Author: Bendigo Competition Society

The Committee has been hard at work planning the 97th Annual Eisteddfod to commence in May. It has been decided that the official launch of this year’s Eisteddfod will be held at the commencement of the first morning session. Everyone is, of course, welcome to attend.

The schedule is on the competitions website for you to view and will be updated accordingly. It is with great pleasure that we can announce we will be utilising the Capital Theatre even more this year including brass bands and contemporary vocal. The Bendigo Bank Theatre will be used for other music disciplines. We thank the Bendigo Council for their support in enabling us to use these venues to increase the performance value for each competitor and we hope to continue this relationship into the future.

Dance will again be held at Bendigo South East Secondary College in the winter school holidays. We hope to see an increase in entries across all genres as students and teachers have had a far less impacted year with COVID guidelines easing.

This said, Bendigo Competitions Society will be continuing some of the implemented strategies into the future as we feel these make for a smoother Eisteddfod for everyone involved. Any additional suggestions to make our Eisteddfod a safer and more accessible competition are always welcomed. Entries will again be through the Stardom platform and music is to be uploaded for contemporary vocal and dance.

As always, our Eisteddfod cannot run without the dedicated support of volunteers both new and old along with our valued sponsors. We were grateful to have some new sponsors on board last year and we hope to have more with us this year. We would personally like to acknowledge two new sponsors last year, GYG Kennington and Mino Dance.

If you or someone you know can support our competition, please contact us via Facebook or email prior to the launch of the Eisteddfod in May.

Welcome back for our 94th Annual Eisteddfod. We are very excited to be hosting the eisteddfod again this year.
The committee have been hard at work and are happy to say that our schedule is now ready for distribution.
Click on the link above for dates, entry closing dates, venues and adjudicator info.

Do keep an eye on the link above to Stardom for entries opening soon. All entries will be via Stardom and no late entries will be accepted so get your diary out and your entries in!

Could you be our new sponsor???
Big and small, we are looking for sponsors and donations for this year and future years of our eisteddfod to ensure we can continue to support young performers in our region. Please email or call us if you think this interests you

Here’s to an amazing 2019.

Bendigo South East Secondary College Auditorium, The Capital and Ulumbarra Theatres have seen some amazing performances this year. Congratulations to everyone who has performed!

Music is now almost complete with only the Modern Vocal that spans the whole Queen’s Birthday weekend and the prestigious Leila Watson Memorial Music Championship to finalise what has been a highly successful music eisteddfod. We look forward to seeing many familiar faces at this event – both performing and as supportive spectators. See below for more detail! A big thank you to everyone who has entered and supported us thus far.

We soon commence our fourteen days of Dance on Saturday June 30 where we run Morning, Noon and Night! The competition moves to The Capital Theatre on Sunday 8th July for the day. This day concludes with our Stage Spectacular evening. We will be sure to announce when tickets go on sale for the Stage Spectacular – tickets for this event will be purchased through the Capital. Tickets for the morning and afternoon session of Sunday 8th July can be purchased upstairs in the foyer of the Capital on the day. All other dance events will be held at Bendigo South East College; tickets at the door.

As we keep saying, we could not continue to offer young performers this performance opportunity without the support and dedication of our volunteers! From those who have done one session, helped pack up or been there multiple days and sessions we sincerely THANK YOU and hope to see you during dance! Of course we would love to welcome new volunteers on to our team – please contact us if you can assist. As a way of thanking our volunteers, all volunteers are invited to attend both the Leila Watson Memorial Music Championship and the Foundry Dancing Championship.