The Festival of a Thousand Stories

Bourke NSW September 1-4 2017

About

The Festival of a Thousand Stories celebrates the many tales that have etched ‘the Back o’ Bourke’ forever into the Australian psyche.
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Events

View current information and details regarding the festival events for 2017. New events are currently being updated in the lead up to Sept 2nd.
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News & Updates

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Festival Itinerary

Download a current itinerary for the 2017 Festival of a Thousand Stories.
2017 Itinerary

Upcoming Festival Events

If you know Bourke

“If you know Bourke, You know Australia” – that was the poet’s claim, Still there’s much about the place that is unknown just the same. So we’re talking to the locals, in their home and at their work, To try and find just what it is you know – If you know Bourke !”

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Jason Roweth – The Greenhand Rousabout

Jason Roweth recites Henry Lawson’s ‘Greenhand Rousabout’ in the historic Toorale Woolshed, where the poem originated – on the annual Poet’s Trek – Bourke, NSW. Part of the Festival of a Thousand Stories.

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