Friday 16th

Variety Concert. Lutheran Church hall, Crow’s Nest. 7:30pm. 4698 1270

Saturday 17th

Crows Nest Week Cabaret  Community Centre. Music by Silvertones. Crowning of King & Queen of the Nest

Sunday 18th

Combined Churches Choir "Pleasant Sunday Afternoon”, 2pm. Crow’s Nest Uniting Church. Cherrill Ebenezer  4698 1387

Crows Nest Advertiser Shield Bowls Day Crow’s Nest Bowls Club. 1pm. Open  to the public. $7.

Auto navigation run. 10am start. Lions Club function 4698 2665

Wednesday 21st

Crows Nest Lions Club worm races. Bowls Club. 6:30pm. Meal. Open to all who book. 4698 2277

Friday 23

Official closing of “Dispossession” works by Toowoomba based artist Aaron Hill, 6:30pm. Crows Nest Regional Art Gallery. FREE ENTRY.4698 1687

Saturday 24th

Crows Nest Day. Procession, worm races, fun run , have-a-go at orienteering, stalls, entertainment, haystacking, Crow Calling, art, fireworks at 8pm,CN State School Scholarship class of 1949 reunion at Bullocky’s Rest, entertainment from Peter Gould from Cowboy Up Trail Riding. 9am – 9pm 4698 1119

For more see Crows Nest Day

Sunday 25th

Poets Breakfast at Highfields Pioneer Village. Sunday. Fundraiser for Crows Nest & Highfields Scouts & Pioneer Village. Guest poet: Gary Fogarty. 46 966 309

Cabarlah Country Markets.  4696 6310

Crow’s Nest Ministers Fellowship show the film “The End of the Spear”, marquee, centenary park. Entry by gold coin donation. BYO picnic lunch

Worm Race

During the Festival:

•    Three Hundred Years of Needlework. Display of hand embroidery – school samplers, bed & table linen, pictures, wearable art, baby clothes, doilies. Works from 1699 to the present. 10am-2pm daily in the old school room at Carbethon Folk Museum, Crow’s Nest.  46 982 030,  0448 419 669

•    Colouring Competition for the school children of the area. Entry forms at schools. Entries close Wednesday 14th October.

•    Scarecrows take up residence around the District! Make your own scarecrow and enter the competition or simply enjoy looking for them! Thanks to the Crow’s Nest Art Council. For entries and prizes. Entries close 14 October.

•    Keep up to date with the Festival. Collect the local newspaper The Advertiser on Tuesday, and listen to the local FM radio station 88.0

•    Crow’s Nest Regional Art Gallery 46 981 687

•    Highfields Pioneer Village 46 966 309

•    Call in to the Hampton Information for some self-drive tours – bird trail, tourist trails, national parks, 4WD trail, history walk

•    Visit Cooby, Perseverance or Cressbrook Dams

•    Stay a night or two at the many B&B’s, farm stays, our motel, hotel or caravan park.

•    Local crafts available

•    Enjoy a meal in Crow’s Nest  - 6 eateries

•    Trail ride – Cowboy Up

•    Carbethon Folk Museum open all week – 10am-3pm


DON”T MISS the POET’S BREAKFAST.

Guest: Gary Fogarty.

And you can recite or read a poem too!

Sunday 25th October, 7am – 9:30am.

Full breakfast and entertainment.

$15 Tickets at Highfields Pioneer Village 4696 6309,
Crows Nest Advertiser 4698 1119; Rhonda’s Refits, cnr Hume & Bridge Sts, Toowoomba 46 3 789 33;
Highfields Florist 4615 5056
or on the day.

Then enjoy a day at the Pioneer Village – draught horses, blacksmithing, silversmithing, animals.