FOUR like-minds have banded together to continue Wedderburn’s annual Christmas and Arts Festival.
MIchelle Hargreaves, Alex Holt, Vicki Bainbridge and Fiona Turnbull hanve banded together to stage the 2025 festival.
They will be a sub-committee of the town’s Lions Club and take the two-day festival into a new era.
Wedderburn Patchwork Group had ran the event for more than 30 years and donated thousands of dollars to charities across the region.
However, an ageing membership saw the group retire from running the festival and look for new organisers.
Alex said that Michelle had been a key leader in assembling the festival sub-committee.
“We all love the Christmas festival and how it brings people together,” Alex said.
“We’re being proudly supported by the Wedderburn Lions Club, there will be a jazzed-up new schedule so you can let your creative imagination go wild ...to Infinity and beyond.”
“The Wedderburn Town Hall is a splendid venue to showcase a vast and resplendent assortment of craft entries including decorated Christmas trees, patchwork quilts, floral arrangements, baked delights, an extensive number of artworks.
“There will be an endless list of sections to exhibit extraordinary artistic talents that will delight every visitor. And creative craft sections are open to children under school age right through to hostel residents.
“This will be the year to thrive, to feel alive, to surprise, to create the remarkable, to dazzle and sparkle and celebrate the most wondrous time of the year with the most creative christmas cheer.”
The new organisers used this week’s announcement to dust off Christmas clothing and promote the continuation of the festival.
Alex said there would be expanded food and drink options at the festival in November.
“And we will have numerous art, craft and homewares’ stalls will also be offering excellent Christmas gifts for sale so start saving your pennies,” Alex said this week.
“We’re really pleased to keep this tradition alive and so grateful that the Lions Club has kindly become our auspicing body.
“The festival always attracts large crowds and we hope that they will keep rocking into Wedderburn when the 2025 festival is unveiled.”