What’s on this week in Swan Hill

FRIDAY

Noon: High tea with guest speakers Emma Gentle and Sharon Rogers at Tooleybuc Country Club Hotel. SMUG AF alcohol-free cocktail range launch. Cost is $49 per person. Bookings essential.

8pm: Live music at Swan Hill Club featuring Good Times.

Evening: Entertainment at Swan Hill RSL Club featuring Spectrum Discos.

7.30pm-10pm: Wendy Matthews and Grace Knight perform We’re Going to Graceland: Songs of Paul Simon at Swan Hill Town Hall. Theatre-style seating. Tickets cost $69.90 for adults, $64.90 for concession/pension/student and $59.90 for under-18 and for groups of eight and more. Available online at swanhilltownhall.com, in person at town hall booking office (Monday-Friday 10am-4pm) or Swan Hill Region Information Centre (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday-Sunday,10am-2pm).

---

SATURDAY

All day: Central Murray Football Netball League Round 6: Cohuna v Swan Hill, Kerang v Mallee Eagles, Lake Boga v Tooleybuc- Manangatang, Balranald v Woorinen, Tyntynder v Koondrook-Barham. NNW United has the bye.

12.30pm for 1pm: Lake Boga Bowling Club President’s Day. Any combo two-bowl triples. Entry is $10 or $30 per team. All welcome.

7.30pm-10.30pm: The Sunshine Club at Robinvale Community Arts Centre. Set in 1946, the joyful and acclaimed musical The Sunshine Club tells the story of Aboriginal soldier Frank Doyle, who is returning to Brisbane after serving in WWII to find that while the world may have changed, the same attitudes and prejudices still exist at home. But this only fills Frank with a strong desire to change things for the better by setting up The Sunshine Club v a place where all people are welcome to come together, laugh, romance and dance the night away – as Frank sets out to win the heart of Rose, the girl next door. The Sunshine Club is a gloriously energetic, thought-provoking and above all entertaining night of theatre. Tickets through TryBooking. $40 for adults, $25 for senior or concession.

---

SUNDAY

9am-11am: Food & Fibre Market at Tooleybuc. Showcasing local produce and products. Playground for children, amazing local produce and products. Everything from organic beetroot flowers and bulbs to honey.

2pm: Book and Film Chat with Pauline Hull at 234 Murray Valley Highway, Lake Boga (forklift business). Fire will be lit in downstairs area, come along and share whatever you’ve been reading or watching, warm by the fire with a cup of tea or coffee. All welcome.

11am: Park & Brag in the main street of Lake Boga. Just a gathering of like-minded people who want to show off their toys. Anything with a rumble. Cars, bikes, trucks, tractors – anything with an engine is welcome.

---

WEDNESDAY

Evening: Swan Hill trots.

---

THURSDAY

9.30am-11.30am: Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea at Nyah West. Come and join the fun and help raise funds for cancer research at Lucy and John Dacey’s home, 22 O’Connor Street, Nyah West. Cost is $10. Stalls, cakes and door prizes. Doll house will be open for those who wish to browse.

---

ALL MONTH

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, Gods of Tiny Things, 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.