Bendigo TAFE BENDIGO EASTER FESTIVAL March 30 – April 2, 2018

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sal BRIDGE STREET Golden Dragon Museum Community Live Zone

9.30am – 5pm 1pm – 5pm
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m MUNDY STREET 10am – 5pm
ad, Bendigo TAFE Prize Wheel Discovery @ Easter
10am – 4pm 10am – 5pm
Carnival Central Easter paint out
10am – 10pm 10am – 5pm Vision Australia Easter
Rotary Art & Craft Market
m 9am – 4pm Egg Hunt
Goldfields Library
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PIAZZA 9am – 3.30pm
Stay and Play Zone
Central Victorian Lion 10am – 5pm
CONSERVATORY GARDENS Team traditional Chinese Paint Pot People
Lanterns in the park
nday: Emerge Cultural Hub performance 10am – 3pm
10am – 5pm
Celebration 10am – 1pm
Mini Commonwealth Games Panning for treasure
10am – 5pm
with Gecko Sports 10am – 4pm
Historical walking tour ROSALIND PARK
10am – 5pm Premier's Active April
– fully guided
Main stage Mini Maestros 10am – 5pm
5pm – 7pm
Children's entertainment 11am, 1pm Silent disco tours
Labyrinth
and live music 1pm, 3pm
10am – 5pm
10am – 5pm
Storytelling tree
DAI GUM SAN 12pm, 2pm, 3pm
ARC Connexions
Chinese dragon puppet TTX Table Tennis
10am – 5pm
workshop come and try
Approximately 1 hour Bendigo Bricks 10am – 5pm
d 10am, 1pm, 3pm 10am – 5pm
Farmer Darryl's
www. Chinese historical walk Bendigo Easter Fair Society WILLIAM VAHLAND PLACE
animal farm
org.au Approximately 1 hour spinning wheel CFA children's carnival
10am – 5pm
9.30am, 12.30pm, 2.30pm 10am – 5pm $3 per ride, 10am – 5pm

EASTER SATURDAY

BENDIGO TAFE Chinese Spring Festival and Goldfields Library

Corner McCrae & Chapel Streets Awakening of the Dragon Stay and Play Zone
Bendigo TAFE's Health 11am – 12.30pm, 2pm – 4pm 10am – 5pm
and Community Centre of Green hat workshop
Excellence Showcase MUNDY STREET
10am – 5pm
10am – 4pm Bendigo TAFE prize wheel
10am – 4pm Lanterns in the park
BRIDGE STREET 10am – 5pm
Bendigo Radio Controlled Cars Carnival Central
10am – 10pm Centre Stage, Rosalind Park Mini Commonwealth Games
10am – 4.30pm Showtimes 11am and 1pm with Gecko Sports
The Zone PALL MALL Meet and Greet 12pm 10am – 5pm
10am – 9pm
Pre-parade entertainment Mini Maestros
VW show and shine ARC Connexions 11am, 1pm
7pm – 8pm
10am – 4.30pm 10am – 5pm
Laser Electrical Torchlight Paint Pot People
BULL STREET Lantern Procession Bendigo Bricks 10am – 3pm
de. 10am – 5pm
Easter Bull Street Music Festival 8pm – 9.30pm Panning for treasure
2pm – 10pm approximately Bendigo Easter Fair Society 10am – 4pm
Fireworks to follow spinning wheel
CONSERVATORY GARDENS Premier's Active April
10am – 5pm
Emerge Cultural Hub QUEEN ELIZABETH OVAL 10am – 5pm
Celebration CFA fire truck rides
Freedom of Entry Silent disco tours
10am – 5pm $3 per ride, 9.30am – 5pm
5.30pm – 7pm (parade route) 1pm, 3pm
Historical walking tour Community Live Zone
Storytelling tree
– fully guided ROSALIND PARK 10am – 5pm
12pm, 2pm, 3pm
ntre 5pm – 7pm Connected Circus
Vision Australia Easter Egg Hunt
Labyrinth Main stage 10am – 5pm
9am – 3.30pm
10am – 5pm Children's entertainment Easter paint out
and live music featuring 10am – 5pm
DAI GUM SAN WILLIAM VAHLAND PLACE
JR Reyne at 5pm
Golden Dragon Museum 10am – 6pm Farmer Darryl's animal farm CFA children's carnival
9.30am – 5pm 10am – 5pm $3 per ride, 10am – 9.30pm

