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Cultural Facilities

{accordion}Music facilities::

  • Ferny Grove Senior High School Ralph Took Auditorium and Music Department.
  • St Andrew’s Catholic School has a strong music program, and also puts on Christmas carols performance on its school oval
  • Ferny Grove State School has a music program, and uses the school hall for performances
  • Ferny Grove Tavern – venue for live bands
  • Finnigan’s Chin Irish Pub, Keperra – venue for live bands
  • Grovely Performing Arts Centre, Grovely State School, Dawson Pde, Keperra
  • Arana Leagues Club -stage and dance floor for live performers
  • Churches
  • Patricks Rd State School hall
  • St William’s School outdoor stage/sound bowl facing school oval.
  • Want to busk? The Ferny Grove Markets on Sunday mornings are the place to go.

||||Dance facilities::

  • Upper Kedron (Cedar Creek) Community Hall has an excellent dance floor with a practice rail and there is dance instruction there most days
  • Dawson Pde State School Hall is also used for dance instruction.
  • Arana Leagues Club has a good dance floor, live music daily, and dancing and line dancing are popular.
  • Ferny Grove Bowls, Sports and Social Club has a dance floor
  • The Hills District Community Centre, Dawson Parade, Arana Hills, is used for dance classes. It has a large dance floor, with fans, tables, chairs, kitchen, stage, water fountain, notice board, phone
  • Hills PCYC, Olearia St, Everton Hills has a hall which can be used for dancing.

||||Libraries::

See separate entry under Facilities

||||Bridge Clubs::

  • Arana Bridge Club has extensive club rooms above the Brisbane Tramway Museum, with air-conditioned facilities, a kitchen, dozens of tables for bridge, and a bridge library. This facility hosts competitions attended by visitors from many other bridge clubs. The facilities make it easy to cater well for these events.

||||Museums::

||||Events Celebrations Parties Fetes::

  • The halls, tuck shops, and ovals at the local schools are used for fetes, Christmas carols

||||TheatreĀ  & Drama::

  • Drama at Ferny Grove Senior High School is held with performances in the Ralph Took Auditorium and other venues around the school.
  • St Williams Catholic Church holds drama performances in its halls.
  • Grovely Performing Arts Centre, Grovely State School, Dawson Pde, Grovely
  • The Hills Community Centre has a stage with 2 change rooms, and stage lighting
  • The Upper Kedron (Cedar Creek) Community Hall has a stage.

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