Head down to the newly-revamped Jack Evans Boat Harbour at Tweed Heads this Saturday, November 12 to experience all the fun of the Tweed River Festival main event.
The action begins at 3.30pm (all times NSW) with free entertainment including bands, circus acts and roving performers, plus stalls selling delicious food.
Performers include popular act Loren, with the Samba Blisstas providing the beat to lead into the Lights on the Harbour Lantern Parade as night falls.
To celebrate National Recycling Week, Council has arranged for Puma and Maya from the Uki-based Trashformers to build ‘The Wonderland Plant’ from recycled materials. The trunk will be constructed from recycled car tyres and the branches from industrial plastic. You can help by creating flowers and leaves at free workshops.
When complete, the ‘plant’ will be placed on permanent display in the grounds of Council’s recycling facility in Morton Street, Chinderah.
There will also be workshops to create your own colourful lantern to carry in the lantern parade. Workshops will be held from 3.30pm, at a cost of $10 per lantern.
Information stalls will provide tips on how to be waste wise, water wise and look after our catchment.
The Lights on the Harbour Lantern Parade begins at 7.30pm and will light up the river with hundreds of luminous lanterns on and around the water.
The parade will conclude with a dazzling fireworks display over Jack Evans Boat Harbour.
Tweed Shire Council hosts the Tweed River Festival each year to celebrate environment and community, while promoting the importance of healthy catchments and waterways.
Still to come in the Tweed River Festival:
Thursday, November 10 – Tweed Catchment Catch Up 11.30am to 2pm. All aboard ‘Captain Bill’, departing from the Tweed Marina at River Terrace, Tweed Heads. This field trip will showcase issues and projects relevant to the environmental management of the lower Tweed estuary, particularly Cobaki and Terranora Broadwaters. To register, call (02) 6670 2400 or 1300 292 872.
Saturday, November 12 – Main event at Jack Evans Boat Harbour from 3.30pm.
Other events:
Sunday, November 13 – Kids in Need Dragon Boat Festival from 8am. Dragon boats with 22 paddlers race across the harbour. Get a team together and help fundraise to assist local children who have disabilities or are seriously ill. Contact Mike Lawson on (07) 5590 9171.
Sunday, November 27 – Murwillumbah Tweed River Swim Classic. Register from 7.30am at Murwillumbah Rowing Club. There are three swims – 400 metres, 1.2 km and 2.5km. Join the swim or cheer on the swimmers from the banks of the Tweed River. Contact Glenn Nott (02) 6670 2750.
