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The White Hat Guide to Festivals, Fairs & Fetes in Sydney, Regional NSW & ACT
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Sydney Moonlight Cinema
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Watch a movie in the night air in the outdoor setting of Belvedere
Amphitheatre, Centennial Park (on the corner of Loch Avenue & Broome Avenue)
Paddington. Enter the cinema via Woollahra Gates on Oxford Street. Tickets from $18/$16/$14 plus booking fee. Full details and bookings at
Moonlight Cinema.
Gates open at 6.30pm and screenings start at sundown. Food and drink available.
- Thursday 15th December 2011 - The Debt (MA15+)
- Friday 16th December 2011 - Johnny English Reborn (PG)
- Saturday 17th December 2011 - Alvin And The Chipmunks 3: Chipwrecked
(G)
- Sunday 18th December 2011 - Crazy, Stupid, Love. (M)
- Tuesday 20th December 2011 - In Time (M)
- Wednesday 21st December 2011 - Drive (MA15+)
- Thursday 22nd December 2011 - Arthur Christmas (G)
- Friday 23rd December 2011 - We Bought A Zoo (PG)
- Monday 26th December 2011 - Midnight In Paris (PG)
- Tuesday 27th December 2011 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (M)
- Wednesday 28th December 2011 - The Smurfs (G)
- Thursday 29th December 2011 - Contagion (M)
- Friday 30th December 2011 - Grease Sing-A-Long (PG)
- Sunday 1st January 2012 - The Muppets (G)
- Tuesday 3rd January 2012 - Moneyball (M)
- Wednesday 4th January 2012 - Arrietty (CTC)
- Thursday 5th January 2012 - Immortals (MA15+)
- Friday 6th January 2012 - The Ides Of March (M)
- Sunday 8th January 2012 - The Ages Of Love (MA15+)
- Tuesday 10th January 2012 - The Inbetweeners Movie (MA15+)
- Wednesday 11th January 2012 - The Breakfast Club (M)
- Thursday 12th January 2012 - Jack and Jill (PG)
- Friday 13th January 2012 - Puss In Boots (PG)
- Saturday 14th January 2012 - The Darkest Hour (CTC)
- Sunday 15th January 2012 -
Red Dog (PG) - Doggie
Night - Bring your dog along. (Rules Apply)
- Tuesday 17th January 2012 - Dirty Dancing (M)
- Wednesday 18th January 2012 - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part
1 (M)
- Thursday 9th January 2011 - Monty Python's Life of Brian (M)
- Friday 20th January 2012 - New Year's Eve (M)
- Saturday 21st January 2012 - Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
(M)
- Sunday 22nd January 2012 - J. Edgar (M)
- Tuesday 24th January 2012 - Top Gun (PG)
- Wednesday 25th January 2012 - A Few Best Men (CTC)
- Thursday 26th January 2012 - The Sitter (CTC)
- Friday 27th January 2012 - Midnight In Paris (PG)
- Saturday 28th January 2012 - Dolphin Tale (PG)
- Sunday 29th January 2012 - Buck (PG)
- Tuesday 31st January 2012 - The Princess Bride (PG)
- Wednesday 1st February 2012 - Attack The Block (MA15+)
- Thursday 2nd February 2012 - Tower Heist (M)
- Friday 3rd February 2012 - Warhorse (M)
- Saturday 4th February 2012 - Happy Feet Two (PG)
- Sunday 5th February 2012 - The Iron Lady (M)
- Tuesday 7th February 2012 - Flying Swords Of The Dragon Gate
(CTC)
- Wednesday 8th February 2012 - We Bought A Zoo (PG)
- Thursday 9th February 2012 - Carnage (CTC)
- Friday 10th February 2012 - Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
(CTC)
- Saturday 11th February 2012 -
Don Giovanni (CTC)
- Sunday 12th February 2012 - Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
(CTC)
- Tuesday 14th February 2012 - Breakfast at Tiffany's (PG)
- Wednesday 15th February 2012 - Melancholia (M)
- Thursday 16th February 2012 - The Descendants (M)
- Friday 17th February 2012 - The Skin I Live In (MA15+)
- Saturday 18th February 2012 - The Adventures Of Tintin (PG)
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Peter Olde, the Grevillea Guru
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 Visit
grevillea expert and The Grevillea Book co-author Peter Olde in his spectacular
park-like garden filled with a stunning display of Australian plants. The extensive collection of grevillea cultivars and grafted standards is a
special highlight. Many rare Australian plants thrive in the garden created by
Peter and Margaret. There are large trees and lawns as well as discrete areas
including a rainforest garden and fernery.
Peter will give informal talks on all aspects of grevillea culture at 11am &
2pm each day.
This event is part of the wonderful
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10am to 4.30pm, Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 April 2012 |
140 Russell Lane, Oakdale (Camden)
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$7 per head, children under 18 free |
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Organic Vegetables at Glenmore House
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 The importance of fresh, organic seasonal produce inspired passionate
gardener Mickey Robertson to establish her own vegetable garden at historic
Glenmore House, and now she runs courses on kitchen gardening. Drystone walls and hedges delineate rooms in the stylish gardens which
surround the house with lovely plantings of shrubs, roses, vibrant perennial
borders, herbs and citrus.
