Venue: Yering Station, 38 Melba Hwy YARRA GLEN

Contact Details:

9730 0100 or visit www.yering.com

Commission from sales will be donated to the Leukaemia Auxiliary of the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.

Time: 10am-5pm weekdays & 10am-6pm weekends

Venue: Three Stories, 505 Maroondah Hwy HEALESVILLE

Contact Details:

5962 5688 or visit www.threestories.com.au

The next exhibition at Three Stories Artspace in Healesville is 'Polarity', a Photographic exhibition by three Yarra Valley photographers; Melody Hammon, Mike Emmett and Bec Jones (a year 12 student at Little Yarra Steiner School). The exhibition is forming part of her Year 12 project.

Time: Thursday to Sunday (11am-4pm)

Venue: TarraWarra Museum of Art, 311 Healesville-Yarra Glen RD HEALESVILLE

Contact Details:

5957 3100 or visit www.twma.com.au

TWMA Contemporary 2010 will create a fresh opportunity to explore Australian contemporary art practice and create a window for key arts figures to nominate significant new directions and acknowledge new ideas.

Time: 11am-5pm Tuesdays to Sundays

Venue: TarraWarra Museum of Art, 311 Healesville-Yarra Glen Rd HEALESVILLE

Contact Details:

5957 3100 or visit www.twma.com.au

In exhibiting these works from the TWMA collection they give the viewer the opportunity to observe the contrast of figurative art to total abstraction.

Time: 11am-5pm Tuesday to Sunday

Venue: Heart Gallery, 43 Maroondah Hwy, HEALESVILLE

Contact Details:

5962 6055 or visit www.healesvilleart.com.au

Gabriele's work encompasses her love of different mediums. Her bright, vibrant, handpainted silk pictures and mixed media pieces incorporate objects collected on her travels. Her pastels show her love and understanding of the Aussie bush and wildlife. There is much to discover about this artist when you visit Heart Gallery during September.

Open: 10am-4pm Wednesday to Sunday

Contact Details:

0447 098 206 or 5962 1904

Country Womens Association - Healesville Nite Chicks. Fantastic fun, great clues, and lots of prizes.

Suitable for all ages, come along and be prepared to have fun! Sausage sizzle and drinks available. Meet at River Street Park.

Time: 11am start

Cost: $10 per car

Venue: CJ Dennis Hall, Healesville-Kinglake Rd TOOLANGI

Contact Details:

0438 731 214 or gondwanalande@bigpond.com

Please join Greg Moore (Melbourne Uni), Frances Saunders (Landscape designer and lecturer) and Graeme George (Earthcare permaculture) for inspiring talks on gardening and landscape design in bushfire prone areas, and growing fruit and vegies in cooler climates.

Time: 11.30am-4pm

Cost: FREE (RSVPs must be received by September 1 for catering purposes)

Venue: Yarra Valley Visitor Information Centre, Harker St HEALESVILLE

Contact Details:

5962 2600 or admin@visityarravalley.com.au

Visitor Information Centres (VICs) are a vital ingredient in the success of Victoria’s tourism industry. They play a significant role in enriching the visitor experience, contribute to regional dispersal and often increase the length of stay and dollars that visitors spend in a destination.

Open seven days a week, Victoria’s accredited Visitor Information Centres are staffed by friendly, professional and trained people with extensive local knowledge. They offer a broad range of services from accommodation and tour booking services, to local product sales and event ticketing. On Saturday September 11, Visitor Information Centres around the state are opening their doors for locals and tourism businesses alike to spend some time with their local VIC and discover the wide range of visitor services they provide. From Ambassador programs to attraction showcases, find out how your local VIC are helping people discover the best things about your local area. They are a great first step to finding out how your destination is promoted and a chance to get out and about in your own backyard.

We hope you will attend the Yarra Valley Visitor Information Centre’s Open Day on September 11. We are proudly being supported by Healesville Rotary and will be offering a sausage sizzle between 12pm-3pm.

Venue: Healesville Memorial Hall, 237 Maroondah Hwy HEALESVILLE

Contact Details:

5965 3528

Feltmaking is an innovative craft making a popular resurgence from its ancient origins. In this workshop you will create a fine wool and silk felted wrap, while learning the technique known as nuno felting - the fusion of silk with wool to create a delicate felt fabric. Create your wrap starting with silk and embellish delicate textured details with wool and stitching techniques.

Time: 10am-4.30pm

Cost: $115 per person

Venue: Mont De Lancey Historic Homestead, 71 Wellington Rd WANDIN

Contact Details:

5964 2088 or visit www.montdelancey.org.au

The 15th Annual Art Show will see the presentation of the fin Mont De Lancey Acquisition Art Award. The exhibition and ale of paintings will be held in the museum and give local artists their last opportunity to be represented in the Mont De Lancey Collection.

The fourteen works comprising the Collection to date will be on display in the gallery during the show. Artists resident in the Shire of Yarra Ranges are invited to enter.

Museum Entry: $5 per person

Venue: Seville Hill Winery, 8 Paynes Rd SEVILLE

Contact Details:

5964 3284 or visit www.sevillehill.com.au

Enjoy a leisurely Sunday afternoon relaxing under the towering elms, listening to local jazz band 'Chris Dal Trio', while you gaze across the Valley to the blue tinged mountains beyond.

A wonderful gourmet BBQ lunch, platters, desserts, tea and coffee will be available. Seville Hill wines will also be sold by the glass or bottle.

