Entertainment
25 September, 2024
Action-packed program for Torimba Festival
AN ACTION-packed two weeks for Ravenshoe is fast approaching as the renowned Torimba Festival returns for its 55th year with its legendary events program.
Since the first festival in 1969, locals have gathered in the streets on the first Saturday of October to begin celebrating the rich history of Ravenshoe throughout the festival.
This year the festival will run from 5-19 October with the theme of “A Moment in Time”.
The festival’s key events are the Torimba Ball and the crowning of the Festival Queens, the Miss and Master Torimba program, the Festival of the Forest and the Mardi Gras Street Parade.
The Mardi Gras Street Parade will be held in the afternoon on 12 October and will feature a woodchopping competition, carnival rides and activities, food stalls, decorated floats, horses and walkers parading the streets of Ravenshoe, a lolly explosion, old fashioned games, a truck pull and fireworks to end the night.
The Festival of the Forest will run during the day from 12 October and is a competitive event with a wide variety of woodcraft, furniture, sculpture and more on show.
This highly regarded exhibition receives entries from across Queensland and interstate.
The Festival Queen entrants for this year are Maryann Defaveri and Jewel McPherson and is crowned at the Torimba Ball on 19 October.
Known as the “cutest” festival program, the Miss and Master Torimba gives contestants of the age of five a special opportunity to “live like a prince or princess” for the festival.
The winners for this year have already been announced with Levi Zipperer named as Master Torimba and Claire Kidner as Miss Torimba.
The two-week program is filled with a multitude of events for everyone such as blacksmithing displays, a paint and sip morning, a “hoedown” featuring Careless and a bumper bingo night.
For more information visit www.torimbafestival.com.au
