About The Lara Heritage Festival

Aims of Festival

The aim of our Festival is to have fun together, to get to know one another better, and to grow as a community. We hope to strengthen our community spirit and encourage active participation to help build and nurture our community awareness.

The Lara Heritage Festival is a triennial Festival where numerous fun-filled events and activities are conducted for Lara residents and visitors of all ages. It is our objective to provide events and activities which provide fun and entertainment at little or no cost to participants.

History of Festival

Nine Festivals have been conducted to date (1982, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2004 & 2006) with our next Festival to be held in March 2008.

The Lara Heritage Festival Committee was formed in the early 1980s to bring together members of the local community who would organise and run a triennial Festival that was unique to the local area and provided a range of fun-filled activities for Lara residents and visitors of all ages.

Many hours of planning, expertise and hard work resulted in our inaugural Festival in 1982 and we have since conducted a further seven Festivals, the success of which has been in no small way thanks to the involvement of many groups, clubs and organizations from within the township of Lara, and even some from the Geelong area, including the Shire of Corio (now City of Greater Geelong).