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West Australian
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- West Australian
IN PICTURES: Albany marks WA Day long weekend with free family festival at WA Museum of the Great Southern
Families flocked to Albany to celebrate WA Day on Monday, enjoying a perfect end to a long weekend with a free fun day at the WA Museum of the Great Southern. A colourful cast of diverse community characters at the museum provided free, fun-filled entertainment for visitors of all ages. The Brig Amity was free to board all day, with volunteers on board to tell the tales of the ship to visitors, and the museum's discovery centre also opened free of charge. Stalls covered the precinct with lawn games, face painting, Menang toolmaking, messy play for children, environmental education, and arts and crafts throughout the day. Albany volunteer firefighters brought out all the gear, inviting visitors to climb up into the fire engine and don a yellow fire jacket and helmet. Vintage cars, similar to those seen racing around Albany's town centre on Sunday in the iconic Albany Classic motorsport event, were lined up for visitors to admire. Live performances provided a soundtrack to the day's fun, with the Mt Lockyer Primary School Choir and the Bird on a Wire Choir taking to the stage, as well as a host of local acts.
West Australian
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Museum of the Great Southern prepares a host of attractions to entertain Albany's WA Day visitors
Staff at Albany's foreshore attractions are getting ready to welcome thousands of WA Day visitors with a host of events on the cards to keep them entertained. The Museum of the Great Southern, the Brig Amity and the Albany Convict Gaol Museum are expecting about 3000 locals and tourists to head to the city to take advantage of a free day of family fun on Monday. Ian Westmore, the regional manager of the Museum of the Great Southern, said a full range of activities, all with a Western Australian slant, would be taking place in the precinct. Some of those lined up to take part include Larry Blight, who will be showcasing Menang toolmaking, Lovilen Edwards, whose face painting will transform children into quokkas or black swans, and Mark Higginbotham, who will be guiding visitors around the Brig Amity. Mr Blight said he would be making a set of traditional, Indigenous tools. 'It is always a great atmosphere on the day,' he said. 'It will be a lot of fun, I'll make lots of smoke and burn lots of resin for those lovely smells; and I'll be answering about a million questions. 'Or maybe it'll be the same question a million times,' he laughed. Also scheduled is a full stage program opening with a welcome to country by Menang elder Vernice Gillies and followed by a succession of local acts including Jamie the Clown, Adam Grok, the Bird on a Wire Choir, and the Mt Lockyer Primary School Choir. Mr Westmore said it was important to invite local participants. 'It's a community celebration of WA Day so we wanted stallholders and participants to be part of that and to be people who understand what it's like to be West Australian,' he said. The events take place on Monday, June 2 from 10am-2pm.