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 5pm – 7pm Connected Circus
Vision Australia Easter Egg Hunt
Labyrinth Main stage 10am – 5pm
9am – 3.30pm
Bendigo TAFE BENDIGO EASTER
10am – 5pm FESTIVAL
Children's entertainment Easter paint out
March 30 – April 2, 2018
and live music featuring 10am – 5pm
DAI GUM SAN WILLIAM VAHLAND PLACE
JR Reyne at 5pm
Golden Dragon Museum 10am – 6pm Farmer Darryl's animal farm CFA children's carnival
9.30am – 5pm 10am – 5pm $3 per ride, 10am – 9.30pm

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EASTER SUNDAY

BENDIGO VISITOR CENTRE Return of the Dragon Mini Maestros

3pm approx. Main stage 11am
Easter Paint Out exhibition
Children's entertainment
10am – 5pm Paint Pot People
MUNDY STREET and live music
(People's Choice Award 3.30pm) 10am – 5pm
10am – 5pm
Bendigo TAFE prize wheel Panning for treasure
BRIDGE STREET 10am – 4pm 10am – 4pm
Defence Force recruiting
Rotary Art and Craft Market Carnival Central 10am – 5pm Premier's Active April
9am – 4pm 10am – 6pm
Community Live Zone 10am – 5pm
BULL STREET 10am – 5pm Silent disco tours
PALL MALL
Connected Circus 4pm
Easter Bull Street Music Festival
la Parade. 2pm – 10pm 10am – 5pm Storytelling tree
Farmer Darryl's animal farm 12pm, 3pm
CONSERVATORY GARDENS 10am – 5pm
VE Emerge Cultural Hub Fusion games
Celebration 10am – 5pm
10am – 1pm, 3pm – 5pm Goldfields Library
Bendigo Advertiser
Historical walking tour Gala Parade Stay and Play Zone
– fully guided 10am – 5pm
y, 5pm – 7pm
1pm – 3pm
Green hat workshop
CFA fire truck rides
y Labyrinth Dragon Mile 10am – 5pm
$3 per ride, 9.30am – 5pm
10am – 5pm 11am – 12.30pm Lanterns in the park
10am – 5pm
DAI GUM SAN ROSALIND PARK Mini Commonwealth Games WILLIAM VAHLAND PLACE
Golden Dragon Museum ARC Connexions with Gecko Sports CFA children's carnival
9am – 11am, 3pm – 5pm 10am – 5pm 10am – 5pm $3 per ride, 10am – 5pm

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Visit www.bendigoeasterfestival.org.au
COMMUNITY EVENTS for more information
Held from Good Friday to Easter Monday THE

Cross stitch, patchwork, Great Stupa of Universal BRIDGE

embroidery exhibition Compassion
and sales Friday, Saturday, Sunday and
Friday and Saturday: Monday: 10.30am – 5pm
10am – 4pm 25 Sandhurst Town Road,
North Bendigo Bowls Club, Myers Flat
corner Fenton Street and
Holmes Road, Bendigo Vintage car and
machinery display Rotar
Saturday: 9am – 2.30pm 9am –
Easter Book Fair
Friday, Saturday and Sunday: Hargreaves Mall, Bendigo
Bendigo Bonsai Club Bendigo model railway 9am – 5pm CONSE
exhibition exhibition Monday: 9am – 1pm ARC Connexions
Saturday and Sunday: Saturday: 10am – 5pm YMCA Tom Tweed Stadium, Friday, Saturday and Sunday: Emerge
10am – 5pm Sunday: 10am – 4pm Mundy Street, Bendigo 10am – 5pm Celebra
Monday: 10am – 4pm St Andrew's Uniting Church, Library Gardens 10am – 5
Uniting Church Hall, Forest Myers Street, Bendigo Historic
Street, Bendigo Easter Print and Projected
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Park 'n' Tram Image exhibition
5pm – 7
Bendigo Vintage Talking Trams Friday and Saturday:
Bendigo Easter Antique Fair 9.30am – 5.30pm Labyrin
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and
Saturday and Sunday: Sunday: 9.30am – 5pm 10am – 5
Monday: 10am – 5pm
10am – 5pm Dudley House, View Street,
1 Tramways Avenue, Bendigo
Monday: 10am – 4pm Bendigo DAI GU
Truscott Stadium, Murdoch Chinese
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Sunday: 8.30am – 2pm Living Arts Space, Bendigo Monday: 9am – 3pm admission fees visit www. Chinese
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BENDIGO EASTER FAIR SOCIETY FREE BICYCLE PARKING

