Grow Your Own Flowers
A picture-perfect cutting garden or an incredible ‘stop-you-in-your-tracks’ vase of flowers are visions of beauty. These are both eminently achievable, wherever you live. We’ll share: Come and join Rebecca Starling, who runs a 3 acre flower farm 20kms outside Robe. Her first book ‘Secrets from the Flower Farm’ is published by Thames and Hudson and will […]
6. Fran West
Following Dreams and Reaching for the Sky: a flight around Australia’s coast in a light aircraft: Fran West Fran West, born in Adelaide in 1952, is an award-winning pilot, adventurer, author, photographer and inspirational speaker. In 1978, she moved to the South East of South Australia, where she learned to fly. Fran has had a private pilot’s […]
1. Madelyn Duckmanton & Ruth Cece
Surviving Ovarian Cancer – Madelyn Duckmanton & Ruth Cece This presentation is aimed at educating women on the signs and symptoms of Ovarian Cancer. By knowing the signs and symptoms and advocating on their own behalf they will be more likely to seek a definitive diagnosis of their symptoms. It might just save their life. […]
Women’s Health & Lifestyle Talk
Come and listen to Annie Borg and Hayley Harding with their 30 years of knowledge of how they have been connecting rural women in a health and wellness movement. This talk is about women’s health and taking control, of prioritising you first, being proactive with your health to add years to your life and life […]
West Beach Wander- or will it be a Workout?
Virginia Angove will lead a walk along West Beach on each day. Depending on the sand and tide it will be an easy stroll or will it be a workout in soft sand? Enjoy the wildness of West Beach and from the headland you can look at the spectacular coastline towards Beachport. You might see hooded […]
Writing creative non-fiction
Would you like to develop your skills for researching and writing non-fiction, whether it’s a family or community history, your own life story, a memoir or biography? Veteran storyteller Liz Harfull is passionate about telling the stories and unearthing the histories of the extraordinary everyday people who make up our communities, especially in rural and […]
The secret art of recipe writing
Would you like to learn how to capture precious food memories and preserve treasured family recipes to inspire future generations? Veteran storyteller and community food historian Liz Harfull is passionate about telling the stories of everyday people, and capturing the generational knowledge of experienced home cooks. She has written two international-award winning books that involved […]
Better Your Balance
Occurring more frequently with increasing age, falls are Australia’s leading cause of injury hospitalisation and death.. In this workshop Rosie Stoneham will explore why this happens and various ways you can take charge of improving your own ability to balance. Practising techniques borrowed from yoga, pilates & strength training that you can easily integrate into your […]
Boundy’s Memorabilia Shed
Go back in time. Something for everyone. A short visit and a long visit available. Nesla and Dennis Boundy have developed their memorabilia for about 40 years. The Shed has been set up for over twenty years and there is little room left. Dennis has restored many things himself. eg. mantles, cars, bowsers. There is a […]
3. Brigitte Muir OAM
Brigitte Leonce Suzanne Koch was born in Belgium in 1958. As a teenager, she discovered caving, rock climbing and mountaineering and never looked back. Brigitte graduated with honours in archaelology, history of art and musicology from the University of Liege, moved to Australia after she married Jon Robert Muir, changed her name to Brigitte Muir […]