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2012 AUSTRALIA 2012
FESTIVALS, TRADE SHOWS & EXHIBITIONS, EXPOS
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January 1-Dec 3, 2012 Denman Farmers Market
(expired domain: www.denmanwineandfood.com )
Denman, New South Wales, Australia
1st Saturday of every month - 8am to 1pm, Lions Park Ogilvie St
January 21, 2012 Kangaroo Island Gourmet Gallop 2012
Kingscote, South Australia, Australia
Showcasing the best of the island's food and wine on the banks of the Cygnet River. Indulge in local produce while enjoying a top day of country horse racing.
January 28-29, 2012 Adelaide Hills Crush Festival
Adelaide Hills, South Australia, Australia
Discover your Crush and celebrate everything vibrant the character-driven region has to offer. The region invites the public to enjoy the best of the region as winemakers and producers showcase their wares at over 30 unique Hills locations.
February 10-12, 2012 Festivale 2012
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
A celebration of quality Tasmanian food, wine and beer, arts, and entertainment.
March 11-13, 2012 Hospitality Queensland 2012
Brisbane, Australia
Queensland”s largest food, drink and equipment trade event for the retail, foodservice and hospitality industries.
March 16-25, 2012 Feast of the Senses 2012
Innisfail, Queensland, Australia
Originated to raise the profile of the rare and exotic tropical produce from around Far North Queensland, the event has expanded to include all local produce, vegetables, meat, seafood, herbs, spices and wines. It also incorporates cultural activities such as art exhibitions, photography competition, recipe competition, fishing competition, rowing regatta, scarecrow competition. Major events include a Wine Fruit and Cheese Showcase, a Gala Dinner and a Market Day Extravaganza.
March 30-Apr 2, 2012 Tastes of the Outback
Domain name expired (www.tastesoftheoutback.com.au/ )
Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia
Wine and dine your way through the Flinders Ranges and Outback. Indulge in fine regional food and wine accompanied by world-class entertainment.
April 13-16, 2012 Margaret River Wine Festival
Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia
The annual festival includes a street fair, vineyard concerts, wine and art auctions, wine barrel races, and cooking classes.
April 26-May 3, 2012 Tasting Australia 2012
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Tasting Australia is the most significant event of its kind, showcasing the very best the nation has to offer in food, wine, beer, gastronomic discussion, hospitality, travel and lifestyle.
May 1-4, 2012 Australian Aquaculture Conference & Trade Show
Melbourne, Australia
Centralising the growing body of information, research, and business opportunities in the Australian aquaculture industry--a biennial event.
May 6-11, 2012 8th International Abalone Symposium
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
The International Abalone Symposium returns after 18 years to the island of Tasmania, home of the world’s largest wild abalone fishery. This is your opportunity to engage and interact with commercial fishers and growers, managers and policy makers, processors, marketers, and researchers.
May 7-12, 2012 Beef Australia 2012
Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Next event in 2015
June 9-11, 2012 Weekend Fit For A King
King Valley, Victoria, Australia
King Valley's annual wine & food event held over the Queens Birthday weekend. Winemakers and their families invite you to join them for a fine selection of winery activities and cellar door tastings. Enjoy delicious great food, premium wines, toe tapping music, and warm King Valley hospitality.
June 19-20, 2012 Clubs & Hotels Expo
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
If you are involved in the hotel or club industry you simply cannot afford to miss Clubs & Hotels 2012.
June 21-July 31, 2012 Capital Country Truffle Festival
Canberra, ACT, Australia
Celebrating the local black truffle season with degustation dinners at Canberra restaurants, lectures, and field trips. See how versatile the truffle is in enhancing the flavour of almost every kind of produce.
July 2-4, 2012 Hotel, Hospitality & Design 2012
Melbourne, Australia
The show brings together every facet of the hospitality supply and service network.
July 7 , 2012 Sawtell Chilli Festival
Sawtell, New South Wales, Australia
Get ready to Turn Up The Heat on the Coffs Coast this July! Australia’s leading chilli product manufacturers and Sawtell Foodies will put a diversity of cuisine on show. If you don’t like chillies, there’s still plenty of non-chilli foods, music and entertainment to choose from.
