A 'BIG Weekend' festival in Creswick

This festival will be an inaugural event to celebrate our culture, recreation and environment. A festival that will bring many local groups, businesses and community members together to create a weekend of fun for everyone, every age from everywhere. The weekend will host a fundraising, gourmet dinner dance on the Friday night and all activities will finish on Sunday afternoon with a street parade including a billy cart race. Saturday and Sunday will have many concurrent activities across the whole township including a dusk lantern parade and bonfire. There will sport, recreation, food, arts, culture, history in a beautiful environment

This festival will continue positive cultural and environmental change since the devastating floods of 2011. The festival will be created BY the community FOR the community.
It will:
- improve community cohesion, connectedness and our resilience to any natural disasters
- celebrate our country charm, intimacy and increasing town pride
- bring all groups together to create a unified front to display to visitors
attract visitor numbers, creating social and economic benefits
- increase hospitality, food enterprises and improve jobs growth
- It will work towards making Creswick an even better place to live, work, play and raise a family