FRIDAY
9.30am: CWA Music & Drama Festival at the Uniting Church hall. A $20 entry fee includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.
2pm: Live music at the Swan Hill Club, featuring Tony Haley.
6pm: Live music at One28 Doors, featuring Bruce Myers.
6.30pm for 7pm: Fossey’s Distillery and One28 Doors Whisky Night. $170 per ticket includes 5 Course Degustation Dinner menu by One28 Doors, Whisky Match from around the world for each dish. Hosted event. For more details, contact Danielle at One28 Doors.
7pm-10pm: Music with Messages at Tooleybuc Sporting Club, featuring singer-songwriter Shaza Leigh, spiritual medium Donna Young and Peg Gilchrist.
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 please register before your first run. More details at www.parkrun.com.au/lakebogaforeshore
9am-noon: Anglican boot sale and cottage craft, held the third Saturday of the month at the Anglican Function Centre. A large variety of stalls including books, household items, craft, fruit, honey, plants and vegetables. Barbecue and Joan’s scones.
Day: Mallee Cruisers Car Club will be supporting a visit from the Brock Commodore Owners Association of Australia. About 30 cars that the legendary Peter Brock either built or had a hand in designing will make their way from all over Australia to Swan Hill. They will gather at Riverside Park, along with cars from the Mallee club for everyone to admire.
Evening: Swan Hill RSL Club evening entertainment, featuring Still Cruisin Trio Hippie Night.
8pm: The Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly. Step back in time to the golden era of rock ‘n’ roll with the Everly Brothers Tribute Show – special guests starring Steven Burns and Rick Gauci, at the Tooleybuc Sporting Club.
SUNDAY
10am-2pm: Super Sunday shopping spree in Swan Hill. Twenty-one local Swan Hill businesses are joining forces. You will have a chance to win $1000-plus worth of gift vouchers from participating stores. You will also have a chance to win a $50 voucher from any of the stores you shop at on the day. Participating Stores: Home Life Children’s Boutique, Innocence & Attitude, The Beauty Spot, Swan Hill Disposals & Outdoors, From Little Things, Sister Kode, 218 Degrees, H Homewares, Frankie & Co, Swan Hill Fresh, Ultimate Fashion, Home Coach, The Dandy Lion Studio, Mint Soda, Jennings Northern Shoe Store, Cameron’s Fine Jewellers, Laneway Music, Auriel Moon, Collins Book Store and Modern Natural.
12.30pm-4.30pm: Swan Hill & District Health Ladies Auxiliary Open Garden Day. $5 per garden (cash only). Locations are: 1; Nikki and Pat Williams, 101 River Road, Swan Hill. 2; Rob and Marie Masters, 5395 Murray Valley Highway, Swan Hill. 3; Diane and Mac Angus, 340 Beveridge Street, Swan Hill. 4; Craig and Carrie-Ann Robins, 1 Kidman Reid Drive, Murray Downs. Afternoon tea $10. Plant & produce stall at Masters. Brochures available at each garden.
3pm: Sunday bingo every Sunday at the Swan Hill RSL Club.
MONDAY
9.30pm-noon: Group craft time. All welcome. Join Murray Valley CWA on the fourth Monday of the month (except December), costs vary depending on what the selected craft is. Usually about $5 for craft and $2 per person for the use of the Neighbourhood House room where we meet. Check Facebook for current updates.
TUESDAY
9.30am-11.30am: Children’s Week free community play event for children aged 0-6 at the Swan Hill Tennis Club. Yoga, fruit cup, stories and more fun activities.
7.15pm: Bingo every Tuesday evening at the Tooleybuc Sporting Club.
THURSDAY
7.30pm: Lake Boga Bowling Club social barefoot bowls. Come and join in the fun of social lawn bowls. Teams of four players or single entries. Come and try night for all players.
ALL MONTH
October 7-November 3 (Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday and Sunday, 10am-4pm): Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery presents Conflated. When we inhale and exhale, our bodies transform through the process of inflation and deflation. Drawing on the inflatable form as both material and metaphor, Conflated brings disparate artists together to explore bodies, environments and cultures through contemporary art. Here, the cycle of breathing serves as a framework through which a wide array of experiences, behaviours and expressions are examined. Conflated presents a range of inflatable materials, from balloons to digital audio and video informed by inflatable processes. Positioning the inflatable as the medium of our times, the exhibition prompts us to explore the inherent plasticity and transformative potential of that which can be blown up. The works included conflate synthetic forms with human vulnerabilities, the abject, uncanny, eco-anxiety, colonised land, and breath.
