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Program

The 2008 program is outlined below. A downloadable PDF version is also available.
2008 program guide.pdf.

Keep your eyes open for various demonstrations and working displays throughout the day by local heritage artisans:-

  • Ballarat Engine & Machinery Preservation Society
  • Sheep shearing demonstration
  • Gold panning activities beside the creek.
  • Blacksmith demonstration
  • Spinning
  • Wood turning demonstration
  • Quilting - Camera - Natural fibre basketry
  • Art blocks –Silk painting
  • Guest Dolls – Embroidery Guild
  • Scobie’s traction engine
  • Clydesdale “Maverick” and Alison
  • Dean Hall Painters Group (located on the 2nd floor in the Mill)

We have a fantastic array of stall holders offering high quality goods

and services for sale…..

Air with Flair - tattoos, Bead and Opal Queen, Bull Boars, Bren Catering, Bretzel Biz, Cadillac Walk – leather bags, Café Chariot, Captains Creek Organic Wines, Chocolate Shop, Coralie Lethbridge - quilts, Crista Pickering – home preserves, Creswick Light Horse - soft drinks, Creswick PS. – Hot dogs and hot chips, Cumberland Hotel, Daylesford Wine Company, Dulcinea Winery, Enjo, European Pastries, Fruit Salad Stall, Fudge Factory, Goldfields Farmhouse Cheese, Granny’s Turkish, Green Hat Muesli, Gwen Jensen – knitting and crochet, Hayley Floss, Henry of Harcourt - cider, Just Jewells, Kingston Agricultural Society - BBQ, Kyneton Olive Oil, Lavender Products, Maldon Yabby Farm, Mannatech – optimal health, Mount Beckworth Wines, Newlyn PS – water garden, Organic Sunrise Foods, Phoenix Trading – cards and stationary, Pyrenees Coffee Co., Red Duck - boutique brewery, Roast Rolls Stall, Smeaton Primary School - hot potatoes, Special Touch Catering, Tandaroo Wool, Timboon Fine Ice-Cream, Tony Lester wooden products, Turkish pastries, Visitor Information Centre, Web on Wool, Welshman’s Reef Vineyard, Wooden furniture

This program was correct at the time of publication however changes may occurwithout notice.

Live Entertainment

Main Stage

  • 10.00 am Funkacide
  • 12.00 pm Dave Hogan Meltdown
  • 2 00 pm Golden City Jazz Band
  • 3.00 pm Monster Raffle Draw

Back Stage

  • 10.30 am Adam Sandlant
  • 11.00 am Tatterjack
  • 11.50 am Pat Morgan & Ed Crocker
  • 12.30 pm Contraband Women
  • 2.00 pm Coyne, McPherson, Taylor
  • 3.00 pm Andrew Wrigglesworth
  • 3.35 pm Anni & Adrian & Andy
  • 4.30 pm Cam Ross

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Children’s Marquee

Free children’s entertainment and activities all day

  • Construction with wood –making a tool box & other timber items
  • Biscuit decorating
  • Face Painting
  • Finger Nail Painting
  • Cutting, pasting and coloring
  • Beads
  • Spud Hunting

The following workshops are proudly sponsored by BEST Community Development

  • 11.00 am Cooking Demonstration by local organic food caterer Richard Dobson
  • 11.45 am Craft Demonstration by Tonia Todman
  • 12.30 pm Organic Farming by Rod May
  • 1.15 pm Craft Demonstration by Tonia Todman
  • 2.00 pm Wine Appreciation by Roland Kaval
  • 2.45 pm Craft Demonstration by Tonia Todman
  • 3.30 pm “Sweet Corn & Canoli” by local “Slow Food” member Gary Thomas

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Mill Tours

The tour offers a glimpse of an bygone era when the mill produced the flour and grains to feed the many miners who flocked to the region during the Gold Rush. Local historian Mr Jack Sewell will introduce the tour.

Mr Peter Meulan, a descendant of the original Mill owners, will conduct the tours at :

  • 11.00 am
  • 12.30 pm
  • 2.00 pm