The Bendigo Easter Fair Society is a community based, not Avoid the hassles of driving and parking with event bicycle
for profit organisation that has been involved in running the parking available in Rosalind Park 10am – 5pm Friday,
Easter Festival since 1871. For support, membership enquiries Saturday and Sunday. This is unsupervised. Remember your
and information visit www.bendigoeasterfairsociety.org.au bike locks and enjoy the ride!

FESTIVAL ACCESSIBILITY PARKING

Parade viewing
Along the parade route there will be designated viewing areas for
people using motorised scooters and wheelchairs. These areas will
be clearly signed. Please be considerate and keep these areas clear.
Accessible locations include Alexandra Fountain, Pall Mall (at Sidney
Myer Place and Bull Street intersection) and McCrae Street car park.
Marveloo
Located in the McCrae Street car park, the Marveloo is an accessible
restroom catering for people with a profound disability and their
carer. The facility provides accessible features such as an overhead
hoist, adult change table, access ramp and automatic door.
HYDRATION STATION
A Coliban Water hydration station is available at the festival precinct
to refill your water bottles, located in Rosalind Park near the Sidney
Myer Place bridge. Don't forget to bring your own drink bottle.
LOST SOMETHING/SOMEONE?
Lost persons will be accompanied to the First Aid Tent located
near the Rotunda in the centre of Rosalind Park. Lost child/
person wristbands will be available at the Bendigo Visitor
Centre for your convenience.
Lost property will be held at the Bendigo Visitor Centre.
PARENTING ROOM
‘The Mews’ parents' room is available for use during the
festival, located behind the Bendigo Visitor Centre. Enter via
Sidney Myer Place or William Vahland Place.
FIRST AID
First aid will be on site during the festival near the Rotunda
in the centre of Rosalind Park.
INCLEMENT WEATHER
In the event of extreme weather conditions, festival events may
be moved to a dry weather venue or cancelled. Please refer to
the website or Facebook page for the latest information.
ROAD CLOSURES
Road closures will operate throughout the festival. Please
follow detour signage during these times. For more
information visit www.bendigoeasterfestival.org.au
WASTE
Organics bins have been introduced to the food court and
other areas to divert valuable food material from landfill.
Once turned into a rich compost it will be used in the parks
and gardens around Bendigo – including Rosalind Park!
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ENDS
Don't forget to wind your clock back 1 hour
at 3am Sunday April 1.
During the festival, two multi-storey car parks will be open
with free parking:
Hargreaves Street (opposite the Bendigo Library) and Edward
Street (Corner of Edward Street and Queen Street)
Hours of operation
Friday, 6am – 6pm Sunday, 6am – 6pm
Saturday, 7am – 10.30pm Monday, 6am – 6pm
Please note the Queen Elizabeth Oval car park will be closed
from 6am Saturday March 31 until 5pm Sunday April 1 for
parade assembly.
The McCrae Street car park will be available for accessible
parking only, all day Good Friday. Easter Saturday until
4.30pm only (after this time no exit will be possible until
after 10.30pm due to the road closure for the Laser Electrical
Torchlight Parade). Closed all day Easter Sunday due to the
Gala Parade.
For more information visit www.bendigo.vic.gov.au
PUBLIC TRANSPORT VICTORIA
For information about local transport services visit
www.ptv.vic.gov.au
PARK 'N' TRAM IT
Park outside the CBD near one of five tram stops and catch
the tram into town. The Easter Weekend Vintage Talking Tram
ticket is valid from Good Friday to Easter Monday with trams
departing regularly.
A shuttle service is available from the Bendigo Advertiser
Gala Parade. Park your car at either end of the tram tracks
and catch the tram to and from the parade between
9.20am – 2.40pm, Easter Sunday.
Adults: $2, concession/child: $1. For more information or to
pre-purchase tickets visit www.bendigotramways.com or call
03 5442 2821.
SMOKE FREE FESTIVAL
This is a smoke-free community festival. Please be respectful
of others and smoke outside the precinct.
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