Program

Friday, April 24th, morning:

Foster

10am-
3pm

Basketball Stadium:  Women's circus workshop
Bookings: Rae, ph. 0417 822 866

10am

Stockyard Gallery: "Shift" Exhibition of Prom Coast Arts Council members' works, Foster. 

Friday, April 24th afternoon/evening
 

 Foster

 6 pm

Foster Hall (FWMAC): The Official Opening of the PromCoast Seachange Festival by Member for Gippsland South and Leader of the National Party, Peter Ryan, MLA, followed by ...

 Foster

8 pm

Foster

 7.30 pm

Rhythm Cafe:  Screening of the Tolga Ornek documentary film 'Gallipoli: The Frontline Experience'. Narrated by Jeremy Irons and Sam Neill
Admission price includes supper.  
Bookings: 5682 1612

$10 pp

Fish Creek

8p.m.

$15 pp includes supper

Welshpool

 7.30pm

Welshpool Memorial Hall:  'Freeza' - an alcohol and drug-free event for 12 t0 25-year-olds with 3 live bands

Saturday, April 25th, morning:

Foster

10.45
a.m.

Anzac Day Service

Fish Creek

10.30a.m.

Anzac Day Service

Toora

Dawn service
6a.m.
also11am

Anzac Day Service

Welshpool

10 am

Anzac Day Service

Saturday, April 25th, afternoon:

Foster

2-5
p.m.

Secondary College:  Living Books.  this is a unique opportunity to be part of the inaugural Living Book event in Foster.  You will be able to talk with people from the local community and further afield whose lives, for one reason or another have taken an interesting and challenging turn.  Contact Foster's Little Bookshop,  5682 2089

$5,
Pensioners, a gold coin,
children free

Foster

 1-4 p.m.

Manna Garden: Scarecrow making

Foster

2 pm onwards

Poetry in the Pub  Come and hear your favourite bush poets reading their work at the Exchange Hotel

Foster

2 pm
onwards

RSL sponsored two-up game in the Exchange Hotel.  Click the link for information from the Australian War Memorial about two-up

Fish Creek

1 pm -
6 pm

Fish Creek Fun Festival:  in the park with market stalls, children's games, jumping castle and go-carts.  Musical entertainment featuring "The Gurners" and other local performers.  Come and try belly dancing, have a picnic at the railway station, enjoy children's races.  Come for lunch, dinner or both.
Please phone Wendy for more information: 56832428

Toora and
district

Galleries: 2 RTZ Gallery, Carol Linton Gallery,
The Gap Gallery
2RTZ Gallery Robyn, a paper artist will give a paper demonstration, and Rodney will demonstrate fly tying.
Don't miss it! 

 Toora

2.00pm

Bocce championship in the Heritage Pear Orchard.

Teams from Toora, Mt. Best and Port Welshpool. Visit this beautiful orchard and taste a variety of pear products while listening to a Bush Band

Toora

12noon

A two-up competition will follow the Anzac Day Service at the RSL Hall in Toora.  Never seen two-up?  Now's your chance!  Click the link for more information about two-up from the Australian War Memorial

Saturday, April 25th, evening
 

 Foster

 8pm

$40
Concession &
members, $35

Sunday, April 26th, morning
 

Foster

10 am

Stockyard Gallery.  Official opening of "Shift" and exhibition of Prom Coast Arts Council members' works.
There will also be an official unveiling of the new sculptures which have been placed in the front of the Stockyard Gallery.

The sculptures have been created for the Collaborating with Chaos project which involved a number of Prom Coast Arts Council members as project artists.

Foster

11a.m. to 2p.m.

We will have one of the best storytellers in Foster in the shop on Sunday April 26th.  Jennifer Jones is wonderful with children of all ages and we are very pleased to have her read for us.  So bring your children at any time between 11am and 2pm and listen to Jennifer tell of bunyips and wombats and other great tales.

Sunday, April 26th, afternoon
 

 Foster

From
11.00 am

Fantastic Street Lunch with music and street theatre, regional food and wine, street theatre, music and loads of other activities, including a street parade of some of the cast of "Promontory Dreaming"
Phone Deb 0428 393786

NOW IN FOSTER HALL

WARM, DRY AND UNDAUNTED!

Foster

Seachange Festival   50 Cent Challenge:

Bring your 50 cent pieces to join in the longest 50 cent strip in the
southern hemisphere!

How many 50 cent pieces can be placed end to end down the main street of Foster?  
Can the snake reach the hospital?
Find out more - click below, and start saving your fifty cent pieces!

All proceeds to the South Gippsland Hospital

 Foster

3.30 p.m.

 $5.00

Pearl Park:  Bocce Playoff. Teams from Toora, Welshpool and Mount Best will compete, so saunter over before, after or during your lunch to check it out.

Fish Creek

3pm
to 6pm

More information, click here

Fish Creek

Evening meal

Fish Pub.  Enjoy a luscious evening meal of baby snapper at the Fishy Pub.  The "Baby Snapper Bakeoff" consists of gorgeous local fish, baked in several different styles - let your tastebuds choose for lyou.

Both weekends of the festival:
 

Foster

Stockyard Gallery: 'Shift' Exhibition

Foster

11 am to 4 pm

Foster Museum: Foster Historical Society presents - 'Australians at War'.

 $3

Fish Creek

Gecko Studio Gallery

Fish Creek

Stefani Hilltop  Gallery

Fish Creek

Celia Rosser Gallery

Fish Creek

Ride the Wild Goat Gallery

Toora

2RTZ Gallery

Toora

Carol Linton Gallery

Toora

The Gap Gallery

Friday May 1st
 

Foster

 7.30pm

Foster Hall:  Promontory Dreaming: Starscapes and Visions.
Bookings:  Main Street Revelations, Foster. Phone:  0400 867 872  

Preview
performance,
$12

Saturday, May 2nd
 

Foster

2pm & 5.00pm

Foster Hall:  Festival Finale:  Promontory Dreaming: Starscapes and Visions.  a multi-arts perfomance involving three Gippsland choirs of 100 voices, a local orchestra, beautiful costuming, brilliant lighting and movement, based on the story of George Bass's heroic journey mapping the Promontory Coast.  
Bookings:  Main Street Revelations, Foster. Phone:  0400 867 872 

 $15.00

Foster

2-6pm

Exchange Hotel, Foster, Musician, entertainer extraordinaire, John Laurie

Toora

12 noon
onwards

Official Grand Opening 2RTZ Gallery together with demonstrations of paper art and fly-tying.  Live music.

Fish Creek
 

7pm for
8 pm

Celia Rosser Gallery: ConciArto No.4 Featuring the Yarra Valley Trio performing works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Pachelbel, Dvorak, Schubert, Scott Joplin, Johann Strauss.  Bookings: 5683 2628

$55 pp
includes
delicious
supper

 Toora

Royal Standard Hotel:  Irish Night.  Music and dancing.
Bookings: 5686 2475

Sunday, May 3rd
 

Fish Creek

Stefani Hilltop Gallery entertains with live music by
"The Gurners"