Mildura Events Listings
Mildura Country Music Festival
Mildura Country Music Festival is Australia's biggest showcase of independent country music artists. The festival runs for ten days from Friday September 28 until Sunday October 7 2012 with over 100 artists performing at 26 venues in Mildura and District. Each day fans will be entertained at both indoor and outdoor venues in the warmth of spring and the best country music.
The festival celebrates is 26th Birthday this year with a great line up of artists. The program is on the festival website.
The festival culminates with the 16th Southern Stars - The Australian Independent Country Music Awards, a gala show, where the annual awards for Australian independent artists will be presented.
For more information visit the website or call the Mildura Visitor Information Centre for more information.
Mildura Jazz Food and Wine Festival
Run annually the weekend prior to Melbourne Cup, The Mildura Jazz, Food and Wine Festival is a well established event that has attracted many visitors to the district over the past 32 years. The Festival takes place as an annual Spring-time event, presenting four days of round-the-clock jazz entertainment in popular clubs, cafes, restaurants, churches, as well as street side and riverside venues - with feature events utilising unique Murray River settings and all events showcasing regional food and wine.
The Festival combines Traditional Jazz and Swing with more contemporary and quirky sounds and caters to hardcore jazz enthusiasts as well as those that just enjoy sitting back to the music, soaking in the ambience of Mildura's paddle steamers, riverside wineries and parks, taking in the gourmet food and wine.
The Festival incorporates ticketed and free events and provides a non-stop program catering to the tastes of all.
Mildura Jazz, Food & Wine Festival
Run annually the weekend prior to Melbourne Cup, The Mildura Jazz, Food and Wine Festival is a well established event that has attracted many locals and visitors to the Mildura district over the past thirty years. The Festival takes place as an annual Spring-time event, presenting four days of round the clock jazz entertainment in popular clubs, bars and cafes, restaurants, churches, as well as street side and riverside venues - with feature events utilising unique Murray River settings and all events showcasing regional food and wine
The Festival combines Traditional Jazz and Swing with more contemporary and quirky sounds and caters to hardcore jazz enthusiasts and music lovers, not to mention those that just enjoy sitting back to the music, soaking in the ambiance of one of Mildura's paddle steamers, riverside wineries and parks, taking in the gourmet food and locally produced wine. The Festival incorporates ticketed and free events and provides a non-stop program that caters to the tastes of all, attracting a growing number of visitors, as well as local audience members.
The festival's major event, the free 'PRIMED for Jazz Street Party', will be held on Saturday November 3. Audiences will be treated to nonstop entertainment on two stages, as well as alfresco dining.
On November 4, the laneway at the rear of the Restaurant Strip will be revitalised with live music, art, food and wine with 'Back Lane Jazz'.
For program details and online bookings visit the website.
Mildura Palimpsest Symposium 2012
Mildura Palimpsest is a biennial site-specific visual arts exposition and cross-disciplinary symposium.
Inaugurated in 1998, Mildura Palimpsest is regional Australia's premier, site-specific, visual arts festival. Located in the arid border territories at the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers in Victoria and NSW, Mildura Palimpsest continues the rich experimental tradition established in the early 1970s by the Mildura Sculptural Triennials.
Mildura Palimpsest brings contemporary Arts practice together with cross-disciplinary dialogue to encourage visionary engagement with the natural and cultural environment of inland Australia. Palimpsest is significant for its direct engagement with issues of environmental and social sustainability and its remarkable regional location; near the border of three states (Vic, NSW and SA), the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers, one of Australia's most important cultural sites - Lake Mungo National Park, and set in the intersecting terrain of desert and irrigated horticulture. Mildura Palimpsest provides an opportunity for artists to work outside the white cube, with residencies and symposium run between the biennial Palimpsest exposition to encourage collaborative investigations of the Palimpsest concept .
Palimpsest, meaning a parchment which has been partly erased and re-inscribed, evokes the marks made by human settlement on the land, the passage of time, presence and absence, and the web of inter-dependence connecting the natural and the cultural, the material and the immaterial, spheres of existence.
For program details and online bookings visit the website.
Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival
The Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival is one of Australia's leading regional arts festivals and has been recognised with Major Festival Status by Arts Victoria. The festival offers a rich and vibrant program of visual and performing arts, workshops, theatre, Big Screen outdoor cinema, music, exhibitions, parades and comedy - all in a diverse range of venues that showcase the unique landscapes, natural beauty and rich heritage of the Mildura district.
Artsmildura's vision is to be a regional leader in promoting innovative and challenging arts. Underpinning their ability to achieve this vision is their mission to explore and celebrate Mildura and Wentworth's unique regional identity through the provision of diverse arts experiences. Artsmildura makes the most of their region - and the Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival packages unique artists and art forms, spectacular environments and gourmet produce in such a way as to bring the local community together, and draw visitors from the surrounding and metro regions.
The Festival incorporates ticketed and free events and presents a program which appeals across age, socio-economic and cultural divides. It provides the opportunity for local talent to perform and engage with international and national performers and artists.
Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival
One of Australia's leading regional arts festivals, the Mildura Wentworth Arts Festival offers a rich and vibrant program of visual and performing arts, workshops, theatre, outdoor cinema, music, exhibitions, parades and comedy - all in a diverse range of venues showcasing the unique landscapes, natural beauty and rich heritage of the area.
A feature of the Festival is the Music Under the Stars Concert at Perry Sandhills. Held in an atmospheric and culturally significant location 40 minutes drive from Mildura, this event has grown from a choir on the back of a truck into a major music concert which in the past has featured stars such as Archie Roach, Ben Lee and Paul Kelly with annual audiences of over 4,000. Mark Seymour and the Undertow will headline the concert in 2012.
Other performers for 2012 announced soon.
Mildura Writers Festival
Held every July the Mildura Writers Festival presents three days of words, food and wine on the Murray River featuring Australian and international writers. The Festival brings together some of Australia's best writers in an intimate, winter program of workshops, lectures and discussion forums.
Beginning in 1994 in Stefano de Pieri's cellar restaurant, this event has evolved to be acclaimed to be among the finest literary festivals in the country, not only because of its literary pleasures, but also because of the talent it attracts and its atmosphere of conviviality - building upon the provincial Victorian winter, with late night discussions around wood fires, showcasing the local and regional gourmet food and wine.
Mildura Writers Festival
The Mildura Writers' Festival brings together some of Australia's best writers in an intimate, winter program of workshops, lectures and discussion forums.
Beginning in 1994 in Stefano de Pieri's cellar restaurant, this event has evolved to be acclaimed to be among the finest literary festivals in the country, not only because of its literary pleasures, but also because of the talent it attracts and its atmosphere of conviviality - building upon the provincial Victorian winter, with late night discussions around wood fires, showcasing the local and regional gourmet food and wine. With such a reputation the Mildura Writers' Festival is able to attract the best Australian writers including Nobel Laureates such as JM Coetze, renowned authors such as David Malouf and Les Murray and international stars such as Clive James.
Willowfest Australian Cricket Club Championships
The Willowfest Australian Cricket Club Championships is an annual event held in the beautiful rural city of Mildura nestled on the banks of the majestic Murray River, in north west Victoria.
The Championships, has been running for 35 years and is held between the 27th and 30th December. Cricket teams from all over Australia come to the vibrant holiday mecca of Mildura to enjoy the summer weather, play cricket on first class facilities and vie for the largest prize money purse offered for a carnival of this type in Australia.
Cricket Clubs compete for over $10,000.00 in prize money.
With all the attractions of Mildura and this amount of prize money, the Willowfest Australian Cricket Club Championships is establishing its niche on the cricket calendar.