FRIDAY
Evening: Live music at Swan Hill Club featuring Y U Ask.
7pm: Live music at Swan Hill RSL Club featuring Cathy Waybury.
9pm: Live music at Commercial Hotel Swan Hill featuring Triple Fried.
SATURDAY
8am: Lake Boga Foreshore parkrun is a free, fun and friendly weekly 5km course. Walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate. It’s free but register before your first run. Fore more, visit www.parkrun.com.au/lakebogaforeshore
8.30am-12.30pm: Murrabit Country Market with 80 stalls selling fresh fruit and vegetables, hand crafts, plants, tools, clothes, shoes and hardware. Dog are not allowed (guide dogs accepted).
5pm: Swan Hill Motor Racing Club Sonic Speedway. Wingless Sprints SDAV Hot Rods, Jordy Davis VSC Junior Memorial, JSPA Juniors Series Round, VSC Formula 500, Standard Saloons, VSC 1200 Juniors.
9pm: Live music at Federal Hotel Murray Downs featuring Elise Drake.
SUNDAY
All day: Swan Hill Motorcycle Club motocross round one.
8am: Speewa Heritage Collectors Club swap meet. Automotive collectables and more. Gates open at 8am. Catering on site. $5 entry, free fir children under 12.
8.30am-12.30pm: Swan Hill Farmers Market at Riverside Park with loads of fresh produce, local entertainment, food and refreshments.
3pm: Bingo at Swan Hill RSL Club.
7pm: Joe Avati’s When I Was Your Age tour. In Joe Avati’s hilarious new show, he tackles the then versus now generational differences of today’s children.
He explores the complexities of modern day parenting compared to the strict upbringing of yesteryear. Threaded throughout all of this, he tackles the minefield of cancel culture, the woke brigade and why people are over political correctness. This performance is at the Robinvale
Community Arts Centre. All tickets cost $59.90. Available online at TryBooking.
MAY 8
7pm: Fun dart night at Swan Hill RSL Club. Swan Hill Dart Association invites past, present and potential dart players to fun dart night.
MAY 9
7pm-9pm: David Strassman in The Chocolate Diet at Swan Hill Town Hall. Theatre style seating. Tier A ($69), Tier B ($59). Available online at swanhilltownhall.com or in-person at Swan Hill Town Hall booking office (Monday-Friday, 9am to 2.30pm) or Swan Hill Region Information Centre (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm; Saturday and Sunday, 10am-4pm). This performance is rated MA, ages 12 and plus only. Children aged 12-15 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
MAY 10
8pm: Swan Hill Old Time Dancing at Murray Downs Golf and Country Club after the draw.
MAY 11
6pm-8pm: Barefoot bowls at Tooleybuc Sporting Club. Names in by 5.45pm on the night or message Danielle on 0403 548 149. Open to all ages and abilities. Finger food provided. Wear flat shoes, thongs or bare foot. No experience necessary.
Evening: Live music at Swan Hill Club featuring Brett Littlefair.
ALL WEEKEND
May 5-8: Swan Hill Vintage Car Club’s rally and 50th anniversary. The event will showcase the diversity and history of the region with Moulamein museum and woolshed, Sea Lake silo art, Nullawil historical village and Nyah tractor museum included in the route.
ALL MONTH
April 28–June 12: Tuesday–Friday (10am-5pm), Saturday and Sunday (10am-4pm). The 9 X 5 Art Exhibition is Fight Cancer Foundation Swan Hill branch’s art fundraiser. Through the auction of this new collection of original artworks, the foundation will continue to raise funds, ensuring that the important projects of the Fight Cancer Foundation continue. For more information email: fightcancerswanhill@outlook.com.
Also on show is These Stories Will Be Different, by Zanny Begg. It brings together a fascinating series of works that reimagine a medieval feminist utopia, probe the unsolved murder of a high-profile anti-gentrification campaigner and explore the connections between love, loss and language in migrant communities in Australia. The videos tell stories, but they also challenge the conventions of storytelling. Begg’s work invites you to see the world differently by drawing on ancient literary traditions, non-linear timeframes and computer-generated randomisation.
