Featuring animals, rides, competitions, and entertainment, Clarke Oval will be full of life as the annual Sunbury Show kicks off this Saturday.
The show will provide live entertainment, including from local school choirs and dance groups, and includes a range of animal-related events and competitions like a petting zoo, dog high jump, pet parade, and horse and cattle shows.
Sunbury Show committee secretary Narelle Reino said that the event has a strong community focus and will showcase local community groups and businesses.
“The Sunbury Connected Communities and the Bendigo Bank, they’ve actually made all of our pavilion entries free to everyone this year, trying to really reconnect with the community, with the schools, and the older generation, because after COVID, even the entries were down considerably,” Ms Reino said.
She said that this year’s show includes a community hub, hosted at a pavilion room provided by the Sunbury Bowling Club, which will give local community groups an opportunity to promote their organisations and seek members.
Ms Reino said that the Sunbury Show has retained the charm of a traditional agricultural show.
“We have an amazing MC, we do [a] gumboot throwing toss, we try and do a tug-of-war … it’s going back to the old games that they used to play … it’s our 102nd show this year,” she said.
“We’ve got free trail bags as well for the kids, there are 500 of them … there’s drinks, there’s food, there’s toys that they can pick up around the area, and that has all come from the local communities.”
The Sunbury Show will run from 8.30am–5pm on Saturday, October 12 at Sunbury Recreation.
Tickets are $20 per adult, $5 per child, and $40 for a family of up to two adults and four children.
Details: sunburyshow.au/
Oscar Parry