Time: 12pm-4.30pm

Venue: Tesselaar Tulip Farm, 357 Monbulk Rd SILVAN

Contact Details:

9737 7722 or visit www.tulipfestival.com.au

Discover four weeks of dazzling spring colour - get together with friends and family for a magnificent day out amongst the brillian colour of over a million spring flowers. Discover how the flowers are grown, plus the rich history and interesting past of the Tulip. Discover the amazing variety of the bloom, with over a hundred different types in all sizes, shapes and colours. Best of all discover a great festival packed with entertainment and splendour.

Time: 10am-5pm daily

Cost: Adults $18, Concession $15, Children under 16 FREE (if accompanied by adult). Mad Mondays - all tickets $10

Pre-book tickets by phone or online to avoid queues on the day. Group tickets must be pre-booked.

Venue: Vines Restaurant at Helen's Hill Winery, 16 Ingram Rd COLDSTREAM

Contact Details:

9739 0222 or visit www.vinesrestaurant.com.au

Why not treat yourself to a night beyond your expectations. The journey starts with a main meal not like any other matched with a glass of wine; it then leads you into three exquisitely prepared desserts all accompanied by a little something sweet. Bookings Essential.

Time: from 7pm

Cost: $65 per person (four courses with tasting wines)

Venue: Various locations throughout the Valley

Contact Details:

www.yvopenstudios.net.au

70 Artists are opening up their secret working spaces in the Yarra Valley in September 2010.

Yarra Valley Open Studios is back! The group exhibition at Sticks Yarra Valley opens on September 5, and the Open Studios Weekend will be held on the weekend of September 17-19. Put it in your diary now! This is a once-a-year opportunity to see artists in their private studio workspaces is a unique chance to get an intimate insight into the creative mind and process of some extraordinary artists. Be amazed by world renowned artists, and inspired by people who make art their lives.

Venue: Yarra Valley Railway, Healesville-Kinglake Rd HEALESVILLE

Contact Details:

www.yvr.com.au

Over 4,000 visitors flocked to the first Heritage Festival in 2009. The 2010 event will be even bigger and better with many more attractions, displays and loads more fun for all! Free shuttle bus running between the station and the River Street picnic ground in Healesville.

 

Time: 10am-4pm

Cost: $2 entry

Venue: Oakridge Wines, 864 Maroondah Hwy, COLDSTREAM

Contact Details:

9738 9900 or visit www.oakridgewines.com.au

Join us for a delectable five course duck inspireed degustation matched with a selection of hand crafted current vintage and museum release Oakridge wines. Group Bookings Welcome. Reservations Essential.

Time: 7pm

Cost: $70 per person (without drinks) or $105 per person (with matched wines)

Venue: Giant Steps, Maroondah Hwy HEALESVILLE

Contact Details:

5962 6111 or visit www.innocentybystander.com.au

After weeks of preparation, the GSIB kitchen has finally presented us with a menu for the next banquet night - it's Latin and it's worth the wait!

Tapas: escabeche of spring bay mussels; chorizo and pumpkin pate; slow braised lamb empanada; and potato and white asparagus tortilla.

Main: twice cooked pork belly, quince jam and burnt honey; with side of minted cabbage and jamon salad.

To finish: creme caramel with Chilean honey and almond praline

Time: bookings between 6.30pm-9.30pm (bookings essential)

Cost: $55 per person

Venue: Healesville Memorial Hall, Maroondah Hwy HEALESVILLE

Contact Details:

5965 3528 or hmh@yarraranges.vic.gov.au

Shrek Forever (PG) Rumpelstiltskin tricks a mid-life crisis burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpel rules supreme.

Time: 11am

Cost: $7

Venue: Upper Yarra Arts Centre, 3409 Warburton Hwy WARBURTON

Contact Details:

5966 4500

How to Train Your Dragon (PG) A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.

Time: 11am

Cost: $7

Venue: Seville Hill Winery, 8 Paynes Rd SEVILLE

Contact Details:

5964 3284 or visit www.sevillehill.com.au

Enjoy a leisurely Sunday afternoon relaxing under the towering elms, listening to local jazz band 'Chris Dal Trio', while you gaze across the Valley to the blue tinged mountains beyond.

A wonderful gourmet BBQ lunch, platters, desserts, tea and coffee will be available. Seville Hill wines will also be sold by the glass or bottle.

Time: 12pm-4.30pm

Venue: Upper Yarra Arts Centre, 3409 Warburton Hwy WARBURTON

Contact Details:

5966 4500 or uyac@yarraranges.vic.gov.au

Nanny Mc Phee Returns (G) The magic is back, warts and all! Emma Thompson is transformed once again into the mysterious nanny with unsettling features. From a flying motorcyle to a tree-climbing piglet, she conjures up just the right formula to teach her new charges five new lessons.

Time: 11am

Cost: $7

Venue: Eltham Community & Reception Centre, 801 Main Road ELTHAM

Contact Details:

9439 7228 or visit home.vicnet.net.au/~apsyarrayarra

Native landscaping, Bush food, and Wildlife. A native gardener's delight: huge native flower show, plant sales including indigenous plants, book sales, art, other gift and product stalls. Speaker program. Activities for children - extra attraction of 'water bugs' Saturday. Prizes to be won. Wheelchair friendly. Ample parking. Refreshments courtesy of 1st Eltham Scouts. Organized by Australian Plants Society Yarra Yarra Inc.

Time: 10am-4pm

Cost: $5 Adults, $4 Concession, Children FREE