There’s lots to get you out of the house and entertained this weekend.
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Organise your weekend with this handy hit list.
1. Combined Riders Toy Run
Saturday December 1, riders will kick off from 9am at Jubilee Oval Car Park and finish at 12.20pm at the Civic Centre for a community event.
Motorbike enthusiasts are giving children the chance to unwrap toys on Christmas day. The Combined Riders of Wagga have been organising the Toy Run for more than 30 years.
All cash donations are spent on toys and all toys are donated to the Salvation Army and St Vincent de Paul for distribution. During the Toy Run’s history, more than $250,000 worth of toys have been donated to charity.
The afternoon will feature family entertainment including a jumping castle, raffles and an auction.
For safety reasons, do not try to give toys to the riders while they are on the road. 9.45am to 10am Forest Hill Park.
10.15am to 10.45am Apex Park. 11am to 11.15am Henwood Park. 11.35am to 11.50am Ashmont Oval.
2. Christmas Party Day Races
Saturday December 1 from 12pm at the Murrumbidgee Turf Club.
Get into the Christmas spirit.
Christmas Party race day will feature stacks of children’s entertainment, including a water slide, foam cannon, jumping castle and a visit from Santa.
The race meeting will attract businesses and social and sporting groups to kick-start their Christmas festivities.
A highlight on the track will be the James Green Memorial 2018 Silver Spoon Hcp – a race for grey horses only.
Admission is $15 for adults and under 18s free.
3. Soda_Jerks’ TERROR NULLIS
With the apocalyptic desert camps of Mad Max 2 the site of a refugee detention and feminist motorcycle gangs – TERROR NULLIUS is challenging the definition of what it means to be Australian.
The film is a political revenge fable which is part political satire, eco-horror and road movie.
Binding together a documentary impulse with the bent plotlines of Australian film texts, Soda_Jerk’s revisionist history opens a willful narrative space where cinema fictions and historical facts permeate each other in new ways.
The apocalyptic desert camps of Mad Max 2 become the site of refugee detention, feminist motorcycle gangs rule the highways and flesh-eating sheep are recast as anti-colonial insurgents.
In doing so, Soda_Jerk mount a critique of Australian history and identity with a sensibility so furious, so larrikin, and, ultimately, so Australian.
TERROR NULLIUS will be screening on the hour, every hour, throughout the duration of the exhibition in the Margaret Carnegie Gallery until February 10, 2019, at the Wagga Art Gallery.
4. Festiva: The Wagga Academy of Ballet
Saturday December 1, at the Wagga Civic Theatre from 7pm.
The Wagga Academy of Ballet’s showcase is based around the theme of celebrations, special occasions and festivals.
Christmas, New Year’s Day, Chinese New Year, Australia Day, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Sports Finals, Birthdays, Halloween, Graduations, Weddings, and Carnivals all make a guest appearance.
The Wagga Academy of Ballet was established in 1997 by Leanne Nicol who was an inaugural member of the Inland Ballet Company.
5. Life in the Spotlight
The show runs until December 1 at the CSU Riverina Playhouse.
After countless hours of rehearsing it is time to open the curtains, light the stage and live ‘life in the spotlight’ for the annual Specialist Medical Resources Foundation fundraiser.
Life in the Spotlight is one of the biggest fundraising events for SMRF which provides non-government funded medical equipment and financial support to Riverina residents in need.
This year’s show promises not to disappoint and features hits from The Greatest Showman, Grease, Strictly Ballroom The Musical, Beauty and the Beast, Rock of Ages, Mamma Mia, Dirty Dancing and more.
Cathy Wall, Michael Peacock and Leah Ellis lead the cast of 45 from across the Riverina and tickets are available from The Civic Theatre or at the door of the CSU Riverina Playhouse.