July 8, 2012 Chocolate Winterfest
Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia
Join us at Latrobe on the central northern coast of Tasmania for this unique celebration of everything chocolate. Includes a decorated chocolate cake competition, chocolate inspired wearable art, Chocolates in Rhyme, and a community lantern parade.
July 13-22, 2012 Broadbeach Restaurant Week
Broadbeach Precinct, Queensland, Australia
Customers will have the opportunity to dine in participating Broadbeach restaurants which will all offer three course set price dinners over 10 Massive nights! Dine around or visit that restaurant you always wanted to!
July 14-20, 2012 Bendigo Festival of Lamb
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Part of The Australian Sheep & Wool Show, the Festival of Lamb includes lamb carving and lamb cooking demonstrations and competitions. Bendigo’s Indian, Indonesian and Filipino culinary stars will demonstrate how they cook traditional lamb dishes.
July 15, 2012 Darwin Lions Beer Can Regatta
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Come enjoy a great family day with beach events for all ages. Proceeds go to projects of the combined Lions Clubs of Darwin.
July 15-18, 2012 AIFST 45th Annual Convention
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
The focus of this 2012 Convention is on the challenges associated with maximising the potential of scientific, technological, societal, legal, regulatory and marketing developments and innovations, within topical aspects of food production. The 45th AIFST convention offers the latest information important to food technologists and scientists, sales and marketing, food educationalists, nutritionists, retailers, management and those in other food-related positions.
July 20-22, 2012 Sustain
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Sustain Natural & Organic Lifestyle Show is Oceania Pacific's premier certified organic and green lifestyle destination. Trade and industry only on July 20. Attendance: 8,000
July 26, 2012 Australian Festival of Chamber Music’s Chefs in the North Dinner
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Some of Australia’s and New Zealand’s leading chefs will prepare a 6 course degustation menu for guests highlighting the best of local produce. Entertainment between courses by special performances from visiting chamber music artists.
July 28-29, 2012 Adelaide Hills Winter Reds Festival
Adelaide Hills, South Australia, Australia
The Adelaide Hills Wine Region invites you to enjoy beautiful wines, warming fare and a cosy atmosphere throughout regional cellar doors during the Winter Reds festival weekend.
July 29, 2012 The Rocks Aroma Festival
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The flavoursome taste of fine coffee, decadent chocolate, tantalising tea and sensational spices from Europe, the Middle East and beyond descend upon the charming streets of The Rocks. For over a hundred years, The Rocks was the hub of Sydney's international trade, where produce such as coffee, tea, and spice was off-loaded to warehouses.
August 12, 2012 Hervey Bay Seafood Festival
Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia
Held every year at the Urangan Boat Harbour, the festival offers an extensive menu of seafood provided by the local commercial fishing industry, live music, exhibits, fish talks, seafood demos & taste tests, and the Chefs of the Sea Cook Off.
August 17-25, 2012 Tweed Banana Festival & Harvest Week
Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia
August 18-19, 2012 Barossa Gourmet Weekend
Barossa Region, South Australia, Australia
This year over 22 wineries are offering fabulous food, world famous wines, and the best of SA ‘s live entertainment. The 2012 line-up includes family friendly activities with something for everyone to enjoy!
August 24-25, 2012 Gluten Free Expo
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Returning to the Sydney Showground, the Gluten Free Expo is showcasing the best of gluten free food. Over 10,000 visitors. (also: http://www.coeliacsociety.com.au )
August 27-28, 2012 Speciality Food & Drink Fair
Sydney, Australia
Australia's exciting new trade event for local, regional and international fine quality food and drink.
September 9, 2012 Tastes of the Tablelands
Atherton, Queensland, Australia
This event will showcase the best wines, coffees, cheeses, chocolates and other local produce that this wonderful region produces.
September 22-Oct 2, 2012 Royal Melbourne Show
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Conducted by the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria, the show is packed with thousands of animals, great entertainment, award winning food and wine, a carnival, educational activities and much more. Don't miss the sheep dog trials or the pig racing and pig diving competitions.
September 27-30, 2012 Annual Oysterfest
Ceduna, South Australia, Australia
A genuine grassroots festival that is fast gathering a national profile, the Oysterfest offers spring sunshine, an ocean view, thousands of delectable oysters, concerts, and kids' activities.
