Community News
New - White Night Shepparton
WHITE NIGHT IS COMING TO SHEPPARTON
Saturday 25 June, 6pm - 12am midnight
For one night only, White Night will be transforming the streets, landmarks and public spaces. Shepparton will light up with art, culture and music for a spectacular White Night. This will be an incredible site spreading from Victoria Park Lake to the Shepparton Art Museum building, Aquamoves, Welsford Street, Vaughan Street and Monash Park.
PARK n RIDE There will be two FREE Park 'n' Ride services operating during White Night. Park at either the Mooroopna Recreation Reserve on McLennan Street or the Shepparton Marketplace on Benalla Road and catch a free bus to the Maude Street Bus Interchange. The buses will be scheduled to run every 15 minutes.
Additionally the Shepparton Bus Network will also be operating during the night of the event, with routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8. You can access the bus timetable through the Public Transport Victoria website or smart app. https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/routes
At the Vaughan Street event entrance you will find the night market by Culture Kitchen, and there will be event sites at SAM and Victoria Park Lake.
White Night is a family friendly event and with 28 large scale activations there is something for everyone to enjoy. Check out the full program online here.
More Information can be found at White Night Website
Event locations can be found at White Night Site Map
You might enjoy: - Bouquet Final: A wonderful, fantastical, and enormous cascading soap bubble sculpture taking over the Greater Shepparton Visitor Centre - Path To Extinction: Discover the Goulburn Valley's most unique and vulnerable species. Can you spot flowing eyes in the trees above? - Beat Bowl: The skate Park will be vibrantly brought to life and the beats, bass and boom will have you dancing. - Funky Fungi: Hear the beat and watch the projection of the magical Funky Fungi grow in front of your eyes and over the Aquamoves outdoor pool. - The Nuts: a lovable series of giant, charismatic, inflatable gumnuts. - The Bells: places the ensemble at the beginning of an impossible theatrical task that must be completed at whatever cost.
WHITE NIGHT ROAD CLOSURES
To allow for the White Night festivities there will be a number of Road Closures taking place from Tuesday 21 June around the event precinct.For the complete details including a map and contact details for enquiries please seehttps://bit.ly/WhiteNightSheppartonRoadClosures
Tuesday 21 June 6.00pm – Sunday 26 June 7.00pmMidland Highway Service Lane
Tuesday 21 June – Friday 24 June 7.00pm to 6.00am each night.Welsford Street, Between Vaughan and Midland Highway (High Street)
Thursday 23 June 5.00am – Sunday 26 June 7.00pm Welsford Street, between Midland Highway (High Street) and Central Tyre Service
Friday 24 June 12.00pm to Sunday 26 June 1.00pmVaughan Street - from the Aldi Carpark, onto Welsford Street.Welsford Street - Between Vaughan and to Sobraon StreetSobraon Street - Between Welsford and Wyndham StreetsTom Collins Drive
Saturday 25 June 12.00pm – Sunday 26 June 1.00pmWelsford Street - Between Central Tyre Service Carpark and Fryers Street.Midland Highway (High Street) - Between Welsford and Wyndham StreetWyndham Street - Between High and Hassett Streets
New - GV Library School Holiday Activities
Goulburn Valley Libraries have a variety of ‘Marvelous Makers’ craft activities for all ages.
To see the entire holiday program head to www.gvlibraries.com.au/holidays and take a look at what else is happening.
Holiday programs are also available to pick up in all of our libraries.
#TakeHome craft packs will be available from Friday 24th June until Sunday 10th July.
New - Ready Set Connect Networking Event
We warmly welcome teachers, support staff, parents and carers to attend our disability networking event Ready-Set-Connect being held in Shepparton on Tuesday 12 July from 10:00am – 12:30pm.
Ready-Set-Connect is an informative (and fun!) event based on a speed dating format. It connects teachers, support coordinators, parents and carers of people living with disability with NDIS disability service providers.
National and local service providers will be sharing information about their services and products. The event will help you keep in touch and up to date with services in your local community. In the space of a little over two hours, you will build your connections and get to meet and know a variety of providers servicing your region.
