Peninsula Summer Music Festival

Seven long summer days and nights filled with food, wine and music. Australian soprano Jane Sheldon features as soloist for the Gala Opening at Montalto, as well as the Cantatas by Candlelight concerts, being presented this year in both Sorrento and Flinders. You can toast the sun setting on New Years Eve at Main Ridge Estate, or recover with style on New Years Day with our Hair of the Dog concert at Elgee Park, featuring double bass quartet, The Four Basses. 30 December 2008 - 5 January 2009.

Melbourne Youth Music 2009 Summer School

Every January the MYM Summer Music School brings young musicians of all ages together from all over Australia, to perform in ensembles ranging from stage bands to full orchestras under some of the best musical educators in the world. The Summer School Prelude Program also offers over 70 classes covering a variety of topics including voice for upper & lower primary, beginner instrument classes, VCE theory and performance and studio recording. January 14-16 & January 19-24 2009

Rip View Swim Classic

The Rip View Swim Classic is one of the "Big Three" Open Water Swims on the Victorian Open Water Swim Calendar, along with Lorne's Pier to Pub and the Portsea Swim Classic. So make sure that you keep Saturday 3rd January 2009 (11:00am start) free for the 21st swim, which is a week before the Lorne Pier to Pub on Saturday 10th January 2009.

Kids' Day Out at Edgar's Mission Farm Sanctuary

Edgar's Mission is a not for profit organisation that seeks to create a humane and just world for humans and non-humans. We endeavour to achieve this by education, advocacy and empowerment. On offer is plenty of fresh air, healthy food, friendly animals and lots of fun activities to do. Located near Kilmore, you can get up close and personal with a pig, cuddle a cow or chat to a chicken and even get the chance to play with our own kids- two delightfully irrepressible orphan baby goats called Romulus and Remus. Sunday 18 January, 2009