The 24th Kyneton Antique Fair will be staged at a new venue and in partnership with a new community group.
This year’s fair will be held in Quambi Stadium at Sacred Heart College. Entry to the venue is via Begg Street, watch for the directional signs.
While at the fair you will be able to indulge yourself in antiques for every taste, fine china, jewellery, linen, glassware, silverware, militaria, furniture and much more.
There will be about 25 dealers from far and wide in this bigger venue, which will allow all stalls in the same space.
Set in the beautiful grounds of the college there is lots of parking adjacent to the stadium so it won’t be far to carry all those amazing purchases you make.
It is also the first weekend of the 50th Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival so you can visit gardens and galleries and art shows while you are out and about.
A new community group is hosting the event – Macedon Ranges Friends of East Timor. The Macedon Ranges has a friendship with the people in Turiscai, a community of about 9000 people in 11 villages in the remote mountains of East Timor.
Macedon Ranges Shire Council is a partner in this friendship, which has developed over the past 14 years.
The antique fair is is a major fundraising event for Macedon Ranges Friends of East Timor, and all funds raised will support projects to improve the lives of our friends in Turiscai.
Education is the key and foundation for learning by adults as well as children and youth in that community. Funds raised can provide computers to establish a computer room at the senior school of more than 300 where the students are learning about computers without computers.
Providing training for teachers, tables and chairs, books and pencils for classrooms, community nutrition workshops, menstrual health education and kits for girls so they attend school every day, and sponsoring worthy students and student teachers will enhance and benefit the future wellbeing of the community.
Most recently five fish farms have been established, which the people have seen to be a very important way to improve nutrition in their communities, helping them to build more will be one of the goals for MRFOET in the future.
And, as do all young people, the youth in the community would love some musical equipment such as drums, cornets and trumpets.
If you would like to know more about this group check the Macedon Ranges Shire website, look for Timor-Leste Friendship. Enquiries to mrfoet@gmail.com
The Kyneton Antique Fair is on from 10am to 5pm, Saturday September 3, and from 10am to 4pm, Sunday September 4.
Admission is $8 for adults, children free.