September 29, 2012 Tin Can Bay Seafood, Boat & Camping Show
Tin Can Bay, Queensland, Australia
The festival program is jam packed with entertainment for all the family--great food, seafood cooking demonstrations, wine tasting, arts and crafts, Waiters Race, and prawn eating & mullet throwing competitions.
October 5-7, 2012 MasterChef Live
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
This year the event promises to be an even bigger cooking extravaganza with more MasterClasses, Mystery Box challenges with your favourite contestants, Junior workshops, free hands-on cooking classes and of course the chance to shop for amazing ingredients and cookware to help you become a MasterChef at home.
October 6-7, 2012 Heathcote Wine & Food Festival
Heathcote, Victoria, Australia
Celebrates the grape growers and winemakers who have helped to make Heathcote a name associated with some of Australia's finest wines, in particular Shiraz for which Heathcote is internationally renowned. Supported by a delicious range of regional food and produce.
October 6-7, 2012 Australian Camp Oven Festival 2012
Millmerran, Queensland, Australia
A relaxed, fun filled weekend for the whole family, celebrating our rural heritage and a time when life was a little less hectic, when skill, craftsmanship, entertainment and cooking all took time, but when the results were always worth the wait. Held every other year.
October 13-14, 2012 Tropical Pinefest
Yeppoon, Victoria, Australia
The Yeppoon area, on the Tropic of Capricorn in Central Queensland, supplies fresh pineapples to the Australian market for twelve months of every year. The pineapple festival features fireworks, concerts, a parade, and many popular family activities.
October 20, 2012 Granny Smith Festival
Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
The annual Granny Smith Festival celebrates the life and legacy of one of our district’s most famous citizens, Maria Ann Smith - aka Granny Smith - who, back in 1868, ‘accidentally’ grew the first batch of little green apples that bear her name and are now grown all over the world.
October 27-28, 2012 Unwined Western Australia
Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
UnWined promotes fine Western Australian wines and gourmet food to treat visitors an indulgent experience of the state’s produce in the magnificent Subiaco food and wine district.
November 2-5, 2012 Mildura Jazz, Food and Wine Festival
Mildura, Victoria, Australia
An annual Spring-time event, presenting four days of round the clock jazz entertainment in popular clubs, bars and cafes, restaurants, churches, as well as street side and riverside venues – with feature events utilising unique Murray River settings and all events showcasing regional food and wine.
November 3-4, 2012 11th Annual Toast to the Coast
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
A wine, food, and music festival celebrating Geelong's premium cool climate wines, regional produce and much, much more...
November 4, 2012 Geographe Crush Food & Wine Festival
Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
Enjoy a great day out discovering the wine and food from the fantastic growing region. Activities include wine tastings, seminars, Chefs on Show cooking demonstrations, entertainment, and kids' activities.
November 15-18, 2012 Taste of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
A ‘must attend event’ by food and wine lovers from Australia and beyond. Sample up to 40 signature dishes prepared by chefs from the Melbourne’s best restaurants. Meet chefs, learn from demonstrations and discover gourmet produce.
November 17-18, 2012 La Dolce Vita
King Valley, Victoria, Australia
Celebrate the arrival of spring at La Dolce Vita - the KingValley’s springtime celebration of the sweet life. Australia’s most diverse variety of wines, gourmet food, spectacular scenery and warm King Valley hospitality. A wonderful weekend of Mediterranean al fresco indulgence!
November 21-25, 2012 Broome Mango Festival
Broome, Western Australia, Australia
An annual celebration of one of Mother Nature's lush, tropical fruits - the mango! The aim of the festival is to eat and drink mangoes in as many ways as possible. Highlights include the Great Chefs of Broome cook-off and mango tasting.
November 22-25, 2012 Margaret River Gourmet Escape
Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
Join international and local food and wine experts, for the ultimate in culinary adventures and food and wine festivals.
Dec 28, 2012-Jan 3, 2013 24th Annual TasmaniaTaste Festival
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Showcasing the uniqueness and diversity of Tasmania’s produce and gourmet food and wine to approximately 250,000 people, the festival also offers a diverse range of entertainment, children's activities and sporting activities.
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