APRIL 21
10am-11am, 11am-noon: Swan Hill skateboard skills day at Riverside Park. Riders from Melbourne will host free skill sessions. Equipment provided. All ages and abilities welcome. Register at skatepark.ymca.org.au/all-aboard.
2pm-3pm: Swan Hill library school holiday pot-a-plant activity. Join Bella, from Bunnings Swan Hill, for a simple, fun and creative children’s activity. Decorate a pot with paint, fill it with potting mix and then plant it with seeds to grow some beautiful flowers. Bookings essential. Children under 12 must be supervised by an adult.
5.45pm for 6.15pm: Tooleybuc’s inaugural family fun mini golf tournament series at Tooleybuc Sporting Club. Team/family event (four per team). Handicaps apply. Putters and balls are available from reception. $3 per adult, $2 per child for regular mini golf. Free with any meal purchased from the bistro. $15 entry per person includes prizes, snacks and ice cream.
8pm: Live music at Swan Hill Club featuring John-Luke Shelley Duo.
9pm: Live music at Commercial Hotel, Swan Hill, featuring Scoogs.
Evening: Live music at One28 Doors featuring Sam Jones.
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APRIL 22
8am: Lake Boga Foreshore parkrun is a free, fun and friendly weekly 5km community event. Walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate. Register before your first run. It is entirely organised by volunteers. Email lakebogaforeshore@parkrun.com.
9am-noon: Kerang Community Market with fresh produce, plants, crafts, bric-a-brac, jams, sauces and preserves.
9am: Homebush Rodeo Western Rivers Rodeo Series. Feature event is the Bronco Ride, $4000 prize. Entry is $30 per adult, family is $70. Live entertainment, bar, no BYO, food vans, outback traders, kids activities, camping available. Cash only.
8.30pm: Live music at Swan Hill Club featuring The Mason Boys.
9pm: Live music at Federal Hotel featuring That Guy.
5pm: Swan Hill Motor Racing Club Sonic Speedway featuring Standard Saloons Series round 3, Mick and Jo Glare Memorial, AMCAs, VSC Formula 500, VSC Juniors, VSC Sport Sedans and VSC Open Ladies.
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APRIL 25
6am and 11am: Anzac Day in Swan Hill begins with 6am dawn service at the cenotaph before 6.30am breakfast at the RSL for $5 donation. 10am meet at Beaurepairs (7 McCrae Street) for 10.30am march to the cenotaph before 11am service. Lunch available at Swan Hill RSL at noon.
5.30am for 6am: Anzac Day at Nyah. Assemble 5.50am at cenotaph memorial gates at Nyah Recreation Reserve. Commemorative dawn service starts 6am. At completion of service, a community breakfast will be held at the pavilion. Gold coin donation.
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APRIL 26
11am: Murray Downs Golf & Country Club bowls charity day barbecue from 11am to 1pm. Bowling to commence at 1pm. Cost $20 per player.
1pm-3pm: Swan Hill Crafty Critters. All ages, all art styles, all welcome. Drawing, painting, card making, knitting, crochet, scrapbooking, digital art, diamond art, creative writing and so much more. Contact sh.craftycritters@hotmail.com.
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APRIL 27
10am: Swan Hill Inner Wheel movie morning for Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea at ShowBiz Cinemas Swan Hill. Tickets cost $20 with a light morning tea provided. For tickets, contact 0419 541 903 or 0417 372 306.
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APRIL 27
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 barefoot. No experience necessary.
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ALL WEEK
April 21-30: Yana Waingi Walk in Lights. Journey through a spectacle of light and sound at Riverside Park, Swan Hill, where you can explore and immerse yourself in unforgettable and vibrant night time activations, light sculptures, dazzling laser effects, interactive projection and magical holograms. These multiple artistic projections, lush soundscapes and digital art experiences are sure to excite the senses. Adults age 17 and over ($11), children aged 4 to 16 ($7.50), family of two adults and two children ($27.50). Limited tickets available online at www.riverlights.com.au.
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ALL MONTH
Until April 23: Tuesday-Friday (10am-5pm), Saturday and Sunday (10am-4pm), at Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, are two exhibitions. Five years in the making and an odyssey in its creation, Tales from the Greek is Marco Luccio’s artistic response to author John Hughes’ eight narrative adaptations of Greek myths and tragedies. It features large canvasses, found objects, drypoints, etchings, charcoal drawings, collagraphs, ink, mixed media, pencil and monotypes. In Our Mallee, Our Home, local artist Paula Starrs observes the Mallee with a refreshing openness and an immediacy akin to an Impressionistic style. Using broad gestural brush strokes, her painting is testament to her understanding and knowledge of the country she lives and works in, capturing hidden gems, quiet local shops, back roads, railway stations and more.