At 11am & 2pm each day in the historic restored dairy, Mickey will speak
about kitchen garden design and crop rotation and lead tours of her delightful
garden.
This event is part of the wonderful
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10am to 4.30pm, Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 April 2012 |
Moores Way, Glenmore (near Camden)
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Lex Marinos...in conversation
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Actor and radio presenter Lex Marinos, is well know to all
Australians and most recently featured on our TV screens in The Slap.
Lex loves spending time in the garden and watching the passing of the
seasons. He finds the garden inspiring and an ideal place for
relaxation, contemplation and preparing for his acting roles. Join Lex
for afternoon tea in a delightful and imaginative intensely planted
cottage-style garden where an eclectic mix of waterwise plants,
succulents, herbs and tropical species happily co-exist. Lex will talk
about some of the many loves and passions in his life, a long list which
includes work, family, travel, reading, watching football (of all
persuasions), and the family dog. This event is part of the wonderful
Australia's Open Garden Scheme. Bookings are essential for this
event as places are very limited. and can be made on the Australia's
Open Garden Scheme secure website
here
Tickets $55 includes afternoon tea.
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2 to 4pm, Saturday 5th May 2012 |
Willoughby, Sydney
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Chooks in the City
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 This
event is part of the wonderful
Australia's
Open Garden Scheme. Chooks in the City author Alyson Hill has spent
her life around chickens. These low-maintenance pets are calming, easy-to-manage and provide the
miracle of fresh eggs. Alyson will discuss the various breeds and their
selection, the pros and cons of roosters, housing requirements, predators,
breeding, feeding and general care. The venue is a private garden with well
designed and ornamental productive plantings. There's a large henhouse and a
portable coop will also be on display.
If you are even vaguely contemplating introducing chooks into your life, this
is the event for you. Bookings are essential for this event as places are very
limited. Tickets $60 includes morning tea. You can book online on Australia's
Open Garden Scheme secure site
here. Further enquiries: phone (02)
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9.30am to noon, Saturday 17th March 2012 |
Red Hill, Canberra
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Plant Fair at Lanyon
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Gardener's heaven - a wonderful opportunity for passionate gardeners
to find that perfect plant as well as meet and talk with specialist
growers. The wonderful Australia's Open Garden Scheme is bringing
together a group of growers of the most interesting and garden-worthy
plants. With everything from bulbs to trees, natives to exotics, plus
garden art, tools and guest speakers. The Fair will be held in the
grounds of historic
Lanyon
Homestead, established in the 1840s. Stroll through the carefully
preserved pleasure gardens including flowing perennial beds and the
spectacular rose and vegetable picking gardens containing many heritage
varieties. Relax on terraced lawns beneath mature trees and enjoy the
superb pastoral views down to the Murrumbidgee River and across to the
nearby Brindabellas.
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10am to 4pm, Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 March 2012 |
Lanyon Homestead, Tharwa
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$10 per head, children under 18 free |
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Tamie Fraser at Wooloondool
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Join
Tamie Fraser, the President
Open Gardens
Australia, at the lovely garden of Wooloondool. Nestled on the banks
of the Murrumbidgee, Wooloondool is a family garden of lawns, trees,
natives and perennial plantings. A 90m circular rose walk of mainly heritage
species is shaded from whites, through pinks and reds, while raised beds of
shrubs, perennials and roses provide year-round interest. An impressive golden
elm flanks the croquet lawn, large weeping Chinese elms, Pistacia chinensis and
a Virginia creeper provide autumn highlights. Cooking and self-sufficiency
priorities are evidenced in the expansive vegetable garden and farm orchard.
Tamie will give informal talks on her love of gardens and gardening at 11am
and 2pm on Sunday only. The garden is open on both Saturday & Sunday.
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10am to 4.30pm, Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 May 2012 |
Maude Rd, Hay
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$7 per head, children under 18 free |
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Regional NSW & ACT
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TOURISM NEWS
Qantas In Flight Magazine chooses
White Hat
Cemetery Tour as its featured Australian tour for May
There are many fine historical tours
throughout Australia including cemetery tours. From these, the
prestigious Qantas In Flight Magazine has chosen the White Hat Tour
of Melbourne Cemetery as its featured Australian tour for the May
2007 edition. This tour was also featured by ABC radio on 24 May and
will feature in a documentary series on Burke and Wills to be shown
on European television in 2008. The tour has been operating for many years and has won
praise from a wide range of sources. This is not a dry and stuffy
tour but in keeping with all White Hat offerings it is Informed,
Intelligent, Independent (and occasionally) Irreverent. You can find
details of the tour at White
Hat Tour of Melbourne Cemetery and view the article at
Qantas In Flight Magazine. |
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