Mary Valley Dateclaimers 2023

2023 MARY VALLEY DATECLAIMERS

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JANUARY

7th Imbil Bull Bronc & Barrels Round 1 for MVSC P&C

15th MV Film Society free film Bitter Springs, Kandanga Hall

11-16th Qld Caravan Club, Maleny showgrounds

FEBRUARY

17-18th Summer Warm-up Festival, Maleny showgrounds

MARCH

5th Clean Up Australia! – 2023 Rethink Waste

APRIL

7-10 Easter 2023 long weekend

22-23rd Gheerulla Hall Art Fair

25th ANZAC Day

29th Maleny Wood Expo weekend

29th Imbil Bull Bronc & Barrels Round 2 for Imbil Pool

MAY

6th GourMay Mary Valley Festival Day, Imbil

5– 7th Sth Qld Outriggers Championship – Rainbow Beach

18-20th Gympie Show 26-28th Kenilworth

25th ArtsFest – Silver Jubilee

JUNE

Kenilworth Quilt & Craft Show

2-3rd Maleny Show, Nambour

9-11th Conondale Classic Weekend S/Coast Motorcycle Club

23-25th Maleny Music Winter Solstice Festival Kenilworth P&C Annual Campdraft

JULY 2023

1-3rd Knitfest, Maleny

7-9th Queensland Garden Expo, Nambour showgrounds

15th Mary River Festival, Kandanga

22-23rd Accent Benchtops Rally Qld motorsport, Gympie 28-30th Mary Valley Art Festival, Imbil

27-30th Noosa Alive! 2023 Festival

AUGUST

20th Yandina Street Fair 24-27th Gympie Music Muster, Amamoor

26th Mary Valley Show, Imbil Cooroy Mountain Spring Festival

Kenilworth Classic Car Show Kenilworth Chook Chase (non-competitive) motorcross

SEPTEMBER

3rd Mary Valley Scarecrow Festival (month-long)

8th Noosa Country Show, Pomona showgrounds

8-10th Kickarse Music & Camping Festival, Kenilworth

9– 11th National Chevrolet Festival, Gympie showgrounds

15-17th Mitchell Creek Rock N' Blues Fest weekend

16th Kenilworth Show & Rodeo

30th Imbil Bull Bronc & Barrels Final for MVSC P&C Gheerulla Hall Art Fair

Cooroora Woodworkers Woodcraft Expo, Cooroy

OCTOBER

16th UlyssesRV National Rally, Maleny

Heart of Gold International Film Festival, Gympie

S/Coast Ukulele Festival, Imbil

DECEMBER

MV Community Xmas Fair, Imbil

Imbil Kenilworth Christmas Party

Cooroy H/made & Artisan Fest

FREE SCREENINGS AT THE NEW MARY VALLEY FILM SOCIETY

Residents of the Mary Valley are warmly invited to free monthly screenings of classic movies from the mid-1930s to the late-1990s at Kandanga Hall.

The Hall’s Committee believes the free screenings are a good way for residents from Mary Valley’s many villages to gather for a great movie, plus hear a five-minute talk from a Mary Valley community organisation about their group. Then followed by with a “strict five minute” Q&A.

The first of these talks will be from Tony Hawkridge, President, Friends of Kandanga

Screenings occur on the third Sunday of each month starting 15 January, 2023. Hall doors open at 4.30pm. Tony’s talk at 5pm sharp. Movies start 5.15pm sharp!

Kandanga Hall has just installed one of the largest cinema screens in the Gympie region. The retractable screen is four metres by 2.6m high, with a highspec 6000 lumens laser projector, both brand new, courtesy of a Queensland Government grant.

Aust/UK 1950 Bitter Springs movie

MVFS will screen the best of brilliant but little-known Australian, American and British movies from around a thousand feature films per year that the global film industry produces. Plus, the odd foreign language film, and if available with sub-titles for the hard of hearing.

Pictured above, our first screening a 1950 Australian/British movie, Bitter Springs, with a contemporary theme.

It’s the first movie made on the conflict between settlers creating new lives establishing grazing properties on land occupied by Aboriginals.

Stars the best-known actor from the period, Chips Rafferty and some who later became TV/movie stars: Michael Pate and Bud Tingwall plus Aboriginal actor, Henry Murdoch and others who all speak in Pitjantjatjara language.

Gold coin entrance fee for tea and coffee provided at start, while the film is free. It’s ok to invite people from outside Mary Valley. If you arrive late, please enter quietly.

Kindly submitted by Jim Beetson, Kandanga.

US 1947 The Ghost & Mrs Muir

UK 1954 Hobson's Choice

Random pic sent in by Yvonne James of Kenilworth Fire Brigade Open day, from 19 November 2022. This is what happens when one throws water onto an oil fire. It explodes in a fire ball.