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The focus was firmly on our region’s youth services yesterday when they were both set up for a bright future and recognized for great work already done. Swan Hill Rural City Council was announced as one of five councils across the state to share in $2.5 million funding from the ...

Do you sing in the shower, but yearn to take to the stage? Maybe you like sing-alongs with your kids? Or maybe you’re an experienced performer? Regardless of your singing prowess, you are being asked to lend your voice to a pop-up community choir in Swan Hill this September. In ...

The Swan Hill region is culturally strong and artistically ambitious. That is the vision set out in the Swan Hill Rural City Council draft Creative Strategy, which was released for public input today. Mayor Les McPhee said ideas from the community and from Council’s cultural services team were used to ...

July was a huge month for the L2P Program, with a new pilot program starting in Robinvale. Thanks to an initiative from the Robinvale College Clontarf Foundation, learner drivers in Robinvale will now have access to the program one day a fortnight. L2P Program Officer Ross Palmer said he was ...

Should the Swan Hill Outdoor Pool be relocated to the Swan Hill Leisure Centre? Does our region needs a public water play park? Do we need to expand or upgrade our current aquatic facilities? Council has engaged SGL Consulting to develop a 10 year Aquatics Strategic Plan for our region ...

Do you like to stay up to date with news and information from Council? To have a say on decisions that affect your local community? To know what’s happening around our region? You can help improve the way Swan Hill Rural City Council communicates and how you can get involved ...

Calling independent artists and arts companies. We want you to collaborate with rural young people as part of this year’s Fairfax Youth Initiative. Fairfax connects rural communities with professional artists through onsite residencies. Artists work in schools alongside rural and regional young people to equip them with skills to develop ...

Are you an artist or creative person living in the Swan Hill region? Do you enjoy going to live shows, visiting galleries or getting involved at the Library? Or maybe you have ideas about what would entice you to get involved or attend a local arts event? In May, you ...

Swan Hill NOVO Youth Council is ready to make a change. This Friday night at 7pm, the inaugural Make a Change Film Festival will make its debut at the Swan Hill Town Hall PACC. Created by young people for young people, the festival aims to get young people in Swan ...

The Swan Hill Youth Arts Festival celebrates and enriches the talents of young people in our community. There are so many young, passionate and talented people in our community contributing to the arts with limited recognition. The Youth Arts Festival (YAF) gives young people the chance to not only be recognised, ...