Fraser Coast Events

07/06/2026

☂️ Mary Poppins Festival - Umbrella Decorating Workshops 🪁

ONE MONTH TO GO!

Unleash your creativity and design your very own practically perfect Mary Poppins Festival umbrella! ☂️✨

Show off your masterpiece in the Grand Parade, then take your chance to make history by entering The Australian Book of Records!

It’s a fun-filled opportunity to celebrate imagination, community, and a little Mary Poppins magic. 😍

Grab your umbrella, get creative, and join the fun! 🌂🎨💙

Time: All Day
Cost: $15 Large Umbrella | $12 Small Umbrella
Location: Bond Store Courtyard

EVENT DETAILS:
📅 Sunday, July 5, 2026
🕘 9am-3pm
📍 Portside Precinct and Queens Park, Maryborough
💲 FREE ENTRY

🌐 https://www.marypoppinsfestival.com.au/

05/06/2026

☂️Mary Poppins Festival - Australian Book of Records 🏆

Mary Poppins Festival returns to Maryborough! ✨

Join us as we attempt the impossible – a new Australian record through the official Australian Book of Records (TABOR)!

🏆Help us break the national record for the Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Mary Poppins-Themed Characters!

The current record is 182 participants - can we top it? Come dressed in your Mary Poppins finery and become part of Maryborough's history!

The stakes are high but as Mary Poppins once said, “Everything is possible, even the impossible”. ☂️

Pre-Registrations are NOW OPEN! ⬇️
https://shorturl.fm/5KbhB

You can also sign in at the top of Wharf Street from 1:15pm on event day, to be ready for the record attempt at 1:45pm.

Rules for participation and how to register for the record attempt are here ➡️ https://www.marypoppinsfestival.com.au/competitions/

EVENT DETAILS:

📅 Sunday, July 5, 2026
🕘 9am-3pm
📍 Portside Precinct and Queens Park, Maryborough
💲 FREE ENTRY

🌐 https://www.marypoppinsfestival.com.au/

04/06/2026

Ready for a weekend of fun on the Fraser Coast? 🌞

Explore our events page to discover this weekend’s activities!
➡ https://events.visitfrasercoast.com/

Don't forget that you can advertise your regional events for FREE on the website above! 🙌

03/06/2026

Relish Food & Wine Festival🎉

02/06/2026

Mary Poppins Festival - The Services Club Maryborough Raceway Competitions 🥇

Get ready for some friendly competition at The Services Club Maryborough Raceway at Mary Poppins Festival. Showcase your skills for a chance to win exciting prizes!

🏃 The Great Nanny Race 🏃
Join in the fun and be the first to get your baby and carriage across the finish line.
🕙 Sign up on the day from 10am.

🧹 Chimney Sweep Challenge 🧹
Do you have what it takes to clean your chimney the fastest?
🕙 Sign up on the day from 11:15am.

🎩 Costume Competition 🎩
Let your creativity shine through the Mary Poppins Festival Costume Competition this year and bring Maryborough's streets to life.
🕙 Sign up on the day from 12:30pm

For participation rules and more information, visit here ⬇️ https://www.marypoppinsfestival.com.au/competitions/

EVENT DETAILS:

📅 Sunday, July 5, 2026
🕘 9am-3pm
📍 Portside Precinct and Queens Park, Maryborough
💲 FREE ENTRY

🌐 https://www.marypoppinsfestival.com.au/

02/06/2026

31/05/2026

☂️ Mary Poppins Festival – Colouring Competition 🖌️

Get your colour pencils ready! 🎨

Enter our Mary Poppins Festival colouring competition for a chance to win fabulous prizes. 🍭

Choose your favourite design, colour it in, and deliver it to your nearest Visitor Information Centre in Hervey Bay, Maryborough or Tiaro for your chance to win! You can also collect a printed copy from the Hervey Bay and Maryborough Libraries. ✨

Completed colouring sheets must be handed in before close of business on 26/06/2026.

Download and print your colouring in here: https://www.marypoppinsfestival.com.au/competitions/

EVENT DETAILS:
📅 Sunday, July 5, 2026
🕘 9am-3pm
📍 Portside Precinct and Queens Park, Maryborough
💲 FREE ENTRY

🌐 https://www.marypoppinsfestival.com.au/

30/05/2026

Relish Food & Wine Festival 😍👏

30/05/2026

Maryborough, P.L. Travers' birthplace, honours the Aussie author ✍️ and her most iconic character ☂️ with a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious celebration 😉! Here's all the information: https://bit.ly/431XKhG

28/05/2026

☂️✨ Mary Poppins Festival - Highlights ✨👜

📣 With the launch of the 2026 Mary Poppins Festival, we would love to announce our practically perfect list of event highlights:

🏆Downer Group Record Space: The Australian Book of Records Attempt
🏃 The Services Club Maryborough Raceway Competitions
☂️ Umbrella Decorating Workshops
✈️ Chair O'Plane
🎼 Poppins Musical Trail
💃 Performances and Roving Entertainment
🐸 Deano Yipadee & Errol the Frog
🎶Grand Parade & Finale..and that’s just the beginning! 🪄

Keep an eye out for more exciting details coming soon. 😍

EVENT DETAILS:
📅 Sunday, July 5, 2026
🕘 9am-3pm
📍 Portside Precinct and Queens Park, Maryborough
💲 FREE ENTRY

🌐 https://www.marypoppinsfestival.com.au/