Editing Albury (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Regent Cinemas, Albury NSW.jpg|thumb|right|Regent Cinemas on Dean Street have operated since 1929]]
HotHouse Theatre is Albury's only professional theatre company, previously known as the  Murray River Performance Group which formed in 1979. It spawned [[The Flying Fruit Fly Circus]] in 1979, and these days conducts many productions through the [[HotHouse Theatre]] located on Gateway Island between Albury and Wodonga, though still in Victoria rather than New South Wales.

Albury is home to a large number of amateur theatre companies presenting productions ranging from plays in intimate settings to major musicals in the Albury Entertainment Centre and Shakespeare and other events in the Albury Botanic Gardens.  The oldest theatre company in Albury is the Albury Wodonga Theatre Company  and its associated youth theatre company BYTESized Productions often presenting shows in its small theatre in Olive St, South Albury .  Other companies and organisations producing theatre in Albury Wodonga are Livid Productions, The Other Theatre Company, Revolution Theatre, and Centre Stage Event Company.
[[File:Murray Conservatorium with pedestrians, Albury NSW.jpg|thumb|The Murray Conservatorium of Music]]
Jazz Albury Wodonga also regularly hosts national and international artists at the Jazz Basement which is located on Gateway Island.

Touring productions and major music acts often perform at the Albury Entertainment Centre.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Albury Entertainment Centre |url=http://alburyentertainmentcentre.com.au/ |access-date=17 February 2016 |website=alburyentertainmentcentre.com.au}}</ref> Regent Cinemas on Dean Street have operated since 1929.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Since 2007, the city has hosted the annual [[Albury City Short Story Award]], curated by the Write Around the Murray Writers' Festival.<ref> [https://www.writearoundthemurray.org.au/2024-program Program for the 2024 WAM Festival], retrieved 26 September, 2024. </ref>

In 2015 [[Murray Art Museum Albury]] (MAMA) was opened, formerly known as Albury Regional Arts Centre. The art museum has 10 galleries with double the space of the former art centre. Canvas Eatery is also attached to MAMA, facing onto Queen Elizabeth II Square.<ref name="Who's Your MAMA">{{cite news |last1=Jess |first1=Allison |date=29 April 2015 |title=Who's your MAMA? ALbury's new art museum that's who |publisher=ABC Goulburn Murray |agency=Australian Broadcasting Company |url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2015/04/29/4226043.htm |access-date=8 September 2015}}</ref>

In 2003, a sister city relationship with [[Nanping]] in north western [[Fujian]] [[province of China|province]], China, was formalised.<ref>{{cite web |year=2005 |title=Sister City – Nanping |url=http://www.alburycity.nsw.gov.au/city/history/nanping.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819043802/http://www.alburycity.nsw.gov.au/city/history/nanping.htm |archive-date=19 August 2006 |access-date=20 April 2006 |work=History and Heritage |publisher=Albury City}}</ref>