Queen's Birthday Weekend
(13-16 June 2008)

Woodend, Victoria

A feast of music, literary and visual arts...


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Complete Weekend Program

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Purchasing 3 or more different concert tickets entitles you to a discount.
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Time
Concert or Event
Venue Tickets
Full price / concession
Friday 8th June  
5.00 pm Children's Hospital Hush Collection Free Concert
Launching the Hush CD with a free concert by Jacqueline Ogeil and John O'Donnell
St Ambrose HALL FREE
5.00 pm to 7.00 pm
Drawing on Nature Exhibition Opening:
Botanical Artists of the Macedon Ranges, Opened by Michael McCoy
Old Schoolhouse Gallery
 
FREE
8.00 pm
Don Burrows & Kevin Hunt Duo
Improvisation and Jazz greats
Sponsored by Macedon Spa
Macedon Spa SOLD OUT
9.30 pm Screening of "The Remarkable Mr Kaye"
 
Holgate's Leadlight Room FREE
 
Saturday 9th June
10.00 am African Drumming & Dance Workshop
with Guinea Fare
New Woodend Hub $10 all tickets
10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Drawing on Nature:
Botanical Artists of the Macedon Ranges
Old Schoolhouse Gallery
 
FREE
10.30 am
Pub Philosopher: Professor Roger Sworder
on "Festivals and Dispassions"
Holgates's Leadlight Room FREE
11.30 am African Drumming & Dance Workshop
with Guinea Fare
New Woodend Hub $10 all tickets
12.00 noon
Gareth Koch
Guitar Recital
The Ivor & Pauline Johnson Guitar Recital
St Ambrose Church $30/$25
12.00 noon
Helen Gagliano (soprano) & John O’Donnell
Lieder Recital
St Ambrose Hall $30/$25
2.00 pm

Michael Wagner
Children's free event

Woodend Library FREE
2.00 pm
Book Group with Alice Pung's
Unpolished Gem
Holgate's Leadlight Room $10/$8
2.00 pm Guinea Fare Performance
See the troupe in performance
New Woodend Hub $10 all tickets
3.30 pm African Drumming & Dance Workshop
with Guinea Fare
New Woodend Hub $10 all tickets
4.00 pm
Ensemble Gombert & Accademia Arcadia
Handel & Scarlatti
St Ambrose Church $30/$25
4.00 pm
Ian Munro
Piano Recital
The Cope-Williams Piano Recital
St Ambrose Hall $30/$25
7.30 pm
Accademia Arcadia
Masters of the Italian Baroque
St Ambrose Church $30/$25
7.30 pm
Josephine Vains & Friends
The Trout Quintet
St Ambrose Hall $30/$25
9.30 pm Screening of "The Remarkable Mr Kaye"
 
Holgate's Leadlight Room FREE
 
Sunday 10th June
9.30 am
Workshop: Your Life - Your Story
Carmel Bird workshop
Campaspe House $15/$12
10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Drawing on Nature:
Botanical Artists of the Macedon Ranges
Schoolhouse Gallery
 
FREE
12.00 noon
Gareth Koch
Guitar Recital
St Ambrose Church $30/$25
12.00 noon
Helen Gagliano (soprano) & John O’Donnell
Lieder Recital
St Ambrose Hall $30/$25
2.00 pm Flynn Silver Exhibition
Exquisite Silver from the Flynn Brothers of Kyneton
Campaspe House FREE
2.00 pm

Panel: Memoir & Biography
Four authors

Campaspe House $10/$8
4.00 pm
Ensemble Gombert & Accademia Arcadia
Handel & Scarlatti
St Ambrose Church $30/$25
4.00 pm
Ian Munro
Piano Recital
St Ambrose Hall $30/$25
7.30 pm
Accademia Arcadia
Masters of the Italian Baroque
St Ambrose Church $30/$25
7.30 pm
Josephine Vains & Friends
The Trout Quintet
St Ambrose Hall $30/$25
9.30 pm Screening of "The Remarkable Mr Kaye"
 
Holgate's Leadlight Room FREE
 
Monday 11th June
8.30 am Bartok Piano Marathon
153 pieces of Mikrokosmos played by aspiring pianists
Macedon Spa FREE
10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Drawing on Nature:
Botanical Artists of the Macedon Ranges
Old Schoolhouse Gallery
 
FREE
10.00 am
Barry Jones in Conversation
with Jocelyn Terry    SOLD OUT
Cafe Colenso SOLD OUT
12.00 noon
Australian String Quartet
Schubert, Haydn and Mendelssohn
St Ambrose Church $30/$25
2.00 pm Working with two remarkable talents - Joan Law-Smith and Jean Galbraith
Anne Latreille discusses her book; Kindred Spirits
 
Old Schoolhouse Gallery $10/$8

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