REFLECTIONS fringe event

Clockwise from left: Cobar Sound Chapel, Fort Bourke Hill Lookout and Cobar Miners Memorial. Photos: Courtesy Cobar Shire Council

Our first Thursday fringe event will be a guided bus tour around the main attractions of Cobar, concluding with a longer visit to the Sound Chapel.

COBAR ATTRACTIONS
The tour will offer an introduction to Cobar’s mining landscape, industrial heritage and civic identity, taking in Fort Bourke Hill Lookout, the Cobar Miners Memorial, Cobar Mining Heritage Park, the Cobar Sign and views to the Great Cobar Open Cut. Together, these sites reveal how mining has shaped the form, economy and visual character of Cobar, from its memorials and public landmarks to the open cut, mine infrastructure and altered landforms that frame the town.

COBAR SOUND CHAPEL
To conclude the tour, we will spend some time exploring and experiencing the Cobar Sound Chapel, a permanent sound installation artwork. It was completed in early 2022 and is a creation by composer / sound artist Georges Lentz in collaboration with architect Glenn Murcutt. The Cobar Sound Chapel is an intimate sound space, a marriage of music, architecture, art, poetry, light and nature.

Set within a former water tank on the edge of town, the project transforms an industrial structure into an immersive sound and architectural experience, where acoustics, light, materiality and landscape are all central to the work. 

EVENT INFO

REFLECTIONS: A Regional Architecture Association Journey

DATES 17-19 September 2026

LOCATION Cobar NSW on Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan Country. The Friday main seminar day will be at Cobar Youth & Community Centre, 1 Harcourt St, Cobar NSW.

CPD 6 formal points available on the Friday