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| January Wooden Boat Festival. The Great South West Pub Trail February Mortlake Buskers Festival. Championship Sheep Dog Trials Warrnambool Wunta Fiesta Tarerer Festival April Koroit Irish Festival May Warrnambool Racing Carnival June Southern Right Whales Arrive Warrnambool Fun for Kids Festival November Heritage Discovery Week Port Fairy Show The Port Fairy Visitor Information Centre will have current information on all festivals 1 month prior to each event | |||
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| Trains run daily from Melbourne to Warrnambool with connecting coach services to Port Fairy. Ring V-Line for up to date timetable Ph: 136196. Warrnambool Buslines 03 5562 5748 | |||
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| Old School, Downs Road Codrington VIC Open: Usually open but advisable to ring Expose yourself to art and experience the passion that is the art of Kate Smith | |||
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| 39A Bank Street Port Fairy VIC Open: 7 days This colourful and contemporary gallery is home to 7 local artists. Glass, sculpture, painting, silk, jewellery and more. Call in and meet the artists. | |||
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| 1164 Princes Highway Killarney VIC Open: 10am to 5pm 7 days New and secondhand instruments. Sheet music and accessories. Collectables, old wares and antiques. | |||
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| 1st weekend in September Ex-Libris is a celebration of literature inspired by the Welsh “bookshop” village of Hay on Wye. During the fair, Port Fairy will come alive with thousands of books for sale at the Community Centre and literary events happening at various venues around town. | |||
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| 62 Regent Street Port Fairy VIC Open: Most afternoons 1pm to 5pm Visit the working studio where Robert and Freya create colourful hand blown glass, lampworked beads, cast glass sculptures and enambled plates. Glass bead making workshops | |||
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| Police 000 Campbell Street Port Fairy Ambulance 000 or 133 009 for non emergency transport Fire Brigade 000 SES Emergency 132 500 Hospital Moyne Health Services Villiers Street Port Fairy Ph: 03 5568 0100 Medical Clinic Villiers Street Port Fairy Ph: 03 5568 1559 Pharmacy Sackville Street Port Fairy Ph: 03 5568 1083 Vet Ph: 03 5568 1855 | |||
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| Labour Day Weekend Approximately 40,000 people come to Port Fairy every March for this world famous independent music festival. The best musicians from around the globe perform at this 4 day festival of folk, country, blues, jazz, bluegrass, acoustic rock and world roots music. The festival transforms the town into a spirit of cultural celebration with the “Free Festival of the Streets” alongside the main concerts in the ticketed arena. The festival has won 3 Australian Torism Awards in a row and the Hall of Fame Award. Demand for tickets and accommodation is huge (tickets sell out in 1 day) so contact the festival before October. | |||
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| 41 Regent Street Port Fairy VIC Open: 7 days Wilma is a realist artist whose works are displayed for sale or viewing at the sudio/gallery at the rear of 41 Regent Street. | |||
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