Other HISTORICAL FESTIVALS AND Events
These are other historical events during the year in Goulburn that you might like to visit.
GOULBURN SHOW | 6 MAR- 7 MAR 2021
Find more information on the Goulburn Show website here, or the Goulburn Show Facebook Page here, or
contact the Show Comittee on info@goulburnshow.com or 02 4821 6813
Goulburn lilac city festival | 1 OCT - 4 OCT 2021
Goulburn’s Lilac City Festival occurs every October long weekend. This year the festival is on from Friday, 1st October until Monday, 4th October. Australia’s longest running festival welcomes a myriad of food, flowers, festival markets, music, carnival, and heritage celebrations to Goulburn.
A traditional shop-front competition has the City’s Auburn Street dotted with lilac windows. Check out the winners on our Facebook link below.
Belmore Park is green, blossoming and air abuzz with the crowning of the Festival’s Lilac Queen and the Junior Prince and Princess at the official opening of the Festival on Saturday 2nd October 2021.
Joyland Carnival takes care of kids (and the young-at-heart) looking for their sugar, adrenaline and Dagwood-dog fix, while local musical acts fill the spring air with their serenades from the heritage rotunda.
Witness the Garden Competition and marvel at our region’s horticultural skills, including lilac trees and lilac colours! A list of gardens to admire is always published on our Facebook link below.
Find more information on the Lilac City Festival Facebook page here.
GOULBURN 2020 | Following the event
Goulburn 2020 explored past, present and future as it marked the 1820 journey of Governor Lachlan Macquarie through the Goulburn region and the official start of European settlement. A primary focus was on 1820 and before, considering the people who had lived in the region for millennia, the evolving landscape since Gondwana, and the flora and fauna that thrived here.
Goulburn 2020 also considered what have been the impacts of the last 200 years and what the future holds.
Goulburn 2020 was to have been a diverse program of events and activities throughout October 2020, but Covid 19 intervened. As a result, only the following happened in October 2020:
Journey Through Country – a new locally written play about possession and dispossession that was based on Macquarie’s diary of his journey through the Goulburn Plains in October 1820. It was performed on the Mulwaree Plains beneath the railway viaduct.
Visit by the Governor of NSW, Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC, exactly 200 years since Macquarie visited. The Governor unveiled a plaque and planted a Eucalypt in the vicinity of Macquarie’s campsite on the Mulwaree Plain.
Publication of 1820 Commemorative Bulletin by History Goulburn.
Indigenous Weaving Workshop on Zoom – led by Kalkadon woman, Ronnie Jordan, for school children in the Goulburn region.
Mulwaree River Walk and Talk – Jennie Gordon and Jennifer Lamb discussed, respectively, the Aboriginal heritage of the Mulwaree River vicinity and colonial explorers’ descriptions of it.
The Old Town: Goulburn and Riversdale 1820 and beyond – exhibition at Riversdale.
Featuring local Aboriginal World War I soldiers – exhibition at Rocky Hill Memorial and Museum.
History and Myths of Weereewaa/Lake George – talk by Patrick de Deckker at Goulburn Mulwaree Library.
New Australians in the Goulburn Area: a Wave of Migration 1940s-1960 - talk by Nadia Johnson at Goulburn Mulwaree Library.
Daily recording with commentary and images of Macquarie’s diary of his journey through the Mulwaree/Goulburn Plains -on Facebook page Goulburn 2020
Gifting of 180 Lomandra seedlings to local primary and pre-schools.
Find more information on the Goulburn 2020 website here or contact Jennifer Lamb on historygoulburn2580@gmail.com or 0458 028 003