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

Venue: Upper Yarra Arts Centre, Warburton Hwy WARBURTON

Contact Details:

5966 4500

Bugger the Polar Bears, this is serious. Why is climate change always about polar bears? Who's their agent? It's not like they're the only ones who will be extinct! Changing the world has never been so much fun as when you do it in the company of Rod Quantock.

Time: 8pm

Cost: Adults $24, Concession $20

Venue: Lubra Bend Homestead, 135 Simpson Lane, YARRA GLEN

Contact Details:

vic@opengarden.org.au

In early spring there are thousands of nodding daffodils and jonquils under the oaks, 50 year-old camellias and magnolias in full bloom.
 
A newer area designed by Phil Johnson, in what was a bare brown paddock, is an exciting and unexpected surprise. Through an old cypress hedge is a pleasing landscape of predominantly Australian plants, massive rocks and water. Designed for low water use this is anything but a dry garden.Water harvested from the roof of the house is used to fill a naturalistic pool, with the overflow cascading into the recently planted wetlands area beyond, and on into the river below, flanked by wattles now in their full golden glory. The wetlands area is also home to a newly acquired large bronze pear sculpture by George Baldessin, like those seen at the National Gallery in Canberra.
 
There is also a flourishing vegetable plot, small orchard, and perennial border in this beautiful and inspiring garden. Refreshments will be served by the house on the croquet lawn with its views of the Australian Alps. 

Time: 10am-4.30pm

Cost: $7 (children under 18 admitted free)

Contact Details:

9285 0600 or visit www.starttofinish.com.au

Experience one of Victoria's most beautiful and best known wine areas on the run or walk in the second annual Yarra Valley Grape Run on Saturday, 4 September 2010.

With spectacularly scenic views of the valley and the Yarra Ranges, this community fitness event is a truly memorable experience - one not to be missed! Located less than an hours drive from Melbourne, The Yarra Valley Grape Run is a unique event in Australia in that it is modelled on the illustrious South African Comrades Marathon, where the route alternates each year. This year, the long course (13km run) will run from Healesville to the Yarra Rec Reserve. New in 2010, is an 8km run, which will start at TarraWarra Estate and finish at Yarra Rec Reserve. The short course (5km run/walk) will start and finish at Yarra Glen. After you have finished your run/walk, take the opportunity to spend the rest of the day or weekend to enjoy all that the Yarra Valley has to offer.

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

Contact Details:

9739 0222 or visit www.vinesrestaurant.com.au

Spoil Dad this Father's Day; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Bookings Essential.

Breakfast - shared platter and hot breakfast $25 per person (8.30am-10.30am)

Lunch - three courses $60 per person (12.30pm onwards)

Dinner - a la carte menu (6.30pm onwards)

Venue: Seville Hill Winery, 8 Paynes Rd SEVILLE

Contact Details:

5964 3284 or visit www.sevillehill.com.au

Treat Dad to a relaxing three-course luncheon at the winery, while you groove to the smooth jazz tunes of the 'Chris Dal Trio'. Enjoy fabulous Seville Hill wines sold by the glass or bottle.

Time: 12pm-4.30pm

Cost: $55 adults, $15 kids

Venue: Chateau Yering Historic House Hotel, 42 Melba Hwy YERING

Contact Details:

9237 3333 or visit www.chateauyering.com.au

Spoil Dad this year with a memorable lunch at Chateau Yering Hotel. Bookings are essential.

Sweetwater Cafe: a casual 3-course lunch with complimentary beer for Dad - $65 per adult (kids menu also available)

Eleonore's Restaurant: enjoy the fine dining experience of the award-winning Eleonore's. Executive chef Mathew Macartney will present a 6-course degustation lunch for a truly unforgettable Father's Day - $120 per adult or $150 per adult with matched wines or beers

Venue: Healesville Hotel, Maroondah Hwy HEALESVILLE

Contact Details:

5962 4002 or visit www.healesvillehotel.com.au

We are bringing together all Dad's favourite things from the Yarra Valley and Kitchen & Butcher... where we have been dry aging beef, gently maturing cheeses and tending to some vintage port. So spoil Dad on Father's Day with a leisurely Sunday lunch at a perfect country pub. Bookings essential.

Cost: $65 per person (3-courses with choices from the full menu and specials)

Venue: Coldstream Brewery, 694 Maroondah Hwy COLDSTREAM

Contact Details:

9739 1794 or visit www.coldstreambrewery.com.au

Father's Day is just around the corner, so why not surprise Dad with Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner at the Coldstream Brewery! We will be offering our full a la carte menu which also includes our daily specials board.

We are also offering tours & tastings of the brewery for $15 per person which would be a great little treat for Dad! Bookings are essential.

Venue: Stones of the Yarra Valley, 14 St Huberts Rd COLDSTREAM

Contact Details:

9739 0900 or visit www.stonesoftheyarravalley.com

Father's Day is upon us and to celebrate the Stones' team have put together an outstanding spring spread to keep Dad happy. Limited tables are still available.

Time: 12.30pm

Cost: $70 per person (excludes beverages)

Venue: Healesville Sanctuary, Badger Creek Rd HEALESVILLE

Contact Details:

5957 2837 or visit www.zoo.org.au

Dine in our contemporary, new Sanctuary Harvest Cafe and enjoy a food experience brought to you by the team from the Healesville Hotel, our new food partners, who have created a delicious menu of seasonal Yarra Valley produce including a tailor-made offer for your Dad on Father's Day.   

Dad can enjoy a classic mixed grill with a difference comprising of K & B housemade pork sausages, scotch fillet & Yeringberg lamb cutlets with fried onion rings; complimented by apple & raspberry crumble with vanilla bean ice-cream. $35 for a set two-course meal also includes a local beer such as Hargreaves Hill or a glass of Harvest wine. A-la-carte menu options also available for the whole family to celebrate with Dad. Bookings welcome.

Time: 11.30am-3pm

Cost: $35 per person

Venue: Elmswood Estate, 75 Monbulk-Seville Rd WANDIN EAST

Contact Details:

5964 3015

Looking for something different for Dad this Father's Day? Why not spoil him with all his favourites at Elmswood Estate with their 3-course 'Bloke's Buffet'?

With a local beer for every Dad on arrival and Mainstream playing all of Dad's favourite songs, it's sure to be one Father's Day that he will never forget! Seats are limited, so please book early.

Time: 12.30pm onwards

Cost: Adults $55, Children $25

 

Venue: Dominique Portet, 870 Maroondah Hwy COLDSTREAM

Contact Details:

5962 5760 or visit www.dominiqueportet.com

Enjoy celebrating Father's Day at the beautiful Dominique Portet Winery. Play petanque, relax with a French gourmet pie and a glass of Pinot Noir. Sculpture Mary Van Den Broek will have a garden exhibition at the winery. Her work in steel and limestone is magic!

Cost: $24 per person

Venue: Coldstream Brewery, 694 Maroondah Hwy COLDSTREAM

Contact Details:

9739 1794

A five course menu featuring local and rare breed beef, with a glass of Coldstream Brewery beer, matched to each course. Bookings essential.

Time: 7pm

Cost: $75 per person (or $60 with dinner only)

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: 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