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QWCA Apple Pie, Cake & Jam Competition Health & Daily Living Solutions & Ten FM Mt Marlay Challenge & Fun Run Multicultural Food & Wine Fiesta
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Festival EventsSponsored and conducted by QWCA Granite Belt Branches every two years to coincide with the Apple & Grape Harvest Fesitval, competition categories include: APPLE PIE JUNIOR APPLE PIE APPLE TEA CAKE APPLE JELLY GRAPE JAM Cash prizes in each category! Entry Forms can be downloaded from the 'Download Forms' section of this site. Join in the fun of the inaugural Apple and Grape Harvest Festival Quilting Competition. Why not enter your creation into one of the four categories and be in the running for some fabulous prizes?
Grand Champion prize is a weekend workshop at Stacey's at the Gap. Stacey's specialise in retreats for patch workers, scrap bookers, card makers for any crafty people.
So, enter your creation/s, come and enjoy the displays, demonstrations, trade stalls, raffles and giveaways. Display open Friday 10am - 4pm, Saturday 9am - 4pm, Sunday 9am - 3pm. Entry Fee $1
Location: Uniting Church Hall, High Street, Stanthorpe
Entry forms and more information can be downloaded from the 'Download Forms' section of this site.
More information coming soon... For more information, please download the Bowls Information Sheet (PDF) HERE. Click HERE for more information and to book your tickets on-line... Join us at 4pm Post Office corner, Railway and Maryland Streets. See the youngster come out in all of the invited Celebrities and the Young Ambassadors when they face the Grape Crush Challenge, where you will see them jump up and down with bare feet on top of grapes in a barrel to extract the juice into a jug below. The first to fill the jug with juice is the winner. After working hard for the Festival over the past year, the Young Ambassadors get to let their hair down. Very messy but lots of fun for the celebrities and the Young Ambassadors! What a way to start the day! - Enter the Mt Marlay Challenge or Fun Run. Run or walk around the town course, up Mt. Marlay 919m above sea level with an 8% gradient, finishing back at the start line. So come along and join the challenge - run or walk - just enjoy yourself! Great prizes for the winners in each category - Male and Female Open, and Male and Female Junior under 15. Shower facilities will be available at the YMCA for those who wish to step straight back into party mode after the run! If coming from Brisbane allow approx 2.5 3 hours, Toowoomba 1.5 hour, Warwick 45 minutes travel time and dont forget to book your accommodation early. Check out the 2010 winning time. Please click HERE for more information... A long time favourite with locals and visitors alike, be sure not to miss the wonderful window displays created by business in the town centre. Business owners work long and hard to come up with some fantastic displays that represent the theme of the Apple & Grape Harvest Festival - take a leisurely stroll around the town to see what they have come up with this time around. For results of the 2010 competition, please click HERE. A much anticipated tradition from Festival to Festival, the Grand Parade draws entries from all over the district. Businesses, schools, community groups and individuals work hard to prepare their floats and entries for this wonderful exhibition of colour and expression - representing the rich diversity of industry, agriculture and community, and incorporating the Apple & Grape theme For further information and to download the Grand Parade Entry Forms and Map, please go to Download Forms. A long time favourite with locals and visitors alike, be sure not to miss this fantastic component of the Apple & Grape Harvest Festival.
Award winning local Wineries will have stalls in Weeroona Park on both Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th March 2012. Wine will be available for tastings and purchase by the glass and/or bottle. During your visit to the Apple & Grape Harvest Festival, make sure you pay a visit to the Stanthorpe Art Gallery, located in Weeroona Park (and right in the middle of Festival activities!). The Stanthorpe Art Festival is staged as part of the biennial Apple & Grape Festival which celebrates the cultural and economic character of this vivid South East Queensland location. The major biennial art prize displays works in contemporary and traditional forms and invites submissions by artists from across Australia. For more information on the Stanthorpe Arts Festival, please contact the Stanthorpe Art Gallery or visit www.srag.org.au/events.php. |
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