President John Wearne welcomes all members of the community to attend and be involved in the joint Bingara Central School – North West Theatre Company production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, being performed at the Roxy Theatre from Wednesday June 16 to Sunday June 20.

John Wood returns to share his love of the Roxy (7-Jun-10) [Read more...]
One of Australia’s best loved actors, John Wood, was the VIP in Bingara for a special screening recently at the town’s Roxy Theatre.

The School Musical that unites a town (7-Jun-10) [Read more...]
Many schools in the New England/ North West have an annual musical production, but few if any, can say that they engage the whole town, and have all of the school involved.

Roxy restoration in full swing (30-Apr-10) [Read more...]
Building work on the Roxy Café Restoration Project has commenced and is well and truly underway.

Roxy Museum to celebrate Greek immigration (6-Apr-10) [Read more...]
A number of Greek visitors travelled to Bingara in February to witness first hand the exciting developments of The Roxy Café.

Treasures from the Roxy Café’s past return to complete restoration project (8-Mar-10) [Read more...]
In 1936 upon entering the Roxy Café, the regular patron would have been met with quite a sight. Strolling across the stunning terrazzo floor before selecting a booth, patrons would find themselves surrounded by beautiful maple panelling with mirror in-lays which lined the walls.  Above the panelling,  customers could gaze upon a series of tapestries depicting lavish scenes from the Italian Renaissance. 

Roxy Café on track for exciting future (20-Feb-10) [Read more...]
The Roxy Café Restoration Project is underway, and is on course to meet the June 30 deadline for completion.