FRIDAY
9.30am: Drama and music festival at Swan Hill Uniting Church. Entry is $20 and includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.
7.30pm: Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical Society guest speaker Rodney Pierce.
8pm: Live music at Swan Hill Club featuring Free Ride.
SATURDAY
7.30pm: Brad Cox Yarns & Yodels at Swan Hill Town Hall. Theatre-style seating. All tickets $65.50 available online swanhilltownhall.com or in person at Swan Hill Town Hall booking office (Monday-Friday 10am-4pm) or Swan Hill Region Information Centre (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-2pm).
8.30pm-12.30am: Robinvale Country Market features various market stalls, fresh produce, plants and entertainment.
9am-noon: Nyah Lions Club Market features various market stalls, Lions’ famous hot donuts, wood raffle, plants, produce, honey and bric-a-brac.
11am-noon: Kids’ Mother’s Day workshop. Create and decorate a coaster as a gift that can be used every day or as a piece of art for the house. Free event. Bookings essential.
5pm: Sonic Speedway VSC Formula 500. Pioneers Cup VSC Juniors Jordy Davis Memorial, Wingless Sonic Showdown SDAV Hotrods, VSC 1200 Juniors, Local Support Classes. Entry: adults $25, concession $20, children 10-16 years $10, under 10 free, family of two adults and two children $60. Cash only, tickets available at the gate. More information at www.swanhillspeedway.com.au
SUNDAY
Noon-2pm: Mother’s Day lunch at Swan Hill RSL Club. Treat mum to lunch. Lunch specials available and a lucky door prize raffle. Free drink for every mum.
Noon-2.30pm: Mother’s Day buffet at Murray Downs. Spoil mum with an all-you-can-eat buffet lunch. Cost is $55 per person (13 years and over), 5-12 years $15, under five $5. All ticketholders receive a complimentary glass of bubbly (or swap it for a soft drink or tap beer) when they receive their plates. Giveaways will be drawn at 2.30pm. For more details or to make a booking contact Murray Downs Golf & Country Club.
12.30pm: Mother’s Day lunch and music at Kyalite Pub. Visit pub on Mother’s Day for lunch and some good music featuring Gary’s Travelling Tunes.
WEDNESDAY
8pm: Old-time dancing at Murray Downs Golf & Country Club after the draw.
ALL WEEKEND
FRIDAY and Saturday (10am-4pm): Mother’s Day art exhibition and Devonshire tea. Mallee Artists of Swan Hill raise funds for cancer research at the Grain Shed. Entry is free. Mallee Artists’ Swan Hill group will showcase a variety of their artworks. Entry is $10 per person for Devonshire tea. For more information, email malleeartists.swanhill@gmail.com
ALL MONTH
Until May 13: 58th Annual Autumn Bowls Carnival. Half-day events, men’s and ladies’, covering all bowls games. Single entries accepted. For more details email wdlking@bigpond.com
Until May 14: a exhibition at Swan Hill Regional Library. The Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical Society in conjunction with the Indonesian Diaspora Network Victoria present black armada exhibition When Merdeka Came to Australia: the History of Us (1942-49). This exhibition tells the story about the struggle for Indonesian independence and the involvement of Australia.
Until June 30 (Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-4pm): Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery presents Gods and Heroes by artist Deborah Kelly. Collage, or photomontage, is a humble, low-tech, lo-fi artform just over a century old. In Gods and Heroes Kelly explores its social life and technological potential to scale, from epic to intimate. Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery presents her best-known animation, The Gods of Tiny Thing, with its dynamite soundtrack and teeming cast of dancing deities. Made from imagery and sounds collaboratively produced in ‘collage camp’ at Bundanon Trust, this alluring, award-winning film has been shown in galleries and cinemas around the world. Accompanying the film are grand collaborative portraits of artists Latai Taumoepeau and Justin Talplacido: Shoulder, the silk velvet ‘Floral Clock’ memorial, a range of analogue collage artworks and a pair of huge linen prints, CRONE CULT, which will evolve across the course of the exhibition. Showing works never before presented together, this exhibition articulates a thread of enquiry across the artists’ abiding conceptual and material concerns.
