All Events in Woodend

Discover what comes alive after dark and help monitor local wildlife in Macedon Ranges’ biolink areas. Join the environment team for a spotlight walk and hands-on biodiversity survey. This is a citizen science event, with data collected contributing to Council’s biodiversity data and Hanging Rock Reserve Monitoring Plan. Spotlighting is a vital tool for tracking native species and understanding the health of our bushland corridors. While out on our walk we may spot nesting birds, possums or the elusive Brush-tailed Phascogale, or hear the calls of microbats or owls flying overhead. Come along, contribute to real conservation work, and experience the magic of the bush at night.

Come along for some Minecraft fun! Come along to Minecraft Lab and enter our Minecraft world with other players. Ages 7-11 years. BOOKINGS REQUIRED

Come along for some Minecraft fun! Come along to Minecraft Lab and enter our Minecraft world with other players. Ages 9-13 years.

Learn to draw Australian megafauna with illustrator Liz Duthie. Would you like to doodle a diptrotodon or master a megalania? Get creative drawing Australian megafauna and other animals with children's book illustrator and artist Liz Duthie. Ages 9-13 years.

Join us for an exploration of late 19th-century horticulture in Mount Macedon. A Horticultural History of Mount Macedon in the Late 19th-Century, directed and produced by Elizabeth Lansglow, supported by the Public Records Office of Victoria. Filmed on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Taungurung and Dja Dja Wurrung Peoples.

Discover the nocturnal wildlife living along Five Mile Creek, Woodend. Learn how scientists monitor wildlife after dark and meet some neighbours you never knew.

We journey to Gallipoli to the very moving 90th Anniversary celebrations, travelling with Historian Jonathan King, Poet Rupert Mccall, who also performs at the event, and people of all ages including Mal Donaldson whose father served at Gallipoli as a fifteen year old bugler. We talk to lots of Australians who were there and to many Turkish people as well who tell us of its importance to them too. This is a very moving film, made more so by the music of Peter Sculthorpe and Eric Bogle.

A sharply funny and deeply moving story drawing on Anna's experience of working in aged care.