FRIDAY
7.30pm-9pm: Bev Gillick stand-up comedy at Swan Hill Town Hall. Marcus Ryan support act. Reserved theatre-style seating. Age restriction 16+, mild coaurse language and adult themes. Tickets cost $45 adults, $40 concession/pension/senior, available online at swanhilltownhall.com, in-person at Swan Hill Town Hall booking office (Monday-Friday 10am-4pm) and Swan Hill Region Information Centre (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-2pm).
Evening: Live music at Swan Hill Club featuring Mr Anderson.
SATURDAY
All day: Central Murray league Pride Round. Tooleybuc-Manangatang v Koondrook-Barham, Mallee Eagles v Tyntynder, Swan Hill v Balranald, NNW United v Lake Boga, Cohuna v Kerang. Woorinen has bye.
9am-noon: Anglican Boot Sale and Cottage Craft at Anglican Function Centre. A large variety of stalls including books, household items, craft, fruit, honey, plants and vegetables. Barbecue and Joan’s scones.
10am for 10.30am: Bears Dice Run. Entry is $30 per person. Motorcycle run includes barbecue tea, egg-and-bacon breakfast, tea and coffee. Starting at the Federal Hotel at 10am. Stands up at 10.30am, lunch in Barham ending at Bears’s Riverside Resort, Tooleybuc. Barbecue tea and music, BYO drinks, heaps of camping room. Please notify attendance if camping.
SUNDAY
9am-11am: Food & Fibre Market at Tooleybuc. Showcasing local produce and products. If you have a passion or a project, grow produce or make a product we want to have you involved. Fabulous playground for the children, amazing local produce and products. Everything from organic beetroot flowers and bulbs to honey.
11am: Lake Boga Park & Brag – Ford v Holden. Park up from 11am. Just a gathering of like-minded people who want to show off their toys. It’s the age-old question: Ford or Holden? Bring down you rides and let the public decide. Prize for crowd favourite. All rides welcome.
TUESDAY
9.30am for 10am: Social bowls at Nyah. Entry is $10 per person. Includes light lunch and good fun for about three hours.
WEDNESDAY
8pm: Old Time Dancing at Murray Downs Golf & Country Club after the draw.
Evening: Swan Hill trots. Call 0417 344 802 for dine-in or takeaway.
ALL WEEKEND
2024 Victorian Veterans Badminton Tournament. About 32 teams playing at Swan Hill Basketball Stadium. Spectators most welcome.
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. The 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 during 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.