It's FREE for Attendees! Come and join us. Let us know you are coming by registering as an Attendee.
Here are the event details. Click on the link below to register as an Attendee for the event:
| EVENT | DATE | TIME | VENUE | REGISTRATION LINK |
| Shepparton Ready-Set-Connect | Tuesday 12 July 2022 | 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM | Shepparton Harness Racing Club, Goulburn Valley Highway, Kialla VIC | https://www.onecommunity.net.au/Ready-Set-Connect/Event/418-shepperton |
Julia Hunt
Community Engagement Manager
One Community - 0455137430
New - ASHEfest 2022
New - GV Schools - Transition Tatura's Environmental Arts Competition 2022
In 2019 and 2020, Transition Tatura held two very successful short-film competitions for students of all Goulburn Valley Schools. The challenge for both years was for entrants to make a short film about the environment.
In 2021, Transition Tatura expanded the Annual Environmental Short-film Competition and organised an Environmental Art Competition and we will run the same format in 2022. Once again, this competition is open to all current students within the Goulburn Valley.
Your task, either by yourself, with your family or with friends, is to use your favourite form of artistic expression (from our list below) to address the competition topic;
“More Self-Sufficient Living”
The categories of art considered for this competition are;
- Visual Art (painting, drawing, sculpture, fashion design, etc.)
- Performance Art (dance, theatre, song, music, etc.) (up to six minutes duration)
- Literature (poetry, story, etc.) (up to 1500 words)
- Media Arts (film, animation, computers, etc.) (up to six minutes duration)
There will be three age groups for each artistic category - Grade Prep to Three
- Grade Four to Six
- Secondary Schools
Prizes for best entries in each category - Grade Prep to Three $30.00
- Grade Four to Six $30.00
- Secondary School $30.00
Most Inspirational Entry $100.00
Total award pool: $460.00
Every entry will be recognised and acknowledged
Please see below for the entry form or for further information email Ross Musolino: ross@sandalino.id.au
New - Wilmot Road Community Hub
We are open again and running free programs for people in the Goulburn Valley during the school terms, we are also available for a cuppa and a chat at any time during Hub hours. Please see the Hub flyer.
Currently we are hosting a Free Clothes Event for anyone in need on the 24th June at the Hub. Please see flyer attached.
For further queries, please feel free to call Sarah on 0421 225 388.
Sarah Pearson
Community Hub Leader
Wilmot Road Primary School
84-90 Wilmot Road, Shepparton
03 5821 4953
New - Secondhand Book Sale - The Book Inn - FamilyCare
FamilyCare (with our volunteers) run a second hand bookstore, The Book Inn, located at 94 Wyndham Street, Shepparton.
We have an amazing range of children's books, as well as novels and books for everyone.
For further information, please see the attached flyer. The books are priced at 4 for $2.00!!
We feel this is an easy and affordable way for our community to access a wide range of literature for all family members.
Thank you.
Kind regards
Andrea Tuohey - 03 5823 7000
Limitless Dance Studio
Please find below information on Limitless Dance Studios upcoming Dance Recital which is open to public viewing.
St Mels Kindergarten 2023 Enrolments
St Mels Kindergarten has a new Website - St Mels Kindergarten
Please visit our website to find out more about our Kindergarten program and/or to enrol for 3 year old or 4 year old programs for 2023. Please feel free to share our website with anyone you know who may be interested.
Familycare
Please see the timetable for our Family programs for Term 2 – we are now taking bookings and the links to register are in the attached PDF.
Please give Central Intake a call on 1800 161 306 or email centralintake@familycare.net.au if you have any questions.
Parent Autism Workshops
Please find attached flyers for free Early Days Autism workshops for parents being run by amaze.
Early Days is a series of FREE workshops for parents and other family members of young children (0-7 years) who are on the autism spectrum. They are also suitable for parents who feel their child may be on the spectrum but have not received a formal diagnosis.
More information about these workshop and other workshops can be found on our website https://www.amaze.org.au/news-and-events/events/#earlydays