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Adore Tea High Tea Side Saddle Challenge

Adore Tea High Tea Side Saddle Challenge

To Celebrate Canberra's Centenary, there will be a high tea side saddle challenge! Competitors will navigate an obstacle course that involves eating scones and drinking tea whilst riding side saddle.

Will they spill their tea? Will they put crumbs on their horses?

Beau Young Animals Rock

Beau Young Animals Rock

Beau Young is an Australian singer, songwriter and World Champion surfer, carving a strong and loyal fan base in the folk-rock / acoustic music scene. Crowned a World Champion surfer in both 2000 and 2003, Beau is also a songwriter and children's performer.

Beau brings music to life in this show with a ‘down on the farm’ theme. These high energy, all-singing, all-dancing shows include Beau with guitar and mascot Wentworth the Pig.

Beau and Wentworth the Pig will be playing on the ActewAGL stage!

“Animals Rock is specifically designed to make little feet dance and big hearts sing. We want these young souls to be free to express themselves creatively and individually through dance, song and having fun. We

guarantee adults will want to join in the fun too!” Beau Young

Bullock Team

Bullock Team

Ron McKinnon’s grandfather, Bert, had his first bullock team in the early 1920’s on a property to the north of Tomerong, “Bayview”. He cut timber, mostly spotted gum for boat building, on the property and then carted it to Huskisson using two jinkers behind the bullock team – one log a day!

Ron will be at the show with his bullocks, he drives the bullocks the same way his father and grandfather did, using the same language and the same equipment. Ron uses the team in his forestry work, snigging logs out of the bush, where they are often better than logging equipment as they are able to pull a log out of the bush with minimal impact on the environment.

Ron’s bullock team is one of only a handful of working teams left in Australia and will be on display at the 2013 Centenary ActewAGL Royal Canberra Show.

Animal Wranglers

Animal Wranglers

The Animal Wranglers specialise in horse handling and educating, and love training a variety of animals to perform and entertain. The show includes horsemanship demonstrations on how to get your horse working with you and gain its trust, trick horses and mules, performing dogs, ducks, pigs, bullocks and lots of comedy and laughs supplied by Bazza the clown.

Friday: 10.30am, 12.30pm, 3.30pm, 5.30pm

Saturday: 10.00am, 11.00am, 2.00pm, 5.00pm

Sunday: 10.00am, 12.00pm, 2.00pm, 4.00pm

Toyota V6 Hilux Heroes

Toyota V6 Hilux Heroes

The Toyota V6 HiLux Heroes will once again be performing at the ActewAGL Royal Canberra Show. Four of Australia's top drivers will pilot the slightly modified V6 HiLux's in a range of high speed drifting, nose-to-nose driving, reverse hand break turn flicks, and high speed crossovers.

Other highlights of the V6 HiLux Heroes performance include a stunt in which the driver balances the HiLux on two wheels and another featuring a 12m ramp-to-ramp jump. Between them the Toyota V6 HiLux Heroes team has several decades of experience in a range of motorsport categories from rallying to drifting, motorkhanas, dirt circuit racing and stunt work. Driving the unbreakable 4x2 V6 Toyota HiLux, the stunt vehicles have been beefed up in the suspension department, received modified exhaust systems, and 16 inch alloy wheels, tailored with SAAS sport seats, racing harnesses, as well as a safety roll cage.

ActewAGL Alley

ActewAGL Alley

Check out the action at ActewAGL Alley

Farmyard Nursery – touch, play and learn about all the cutest baby animals at the show.

Friday – 9.00am to 8.00pm

Saturday – 9.00am to 8.00pm

Sunday – 9.00am to 6.00pm

Face painting – get your face painted for free by the Gecko Gang!

Friday – 10.00am to 4.00pm

Saturday – 10.00am to 4.00pm

Sunday – 10.00am to 3.00pm

Beau Young | Animals Rock – come and meet Beau Young and Wentworth the Pig in their all-singing, all-dancing kids show.

Friday – 11.45am and 1.30pm

Saturday – 11.45am, 1.45pm and 4.30pm

Sunday – 10.15am, 1.00pm and 3.15pm

National Zoo and Aquarium – meet and learn about animals from the zoo.

Friday – 2.15pm

Saturday – 1.45pm

Sunday – 1.00pm

Geoff The Chef | Food For Thought Cooking Show – watch Geoff the Chef in his quest to become a world famous chef.

Friday – 10.30am

Saturday – 10.15am

Milo The Clown | Circus For Dummies Show – join in the fun as Milo performs an array of circus tricks.

Friday – 1.30pm

Saturday – 2.30pm

Sunday – 11.00am

Science ShowOff – experience the interactive show where the fun of science is on display.

Friday – 12.45pm

Saturday – 1.00pm and 3.15pm

Sunday – 11.45am

Kulture Break – watch Canberra’s youth dance artists show-off their talents in a high-energy performance.

Friday – 5.00pm

Saturday – 5.15pm

Shave for a Cure – watch hair disappear before your eyes and raise funds for the Leukemia Foundation.

Friday – 3.00pm

Tennis ACT interactive zone – come and try your hand at tennis on the mini tennins court.

Friday – 10.00am to 4.00pm

Saturday – 10.00am to 4.00pm

Sunday – 10.00am to 3.00pm

Sand sculpting with the Sandman – be entertained by world champion sand sculptor Dennis Massoud and his works of art.

Saturday – 10.00am to 1.00pm

Sunday – 10.00am to 1.00pm

Sand sculpting workshops – come and learn how to create your own masterpieces out of sand with world champion sculptor Dennis Massoud.

Saturday – 2.00pm to 4.00pm

Sunday – 2.00pm to 4.00pm

Freestyle Motocross

Freestyle Motocross

Come along and watch this impressive repertoire of incredible feats delight both young and old. You won’t believe what these wild riders can do. For instance, how does leaping 10 metres in the air from ramps 25 metres apart grab ya? Wouldn’t that be handy when you’re trying to get out of the car park later?

Fireworks

Fireworks

To close the evening, the Show has an electrifying fireworks display timed to music. This exhilarating pyrotechnic performance will capture you with colour and excitement. Get your seat early. Friday and Saturday nights only.

Fashion through the ages Fashion Parades

Fashion through the ages Fashion Parades

Want to know what type of clothing was worn back in 1913 when Canberra was first created? Or what dresses were fashionable in the 1941 when the War Memorial was opened? Check out the fashion through the ages fashion parade to find out!

The parades will be held in The Leisure and Lifestyle Pavilion

Check the guide and get your seat early for this fantastic free show.

The Crafts Expo

The Crafts Expo

To celebrate the centenary of Canberra, there will be period costume worn throughout the pavillon. The costumes have been handmade by very talented local ladies and have taken months to complete. Another real highlight of the Crafts Expo will be an old spinning wheel that will be used to spin yarn. Even though the style of wheel may have changed spinning is still as popular as it was in 1913.

The Crafts Expo features more than 1200 entries each year and is one of the largest displays of its kind in Australia. It displays a huge variety of crafts including decorative folk art, beading, crochet, cross stitch, dolls, embroidery, felting, knitting, lapidary, pottery, porcelain, spinning, sewing, textiles, woodwork.

This year the Craft Expo is celebrating the theme "The Centenary of Canberra", so it will be very exciting to see what exhibits will be created to celebrate 100 years of Canberra.

Every aspect of the display will be made by a talented array of craftspeople, so it will surely be a sight to see.