ENTERTAINMENT
PERFORMERS
ASKING FOR TROUBLE
PRESENTS THE BOTTLE
COLLECTOR (Sunday only)
The Bottle Collector has been
busy arranging their precious
items, mixing up coloured
potions, capturing small creatures
and using bottles as musical
instruments.
Award winning Clunes based
physical theatre company Asking
for Trouble presents a short
excerpt of their new show for
families. Be astounded as they
pull messages out of bottles and
create stories out of thin air using
a teaspoon of magic, a pinch of
puppetry and a daring dollop of
circus tricks.
ENTERTAINMENT
POP-UP SHAKESPEARE
SONNETS
Federation University Acting
students will pop-up in unexpected
places, take you on a short but
sweet journey of 14 lines, set
you down, and then disappear,
leaving you with no doubt that
Shakespeare is alive and well, and
living large in Clunes Booktown.
Part of the Four Seasons Fine
Music Festival. Celebrate Autumn,
with a performance by ARIA, Logie
and Helpmann award winning The
Choir of Hard Knocks.
PERFORMERS
STOPWATCH MIME AND
MAGIC
Local Clunes magician Aiden has
been performing miming and
magic tricks for about 6 years.
Come and see as he entertains,
amazes and brightens people's
days with his mysterious illusions
and trickery.
THE MAGIC BOOK NOOK,
WITH ILLUSIONIST JO CLYNE
Miss Winifred Hetherington
enjoyed an illustrious career as a
librarian until her untimely death in
1952. While starting a new career
as a ghost has been challenging,
she doesn’t let it stop her from
sharing her passion for books with
a new generation of readers. This
magic show for bibliophiles of
ages invokes the transformative
powers of literature with a
supernatural twist!
WHIZBANG – BALLARAT HIGH
SCHOOL
Whizbang has been in existence
since 2000 and produced 9
albums. The Band has achieved
international exposure through
chart success in Canada and had
published academic articles in the
UK. Whizbang performs regularly
at festivals, community events and
School functions.
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THE CHOIR OF HARD KNOCKS
WESLEY SCHOOL BAND
Students from Wesley College’s
Elsternwick campus have provided
a feast of musical delights at
the Clunes Booktown Festival
for several years now. This year,
Elsternwick’s Concert Band, String
Orchestra, Suzuki Violins and Big
Band will entertain in Collins Place,
with a range of musical favourites
ranging from traditional melodies,
to toe-tapping jazz.
JACQUES, THE FRENCH
WAITER
THE PILGRIM
AND PILGRIM’S CABINET
Enjoy a performance of The
Pilgrim then share the stories
and memories it inspires in the
Pilgrim’s Cabinet. A journey of
self-discovery … May The Pilgrim
deeply touch your soul.
PERFORMANCES BY WORD
OF MOUTH
Clunes Booktown will resound with
lush literary lyrics for the first time
this year with vocal performance
project Word of Mouth. Directed
by Rick Chew, lecturer in Singing
at Federation University, these
performance students exude
the style and skill for which the
Arts Academy is renowned.
Their collective spirit transforms
everyday songs into celebrations.
CRESWICK BRASS BAND
Creswick Brass Band is a
community band made up of local
residents. Known as ‘The Happy
Band of the Central Highlands’,
we love to perform at local
events, including Booktown!
DAYLESFORD COMMUNITY
BRASS BAND
The Daylesford Community
Brass Band provides musical
entertainment and education at a
wide variety of events across the
Hepburn Shire.
Serving up a delicious blend of
comedy and circus, Jacques The
French Waiter is at your service. He
performs delightful high skills that
you would expect from the French.
Juggling manipulation of everyday
objects such as bottles, trays, cups
and saucers that will impress.
HISTORIC
BUILDINGS
SENIOR CITIZENS CENTRE
The Senior Citizens club was
formed in 1966. Land was
donated by R Dolan and C J
Drite and in 1973 the shire
commissioned M Murray as
the architect. The building
was opened in 1975 by His
Excellency Sir Henry Winneke
and remains the meeting place
for the Clunes Senior Citizens.
WESLEY WEAVERY
The confectioner Thomas Lowe
opened his business here in
1870. The building gained its
current name when Gillian
Robson set up her looms and
opened her studio here in 1991.
The Weavery is currently used as
a classroom for Wesley students.
ALL NATIONS LODGE
Built in 1868 at a cost of £903
and initially used as a Primitive
Methodist church. In 1908 it was
sold to the Masonic body for use
as a lodge. The conversion to
a lodge involved blocking most
of the windows and refacing
the Service Street façade. It
currently houses the Clunes All
Nations Masonic Lodge, which
celebrated its 150th year in
November 2008.
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