Northcliffe Bee Festival 2026

Photo courtesy of Melissa Zapelli at Wild Wings Images

Northcliffe CRC is running a photo competition and exhibition for Hived - Northcliffe Bee Festival 2026. This is the town's inaugaural bee festival and will be held on 24th October 2026, with a few events in the preceding and following days. You can enter your images any time between now and 6 September 2026. Entry is easy, you do not need to print your images, just email them through, and entry is free for up to 5 images. Download guidelines and entry form. Participants in the competititon who have their work chosen for the exhibition will be able to take home their printed mounted work after the exhibition closes (collection in Northcliffe only). We also have prizes to the value of $400 on offer.

The exhibition will be held in the Painted Tree Gallery and will coincide with the weekend of the festival on 24-25th October 2026. We're not sure when we'll have our opening / prize ceremony so stay tuned.

Entries to the bee festival photo competition opened on 1st July 2026 and will close on 6 September 2026. Northcliffe CRC are also running a bee film festival over the October festival week. The Bee film festival program is the yellow highlighted items in this cinema program.

In the mean time you can follow updates about the festival on the Bee Festival Website or on Facebook.

What's On Highlights

  • July26

    Three Colours Trilogy screening: Blue

    This is a free screening at Northcliffe's bean bag cinema, with free vego soup and sourdough served, starting at 4:30pm with film rolling at 5pm. No bookings are required. Rated M.

  • Aug2

    Three Colours Trilogy screening: White

    This is a free screening at Northcliffe's bean bag cinema, with free vego soup and sourdough served, starting at 4:30pm with film rolling at 5pm. No bookings are required. Rated M.

  • Aug9

    Three Colours Trilogy screening: Red

    This is a free screening at Northcliffe's bean bag cinema, with free vego soup and sourdough served, starting at 4:30pm with film rolling at 5pm. No bookings are required. Rated M.

  • Sep6

    Deadline for Bee Photo Comp

    6 September is your last day to submit entries to the Northcliffe Bee Festival 2026 Photo Competition and Exhibition. Details here

  • Oct22

    The Swarm

    Northcliffe's bee film festival is kicking off with the best of the worst. The Swarm from 1978 was the big budget peak of a wave of 1970s disaster cinema which included no less than 6 killer bee movies. This is a legendary fixture in 'so bad it's good' cinema. We have obtained the a remastered copy of the original theatrical release. Presented as a partnership between Northcliffe Community Resource Centre and Southern Forest Arts. This is a free screening at Northcliffe's bean bag cinema starting at 7pm and no bookings are required. Popcorn will be supplied! Rated PG. Check out the details HERE.

  • Oct23

    Honeyland

    The big feature of Northcliffe's bee film festival is Honeyland, a dramatic documentary rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes which swept the 2024 Oscars. Presented by the Northcliffe Library in partnership with Northcliffe Community Resource Centre and Southern Forest Arts. This is a free screening at Northcliffe's bean bag cinema starting at 7pm and no bookings are required. Popcorn will be supplied! Rated M. Check out the details HERE.

  • Oct24

    Bee Festival

    The innaugaural Northcliffe Bee Festival will be held 24-25 October 2026. Check out the details HERE.

  • Oct25

    Bee Movie

    Closing out Northcliffe's bee film festival is Bee Movie. We'll have kids activities prior to this fun animated family film starring Gerry Seinfeld. Presented by Northcliffe Community Resource Centre in partnership with Southern Forest Arts. This is a free screening at Northcliffe's bean bag cinema starting at 11am and no bookings are required. Popcorn will be supplied! Rated G. Check out the details HERE.

  • Oct31

    Paranorman

    A Halloween party featuring a screening of the stop motion animation Paranorma. Presented as a partnership between Northcliffe Community Resource Centre and Southern Forest Arts. This is a free screening at Northcliffe's bean bag cinema starting at 2pm and no bookings are required. Popcorn will be supplied! Rated PG. Check out the details HERE.

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