It's showtime: Georgia Laurie and Jordyn Snape at last year's Taree Show. The 2018 event will run from this Friday to Sunday. Photo: Scott Calvin.
What’s on in the Manning, Great Lakes and Gloucester
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All weekend
- Taree Show, Friday to Sunday, at Taree Showground. Variety of events each day. The show will be officially opened at 2pm Saturday by Nikki Gibbs (Wauchope), the Land Sydney Royal Easter Show winner for 2018.
- Art exhibitions Cohesive (Yvette and Peter Hugill) and Terror Australis (Jane Hosking) at Manning Regional Art Gallery. Wednesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm and Sunday 1pm to 4pm.
- Great Lakes Art Society Members' Exhibition, 10am to 4pm daily, 34 Lake Street, Forster. Free.
- Gloucester Art Society Spring Exhibition at Gloucester Gallery, Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm, Sunday 10am to 1pm.
- Meet the artist - Trisha Fitzpatrick, Saturday and Sunday, at Trisha's on Blueys Art Gallery, 4 Banksia Street, Blueys Beach open 10am to 4pm.
Friday
- Tots Tours, art engagement for preschoolers, 11.15am to noon at the Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree.
- Author talk by Noel Braun, an advocate for suicide awareness and prevention, between 1pm an 2pm at Taree Library.
- Science on the Move, for five years and up, 10.30am to 11.30am at Gloucester Library and 3.30pm to 4.30pm at Stroud Library. Bookings essential.
- Create and Meditate for primary school aged children, 10.30am to 11.30am, at Harrington Library. Bookings essential.
- Shoebox Craft, for five to 11 years, 2.30pm to 3.30pm, at Tea Gardens Library. Bookings essential.
- Free Kids Disco, 5pm to 8pm, at Tea Gardens Hotel.
Saturday
- Art Central at Manning Regional Art Gallery, 10.30am to noon, create an artwork to frame in the style of Hundertwasser with Ali Haigh. For ages five and up, cost $15.
- Official opening of exhibitions Cohesive and Terror Australis, 2pm at the Manning Regional Art Gallery, free entry.
- Giant Fundraising Sale, Great Lakes Hospice, 7am until 2pm at 8 Boona St, Forster.
- Free Kids Animal Petting Zoo, noon to 2pm at Tea Gardens Hotel.
- Light the Night at Discovery Parks Forster, on dusk, fundraising for blood cancer research.
- Wingham Farmers Market, 8am to noon, at Wingham Showground.
- The Diamonds, 8pm at the Manning Entertainment Centre.
- Barrington Hall Market, 8.30am to noon, at Barrington Hall.
Sunday
- Black Head Bazaar, 8.30am to 1pm, Wylie Breckenridge Park, Black Head.
- Hallidays Point Car Boot Sale, 8am to noon, Hallidays Point Village Centre, Black Head.
- Pacific Palms Markets, 9am to 1pm at Pacific Palms Community Centre.
- The Great Lakes Food Trail, 10am to 4pm, in the MidCoast Council region. See www.thegreatlakesfoodtrailnsw.com.au/ for more information.
- The arrival of the Madonna Dei Martini statue, 10am at Great Lakes Museum, Tuncurry.
- Manning Valley Concert Band - 100 years of Anzac concert, 2pm at the Manning Entertainment Centre.